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Apple raises 3G download limit for apps, media

In the good old days, you could download any app you wanted onto your iPhone—provided it wasn’t more than 10MB while you were using the 3G network. But that was the old Apple—this is the new Apple: no limits. Well. Larger limits, anyway. As the folks at Pocket Gamer mention, Apple’s raised the limit on App Store downloads over the 3G network to 20MB.

Dan Moren | Feb 19, 2010

Review: Photo Brush for iPhone

Photo Brush, developed by Bobby Cronkhite Software, lets you easily add design elements to your photos like hearts, skulls, flares, birds and much more.

Tim Mercer | Feb 19, 2010

Review: Mental Case Flashcards for iPhone

If you have been using apps like Notecards to study on your iPhone and you’re ready to take your study habits to the next level, Mental Case Flashcards by MacCoreMac Software could be the Batman to your Robin.

Jeff Phillips | Feb 18, 2010

Review: Snow Moto Racing

Racing games are certainly plentiful for iPhone and iPod touch, but Resolution Interactive succeeds in creating a unique racing game in Snow Moto Racing. This arcade game puts you in the seat of a snowmobile to race against seven computer-controlled opponents across six snow covered tracks.

James Savage | Feb 18, 2010

RIM intros new BlackBerry browser to rival iPhone's Safari

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion this week introduced a new browser for its devices, which runs on WebKit, the rendering engine behind Apple’s Safari browser. The New BlackBerry browser is touted as easier and faster to use; it will be available later this year.

Daniel Ionescu | Feb 18, 2010

Silly to make way for sophisticated in App Store

Super-smart iPhone apps will replace silly iFart-like apps in the second wave of iPhone app development, said iPhone app developers at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week.

Tom Kaneshige | Feb 17, 2010

Analysis: Mobile operators versus the App Store

Can a motley group of 24 global carriers play well together and create a gigantic, open marketplace for mobile applications—one that works as seamlessly for consumers as Apple’s App Store? Certainly, scepticism is running high that Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a just-announced alliance between, well, Everyone But Apple in the mobile phone space, can make its ambitious plan work.

Jeff Bertolucci | Feb 17, 2010

New iPhone app aims to help track global app success

Creative studio ustwo has teamed with AdMob to make its PositionApp available for download from the Apple iTunes App Store free for a limited time.

Nick Spence | Feb 17, 2010

iPhoneAppQuotes.com connects businesses, app developers

Maybe you’ve had a great idea for an iPhone app. You’ve nailed down the concept, outlined the look and feel, and even figured out a catchy name that’s sure to stand out from the 140,000 or so other apps competing with yours for attention. The only thing standing in your way? You don’t have a lick of programming experience, and you’re not sure where to find someone who does.

Philip Michaels | Feb 17, 2010

iPhone app helps Australians shop ethically

Keen to restrict your shopping to ethically responsible companies, but not sure how to keep track of them? Outware Mobile may have a way to help.

David Braue | Feb 16, 2010

Review: SpinArt for iPhone

Honestly, who didn’t love making spin art as a kid? It’s so simple: Put a piece of paper on a turntable, spin in around, and splatter paint on it. You go from zero to Jackson Pollack in 30 seconds.

Meghann Myers | Feb 16, 2010

Chip vendors hope to turn phones into HD media players

Both Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson are demonstrating at Mobile World Congress concept smartphones that can connect to and play HD content on TVs.

Mikael Ricknas | Feb 16, 2010