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Chorus Should Sound Great Once More Singers Join In November 05, 2009 
The iTunes App Store became 100,000 applications strong this week, and it took less than a year and a half to get there. Would it surprise you to know that not every last one of those apps is a perfect work of art? Yes, believe it or not, many of the apps that compete for your attention in the App Store are pretty worthless.
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The iPhone's China Syndrome November 04, 2009 
The iPhone went on sale last week in China, and it landed more or less with a thud. Cupertino's carrier partner in that country, China Unicom, announced on Tuesday that only 5,000 customers had purchased the phone thus far. At this rate, the handset may have trouble meeting sales expectations. China Unicom had pledged to sell 1 million iPhones per year.
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Song Sift Solves a Problem for Picky Podsters October 29, 2009 
It's been about a decade since the first practical MP3 players started popping up, and 10 years is plenty of time to collect a positively bloated library of digital music. Perhaps you got in at the ground floor with Napster in '99 and loaded up on free tunes before the music industry decided to do something about it. Maybe you remain a proud pirate, Bay or no Bay.
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Lala Plans to Open Music-Streaming Dime Store on iPhone October 28, 2009 
Online music retailer Lala is preparing to launch an iPhone application that its cofounder says paves the way for the end of downloading songs in the MP3 format. The app allows users to buy the right to stream songs from a digital locker forever for just 10 US cents each. The song quality is lower than what Apple's iTunes offers, but "intelligent caching" lets the tracks load and play in seconds.
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PepsiCo Gets a Little More Buzz Out of 'Score' App October 23, 2009 
PepsiCo has removed the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping. The soft drink and snack maker announced its decision on Thursday. The application, called "Amp up before you score" was unavailable for download on iTunes and removed from the brand's site.
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'Rock Band' for iPhone Knows the Words, but the Tone Is Flat October 22, 2009 
When it comes to games, Apple's App Store isn't just a flea market where independent and small-scale developers can earn a few bucks peddling momentary amusements for 99 cents a pop. Giant game makers like EA, Capcom and Ubisoft sometimes set up shop, and when they do, they're not afraid to charge top dollar, as App Store games go.
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Free iPhone Apps Now Free to Charge October 16, 2009 
Apple on Thursday revised its app store policy to let developers include for-pay features in free apps. This could save developers time in the long run, as they will only have to put out one version of their applications, rather than a free version and a paid-for version. In the short term, however, it could cause developers some grief.
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Photoshop for iPhone: Premium Version, Please October 15, 2009 
It's slowly becoming apparent that cellphone photos need not look awful. Some phone are hitting the market with 8 or more megapixels, approaching the sort of resolution you'd get on a low-cost pocket cam. That's still not nearly professional hardware, but it sure will come out better than the muddy, washed-out tile mosaics you used to get from camera phones.
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Apple Tweaks iPhone 3GS to Lock Out Jailbreakers October 14, 2009 
Apple has begun shipping new units of the iPhone 3GS that reportedly cannot be jailbroken using common methods. These new units have a new boot ROM that apparently can't be touched by the exploit, 24kpwn, from the iPhone Dev Team. The news comes just days after jailbreaking icon George Hotz released his blackra1n jailbreak.
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Critics Soak Pepsi's Pickup Line iPhone App October 14, 2009 
PepsiCo is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men "score" with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests. An apology by the company -- which is using the app "Amp Up Before You Score" to market its Amp energy drink -- is igniting more online criticism.
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It's Not Reality - It's Augmented Reality October 11, 2009 
You're walking down the street, looking for a good place to eat. You hold up your cellphone and use it like the viewfinder on a camera, so the screen shows what's in front of you. However, it also shows things you couldn't see before: Brightly colored markers indicating nearby restaurants and bars. Turn a corner, and the markers reflect the new scene.
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Trope: A Softer Shade of Bloom October 08, 2009 
Two weeks ago, when I reviewed an application called "Air," I referred to it as the follow-up to a similar app called "Bloom." One of the developers, Peter Chilvers, wrote in with a point of clarification: Air was not actually intended as the official follow-up to Bloom, an app that Chilvers wrote in collaboration with Brian Eno. The real follow-up, also created by Chilvers and Eno, is called "Trope."
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AT&T Knuckles Under on VoIP for iPhone October 07, 2009 
That screeching sound you heard Tuesday from AT&T headquarters in Dallas was the company hitting the brakes and reversing itself regarding a portion of its iPhone policy. AT&T announced that it would support VoIP applications on its 3G network for use with the ultra-popular Apple smartphone.
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Vonage iPhone App Brings VoIP to the Cell Tower October 06, 2009 
Vonage Holdings, a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers. The free programs let users place calls that are routed over Vonage's network, at least for the international leg.
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CNN Mobile: One Small Step for a News App October 01, 2009 
When CNN released its new iPhone application this week, the big news wasn't so much that the app was out there, but that CNN had the audacity to charge money for it. Nearly two whole dollars for news? In this online land of plenty? Bah! The Associated Press has a free news app -- as it didn't fail to point out when it covered the release of the CNN application.
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Tommy Hilfiger Adds Sparks to ATG's Catalyst Launch September 30, 2009 
ATG has launched a program modeled partly on the now-ubiquitous app store concept and partly on the principle of open source code-sharing. The ATG Catalyst Program is an asset distribution channel for posting full-fledged applications or portions of code. ATG is kicking off the official launch of the site with ATG Mobile for the iPhone, a native software application built on the latest Apple SDK.
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