Winner Of iTunes Contest Thought Call From Steve Jobs Was A Prank

Posted by sheep under All, Hacks on Saturday Feb 27, 2010

Woodstock, Georgia resident Louie Sulcer, the winner of Apple’s iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold Contest; thought it was yet another trick that his son was playing on him when he received a phone call and the person at the other end said, “This is Steve Jobs from Apple”. It…



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Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world’s ever seen, and while the hardware and software are both obviously early, we can tell you a few things about it: it’s just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home, and search buttons dictated by Windows Phone 7 Series, and we noticed a five megapixel camera with a flash on the back, along with a headphone jack. Can’t say much apart from that right now, since things are so early and everything is subject to change, but things are certainly moving along. It’s all going down on the show right now — see it on video after the break!

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After Apple’s crackdown on sexual content, nearly 5000 iPhone apps faced the axe last week. Phil Schiller, the head of worldwide product marketing at Apple, the decision was taken after numerous complaints from women and parents who found the content objectionable and degrading. Now it appears that Apple has been…



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Desert Island Apps – Number 9, with Robin Rhys

Posted by sheep under All, Apps on Saturday Feb 27, 2010

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The war of words between Apple and Adobe over Cupertino’s refusal to incorporate Flash on the iPhone platform has continued for quite a while now. After Steve Jobs recently called Adobe Flash a “CPU Hog”, a source of “security holes” and a dying technology, his counterpart at Adobe, Shantanu Narayen,…



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Site Stuff: A Word from Our Sponsors

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Don’t Mess with Find My iPhone

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Final Fantasy And Final Fantasy II For iPhone Released

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Final Fantasy, the earliest of role playing games that first launched way back in 1987 and has made through several sequels since then has finally made it to the iPhone. Square Enix, the developer of the popular game series, which is considered to be among the most successful RPG applications…



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Draw with glow paint and battle 3D tanks: iPhone apps of the week

Posted by sheep under All, Hacks on Friday Feb 26, 2010

This week’s apps include a unique painting app and a game that closely mimics one of the greatest classic arcade tank games of all time.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

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