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Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading
Source: The New York Times

With Amazon's Kindle, readers can squeeze hundreds of books into a device that is smaller than most hardcovers.

For now, 'illegal' Apple billboard dropped
Source: The Boston Herald

A controversial Apple billboard has come down, leaving many questions and some large whales in its wake. This weekend, Planet Storage on Traveler Street removed its iPod Touch sign and revealed to drivers on Interstate 93 the ocean-inspired public art.

Touchoo - Children's books iPhone apps
Source: touchoo.com

Touchoo is giving away 30 interactive children's books for the iPhone. if you have friends with children and/or iPhone/iPod touch (and vice versa) you are welcome to share this fact with them.

Halloween iPhone app scores with spooky features

Grumpy Editor used to mark Halloween time with a hair-raising visit to the Haunted House in Disneyland, but that is no longer necessary with Halloween Experience, a scary app for Apple Corp.'s iPhone and iPod Touch users.

Want to Cash In? Invent a Phone Application
Source: USA Today

"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."

Zune HD: You call that a browser?
Source: CNET.com

Regardless of how you're trying to navigate, the on-screen keyboard seems to require more finger accuracy than the fault-tolerant keyboard on the iPhone (probably because of the smaller screen). The back button is hard to hit--I kept selecting the favorites menu by mistake.

Zune HD: No iPod Killer by PC World
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

Although it might have the hardware edge over the iPod touch, with the features mentioned and the crisp OLED display, Microsoft just committed a grave error with the Zune HD: there won't be a full-fledged app store for the Zune HD on launch--or any time soon, either.

Five Myths of the Zune HD
Source: Apple Insider

Just when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new mult …

How Motorola, Palm and HTC Could Beat Apple
Source: PC Magazine

The iPhone is seriously lacking in social skills. Is Motorola's new Cliq handset the answer?

First look: Madden NFL 10 for the iPhone
Source: Macworld

Madden NFL 10 iPhone features real teams, real players, and every NFL stadium. If you want to see Drew Brees battle the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, this is your game.

10 Eyebrow-Raising App Store Rejections
Source: CNET.com

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

SkyDock: Coming soon, a dock to stream Satellite Radio through your iPhone/iPod Touch
Source: Orbitcast

On August 17th, the FCC published a few documents that reveal that Sirius XM Radio Inc. are preparing to release a new product entitled the Sirius XM SkyDock.

Apple Tablet Gets Possible Launch Date: Week of September 7th
Source: Mashable!

According to AllThingsD, Apple is planning a keynote event the week of September 7th, a time the company has traditionally used to unveil new products.

There's a New Playmate in Town: iBabyBuddy for the iPhone
Source: YouTube

Watch this YouTube video of iBabyBuddy in action: an iPhone / iPod toy for babies and toddlers that is helping parents entertain their children.

AppleInsider | iPod touch web share triples as Windows reaches new low
Source: Apple Insider

sales of the iPod touch, which doubled in one year, even in the face of a poor economy and wider iPhone availability.

Solid Snake blows away the "shooter" competition
Source: eastbayri.com

A very interesting video review on Konami Digital's new release for the iPhone, Metal Gear Solid Touch. This is the latest release for the Metal Gear Solid series offering smooth and rich gameplay for the iPhone.

Which handheld gaming machine is the best?
Source: msnbc.com

The Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handhelds have been duking it out for five years now. Then Apple jumped into the ring ... and things really got interesting.

Will you buy a Nintendo DSi?
Source: msnbc.com

Nintendo's wildly popular portable game machine got an upgrade Sunday with the launch of the DSi.

Skype Brings Cheap Web Calling to Mobile Phones - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

Skype, the Internet calling service that has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving onto mobile phones.

Flash goes iPhone ?

For real or a rumor ?The first time in the mobile history somebody ported Flash Lite Project ( mobile version of Adobe's Flash ) to the iPhone/iPod touch, claims Thomas Joos ( yesterday< ) who has collaborated with italian programmer Emanuele Cipolloni.We managed to create a fla …

The Macalope Weekly: Some people are never happy | iPhone
Source: Macworld

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?!

Apple Apps Show Lacks Shine
Source: TheStreet.com

The show, at Apple's campus in Cupertino, Calif., concluded without a flashy one-more-thing, giving Apple's stock nothing solid to build on. It should come as no surprise that:

Why people won't pay for e-books on the iPhone
Source: CNET.com

While Amazon might be able to find a market for $9.99 books on the Kindle, the iPhone-iPod Touch world is a very different place. Very few people are willing to pay that kind of money for any sort of application, let alone an e-book.

iClarified - iPhone - How to Enable Copy and Paste on the iPhone
Source:

Here is a tip on how to enable copy and paste on your iPhone using this app.

Fixing Jailbroken iPod Touch Problems
Source: technoheads.org

On top of this, it told me there was a problem with the software used to connect my iPod to my computer (it had told me this before, but I hadn't noticed any problems with it). I know there are a lot of people with my problem, so I thought I'd share what I did.

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