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Monocle is a JavaScript e-book reader

Filed under: Developer, Browsers

So e-books are all the rage these days. It’s the wave of the future! Apart from dedicated devices such as the Nook or Kindle, there are various cross-platform software implementations, such as the Kindle App for Windows and iPhone, etc.

One of the most interesting attempts is the Ibis reader, which is [...]

Street Fighter IV: an iPhone game earns the Street Fighter name

Filed under: Fun, Games, iPhone

Get your tissues ready, gamers, because you’re about to cry some big, sloppy tears of joy. Picture this: Capcom’s Street Fighter IV. In your pocket. For 10 bucks.

That’s right, Street Fighter IV has hit the iPhone with the fury of one of Ryu’s dragon punches. I know what you’re thinking, [...]

Gowalla hits webOS with a slick new client

Filed under: Palm, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

We covered location-based game Foursquare’s webOS client earlier in the year, noting that competitor Gowalla had a client for the Palm Pre and Pixi ‘in the works’ - and today, just in time for SXSW, the Gowalla webOS client has appeared in the App Store. As with [...]

Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market

Filed under: Developer, Games

Did you know that the Xbox 360 is just a PC in a box? Sure, the inputs are different and you generally attach it to a TV — but still, internally, it’s PC hardware. You can even use the controllers with your PC if you like! The Xbox doesn’t run Windows though; [...]

Gowalla 1.0 hits the Android Market

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

We recently covered the beta version of Gowalla’s location-based social app for Android, and now it’s hit version 1.0. You can download Gowalla from the Android Market starting today. Gowalla’s main competitor, Foursquare, has already been on Android for some time.

If you’re familiar with the Gowalla iPhone app, the [...]

Steve Jobs on iPad tethering with iPhone: "No."

Filed under: Hardware, News, Apple

It goes almost without saying that a lot of the people who buy Apple’s new iPad will already have Apple’s iPhone. Maybe you were thinking, “Well, since I’ve got an iPhone already, why pay for two data plans? There has to be some way to tether the iPad using the iPhone, [...]

ReMail may live on - Google releases source

Filed under: Apple, Google, Open Source, iPhone

In what comes as a bit of a surprise move, Google has decided to open-source the code for ReMail, the iPhone app it recently purchased and retired from the App Store. Speculation at the time was that Google was killing the existing ReMail product as a way to gain [...]

Netflix asks whether you’d like streaming movies on iPhone and iPad

Filed under: Video, Web services, iPhone

Netflix’s customer surveys have included some very interesting questions lately, suggesting that the company is looking to expand its streaming video service into the mobile arena. Specifically, Netflix wants to know whether its customers want streaming video for iPhone and (presumably) iPad. Is water wet? Of course they do!

It might [...]

Grooveshark’s iPhone app is unbelievably awesome, but totally unapprovable

Filed under: Audio, iPhone

I’m not shy about my love of Grooveshark. No one pays me to say it, it’s just the best streaming music app I’ve used — and it’s fully functional in Canada unlike some of its geotarded cousins in the audio game.

They caused a bit of a ruckus recently when they decided [...]

Reigning Pwn2Own champion: "The main thing is not to install Flash!"

Filed under: Security, News

With the Pwn2Own hacking contest coming up at Vancouver’s CanSecWest security conference later this month, Italian computer security blog OneITSecurity took some time to interview Charlie Miller. Miller, in case you’re not familiar, is a security expert who has won Pwn2Own two years running by hacking Apple’s Safari browser with incredible speed. [...]