Will gamers go for Sony's PSPgo?

Sony launches its new handheld game gadget today. The smartly-designed PSPgo is a great gaming machine, but will its price and digital-only format drive consumers away?

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Apple censors make no sense. Ask Trent Reznor

Hey, kids! Thinkin’ about striking it rich with your own super genius iPhone app?

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Will the people pay for quality iPhone games?

How much are you willing to pay for an iPhone game?

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Forget consoles — it's all about the handhelds

Everyone likes a good fight: video game players, wonks and fanboys, especially so.

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Is the Nintendo DSi gimmicky ... or gaming gold?

You’ve heard that saying about wisdom from the mouths of babes. Yeah, well, since when do kids know anything about anything, much less walk around with pearls of wisdom dripping from their childish lips? When I was a kid, I believed that I could will myself to fly, that I was the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi and that paste made a perfectly fine afternoon snack. In short: I didn’t know jack.

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BlackBerry App World: solid, not sensational

App World for BlackBerry users doesn’t have the polish of the App Store for iPhone, but it has promise and potential to make an extremely popular smartphone even more useful.

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Microsoft vows openness for mobile app store

Microsoft Corp. plans a central market to sell programs for cell phones running the Windows Mobile system. It hews closely to the setup of Apple Inc.'s App Store for iPhones, with one notable exception — Microsoft promises to communicate more openly with outside software developers.

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iPhone lifts profile of on-the-go games

Sometime next month a little company called Secret Exit is going to release an unusual game for the iPhone — a game in which the entire goal is to wrap lengths of rope around variously shaped wooden sculptures — an elephant, a dog, a snake, a rhinoceros.

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More smartphones will have "app stores"

Apple, with its one-stop App Store for the iPhone, made downloading programs like games and utilities for the device easy by using the phone itself. Google is doing the same thing with the new Android Market for Android phones, and next March, Research In Motion will start its own application store for BlackBerrys.

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Voice-based GPS slow to come to iPhone 3G

Apple’s online App Store for the iPhone, with hundreds of programs available so far, has been a big hit since it opened July 11. But one thing that’s conspicuously absent is a navigation program with voice-based, turn-by-turn directions that utilizes the iPhone 3G’s new GPS receiver.

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The first is that they're allowing developers to fully distribute their apps via the web. What this means is that developers can simply submit their apps to Palm, and Palm will return to them a URL that they can then blog, tweet, do whatever they want to share it.

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"It's like going to the racetrack," says Gartner Research's Ken Dulaney. "You hear about one person who made $200,000 in two weeks. But for every one of those, there are 150 others who are struggling."

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The developer program will initially offer tools to write programs for netbooks based on the Atom chip. Later on, the company will extend the program for application development around mobile devices with smaller screens, like smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

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Frustrated programmers have highlighted what they believe to be double standards, strange policies, and flip-flopping among Apple's App Store guards.

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The issue that the App Store reviewers did find with the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable.

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Over the past few weeks, Apple has been much-maligned for keeping apps such as Google Voice off the App Store. These weren't some random garbage apps; there was no farting, or baby shaking.

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Nintendo Brings Mario to the iPhone! No, wait...

As if there could possibly be any lingering doubt that Apple's approval bots over at the iTunes App Store have been consistently asleep at the wheel, the sudden appearance of a simple "visit these map locations and earn a coin" GPS-based game called Mariolife [iTunes Store Link]  …

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What is the iPhone Effect, and Can It Save the Economy?

The folks who invented the iPhone probably never envisioned either the collapse of the economy nor the cottage industry of iPhone apps mushrooming daily into its own corner of the marketplace. Its more popular apps are related to payments and banking applications.

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Nokia's new Ovid app store a complete disaster

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a Nine Inch Nails-themed application for the iPhone was rejected by Apple because it contained potentially offensive content

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A overview of what's coming up in the new Apple Iphone OS 3.0 and how developers really aren't getting away with just throwing up just any old app to make a bunch of money. What different developers are doing to get their apps noticed.

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Apple's App store reaches 1 billion downloads milestone

Apple's Application store has, just minutes ago reached 1 billion application downloads but now begs the question - can we expect to see 2 billion within months due to its amazing growth?

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A controversial program for the iPhone called "Baby Shaker" was added to, then pulled from, Apple's App Store this week after protests about the program's offensive nature dealing with a deathly serious subject.

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The HearPlanet Premium app, available for download from the App Store for $5.99, provides text and spoken descriptions for nearly 250,000 points of interest in locations around the world. A free version also is available.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all lived in a magical fantasy land where accounting rules don't exist and companies could just make up their numbers out of thin air and deliver them to investors adorned with butterflies and rainbows?!

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When James Bossert saw he that his Whack 'em All iPhone game had 400 new users in one day last week he initially got excited. But that sentiment quickly changed when he saw that only 12 people had paid 99 cents for the game on Apple's iPhone App Store.

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Apple will reject books from the App Store that contain content it finds objectionable. It's within its rights to do so, but how does the company define "objectionable?".

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Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.

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An iPhone app that pokes fun at our esteemed candidates for the 2008 US presidential election? Sign me up - where can I get it? Not from the App Store. But I'm getting ahead of myself…

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The NY Times profiles Opera Software, the company that distributes the Opera browser for multiple platforms. According to the article, however, Apple is not allowing an iPhone version of the browser into the App Store: Mr.

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Check out our list of 9 iPhone apps for your car-related needs. Each app links to a full review, so you can get more information on the features and cost of each app. Enjoy!

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BerryStore lets you seamlessly browse, download, rate, and review loads of applications for your BlackBerry smartphone.

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It's not hard to argue that the App Store's inspired success for the mobile software world, with over 100 million programs downloaded on only a few million phones in just a matter of months. Palm, Nokia, Microsoft must all be simmering (and understandably so).

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Apple's iron-fisted control of the iPhone is starting to draw protests from some software developers who wonder if the company's policy will end up squelching competition.

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Apple has gotten a significant amount of critical press surrounding its rejection policies in the App Store. A few high profile rejections have been widely reported and inspired at least one amusing comic.

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