Thanksgiving is right around the corner and while we’re all preparing to stuff ourselves on the big day, for those of us who might not be able to cook or make food, we have 10 iPhone Apps that can help take care of that and a little bit more. More »

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“There’s an app for that”, is Apple’s tagline for their famous app store, which holds over 100,000 third party applications available for download. So, because the app store’s birthday is only a few months away, and iPhone apps are on the cusp of popularity, we’ve assembled 5 iPhone apps that are easy to use, interesting, can carry a heavy workload, and are just plain handy: More »

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The App Store is continuing to break milestones. Today Apple announced that the Apple App Store has hit the 2 billion mark. That’s 2 billion apps downloaded by users. Apple hit 1 billion back in April and has not hit 2 billion within 5 months. Those are some staggering numbers. Here are some of the other numbers from Apple: More »

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iPhone apps have become one of the driving forces behind the success of the iPhone here in the U.S. but also globally. Japan, a country usually seen ahead in advances in technology, has embraced the iPhone better than most thought. What’s the reason behind it? It may be the slew of applications available to do many different tasks. Serkan Toto of TechCrunch put together a list of his 32 best iPhone apps, all created by developers in Japan. Here are the top 5 on his list. More »

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If you’ve ever wondered how much all the apps in Apple’s App Store, you won’t have to wait for a rainy day to figure it out, Forbes has already calculated it for us. Here’s what the top ten list looks like with the most money generated and the publishers with the most apps: (List after the break) More »

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Emoji icons, the Japanese style emoticons used in messages are super popular in the Japanese mobile market. So popular in fact that people love to accuse weak iPhone sales in Japan because the iPhone can’t use emoji. Personally, I chalk it up to the fact that in Japan the iPhone isn’t so forward-thinking a phone. After all, the iPhone also has only one screen, no video chat, no 3.2+ megapixel camera, no live TV capabilities, Wow I really want a Japanese cell phone, I mean… the point is some people think it’s no emoji that’s kept iPhone back in Japan. Well, emoji has arrived! And you don’t need to be in Japan to get it! More »

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