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Vendetta Online now available on the iPad

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2013)

Vendetta Online was officially released for the PC back in 2004 -- it's a space combat-based massively multiplayer online game that has been updated and developed almost constantly since it first went online in 2002. A few years ago, the game went mobile on Windows tablets, and today, Vendetta ...

Wunderlist announces Wunderlist Pro for Mac, iOS and the web

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2013)

The folks behind Wunderlist, the excellent to-do app that recently updated to version 2, have announced that Wunderlist Pro is almost ready for prime time. Wunderlist is a free service and is remaining free, but Wunderlist Pro is a new premium service that's designed to help get Wunderlist ...

Apple TVs in Germany gain movie and TV subscription service Watchever

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2013)

German Apple TV users have a new app and service on their devices. Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web reports that German subscription video on demand service Watchever has found a place on the home screen of the diminutive puck. Watchever is similar to Hulu, offering German, European and ...

Pocket announces digital publishing partnership with Matter

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2012)

Just last week we mentioned that Pocket, formerly known as Read It Later, was growing its little empire of features and various apps, but hadn't yet landed on a solid monetary plan. Well here that comes now: Pocket has announced a partnership with a Kickstarter-funded digital publisher called ...

Lose It! announces a premium service

by Mike Schramm (Nov 13th, 2012)

Lose It! is one of the most popular calorie-counting/weight loss apps on the App Store. It arrived back in the early days of iOS, but consistent updates and a big user base have kept it high up on the charts for a long time. And today, the app's developers, FitNow, have announced that they're ...

TED Books launches store, subscriptions

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 9th, 2012)

The TED Conference is expanding its iOS offerings with a new app that'll let users read short electronic books from the popular series of intellectual presentations. The new Ted Books app includes articles that are 20,000 words or less and can be digested in a single sitting. The platform that ...

Reading Rainbow app coming tonight, will be subscription-based (updated)

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2012)

If you're right around my age (a couple years past 30), you'll probably also have fond memories of watching Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow program on PBS all those years ago. Burton, in addition with his work on Star Trek, has remained a pretty well-known figure for both Trekkies and those in ...

Time, Inc. will sell its magazines on Apple's Newsstand

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 14th, 2012)

Laura Lang, CEO of Time, Inc. and Eddy Cue, Apple's VP for Internet software and service, confirmed to The New York Times that Time Inc.'s magazine lineup is coming to the iPhone and iPad. All of Time's magazines including People, Sports Illustrated, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly will be ...

Adobe formally unveils CS6, Creative Cloud, launch event April 23

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 23rd, 2012)

Adobe has formally announced its upcoming Creative Cloud service, along with Adobe Creative Suite 6, and Adobe will stream a launch event at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET today, April 23. All products are available for preorder. Creative Cloud is US$49.99 per month; however, those who currently have ...

OnLive Desktop Plus out now, $4.99 a month for extra software and features

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2012)

OnLive Desktop originally went live back at CES earlier this year, and since then it's been making magic happen on iOS devices everywhere, whether you've used it yet or not. The cloud-based service provides a Windows computer packed with standard software, streamed right to your iOS device, ...

Daily iPhone App: Cupidtino

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

We covered Cupidtino a little while ago. It's a dating site for Mac users who are looking for love. Given its purview and the fact that no web service is complete without an iPhone app, Cupidtino has released an iPhone app for single Apple fans. I kid but it's actually pretty nice. You can browse ...

Call of Duty Elite mobile apps for iOS out today

by Mike Schramm (Jan 10th, 2012)

Activision has announced that its Call of Duty Elite mobile apps are arriving on iOS today -- they should be available for download from the App Store before long. The apps do require you to be registered to the Elite service (which works in conjunction to track all of your stats from the ...

EA (re)releases Tetris on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Electronic Arts has released yet another copy of Tetris, this time for the iPhone, and it's actually pretty good. In addition to all of the other big releases on the App Store last night, Tetris showed up and replaced EA's older version of the game. While it might seem strange to redo a game ...

Apple [doesn't allow] subscription-based iPad gaming for the first time (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Update: The app has been pulled from the store. John Gruber hypothesizes that the app was actually approved in error, with the App Store screening team not realizing that they had made a policy shift. Bloomberg reports that Apple has allowed Big Fish Games to begin offering its games in a ...

MLB may implement subscription next season

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 15th, 2011)

Major League Baseball has embraced social media and mobile devices in a big way and it looks like this early adoption is paying off. The MLB At Bat app was downloaded 1.6 million times across all mobile platforms and is reportedly the highest grossing app in the iTunes App Store, according to a ...