Mac News: Mobile Apps

Friday - June 26, 2009

The blogosphere began buzzing Thursday when "The Hottest Girls," the Apple App Store's first iPhone app featuring nude women, suddenly became unavailable hours after it had won Apple's approval. Initial speculation was that Apple had finally decided to pull it for being too risqué. However, the app's developer, who styles himself AllentheGeek, said the app had simply been "sold out." The "Hottest Girls" app initially featured only scantily clad women. It was updated to feature nude women, and Apple apparently approved. [More...]

Agile Turns Labor of Necessity Into Best Seller

Monday - June 22, 2009

When some PC users move to a Mac, they occasionally can't find an Apple analog for a bread-and-butter application they had in the Windows world. In those cases, most users learn to live without their cherished app. The folks at Agile Web Solutions, though, learned how to build a business on theirs. [More...]

'Star Defense' Brings New Dimension to Classic Strategy Game

Thursday - June 18, 2009

Just about every "tower defense"-style game ever made can be described like this: You've got a base you need to protect. Wave after wave of bad guys keep on attacking it, running down a long and winding path before, I don't know, running face-first into the front door, or something. Point is, when they reach the gate, they do damage, and it's your job to strategically set up a bunch of defensive towers along that path. [More...]

Glad Works Makes Marketing Moves Through iPhone Apps

Monday - June 15, 2009

What do you do when you're a newly independent public radio station and your signal is only reaching 75 percent of your home state? For WRNI, Rhode Island's only public radio station, the answer was to turn to its advertising agency. The agency, Providence-based Glad Works, is glad the station did, because it opened up a whole new world of opportunity for the firm. [More...]

TwitterFon Pro: Tweet Harder, Tweet Smarter

Thursday - June 11, 2009

Twitter was made for the mobile device. If it was confined to a desktop browser, the question "What are you doing right now?" wouldn't have much of an answer, other than something like "Looking at this Web page -- here's a link." Access Twitter on your cellphone, though, and you can tweet from almost anywhere and probably say something at least marginally more interesting. [More...]

The Sturm und Drang of iPhone Evolution

Wednesday - June 10, 2009

The climb in Apple's share prices seems to have leveled as the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, being held in San Francisco this week, continues. At the event's keynote presentation, Apple was on a tear, possibly in a bid to terrify and crush the competition. It introduced new iPhone hardware and set a June 17 release date for upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 software. [More...]

Apple Primed for iPhone Song-and-Dance Extravaganza

Friday - June 5, 2009

Photos around the Web have already revealed the banners gracing the walls at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. On them are the letters "WWDC" and the legend "One Year Later, Light-Years Ahead." Both the letters and the words are surrounded by a blizzard of Apple App Store icons. "WWDC," of course, means next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. [More...]

'The Sims 3' for iPhone: How Large Can You Live on a Small Screen?

Thursday - June 4, 2009

"SimCity," originally released by Maxis 20 years ago, was the matriarch of a gaming dynasty, giving rise to an impressive sprawl of spinoffs and sequels. The main series hit its true stride with "SimCity 3000," and related "Sim" titles like "SimAnt," "SimEarth," and "SimTower" achieved varying degrees of success. [More...]

Taking a Shine to iPhone in the Enterprise

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

While Apple's not exactly kicking down the corporate front door with its Xserve platform, there is every indication that the iPhone is making itself at home in the enterprise. Increasingly, the iPhone is becoming the mobile device of choice for corporate types, and not because of its sex appeal -- or at least not because of its sex appeal alone. [More...]

Apple May Charge for App Double-Dipping

Monday - June 1, 2009

June 1 doesn't just herald the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The winds of gossip and speculation regarding Apple are already swirling in anticipation of next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, and the latest squall line focuses on those beta-testing the new iPhone 3.0 operating system. [More...]

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