by Meghann Myers, Macworld.com
Onslaught from Space looks very much like something you would’ve played in a video arcade 20 years ago, and that’s exactly what developer Jake O’Brien had in mind.
Retro Flavor: Despite the clever use of the iPhone platform’s controls, Onslaught from Space still plays like a retro game.
By Nicholas Bonsack
Mon, November 30, 2009 — Macworld — It seems that Apple has big plans for the next iPhone Maps app, or so we might glean from a job posted for an iPhone Software Engineer on Apple’s website.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas — his iPhone. Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple’s popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from [...]
By Ryan Faas
January 29, 2009 (Computerworld) There’s no doubt that Apple Inc.’s iPhone has changed the landscape of the smart-phone industry, and indeed the mobile phone business as a whole. But one of the most revolutionary advances that Apple offered up isn’t in the iPhone itself: It’s the mechanism the company developed to distribute [...]
by Michael Muchmore
When the iPhone first got app-running capability, PCMag mobile-device analyst Sascha Segan bemoaned the lack of Microsoft Office document editors, believing that their absence hampered the slick communicator’s acceptance as a serious business tool. Well, Quickoffice has stepped in, with MobileFiles Pro ($9.99 direct).
by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
As people get ready to return to work after two weeks of holiday festivities, it seems fitting to turn our attention to a pair of business and productivity iPhone and iPod touch apps that have debuted in the App Store recently.
By Jake Widman, Computerworld
Do video games stimulate the intellect? Are gamers more social and better equipped to make decisions than nongamers?
Author Steven Johnson drew fire from cultural hand-wringers for presenting those assertions a couple of years ago in his book Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter.