Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review The clever 2006 card game Knights of Charlemagne has made it to the iPhone and iPod touch as a simple little number placing app [$1.99, iTunes link ]. We don’t mean simple in that it’s easy to beat or uninteresting. We mean that the game is clearly designed and plays quickly. While the beginner level (the Squire) is really only worth playing through once or twice with the tutorial minstrel... 

Filed under: iPad During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7 , sports a form factor similar to Apple’s iPad , as well as similar uses; it supports eBooks, music, videos, and of course, the Internet. But wait, there’s more. According to a post on HP’s Voodoo blog , the device will give you a “full Web browsing experience,” not a “watered-down... 

Filed under: Gaming , Retail , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store — it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision’s Call of Duty console games …  Read More →

Filed under: Gaming , Software , iPhone , App Store Tonight at GDC 2010 , I went out and stopped by the Capcom Fight Club party here in San Francisco, and while there, Capcom projected the actual App Store interface for sending their Street Fighter IV app to the App Store on various screens around the room. We actually got to see them press the button on the release live and in person, and sure enough, the game is in the App Store right now for... 

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Developer Unity Technologies hosted the sponsored lunch panel during GDC 2010 today, and their “product evangelist” Tom Higgins gave a quick rundown of the software platform that enables developers to assemble and release games extremely quickly on multiple platforms . The company was actually founded in Denmark, but has since expanded around the world with just two products: Unity Pro and Unity iPhone... 

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , SDK Steph Tirion is an excellent game designer who I’ve had the good fortune to meet a few times. He first released a great game called Eliss on the App Store and he’s now announced the second game he’s been working on, called Faraway . Eliss was a terrific little arcade game that made great use of the…  Read More →

Filed under: App Store , iPad Wired noticed that there are some notable exceptions among the announced iPad apps, including Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos. These apps could be available for download through the App Store. However, blogger Kevin Fox suggested last month that could hint toward a possible Dashboard implementation on the iPad. He argues that these apps, with the exception of Voice Memos, were originally Dashboard... 

Filed under: iPad Talk about big premieres. Like it did with the iPhone and its “Hello” ad , Apple used the Oscars as the platform to debut its iPad commercial. The ad, set to the background of The Blue Van’s “There Goes My Love,” shows the iPad being used in a variety of ways: viewing a movie, reading an eBook, displaying photos, editing an iWork document and viewing email among them. The ad follows Apple’s... 

Filed under: Humor , Odds and ends , MacBook It’s Sunday, a time for reflection, reading the Sunday comics, and looking at pictures of cute kittehs! TUAW Reader Brian sent us a link to one of his favorite sites, The Daily Kitten . On March 6th, the kitten of the day was a little sweetheart named Lyra, who has learned at a young age that Apple is the brand to reach out to. Lyra’s not quite as famous as my 15 year-old Tortoiseshell cat... 

Filed under: Apple , iPhone One of the questions that always seems to come up during our TUAW Talkcast and TUAW TV Live sessions is “When do you think Verizon Wireless is going to get the iPhone?” According to recent comments from Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig, the answer to that question is irrelevant to Apple. Craig anticipates that Apple could sell 33 million iPhones in 2010, and that number would rise to 35 million in 2011... 

Filed under: Odds and ends , Airport , iPhone , iPod touch The makers of the TomTom app for the iPhone have let us know that they’ve submitted an updated version that adds real-time traffic information, Google local search, and even some secret features the company isn’t talking about yet. The TomTom app was eagerly sought out last year, but of late has fallen a bit behind market leader Navigon . This new release, with real-time info... 

Filed under: Odds and ends , Freeware , iPhone , iPod touch Siri for the iPhone was quite a hit when it came out earlier this year. You could ask it questions like, “where is the best pizza nearby?” and Siri would find the answer. My favorite response was when I asked if there was a God, and Siri gave me directions to the nearest churches. As much as people loved the app, iPod touch owners were …  Read More →

Filed under: Accessories , iPhone It was a little less than a month ago when news broke of a South Korean company called CJ Corporation noticing a sharp increase in sales of their frozen sausages. CJ did some digging around and it turned out the good people of South Korea were using their sausages as iPhone styluses . Someone who was sick of taking their gloves off in the cold Korean winter to use their iPhone found out that the sausages were... 

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Software , Apple , Security A few Apple employees played some musical chairs this week. Executive Pablo Calamera, who was in charge of MobileMe while at Apple, is off to work as the CTO of Thumbplay , a company that peddles ringtones and music to mobile devices. HR shouldn’t have to change the big “35,000 employed worldwide” sign, though: former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder was picked up... 

Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Developer Fraser Speirs came across an unexpected iTunes dialog earlier today that could be a hint of a new, long-sought App Store feature: the ability to offer for-fee upgrades to apps, complete with discounts for those who bought older versions. Up until now, App Store vendors have worked around the lack of a paid upgrade feature by offering different “versions” of their apps, but this...