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Apple makes a big BIG deal out of very little to get business buyers to its App Store

Posted July 15, 2011 - 1:03 pm

Apple hears the pain of enterprise IT buyers needing volume licenses for mobile apps. It will open (sometime) a (minutely more convenient) Volume window in its apps store. Bring your credit card.
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Confess your sins via iPhone app

Posted February 18, 2011 - 12:27 pm

Your penance: 2 more years on your AT&T contract
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There's an app for that?: AR Drone

Posted September 16, 2010 - 6:51 am

There are any number of flight simulator games for iOS, but only AR Drone actually allows you to control a tiny unmanned quadricopter.
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There's an app for that?: Abacus

Posted September 3, 2010 - 6:37 am

Sure, your iPhone already comes with a perfectly good calculator, but why not do your calculating with a good old-fashioned abacus instead?
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There's an app for that?: Rimshots & Crickets

Posted August 27, 2010 - 6:54 am

If you want the line between reality and entertainment blurred even further, why not carry your own classic sound effects?
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There's an app for THAT?: Hold On

Posted August 20, 2010 - 8:00 am

There's a certain elegance to the simplicity, we suppose.
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There's an app for that? Annoy-A-Teen

Posted August 13, 2010 - 6:25 am

With the Annoy-A-Teen iPhone app your phone's speaker can produce noise to irritate the young (and the young of ear) wherever you go.
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There's an app for that: Don't Dial

Posted August 6, 2010 - 8:37 am

For all its pleasures, alcohol can be an embarrassing mix with cell phones -- particularly cell phones with built-in address books with long lists of everybody you know or ever knew, including exes. The Don't Dial app is here to prevent you from calling former loved ones and giving them a piece of your mind while you're under the influence -- of alcohol, or just a maudlin inability to let go.
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There's an app for THAT?: The quest for fire

Posted July 23, 2010 - 10:36 am

Should fire be restricted to safe place, like the screen of your smartphone? Zippo seems to think so.
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Five Helpful iPhone Apps for the Office

Posted July 5, 2010 - 7:21 am

If you use an iPhone to work away from the office, these five tools can put more productivity in your hands.
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Opera Mini browser approved for the iPhone App Store

Posted April 12, 2010 - 9:01 pm

Apple surprises everyone but Opera Software by approving the Opera Mini web browser for the Apple App Store.
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Bored 11-year-old creates lucrative iPhone app

Posted February 23, 2010 - 10:25 pm

To while away his time at home, he learned how to write iPhone apps, then created iSketch, a 99 cent drawing program.
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New iPhone app lets you see through clothes

Posted January 14, 2010 - 5:24 pm

Don't blame us if it doesn't turn out quite the way the promotional video depicts it.
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App Store losing enormous amount to piracy, according to made-up analyst numbers

Posted January 13, 2010 - 3:05 pm

Even reasonable assumptions become unreasonable when you string too many of them together.
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Find what you need in the airport

Posted December 24, 2009 - 9:57 am

If you're flying, you're probably going to be changing planes, and if you're changing planes, you're probably doing so at an enormous, labyrinthine airport chock full of a baffling array of places to eat, shop, and otherwise spend time and money. Here's an app that will give you the skinny on whatever concourse you find yourself wandering through, bleary-eyed.
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Want to go to church? There's an app for that

Posted October 12, 2009 - 9:02 am

Don't have time to attend mass? Watch videos of various church services on your iPhone with CatholicTV.
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Cellular phone scanners: A new way to get your coffee fix

Posted September 25, 2009 - 11:45 am

If you live in Seattle or Silicon Valley, you might be interested in a new iPhone app from Starbucks that allows you to pay for your drinks via your phone.
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Turn your iPhone into a radio

Posted September 18, 2009 - 9:02 am

Your iPhone can't play streaming audio from radio stations until you download and install special radio apps from the App Store. Here are 3 you'll like, plus instructions for getting started.
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Four favorite time saving iPhone apps

Posted September 2, 2009 - 8:00 am

There are lots of ways to lose minutes and money trying to get more functionality from your smartphone. Here are four apps that give your phone extended powers, and do it very cheaply, or even free.
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First 'iPorn' hits the App Store

Posted June 25, 2009 - 7:43 am

Did that last call you made on your iPhone upset you to the point where only female nudity can lift your spirits? There's an app for that!
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Lawsuit brings conflict to lucrative iPhone flatulence app market

Posted February 25, 2009 - 10:00 am

It was probably inevitable. After farting-based applications were banned from the iPhone store, and then allowed back in, now the producers of such apps have turned on one another.
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