iPhone apps

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...

CoPilot Live for iPhone gets third update in as many months

The CoPilot Live navigation application for the iPhone has received yet another update.

This third update, in as many months, claims to bring a number of improvements, including enhanced GPS performance. The update also allows for iPod controls within the CoPilot...

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...

VIDEO: Orange Wednesdays iPhone app announced

Orange has announced that its first UK exclusive app, Orange Wednesdays, is now available on the App Store.

The new app from the operator - which is due to offer the iPhone from 10 November in the UK  -  brings the Orange Wednesdays cinema experience to the...

Kodak launches Pic Flick App for iPhone

Kodak has introduced the Pic Flick App, a new, free iPhone and iPod touch app that lets users upload pictures to a Kodak W1020 wireless digital frame or print them wirelessly on the Kodak ESP 5250 all-in-one Wi-Fi-enabled printer.

"The Kodak Pic Flick App provides...

BBC World Service content available on Stitcher app

The BBC has announced it has made a deal with Stitcher.com to make its BBC World Service content available to users of the mobile phone-based application across the globe.

As many of you will know, Stitcher is a free mobile phone "Smart Radio" app, available...

Settlers of Catan comes to iPhone

Settlers of Catan is a board game that was once memorably described as "perfect". It's based on a tropical island that you and up to three other players have landed on and are exploring. The objective is to accrue 10 victory points by capturing settlements and building...

VIDEO: EyeMags launches iPhone functionality

Eyemags has announced that it's launching new functionality that'll allow users to "install" its pages onto their iPhones and iPod touches. The app will let users save pages from the Eyemags mobile website onto their homescreens, like they were applications, and then...

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...

VIDEO: Stalqer iPhone location app released

iPhone location games like Foursquare and Gowalla have one big drawback - you can't run them in the background. To "check in" at a location, you have to pull your phone out, connect to the Web, and then let the app do its thing.

But a new entrant to the space,...

Gmail gets updated for iPhone and Android

Google has unveiled a new version of the Gmail web interface for the iPhone and Android handsets. The last edition was released back in April, but since then the company has made a whole host of improvements, making the mobile version nearly as feature-complete as its...

"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...

NASA launches iPhone App

NASA has put together an iPhone application that'll let budding space-heads keep track of intersteller goings-on from their mobile phones. The app, which was released on 23 Oct, is called "NASA App For iPhone".

It allows users to view images about space, get information...

Thetrainline.com offers free iPhone app

Kizoom and online rail ticket retailer, thetrainline.com, has launched a new UK train journey planning iPhone app with the added bonus being that it is free, unlike the National Rail option that'll cost you a fiver. 

Covering the entire UK rail network, thetrainline.com...

TV streaming has mobile operators running scared

The days of the mobile phone being just a device for making emergency calls are far behind us, but while most of us have handsets that can at least play music or download our email on the go, the biggest fear now facing mobile phone operators and carriers around the world...

VIDEO: First Google Wave desktop client arrives

In our first-look review of Google Wave, we argued that - like Twitter - Wave needs applictions for it to be truly useful. The first of those desktop applications has arrived - albeit in a very limited state and only for Mac users.

Waveboard is currently in version...

Wolfram Alpha iPhone app launches

Following the new we brought you that Wolfram Alpha had announced the release of its Webservice API, the computational knowledge engine's own-brand iPhone app has now been launched.

Pricey, as far as apps go, the software will cost customers $49 to download...

Wolfram Alpha announces Webservice API

Computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha has announced the launch of the Wolfram Alpha Webservice API.

The paid-for release will mean that developers can now stick Wolfram Alpha results and data into websites and online publishing, desktop applications,...

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...

Jamie Oliver launches 20 Minute Meals iPhone app

Jamie Oliver, never far from the cutting edge of tech, has launched an app for the iPhone and iPod touch.

"20 Minute Meals" offers "50 delicious new recipes, gorgeous step-by-step photography throughout and 21 exclusive Jamie Oliver videos with cooking tips,...

Shazam tops 50 million global users

Shazam, the music discovery service, has revealed that more than 50 million people around the world have now used the Shazam service.

This is an increase of 15 million users since February of this year, while Shazam is now available, across various platforms...

VIDEO: Viper SmartStart turns the iPhone into your car key

A new system in the States from Californian company Viper will see iPhones used as remote controls for cars, as the Viper SmartStart can unlock your car, start your car, lock your car, open the boot, heat your car or cool it, all remotely, all via an iPhone app.

The...

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...

VIDEO: iPhone concept shows Cover Flow multi-tasking

Ocean Observations has worked up a concept interface for the iPhone that takes elements of the Palm Pre's functionality, combines it with Apple's Cover Flow, and makes up their idea of what multi-tasking on the iPhone could look like.

"Our idea is to present...

The Food Standards Agency offers "FSA Salt" iPhone app

In an attempt to make salt content counting sexy, the Food Standards Agency has released "FSA Salt", a free app for the iPhone or iPod touch.

The app is designed to "help consumers plan, calculate and monitor their daily salt consumption when shopping and on...