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Mar 9 2010

CBS Sports NCAA March Madness and MLB.com At Bat 2010 Now Available for iPhone

Spring is in the air and March is a perfect time for all you sports fans out there to get your daily fix with the release of CBS Sports March Madness [iTunes Link - $9.99] [...]


Mar 8 2010

Zombie Castle Defender ‘ZombieSmash!’ Coming to iPhone and iPod touch

Whether you are a fan of the Castle Defender genre or Zombies, you are sure to love the soon to be released ZombieSmash! for iPhone and iPod touch.

In similar fashion to the very popular Plants [...]


Mar 7 2010

ITunes Store/App Store Outage?

We’re getting lots of reports from lots of different places that Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store are down or otherwise erroring out for users.

Hopefully Apple is working on a fix and things will [...]


Mar 4 2010

Apple Removing Wi-Fi Scanning Apps from App Store

Cult of Mac reports that Apple has begun removing apps from the iTunes App Store that scan for Wi-Fi access points. It looks like these apps are being removed due to their use of private [...]


Mar 4 2010

Buzzie Unofficial Google Buzz App Hits App Store

The first unofficial Google Buzz application, Buzzie, [$1.99 on sale - iTunes Link] has made it’s way into the Apple App Store.

Up until this point all Google Buzz users have had to rely on Google’s [...]


Feb 25 2010

Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available in App Store

They are finally here RPG fans, Final Fantasy [$8.99 - iTunes link] and Final Fantasy II [$8.99 - iTunes link] were released earlier today in the App Store for your iPhone or iPod touch. Each [...]


Feb 25 2010

Apple Yanks “Explicit” Option from iTunes

We are sorry to pass on the news, but Apple has yanked the “explicit” category that was spotted earlier today within the App Store submission software, iTunes Connect.

An iPhone developer tipster told Gizmodo s/he verified [...]


Feb 24 2010

Mega Man 2, Earthworm Jim, Myst, Golden Axe, Secret of Monkey Island — TiPb’s Top 5 Retro Games!

Today’s TiPb Top 5 will be directed towards our iPhone and iPod touch wielding readers who love their classic, retro games. Just like our other TiPb’s top 5 must-have posts, all of these applications are [...]


Feb 19 2010

Apple Comments on Removal of Sexual-content Apps

Following up on last night’s story about the removal of apps with sexual content from the iTunes App Store, TiPb asked Apple for comment and they responded:

“Whenever we receive customer complaints about objectionable [...]


Feb 19 2010

UPDATED: Apple Removes Sex-based Apps from the App Store

UPDATE: TiPb received a comment from Apple, see our latest post.

Developer Chillifresh sent us a link to their blog post where they claim Apple is removing “all non-PG apps” (read: sex-based apps) from the App [...]


Feb 19 2010

iTunes App Store Now Supported in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda

Apple’s iPhone Developer News feed has announced that the iTunes App Store is now supported in 13 additional countries:

You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App [...]


Feb 18 2010

Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies: Verrückt

Activision’s first person shooter hit, Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies is taking advantage of in-app purchasing with a new map – Verrückt (Zombie Asylum).

This new map will run you an additional $4.99, [...]


Feb 17 2010

Meebo IM for iPhone and iPod touch

It’s been a long time coming, but instant messaging client, Meebo, [iTunes Link - Free] has finally made it into the App Store. The last time TiPb mentioned Meebo was back in 2008 when Chad [...]


Feb 17 2010

Plants vs. Zombies for iPhone and iPod touch

The popular PopCap Mac tower defense title, Plants vs. Zombies, [iTunes Link - $2.99] has finally arrived on the iPhone and iPod touch!

The premise is simple, defend your home from invading zombies with an [...]


Feb 13 2010

Quick App: NBC Olympics Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch

The 2010 Winter Olympics officially began yesterday and if you want to keep up with your country to see how well they are performing, the NBC Olympics Mobile app [iTunes Link - Free] for iPhone [...]


Feb 13 2010

First Official Final Fantasy Trailer Makes its Debut

If you did not already know, Final Fantasy 1 and 2 coming to an iPhone/iPod touch near you and on Friday, Square Enix decided to tease us all with the first official trailer.

We are [...]


Feb 11 2010

Quick App Update: BeejiveIM for iPhone Updated to v3.2

BeejiveIM [iTunes Link - $9.99] has always been one of TiPb’s favorite IM clients and it continues to impress with the release of version 3.2. This application is arguably one of the finest IM clients [...]


Feb 8 2010

Quick App: Doodle Army

If cartoon violence is something you love, then Doodle Army [$0.99 - iTunes Link] might be right up your alley. It provides more comical 2D side-scrolling cartoon action than any other game I’ve found in [...]


Feb 5 2010

Apple Requests Google Android Mention Be Removed from App Store Description

Have the gloves officially come off with Apple demanding Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab’s developer remove a mention of Google’s Android from their App Store application’s description? This does come just days after Steve Jobs [...]


Feb 4 2010

iPhone Skype App Going 3G: “Real Soon”

For those of you holding your breath for Skype to work over AT&T’s 3G network, you will soon be able to relax as Skype has told TiPb it’s only a matter of time. From their [...]