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Apple wins one against Samsung in Japanese court

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2013)

The lastest round of fighting between Apple and Samsung goes to the Cupertino Kid. A Japanese court ruled favorably for Apple in a suit filed by Samsung alleging that Apple had misused 3G wireless patents in several versions of the iPhone. As ...

Day One for iOS updated to 1.10, adds PDF export option

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 28th, 2013)

Day One, the award winning journaling app for iOS (and Mac) has been updated to version 1.10, adding PDF export and printing support. With the update, the entirety of your Day One journal can be exported as a single PDF or you can choose custom ...

Leap Wireless struggling to sell off-contract iPhones

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 28th, 2013)

Leap Wireless took a gamble when it started offering the iPhone at almost full retail prices in a US market that is dominated by inexpensive phones with high carrier subsidies. This is one bet that may not be paying off for the wireless carrier, ...

Daily iPhone App: Horizon puts a weather report in a calendar app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Horizon is an interesting little app that comes from a very simple idea: To combine your weather report and your calendar in one place. That may not sound like a big innovation, but it's actually not a bad one. Horizon's simple and ...

Tallahassee, Fla., is a bad place to be an iPhone owner

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2013)

The folks at gizmo trade-in site Gazelle see a lot of broken iPhones, and fortunately for those in the blogging biz, they keep a lot of statistics on where those phones come from and what kind of damage they see. Gazelle published a Top 10 ...

Best App Ever 2012 winners announced, Walking Dead takes top prize

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Our friend Jeff Scott over at 148Apps has been running the annual Best App Ever awards for five years now, featuring some of the greatest apps on the App Store voted on by popular demand to determine the "Best App Ever." Last year's winners have ...

EA reveals 'single identity' cross-platform gaming experience

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

EA has completed its Origin login service, which means that most of its games going forward (including, presumably, Real Racing 3, which hits the US App Store tomorrow) will use a single company-specific login. Now, all EA games on all platforms ...

Figure for iOS updated to 1.4, adds social sharing and Audiobus support

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 27th, 2013)

Figure, Propellerhead's popular and inspiring music-making app for iOS, has been updated to 1.4. The update makes sharing your musical creations even easier, now with SoundCloud integration (and, by extension, sharing on Facebook and Twitter) ...

Spotify for iOS updated to 0.6, fixes lockscreen bug, revamps UI

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 27th, 2013)

Spotify for iOS has just been updated to version 0.6. The update brings some UI enhancements and welcome bug fixes, which are sure to enhance your music listening experience on the app. Most notably, there's a newly designed Now Playing bar and ...

Pentagon to open communication networks to iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 27th, 2013)

Long a stronghold for BlackBerry, the Department of Defense announced this week that it will open its communications network to iOS and Android devices in the coming year. This will be the first time commercial, off-the-shelf products will be used ...

Amazon warns iOS users to not install the latest Kindle app update (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 27th, 2013)

Amazon issued an update to its popular Kindle iOS app and users are crying foul over the update. Apparently, a glitch in the update is erasing the user's entire book library from their iOS device. Amazon has confirmed there is a problem and is ...

ACLU: court document shows how invasive cell phone searches can be

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 27th, 2013)

The American Civil Liberties Union stumbled upon a document submitted to the court during a drug investigation headed up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The document lists the data that ICE officials were able to pull off an iPhone, and ...

Adobe brings Photoshop Touch to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Just about a year ago at this time, Adobe released an iPad version of their flagship app, called Photoshop Touch. Now, a year later, they've announced a version of the app built specifically for the iPhone's smaller screen, that should ...

Senzari becomes Wahwah, loses web service to go mobile-first

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2013)

Senzari is a Pandora-like Internet radio service, that allows you to listen to streaming music centered around an artist or genre of your choice. For a little while now, the company has hosted the service on its website, but it recently picked ...

uChek raises the stakes in smartphone health care with camera-based urine analysis

by Erica Sadun (Feb 26th, 2013)

The iPhone. Is there anything it can't do? The trend towards self-monitoring and informal health tracking continues with uChek. Featured today over at Wired, this app enables you to automatically read, chart and track a variety of urinalysis tests ...

Ex-Zynga Boston team starts new iOS studio

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2013)

Zynga closed its Boston studio late last year, and some of its former developers have created a new company called Proletariat Inc. The group is set to release its first iPhone game next week, called Letter Rush. The folks at Proletariat, Inc. ...