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Cyber Monday app sales: Tom Tom USA, Age of Zombies, a few more

by Mike Schramm (Nov 28th, 2011)

Did you buy anything good this weekend? It's now Cyber Monday, and the App Store sales continue. I have to say, these aren't quite as good as what we saw last week (though some of those are still going on), but there are still a few solid ...

Zynga hires team behind cocos2d

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2011)

Zynga has picked up yet another relatively big-name iOS developer. After acquiring Wonderland, Area/Code and Newtoy earlier this year, the social gaming giant has now acquired the team behind the iOS physics engine cocos2d. That engine is used ...

GV Connect app for Google Voice now available

by Josh Helfferich (Sep 17th, 2010)

GV Connect, the Google Voice client for the iPhone and iPod touch that caused quite a stir when it was pulled by Apple last year, has unexpectedly returned to the App Store. Developer Andreas Amann resubmitted the app last week following Apple's new ...

GoodReader is bringing syncing back

by TJ Luoma (Jul 2nd, 2010)

GoodReader was one of a handful of apps which had figured out how to do USB syncing to iPhones, but their solution was in violation of Apple's iPhone SDK rules. Apple eventually required all 3rd party iPhone apps to remove this functionality. Some ...

Rogue Amoeba on background audio and Airfoil Speakers Touch

by TJ Luoma (Jun 30th, 2010)

Dan Wineman, a developer with Rogue Amoeba, has posted an interesting article on the company blog. I'm a big fan of developers who can explain things clearly to non-developers without sounding condescending, and Dan does a great job covering how the ...

iOS 4.0 Gold Master SDK publicly released

by Erica Sadun (Jun 21st, 2010)

The iOS 4.0 gold master SDK (not release candidate) is now available for download from Apple. All members of Apple's developer program (not just paid members) can access the iOS 4.0 SDK, with its enhanced APIs. As in the past, the ongoing NDA for the ...

iPhone 4 may natively support Facebook video uploads

by Keith M (Jun 15th, 2010)

Maybe this is the kind thing that would make Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg like his iPhone a little more. The folks over at 9to5Mac.com dug into the iOS 4 SDK, and found some XML code that seems to indicate that video uploads to Facebook will be ...

Paid apps do better in the charts than free ones

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2010)

Recently, we've seen a big trend of apps on the App Store going free because free apps tend to garner more attention and downloads (and in-app purchases mean that there's still a possibility of making a profit down the line). However, it turns out ...

TUAW's Daily App: 2360: Battle for Cydonia

by Mike Schramm (May 28th, 2010)

We've been doing apps and puzzle games a lot on this feature lately, so let's not forget what makes a game really fun: a big robot blowing up lots of stuff. Fortunately, Battle for Cydonia is full of that, as you control a mech armed with dual ...

Rumor for developers, developers, developers! Steve Ballmer to present at WWDC?

by Sang Tang (May 27th, 2010)

Barron's reports, you decide: According to Trip Chowdry, an analyst with Global Equities Research, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have seven minutes of stage time at WWDC 2010. [Wait, what now? –Ed.] According to Chowdry, Ballmer's ...

iPhone OS 4.0 Secrets: Hidden iPod application hints at automobile integration

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 12th, 2010)

An TUAW informant has slipped us some video showcasing a new application built into iPhone OS 4.0. Apparently bundled with iPods and iPhones, the new application transforms the iPhone screen into a simple remote control which is used to manipulate ...

iPhone 4.0 beta walkthrough video in English

by David Winograd (Apr 11th, 2010)

A few days ago we posted a Polish language video walkthrough of some of the features in the iPhone OS 4.0 initial beta. Since then, Michael Sherlock put together an English language video of a number of the features present in the new beta. ...

Steve Jobs responds on iPhone SDK's new Section 3.3.1

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 11th, 2010)

The release of the iPhone 4.0 SDK to developers included, in the accompanying agreement, Apple's new mandate that apps must be written in C/C++/Objective-C. This seems to block the use of alternative development environments for iPhone apps, such as ...

Apple blocking Flash-built apps because of multitasking?

by Chris Rawson (Apr 9th, 2010)

Following up on news that the iPhone 4.0 developer agreement prohibits cross-compiled third-party apps, AppleInsider received info that multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 is the reason for the change. According to their sources, apps built in environments ...

iPhone Dev conference exclusive promo code for TUAW readers

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 9th, 2010)

The Pearson Education's Voices That Matter Conference series will be holding their second iPhone Developers Conference on April 24-25 in Seattle. Leading authors and experts (including our very own Erica Sadun) will converge for two days to share ...

Video walkthrough of iPhone OS 4.0 shows up

by Michael Rose (Apr 9th, 2010)

Who knows how long this will stick before Apple's lawyers learn to speak Polish, but Makowe ABC has uploaded a walkthrough video of an iPhone running beta OS 4. The captioning should help you figure out which features are being discussed. We're ...