Neil Young, the CEO of ngmoco, the company behind popular iPhone games such as TouchPets and Eliminate had recently announced that his company has acquired Freeverse, another popular iPhone gaming startup well-known for their apps like Skee-Ball, Flick Fishing and Moto Chaser.
This comes in the backdrop of a $25 million series C funding that ngmoco closed recently, which brings the total capital raised by the company so far to $40.6 million.
Grooveshark, an online music streaming service that claims to be the 'Youtube for music' has announced that their new iPhone application is now available at the Cydia store.
This comes after their iPhone app was rejected by the Apple app review staff multiple times over the past six months. In their announcement, the company claims that they were forced into this decision after Apple had been "ritually rejecting" their app for "primary selfish reasons".
When the iPad is released in a few weeks from now, it will be taking on competition from several distinct product categories like netbooks, e-readers and gaming consoles. While Apple has already tasted success with gaming applications on the iPhone OS, the company has its task cut out in other segments like the e-reader market where companies like Amazon dominate. Apple has launched apps like iBooks to specifically cater to this segment of their customers.
Woodstock, Georgia resident Louie Sulcer, the winner of Apple's iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold Contest; thought it was yet another trick that his son was playing on him when he received a phone call and the person at the other end said, "This is Steve Jobs from Apple". It was only after he noticed the caller ID, which read 'Apple' did he realize that the call was indeed from the CEO of Apple Inc.
After Apple's crackdown on sexual content, nearly 5000 iPhone apps faced the axe last week. Phil Schiller, the head of worldwide product marketing at Apple, the decision was taken after numerous complaints from women and parents who found the content objectionable and degrading.
Now it appears that Apple has been reinstating a few of those iPhone applications that have incorporated necessary changes that will make them more viewer-friendly.
The war of words between Apple and Adobe over Cupertino's refusal to incorporate Flash on the iPhone platform has continued for quite a while now.
After Steve Jobs recently called Adobe Flash a "CPU Hog", a source of "security holes" and a dying technology, his counterpart at Adobe, Shantanu Narayen, has now responded accusing Apple's walled garden policies as the reason behind the standoff.
Final Fantasy, the earliest of role playing games that first launched way back in 1987 and has made through several sequels since then has finally made it to the iPhone.
Square Enix, the developer of the popular game series, which is considered to be among the most successful RPG applications ever has now released the original edition as well as Final Fantasy II iPhone games on the App Store.
Apple may induce greater iPhone adoption rate among smartphone buyers by launching a new device that will have a lower cost of ownership – This was one of the key points made by Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty in a recent note to investors.
According to Huberty, one of the greatest barriers in increasing the iPhone adoption rate among consumers is the cost of hardware followed by the service plan cost.
We first wrote about iControlPad nearly two years ago. It's a pretty cool iPhone accessory that will help you replicate a gaming console experience on your iPhone by augmenting touch screen controls with actual analog joystick based controls.
The accessory allows you to slide your iPhone or iPod touch into a casing containing joysticks and physical buttons, which is connected to the iDevice through the dock connector and lets you play iPhone games in much the same way as you would on a mobile gaming device like a PSP.
Technology companies have for long focused on just the three media platforms – TV, computer and mobile phones for customers to consume content. While tablet devices are not exactly new, a renewed focus on the fourth platform is now beginning to happen with the launch of iPad and a host of other tablet devices. In fact, the New York Times calls 2010 the year of the Tablet.
