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VIDEO: Cover Up iPhone app masks toilet noises

Need to make a loud noise in a public toilet? Yes, you guessed it, there's an app for that too with the launch of "Cover Up".

The app creates more socially acceptable noises than the ones you're likely to make during a trip to the loo, such as running water or...

Windows Mobile App Marketplace opens to all

Microsoft's Windows Mobile Application Markplace has opened a little wider to encompass any handset running Windows Mobile 6.0 or above. Previously, it was only available to handsets running the very latest version - Windows Mobile 6.5.

The catalogue contains...

VIDEO: Official Harry Potter iPhone app launches

Muggles everywhere can become fledgling wizards with the help of a new iPhone and iPod touch app. Warner Bros' digital arm is offering the new spell app that "will turn iPhones and iPod touches into magic wands".

Offering over ten "spells" the app can be practised...

TomTom confirms iPhone app update

TomTom has now confirmed what Pocket-lint brought you news of back in early October - that its iPhone app is soon to receive a free software update.

The free update, which TomTom says is being submitted to Apple - almost as we type - for its approval, claims to...

Shazam launches new paid-for "Encore" iPhone app

Shazam has announced the launch of the previously promised "premium" version of its iPhone app called Shazam Encore.

A paid-for download, as opposed to the previous free offering, Shazam is promising new functionality including improved speed performance.

Daily Tech Deal: LogMeIn Ignition iPhone app gets discounted

Something for the weekend? Any iPhone or iPod touch owners may well be interested in today's tech deal, as LogMeIn is putting its award-winning Ignition for iPhone application on sale.

LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone and iPod touch normally retails at £17.99, but...

12 Apps worth jailbreaking your iPhone for

Who needs official apps (all 100,000 of them) when there are a handful of apps that aren't approved and available to anyone wishing to "Jailbreak" their iPhone.

With BlackRa1n now unlocking the latest 3.1.2 firmware and Apple's app process going potty at times,...

App Store hits 100,000 apps milestone

Apple has now officially announced that the App Store has hit the 100,000 available apps milestone.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch customers across 77 countries have downloaded well over 2 billion apps, making the App Store not only the largest, but the world's...

Haynes manuals hit the iPhone

Haynes, publisher of the famous Haynes Owners Workshop Manuals, has released the first Haynes iPhone app with help from developer Gourmet Pixel.

The Haynes App - "as intuitive and simple to use as the classic Haynes repair manual" - features step-by-step guides...

MailTones iPhone app launches

Electric Pocket’s new MailTones iPhone app offers the ability to set a different email alert for each friend, family member or colleague in their address book.

In the words of the developer: "MailTones helps to distinguish high priority emails your boss...

"Ask the Hoff" iPhone app launches

David Hasselhoff has launched an iPhone app that "promises to answer all of life's questions".

"Ask The Hoff", now available in the iTunes App Store for a not extortionate 59p (or 99 cents), works on the premise that the Hoff's brain has been uploaded to the...

Amazon offers iPhone shopping app in UK

Amazon.co.uk has announced its Amazon App for iPhone and iPod touch, launched in the States back in 2008, is now available from the App Store to users in the UK.

The Amazon App connects customers to their Amazon.co.uk account and offers purchasing using Amazon's...

Elgato EyeTV pulled from App Store

Elgato, a company that makes TV watching software for Macs, released an iPhone application at the end of September which allowed users to watch live television and previously made from their handset when in range of a Wi-Fi connection.

Except that it also did...

Rock Band now available in App Store

Exactly as rumoured, Rock Band for the iPhone has now appeared in the App Store. EA made the app official shortly after the game was spotted in a mobile showreel for the company, and it's now available in the App Store for £6 or $10, depending on which side of the Atlantic...

Apple brings "In App Purchase" to free iPhone apps

With "In App Purchase" said to be being "rapidly adopted" by iPhone developers, Apple has announced that such functionality will now be available to be built into free apps, rather than just paid-for.

This will mean that free iPhone and iPod touch applications...

CoPilot Live for iPhone gets updated again

The CoPilot Live iPhone GPS navigation app has received its second update in 2 months. This latest update adds new features including in-app safety camera updates, the claim of improved GPS performance in walking mode and the ability to use the iPhone's native keyboard...

App Store downloads top two billion

Apple has revealed that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store.

This follows on from the 1.5 billion mark hit in July this year, a year on from the App Store's launch.

Claiming the service is "the largest applications...

VIDEO: Tick Talk iPhone app reads you the news

iPhone developer Wirus has cooked up an application called Tick Talk that'll let you wake up to the headlines. The app grabs the news from the Web via an RSS feed (which you can specify the source of) and then reads it out in a creepy robotic voice.

The app...

BabyBuilder iPhone app launches

If you've currently got one in the oven, or are planning to do just that, then there's a new iPhone app that claims to give you a glimpse of what your offspring will look like.

Taking an image of "mom" and dad, the app uses "complex facial mapping and recognition...

Apple builds App Store Resource Center

Apple has made a new service to registered iPhone developers called the App Store Resource Centre. The centre is designed to help developers through the steps required to submit, gain approval and manage the applications they create and place on the App Store.

Pantone offers myPANTONE iPhone app

Pantone, "the global authority on colour", has announced the availability of myPANTONE, an iPhone app that gives access to Pantone's colour palettes.

But, it's not just a digital versions of the colour charts, the app also offers options for finding colours...

Noel Edmonds to offer Cosmic Ordering iPhone app

TV celeb Noel Edmonds is soon to launch an iPhone application based around his beliefs of "Cosmic Ordering".

Although there's no doubt more to it if you care to investigate, Cosmic Ordering appears to be a shopping list of wants that you literally ask the universe...

Google: Apple lied to FCC over Google Voice App

Google has accused Apple of lying to the US government over the Google Voice application being rejected for inclusion in Apple's App store.

The claims come as Google backtracks on its FCC filing over the incident asking for previously redacted content to be...

iGAME FAMILY TV dock borrows from iPhone, Wii

Elonex is to launch what it says is the world's first TV games dock, the iGAME FAMILY, that plays non-app iPod content as well as apes the Nintendo Wii.

Designed in the UK, the iGAME is described as a "convergence product that takes the best functionality from...

Ralph Lauren offers design-your-own Rugby shirt iPhone app

Ralph Lauren has launched an iPhone app that lets American consumers design their own unique rugby shirt on their handset, and then order the garment to be made up for them.

The "Rugby App" follows the previous release of the Ralph Lauren Collection App, seeing...