Best Buy, a US consumer electronics retailer, is offering twenty percent off on iTunes gift cards. Cards are available in $15, $25, $50 and $100 denominations. Best of all, there’s no shipping fee; the cards are delivered via email. Walmart seems ok in catering to international customers. As a matter of fact, they provided instructions [...]
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Forget iPod and iPhone knock-offs, the Chinese has cloned Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Well, not exactly. Jobs’ clone is Hong Kong’s local celebrity, Lar Kar Ying, who donned a black turtleneck sweater to help the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway launch version two of their subway app, MTR Mobile (link to App Store). [...]
Gameloft’s 99-cents sale
Jun 24
In celebration of the release of iPhone 4 this week, Gameloft is offering some of their best games at only $0.99. One such game is N.O.V.A. (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance), a highly acclaimed game that has garnered great reviews. IGN gave N.O.V.A. a 9/10 rating and called it “Best Action Game of the Year”. Macworld gave [...]
Electronic Arts has dropped the prices on some of their iPhone games to $0.99. The sale is only good for 48 hours according to EA, and they have included top-rated games such as SimCity ($1.99), Need for Speed Shift ($4.99), Need for Speed Undercover ($2.99), and Command and Conquer Red Alert ($6.99). The games included in the [...]
MacNN reported that an iPhone developer has been banned and had it’s entire library of iPhone apps pulled from the App Store for their unscrupulous practice of using shills to get good rating reviews. Molinker has its library of 1,011 iPhone apps yanked from the App Store due to suspicions raised by users regarding the [...]
I received an email from MacHeist today informing me that IconFactory and DS Media Labs are giving away free copies of their iPhone game, Ramp Champ. Ramp Champ is described as a “new twist in the classic boardwalk games skee-ball and pinball” and comes with four levels: Clown Town, Breakwater Bay, Space Swarm and Icon [...]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog gave the heads up on an ongoing holiday promotion. Blacksmith Games will be revealing one free iPhone game starting December 1. Called the Appvent Calendar 09, a free iPhone game will be revealed everyday until December 22 and each game will be available for free one day only. The first free [...]
For a limited time only, get 1Password Pro for iPhone for free! Agile Web Solutions announced yesterday that they are offering the pro version of their password management app for the iPhone and iPod touch as a free download`. 1Password Pro is regularly priced at $7.99, but it’s going to have the fantastic price of [...]
Apple announced last November 4 that the App Store now has more than 100,000 apps in its catalogue and App Store users have downloaded more than 2 billion apps so far. According to Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing: The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a [...]
iPhone carrier news
Nov 19
Apple has been given the green light to sell the iPhone in South Korea by the Korean Communications Commission. However, Apple is said to be still in talks with two of South Korea’s carriers: KT and SK Telecom. No launch date has been set yet. China Mobile’s chairman said that his company is still negotiating [...]
Fresh from my email inbox: Grab your Free copy of LittleSnapper for iPhone As many of your are aware, we’ve had a companion iPhone application for LittleSnapper available on the App Store for some time, costing just $2.99. Today however, we’ve decided to make the application freely available for a limited time!
What you got there? A brand new iPhone 3GS! Let’s see what third-party apps you have there. You haven’t installed anything yet? But why? With over 75,000 apps in the App Store, there should be a few that you’d like. What do you mean that’s the point? Ah, with so many choices, it kind of [...]
September 9 countdown…
Sep 2
With exactly one week to go before the September 9 event, more speculations come as to what Apple has in store for everyone. According to AppleInsider, Gene Munster, an analyst for Piper Jaffray, is predicting (more like guessing) an upgrade to the Apple TV, noting the wait time for the Apple TV on the Apple [...]
Finally. After all the rumors and speculations, Apple has signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone to China later this year. However, contrary to previous reports, China Unicom did not sign an exclusive agreement with Apple. This means Apple may still enter into another agreement with any of China Unicom’s competitors. China [...]
