Browsing all posts in August, 2009.

MobileMe’s Find My iPhone Feature Used To Track Down Robbers, Again

Apple’s Find My iPhone feature has once again had a hand in returning an iPhone to its rightful owner after it had been stolen, and thankfully this time the victim decided to turn to the police instead of trying to personally solve the case.
The victim, whose name has been withheld, told the Pittsburgh police that [...]

It’s Official: Apple Confirms “Rock And Roll” Event On September 9th

According to ArsTechnica, Apple has just confirmed the long rumored special media event will indeed be taking place on Wednesday, September 9th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at exactly 10 AM Pacific Time.
The invitation, which is pictured above, features a dancing silhouette with an iPod in-hand and reads “It’s [...]

EA Releases Boggle For The iPhone And iPod Touch

EA has just released another official version of a classic game for the iPhone and iPod touch, and this time it’s the popular word-search game Boggle.
The classic game of Boggle is played by shaking a covered plastic tray filled with sixteen cubic dice, where each dice has a different letter printed on each of [...]

TomTom Car Kit Hits FCC, More Details Revealed

It’s now been about two weeks since TomTom released their iPhone app, and yet we are still waiting for more details regarding its companion car kit, specifically an official price and release date.  Though we still don’t have that information, Engadget has come across a different batch of car kit details via the FCC.
TomTom has [...]

Can Facebook Deliver A Second iPhone App Store?

Joe Hewitt is rapidly becoming my favorite iPhone developer. He submitted one of the most anticipated updates in iPhone history to Apple several weeks ago and then graced me with one of the first copies for testing.
Though that was awesome and unexpected, that’s not why he’s becoming my favorite developer.
First, he wrote an excellent piece [...]