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Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi.

HOW TO: Use Social Media to Find Black Friday Deals

Now that I have an iPhone, I get excited about functional, useful applications like the Black Friday apps that have come out this year. DealNews has a free Black Friday app that lets you sort deals by “Early Bird,” “In Store Only,” and “Limited Availability,” as well as see photos of the sale...

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Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry

We’ll be testing out the BlackBerry version as well (pictured, below, along with a demo video of both clients), and Loic says sit tight for an iPhone version coming soon. We’d love to hear your impressions on both clients if you have a chance to check them out. Are you a Seesmic user excited abo...

Sony Wants a Bite Out of Apple’s iTunes

However, the landscape has changed in recent years. You can have the best media player around, but if you don’t offer users a place where they can easily get content for it, it won’t be competitive. And it’s been proven twice (first with the iPod, then with the iPhone) by Apple’s iTunes. Althou...

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New Flip Video Cameras to Have Wi-Fi

However, the Flip is getting some major challengers. Kodak’s Zi8 video camera boasts impressive features and 1080p HD quality (note: I own both a Flip and a Zi8), but perhaps the bigger threat to Cisco’s camera is Apple: the iPhone 3GS can directly upload to YouTube and even theiPod Nano no...

AT&T Blasts Verizon With New Commercial (and the iPhone)

They’ve tapped funny man Luke Wilson to drive home the message that AT&T’s 3G service is superior to Verizon’s. Of course, they also make sure to mention their exclusive iPhone deal and Apple’s impressive 100,000 applications. Watch it below and let us know what you think in the commen...

Tuesday, Nov 17

Full Adobe Flash Is Coming Soon to Mobile [Video]

One reason the iPhone plays back YouTube video so well is that it is automatically hardware decoded using QuickTime and the iPhone’s H.264 hardware acceleration. By supporting hardware acceleration for video, audio and animation playback, Flash can become a much better performer.

China’s Share of the App Store: Really Tiny

What do you think about the future of mobile applications and app stores in China? Let us know! Reviews: App Store Tags: app store, china, iphone What do you think about the future of mobile applications and app stores in China? Let us know! Reviews: App Store

Twitter’s Newest Desktop Client: Seesmic for Windows Launches

Seesmic for Windows also boasts some new features and improvements from its AIR counterpart. Specifically, you can drag-and-drop users into lists and other parts of the app, it uses less memory, and it utilizes several Windows 7 features (e.g. location sensor).

Monday, Nov 16

Droid Does: 250,000 Sales in First Week

Moreover, while some have called Droid’s early returns disappointing compared to iPhone, Flurry notes the often overlooked fact that “Apple simultaneously launched its device across eight countries, while the Droid launched only in the U.S. Additionally, the iPhone commanded a stro...

Wednesday, Nov 11

Apple Begins Fixing the iPhone App Store Approval Process

Just over a year ago, Apple launched the iPhone App Store, giving countless developers the ability to create dynamic apps on the iPhone mobile platform. And while over 100,000 apps have been created already, it hasn’t been all sunshine and roses between Apple and 3rd party developers. Mul...

Tuesday, Nov 10

NEW: TweetDeck for iPhone Adds Facebook, Landscape, and Video

Back in June, popular Twitter desktop app TweetDeck made a splash when it launched its iPhone app. It was significant, as it was the first Twitter iPhone app to integrate with a desktop version and it provided a very real challenger to the Tweetie iPhone app.

REPORT: Droid Sells 100,000 Units at Launch

The last phone dubbed a potential iPhone-killer — the Palm Pre — sold between 45,000 and 100,000 units in its first weekend of release. The last phone dubbed a potential iPhone-killer — the Palm Pre — sold between 45,000 and 100,000 units in its first weekend of release.

Friday, Nov 6

5 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Wine Lovers

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Thursday, Nov 5

Opinion: Apple’s Steve Jobs Declared “CEO of the Decade”

In 1996 however, NeXT was bought by Apple, returning him to the company he created. He quickly took the reigns as CEO. You probably know the rest of the story: iTunes, Mac, Macbook, iPod, iPhone, the iTunes and iPhone App Stores, and other products vaulted Apple from turmoil into one of the wo...

CONTEST: We Want You to Pitch Your Killer Mobile App

To many, it’s becoming increasingly clear that mobile is the next big platform. First, the iPhone revolutionized browsing the web. A year later, the iPhone app store launched, bringing a new platform and new possibilities to developers and smartphone owners everywhere. Now with growing...

Tuesday, Nov 3

Pizza Hut’s iPhone App Has Generated $1 Million in Sales

Reviews: App Store, iPhone Tags: iphone, mobile applications, Pizza Hut IPhone applications capture consumers’ imagination in a way that WAP sites simply can’t do, so the decision to expand to the iPhone was as good one for us.” Reviews: App Store, iPhone

Wednesday, Oct 28

Disney.com’s iPhone App Brings the Magic to Your Pocket

The app boasts a ton of features. Here are just a few: The app boasts a ton of features. Here are just a few: As is often the case with software, kid-friendly iPhone apps are often pretty hit or miss. However, Disney knocked this app right out of the proverbial theme park.

Tuesday, Oct 27

Lawyers + iPhone Ad + Illegal Immigration = What on Earth Is LawFirms.com Thinking?

But, this is exactly what LawFirms.com has done, creating an ad for an “app for that” called iCoyote that “packs all of the features of a real immigrant smuggler into the iPhone. Using GPS, navigate through the patrol packed desert without worrying about that pesky Border Patrol.”

Opinion: Zombies in Bikinis Attack App Store [Video]

Reviews: App Store Tags: iPhone games, smort, video reviews, zombie bikini babes from outer space There are now more than 100,000 approved apps in Apple’s App Store and while lots of them are great, there are also those that make us pause and go, “huh?” The Game Reviews: App Store

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Monday, Oct 19

RUMOR: Verizon and Apple Already Testing 4G iPhone

This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network. This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone o...

Sunday, Oct 18

Opinion: Wolfram Alpha Launches $50 iPhone App

On Thursday WolframAlpha launched its developer API, which should allow large and small developers (as well as businesses and educational institutions) to harness the power of the computational knowledge engine to enhance their own applications or products. Today, the WolframAlp...

Tuesday, Oct 13

Social Good: iPhone App Lets You Give Work to Kenyan Refugees

So you send your task to CrowdFlower and Samasource. They place the task in the Give Work iPhone app. Then Kenyan refugees trained by Samasource do the image checks from a datacenter. And to assure quality and accuracy, an American iPhone user double-checks their work and verifies the refug...

Monday, Sep 28

Opinion: Breaking News: CNN’s iPhone App Does That (And Much More)

We may have spoken too soon, because that declaration was before the CNN iPhone App. Update: The CNN iPhone App is now in the app store. Download it here [iTunes link]. We may have spoken too soon, because that declaration was before the CNN iPhone App. CNN’s iPhone App: It’s Impressive

Friday, Sep 4

The Death of Auto-Tune? T-Pain’s Got an App for That

It’s becoming clear that iPhone applications are a great promotional tool. Movie studios, websites (we have our own iPhone app!) and musicians are all using the App Store to offer up content to fans and promote their brands. It’s becoming clear that iPhone applications are a great promoti...

Wednesday, Aug 26

Opinion: iPhone App Automatically Picks the News You’ll Like

Apple’s archaic review process for weeks, has finally made its debut in the iPhone App Store. Along with being a solid mobile RSS reader, my6sense monitors what you read and uses that info to generate a customized feed of articles you’ll want to read.

Tuesday, Aug 25

Opinion: From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store

All of this comes as we enter the second week of waiting for the Facebook 3.0 iPhone App to even be approved by Apple. All of this comes as we enter the second week of waiting for the Facebook 3.0 iPhone App to even be approved by Apple. How to Fix the App Store

Thursday, Aug 20

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Strategy: Too Much, Too Late?

According to Digitimes, Microsoft will launch Windows Mobile 6.5 on October 2009 (it’s a tad late; it was supposed to arrive in September), but that actually won’t be the really good Windows Mobile 6.5 we’d like to see. A crucial feature – touch interface, which most of the competitors, such...

Wednesday, Aug 19

Top 6 Augmented Reality Mobile Apps [Videos]

These applications combine virtual data into the physical real world by utilizing the iPhone 3GS or an Android phone’s compass, camera, and GPS system. The result is that you can see things like the location of Twitter users and local restaurants in the physical world, even if they are mil...

Sunday, Aug 16

NPR’s iPhone App Blows Other News Apps Out of the Water

NPR News [iTunes link], which just became available for download, offers the same core features of other news apps like AP Mobile [iTunes link], primarily that you can browse the day’s big stories and read news articles in multiple categories. However, no other news app is linked to 1000+...

Wednesday, Jun 10

Opinion: 6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone App

To build native iPhone apps you need to have a Mac OS X computer and obtain an Apple Developer Connection membership (which is free, but to submit to the App Store there’s a $99 fee) in order to download the latest version of Xcode and the iPhone SDK.

Monday, Jun 8

Top 6 iPhone 3.0 Apps to Watch

Reviews: Google Maps Tags: ESPN, iphone, iphone 3.0, iphone applications, iphone apps More is coming for the iPhone More iPhone resources from Mashable: 11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip Tags: ESPN, iphone, iphone 3.0, iphone applications, iphone apps