New Affirmations iPhone app helps overcome stress and anxiety during these tough economic times. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, Ontario -(March 12, 2009)– ACQYR.com has released the iAmHappy iPhone app with over 500 positive affirmations to help people through these uncertain times.  With all...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Features, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store We're at a new juncture in the course of iPhone development, I believe. Twitter has basically monopolized the "text exporting" function of your iPhone -- if you want to broadcast text from a mobile device, most of...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) competed on Tuesday in a contest that no company really wants to play: the Expectations Game. Things turned out pretty well for the famous seller of sports stuff (being that I'm no athlete, I ...

In a press launch this earlier today, Canon Philippines announced they have opened an online store for local customers called Canon eShop. Canon will be selling a number of items in their eShop which includes digital cameras and lenses, printers, inks, videocams and scanners. While there are a lot o...

The App store must be managed by different folks than the dudes that built my MacBook. I just can't imagine the same people who design and manufacture such a beautiful machine could make such uninformed and ignorant decisions such as these: Apple Trying To Catch Up with Palm & Windows Mobile On ...

Filed under: News, iPhone, web 2.0 Many iPhone developers have horror stories about their apps being rejected from the iTunes App Store for frustrating, sometimes arbitrary reasons. After today, Atebits, makers of the bestselling iPhone Twitter client, Tweetie, might take the prize for the most absu...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Update: Cooler heads appear to have prevailed, and Loren reports that Tweetie 1.3 has cleared the App Store bluenose barrier and should be showing up later tonight. We saw this hit the fan early today, hot on the tail of the A...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_rejects_Twitter_client_for_dirty_words_on_Twitter'; Apple's just reached a whole new level of stupidity in App Store approval shenanigans: the Tweetie 1.3 update was just rejected for displaying "offensive language" in its Twitter trend search view. Right, not...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Internet, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Jonathan Zdziarski, who has appeared on this pages before for other iPhone-related hijinx, has written an open letter to Apple about the AMBER Alert iPhone app he's written. Apparently he's work...

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Some things in life are easy, and some are hard. It might be easy to cook a simple meal but really hard to get up early in the morning. Imagine trying to speak English without being able to express “it’s easy to” and “it’s hard to...