Wizdaz, one of the iPhone DevTeam members is going to release the SmartScreen application that will allow widgets to be placed on your iphone lockscreen tomorrow. You will be able to have your calendar, stocks, weather, news, twitter and multiple other things running on your iphone’s lockscreen. It is said that there will be a lite version of this app that will let you run three widgets for free on your lockscreen but if you want to run more you will have to pay. Continue reading for full details on this app Read more…

This is suppose to be the best rpg game on the iphone. It has superior graphics, easy to use controls, a lot of detail such as riding horses, a variety of weapons etc. etc. Its like oblivion if you have ever played that so check out the trailer below:

I was never really a big fan of call of duty world at war but I must say that nazi zombies is very entertaining and fun when you have a group of friends around. To my surprise nazi zombies has made it to the iPhone and I had to buy it. Yeah you read it right, Nazi Zombies on your iphone with multiplayer. The only set back of the game is that it is hard to control with the iphone’s touch screen so you probably won’t be making it very far and if you do mad respect to you.

OnLive, the Internet-based interactive streaming service hyped as “the future of video games,” is also capable of running on mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone, the company has claimed.

At the Wedbush financial conference in New York, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman demonstrated his company’s game streaming service simultaneously on two iPhones. Perlman detailed the event on his company’s official blog.
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Chris Varenhorst, a student at MIT one of the leading research universities in the world, has developed a hydraulic system connected to some electronic components that allow you to open any door with the ability to use the iphone interface.

Touch Arcade has the news that the long-awaited Ravensword and a number of other games built on the Unity game engine have been rejected by Apple from the App Store. The problem appears to be a number of API calls in the engine (though not specifically the game themselves, as I understand it) that allow the games to access the iPhone’s number and send it back to the developer’s servers.
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Apple is looking to hire a game and media software engineer for its iPhone and iPod touch team, perhaps signaling that the company intends to expand its first-party software offerings.

The listing posted this week is noteworthy because Apple has only released four applications on its iPhone App Store since it first launched, and only one of them — Texas Hold’em — is a game. The $4.99 virtual card game was released in 2008.

The advertisement seeks a full-time employee to work at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Apple is looking for a “passionate gamer” with 3 to 4 years of video game development experience. The person would help design and implement “interactive multimedia experiences” on the iPhone and iPod touch. Only candidates who have shipped “at least one AAA title” are asked to apply.
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NASA creates prototype chemical sensor

Jing Li, a physical scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, has used the hardware connectivity made available in iPhone OS 3.0 to create a “compact, low-cost, low-power, high speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing” external attachment. The prototype device, which is said to be about the size of a postage stamp, connects to the iPhone through its 30-pin dock connector.
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Apple has quietly launched iTunes Preview, a web based preview for those iTunes links that used to just open the application.

Previously, when linking to a song or album in iTunes your browser would open a blank page and prompt you to open the link with the iTunes application. This was fine if you had the iTunes application installed but annoying if you didn’t. Read more…

As the iPhone has proven itself to be a formidable competitor in the handheld gaming business, the president of Nintendo has said his company must differentiate itself to survive.

As Apple portrays the iPod touch and iPhone as the ultimate portable gaming machine, Nintendo, maker of the Nintendo DS, has seen its profits freefall last quarter, from 133 billion yen a year prior to 64 billion yen. Highlighting the newfound competition between Apple and Nintendo, The Wall Street Journal noted that Nintendo has fended off several potential portable challengers, but it hasn’t quite faced a competitor like the iPhone.

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