An anonymous source close to Namco told PocketGamer that “the game is being finished up and it plays rather nicely”. Currently, the most valid hypothesis seems to be a port of Tekken 6 available for PSP but has not yet been confirmed.

With competitor Capcom having just announced Street Fighter IV for iPhone, Namco’s move with Tekken is a logical one. While Capcom will present Street Fighter IV for iPhone next week at Game Developers Conference, Namco made it clear that Tekken won’t be shown during GDC. Namco didn’t confirm or deny the existence of the game, they just said they don’t have any plans for Tekken next week.

Everybody is trying to capitalize on gadgets and usually the magic word is ‘iPhone’. You got iPhone cases, cleaning products, skins, sleeves, underwear, rocks… and a pair of jeans. That’s right, the WTF product of the day, is a pair of jeans *compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch*

The WTFjeans have two front pockets, both divided in two separate pockets, where you can stick an iPhone, iPod Touch, USB sticks, or any gadget you like. The interior of the pockets is made from micro-fiber that will protect your iPhone or iPod touch, as well as cleaning it when you take it out. Read more…

Steve Jobs appears to have fired off a tersely worded email reply to a user in Sweeden who asked whether the WiFi-only iPad could be tethered to the iPhone: “No.”

Jezper Söderlund of the Swedish website Slashat.se reports that he sent Apple’s chief executive an email identifying himself as an Apple customer before adding, “I’m also awaiting the release of the iPad. However, I have one question: Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?”

The full email headers Söderlund forwarded to AppleInsider appear to indicate that Jobs sent his one word reply at 8:30 AM from his iPhone. Read more…

The Square credit card reader for the iPhone has gotten most of the buzz around here, especially after we saw that impressive demo at Macworld a few weeks ago. But VeriFone’s competing reader has been given the green light by Apple itself: the unit has been granted a deal for shelf space. VeriFone will be selling its PAYware Mobile units inside Apple’s retail stores coming up as soon as the end of March. Read more…

Saurik has uploaded a new version of APT that has an optimized cache generator and greatly improves Cydia performance.

“I also uploaded a new version of APT I’ve been working on: it has an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing.”

When launching Cydia the next time you will be prompted to update to the new version of APT. Perform the install and enjoy the speed improvements!

[Via iclarified.com]

It was a little less than a month ago when news broke of a South Korean company called CJ Corporation noticing a sharp increase in sales of their frozen sausages. CJ did some digging around and it turned out the good people of South Korea were using their sausages as iPhone styluses. Someone who was sick of taking their gloves off in the cold Korean winter to use their iPhone found out that the sausages were Read more…

Today Apple announced that the iPad will ship in April, writing that the device will “be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.” Consumers will be able to pre-order their units starting March 12th, with pick-up at Apple retail stores. Read more…

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When you got an iPhone, you do whatever it takes to keep it shiny beautiful. You buy a case, a skin, anything to make sure nothing will ever happen to your precious iPhone. Well, yeah… you do that, but not all iPhone owners take really good care of their iDevice and when you want to buy a second-hand iPhone, you will find that lots of them will look like the one in the picture above ( left pic ). Read more…

Sony is developing a new lineup of products to compete with Apple’s growing stable of portable devices, according to the WSJ.

Journal sources say, the company plans to release a new smartphone which is capable of downloading and playing Playstation games.
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