Remember that New Yorker magazine cover we showed you a few days ago…the one that was created using only the Brushes iPhone app?
Well, that cover has given a pretty hefty boost to sales for Steve Sprang, 32, who devotes his free time to developing applications for the iPhone and Mac…including the Brushes app.
On Monday, Sprang [...]

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Why is Boston-based entrepreneur Jason Jacobs participating in this year’s Boston marathon dressed like a giant iPhone?  Jacobs is partnering with some undergraduatess at Emerson College who are enrolled in a new social media class.
He popped into the class seeking assistance in marketing his iPhone App, RunKeeper, which is a GPS-based fitness app for runners [...]

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Apple is on the verge of hitting the 1 billion app downloads mark. They even have a countdown page to help keep track.
There is also a special contest to commemorate the event.
Whenever you download an app, you will then be entered to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, [...]

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As Trent Reznor was haning out backstage one hot day last summer, he started messing with his iPhone.
Suddenly he had a startling revelation.  He realized that Nine Inch Nails fans were sending pictures from the scene with their iPhones.
Reznor then began using Twinkle, the very same Twitter application that fans were using, to send [...]

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Hold onto your butts!
It’s official.  A Skype app for the iPhone will become available in the Apple App Store on Tuesday.  It’s also coming to the Blackberry in May.
This will enable you to make insanely cheap VoIP calls over Wi-Fi.  The app will function on both the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Features will include chatting, [...]

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Sure, people are making a lot of money creating apps for the iPhone. Heck, iStormer shows you step-by-step how you can make thousands of dollars per day with iPhone apps.
However, Social Media, has confirmed that one of their clients made $700,000 in December in Facebook apps advertising revenues alone.
They won’t name the company, but [...]

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CBS has released a new application for the Apple iPhone that will allow you to watch full episodes of TV shows. Among the TV shows you can now watch are CSI and Star Trek.
Being able to watch TV shows for free is a huge first for iPhone users.
Other shows that you can watch are [...]

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Apple has pulled the plug on the South Park iPhone app.  Why?  Well, the bigger question is, why kill the South Park app while letting things like iFart and Pull My Finger through?
The app, which was first announced in October and submitted to the App Store shortly thereafter, has formally been [...]

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Nokia has unveiled its attempt to try and replicate the huge success of the Apple App Store with its own mobile storefront, now called the Ovi Store.
They made the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This move was an expected one as the rumors of their mobile apps store already [...]

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TechCrunch has posted a fantastic true story about an iPhone apps developer.
Noel Hartshorn is a 37-year-old Wales-based iPhone developer working in partnership with illustrator Dennis Harrison. Formerly a tech writer, Noel became one of the many casualties of the global economic crisis. With the IT contract market in decline, and with a lot [...]

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