Whether you love checkers, tic-tac-toe, or even rock-paper-scissors, there are a ton of free applications you can download for hours of classic tabletop entertainment. Browse through this list and you’re almost certain to find apps that appeal to your need to play your favorite childhood games.
Satellite radio will die soon anyway, but Apple will accidentally perform a mercy killing of Sirius XM Radio this summer. A new iPhone and iPod Touch, plus new software for older devices, will enable people to stream any audio (iTunes, Pandora, podcasts, audiobooks, etc.) to car stereos. Meanwhile, Sirius needs strong car sales to survive.
It’s finally arrived – the all new Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone application.Now you can take the best of Yahoo! Messenger with you and stay in touch with friends through your iPhone or iPod Touch, no matter where you are.
It all started while we were researching an article on future user interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at this point, but multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the iPhone is just starting to become a big deal, and we decided to see what big things are going on in that field. What we found that surprised us..
Reznor’s Innovative Run Continues With Nine Inch Nails iPhone App
nandemoari writes “T-Mobile is planning to use Google’s open source operating system ‘Android’ on devices that blur the line between cellphone and home PC. In addition, Samsung says they will also produce Android phones, but need to work out the kinks first. Both announcements come shortly after HP revealed that it is investigating the idea of using Android to power some of its low-cost netbook computers in place of Windows.”
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The application challenges iPhone and iPod touch players to monitor fuel use and tire wear just as Audi Le Mans teams do during races.
Wireless radio component specifications contained within beta distributions of iPhone 3.0 firmware reveal support for a new chip enabling low power 802.11n that’s bound for Apple’s third-generation iPod touch. It’s therefore also likely to be included with new iPhone models.
walrabbit writes “Wang et al (2009) (from Albert-László Barabási’s lab) modeled the spread of mobile phone viruses based on anonymised call and text logs of 6.2 million customers spread over 10,000 towers. Their simulations shows that the spread is dependent on the market share of a particular handset, human mobility and mode of spread: bluetooth or MMS or hybrid. ‘We find that while Bluetooth viruses can reach all susceptible handsets with time, they spread slowly due to human mobility, offering ample opportunities to deploy antiviral software. In contrast, viruses utilizing multimedia messaging services could infect all users in hours, but currently a phase transition on the underlying call graph limits them to only a small fraction of the susceptible users. These results explain the lack of a major mobile virus breakout so far and predict that once a mobile operating system’s market share reaches the phase transition point, viruses will pose a serious threat to mobile communications.’ You can read the full text (PDF) and supporting online information (PDF) (with interesting modelling data and diagrams).” (Also summed up in a short article at CBC.)
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While third-party apps are being trumpeted as the iPhone’s strength, key Palm Pre demos this week were designed to highlight their restrictions by taking advantage of those precise things that Apple won’t allow.
