Tag: iphone
Game: Pigeon Palooza Publisher: Blast Applications / BoonDoogle Cost: $0.99 cents Website: http://www.pigeonpalooza.com/ URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/pigeon-palooza/id492151739?mt=8 This week, Pigeon Palooza came to the iPhone and iPad. While much has been made of this program being the next Angry Birds, we found that the game was anything but that exciting. And after plunking down out $0.99 cents for the game, we were left with a game that really isnt all that much real fun. The concept of Pigeon Palooza is that you…
During the fourth Quarter 2011, Verizon sold a total of 4.2 million units of the latest rendition of iPhone. This number was more than double the number of units sold by Verizon during the third quarter. While this is good news for both Apple and Verizon, the news has not particularly been good for the stock where their price is currently at $39.21o USD or down 1.309% for the day. The stock had over 2 million share trade today but…
Apple announced today that they will be rolling out their latest version of the iPhone series, the iPhone 4S, to another 21 countries including China on the 13th of January, 2012. The countries included in this roll out are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,…
Google has released an update to their Google Currents application just a week after the introduction of the package. Version 1.0.1 is intended to resolve some of the stability issues with the Application as well as to fix scrolling issues on older versions of iOS 4. There are also some library issues that have been resolved. While this upgrade will work for some folks, several users are complaining about their feeds disappearing from their library. Also errors in the interface…
According to an article in the New York Post, 141 New York City merchants have been busted in a major crackdown on places which deal in stolen iPhones. The problem of iPhones and iPads being stolen in New York has reached epic proportions and it seems the merchants have been just a bit too eager to help the crooks out with this one. This sting by the New York City Police began at the crook level and worked its way…
Apple has purchased the Israeli Flash Chip manufacturere, Anobit, according to a report in the Hebrew daily, Calcalist(http://www.calcalist.co.il ). The purchase, falling in line with Apple’s current path of owning as much of the manufacturing as possible, was accomplished with a price tag of $500 Million USD. Anobit manufacturers a chip which speeds up flash memory and is already in most of Apple’s mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad. If rumors about the potential of this purchase are true,…
The free game of the week from Donut Games this week is the hilarious but fun Icy Escort for the iPhone. Icy Escort is a game in which you play the mother penguin, working your way through a series of mazes, jumping from platform to platform, trying to get all your kids. When the mother penguin reaches a kid, it latches onto the mother and follows along to the next destination. At the end of the puzzle, you will have…
Apple’s new just in time for Christmas ad campaign has kicked off with a new made for TV ad. The ad, featuring that man in the red suit with the jolly laugh, seems to need Siri now to make his life complete. Of course, we all know what a practical joker Siri can be, but when she suggests Mrs Claus says to lay off the cookies, Santa takes the appropriate action and laughs it off as he eats his in-hand…
Apple has released a minor update to the current iOS 5.0.1 for the iPhone. The update has the moniker 9A406 making only minor alterations to the current version of iOS. This version has not been pushed out globally yet and details of the update have been a bit difficult to come by. However, this release was addressed in the Apple support document and is meant to fix issues with the following items on the iPhone 4S: “Invalid SIM” or “No…
A story this morning mentioned that Apple will be producing their A5 iPhone CPU in a new factory in Texas. This would not normally raise any eyebrows outside of the fact that Samsung is the company running the factory. This would generally lead people to believe that Apple and Samsung had settled their differences. This, however, is not the case. The court cases are still on and the South Korean company is merely a supplier who has contracts with Apple…
Many iPhone users who have had their iPhone stolen are finding that the thieves or those who purchased the stolen property can actually still send text messages as the original owner of the phone. Apparently, this was first discovered in the Mac Rumors forums at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1267235 Initially, Apple made users believe that the remote wiping utility which is now on all iPhone, would resolve such issues, however, as it seems many users in the forum have discovered, the thieves will…
Speculation that Apple may be losing out to it’s Chinese competitors in mainland China is coming to the forefront. While Apple products are popular the glove over, in China, there is a possibility that infrastructure to handle the iPhone and iPads may be the major limiting factor in China. According to a report in Reuters by Lee Chyen Yee, “A tie up with another telecoms service provider would help catapult Apple sales. But the biggest by far, China Mobile Ltd…
Donut Games has just released their free iPhone game of the week and this week’s game is the a very “just in time for Christmas” type game, Ruberth’s Kick n’ Fly. The game puts the player as Santa in the position of being kicked into the air by a reindeer. Using various platforms to bounce higher or bounce mushrooms to really get a kick, Santa much collect as many of the ornaments on the particular stage as possible. Each stage…
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal — Mirror’s Edge – iPad Free Games: Flight Control – iPhone Pogo — iPhone (Upgrade to Premium for $.99 or 70% off) Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
These are the daily deals from Electronic Arts as per their deals website: Today’s Hot Deal —Flight Control for the iPhone Free Games: Flight Control HD — iPad Mirror’s Edge – iPhone Mirror’s Edge – iPad The above deals were available in the US store at the time of press.
Donut Games, the software vendor famous for its Rat on the Run series of games, has another of its popular games now available for the hard price of Free. Normally a 99 cent download, Cave Bowling uses a combination of a bowling ball and wacky physics to bowl over the pins. Each level is more challenging than the next and with more levels than you can shake a stick at, you will be busy with the challenge for a good…
Game: CrazyMoto HD Version: 1.0 Publisher: Hare URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/crazymoto-hd-special/id476870574?mt=8 When we went searching for a new game of the day, we were pleasantly surprised at what we found. CrazyMoto HD by Hare is a game that offers the best iPhone gamer a bit of a challenge in control. The game itself while simply a motorcycle game, offers features that are first class including Realistic physics. Destructible motor bike. Realistic shocks. Challenge mode. Practice mode. 80 levels, in FOUR distinct worlds….
Donut Games, the publisher of the popular Rat on a Skateboard app is currently offering two of their games for the iphone for free. Parachute, which is a serious game of control skills and Jungle Crash Land, one of our favorites, are both on tap for free download for “a limited time”. Donut games occasionally offers some of their games in a “Free Game of the Week” promotion. You can download Parachute at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313734044&mt=8 Jungle Crash Land is available at:…
Game: Tap Tap Muppets Version: 1.0 Publisher: Disney / Tapulous URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/tap-tap-muppets/id478167642?mt=8 For those of us who refuse to grow up or those who loved the Tap Tap series of games, there is now the ultimate laughing time Tap Tap game available from Disney and Tapulous. Tap Tap Muppets features all of those lovable characters from the popular TV and movie series. The game comes with two tracks initially another 4 tracks are available for download immediately. The game has…
Game: Rat on a Snowboard Version: 1.00 Publisher: Donut Games Platform: iPhone/iPad URL: http://donutgames.com/iphone_games.php The 29th game in Donut Games iPhone game series is one of absolute genious. Donut Games has taken their popular Rat series games a step further from the previous, Rat on the Run and Rat on a Skateboard to the world of extreme snowboarding. Rat on a Snowboard is a high paced, fun game with a ton of new obstacles and three different play modes…
