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Final Fantasy I and II coming to iPhone and iPod touch

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Just announced at Square Enix's Facebook page: Final Fantasy I and II are coming to an App Store near you. The nearly 20-year-old games have been remastered and re-released a number of times,...

Use your iPhone to scare a bear (right before it eats you)

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Thanks to Stephen Colbert, we've become acutely aware of the dangers of bears, the "soulless, godless, rampaging killing machines" who patrol the forests of North America and prey on...

Boot Camp updated: now supports Windows 7

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If you've been waiting with bated breath to dual-boot Windows 7 on your Mac, your time has come. File under "better late than never": Apple has now updated Boot Camp with support for Windows 7.

Rumor: Lala acquistion to create “online locker” for music

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We've covered speculation about Apple's acquisition of music-streaming service Lala in the past. General consensus has been that Apple is looking to use the service in a future version of iTunes,...

App Store accounts for 99.4% of mobile apps in 2009?

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Ars Technica has reported that a recent study from market research firm Gartner shows Apple's App Store is responsible for a staggering 99.4% of all mobile app sales in 2009....

How to present like Steve Jobs

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A commonly cited statistic, repeated on day one of just about every communications course I've taken, is that people are more afraid of speaking or presenting in public than they are of dying....

Nexus One sells only 20,000 phones its first week

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Another "iPhone killer" has failed to deliver on its hype. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, Google's Nexus One phone sold a mere 20,000 units in its first week in the market.

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Pirates make away with $450 million in App Store booty?

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24/7WallSt. reports that Apple and third-party developers have lost approximately $450 million in revenue from App Store piracy since the store opened in July of 2008. Out of this, $140 million of this...

The Street: Features can’t sway Apple customers’ trust

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Jason Schwarz over at TheStreet has written an article analyzing Apple's current position in the marketplace and what Apple's competition needs to do in order to catch up.

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Apple tablet to be surprisingly cheap?

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During the latest episode of Diggnation, Digg's Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht interviewed John Hodgman, AKA the "PC" from Apple's "Get a Mac" ad campaign. Rose prodded Hodgman for information...

fring for iPhone updated with free one-way video calling

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fring, the free iPhone app that allows users to connect to multiple IM accounts at once, including Skype, has been updated today [iTunes Link]. fring now incorporates free...

Next generation iPhone now in testing phase

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Mac Rumors has received word from Pandav, creator of iPhone application iBart [iTunes Link], that they've spotted usage records for the next-generation iPhone.

PinchMedia, the firm that provides...