Until I started using an iPhone, I was never a fan of mobile gaming. The graphics were bad and there were no games that really grabbed my interest. Since the iPhone launched I spend a good bit of time playing games on the device.

Handmark has announced a new game for the iPhone called Astraware Casino that is actually more like 11 games in one. The app has 11 of the most popular casino games around in one place for a limited time price of 99 cents.

The app also allows the player to choose tracks from their own playlist to use as background music. Among the games offered in the app are Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit and Limit Poker, Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Slots, Baccarat, 3 Card Poker, Video Derby, and Keno. Players start the game with $1,000 virtual dollars and must win to keep playing.

[via Astraware]

Back when the original iPhone first launched I bought a case for my phone to keep it from being scratched up. I was beyond mad three weeks later when I took the case off to clean the iPhone and found that the case had caused scratches that I expected it to prevent.

Speck has announced a new line of cases that are hard on the outside and have a soft rubberized coating on the inside to prevent scratches called the CandyShell cases. The case is available in black, blue, purple, white, and pink colors with the cases having a two-tone design.

The outer shell is glossy and the cases ship with a screen protector film and a cleaning cloth. Speck promises that the wide openings in the case make the iPhone ports and controls accessible and the phone can be docked without removing it from the case. The cases retail for $34.95.

[via Speck]

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Two security researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have discovered a serious security vulnerability on the iPhone and will present their findings later today at the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, they have already demonstrated this flaw in action to CNET’s Elinor Mills before the conference.

Here’s what happened: While I was talking on the phone to Charlie Miller, his partner, Collin Mulliner, sent me a text message from his phone. One minute I’m talking to Miller and the next minute my phone is dead, and this time it’s not AT&T’s fault. After a few seconds it came back to life, but I was not able to make or receive calls until I rebooted.

The attack is enabled by a serious memory corruption bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages, said Miller, a senior security researcher at Independent Security Evaluators. There is no patch, despite the fact that Apple was notified of the problem about six weeks ago, he said.

[via CNET]

One of the games that I never really found interesting was marbles. I know some people like the game; it just doesn’t make sense to me. If you are a marble aficionado, a new game app for the iPhone is now available for you.

The app is called Play Marbles and you can even put your face or other images onto the marble. The developer promises that the game is simply to learn and play. While the game is simple, it promises to be challenging as well.

Regular updates to the game will be made available and new play modes and custom features will keep the game fresh. The marble design phase is intended to be robust and the developer is running a contest for the most interesting marbles to be included in the game. The app is available now for $1.99 on the App Store.

[via PlayMarbles]

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Yes,  it’s a logical step for jailbreakers when facing this kind of case. GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs has ported the Voice client over to Cydia for free –although donations are gladly accepted– following Apple rejection on all Google Voice-enabled applications and Google’s official Google Voice application.

Please note that Google Voice is not a VOIP service. Basically, it’s a service that lets you manage a free phone number that Google gives you. Since the app relies on the Internet connection (3G, EDGE, Wifi, etc), so you still need an actual phone plan.

The GV Mobile features including:

• Dial numbers (domestic for free and international at a variable rate) via the iPhone’s address book or typing in on the keypad
• Send SMS messages
• Retrieve and delete recent call history
• Playback and delete voicemails
• Take calls from different phones other than your iPhone
• Add, delete, enable, or disable the phones that Google Voice forwards calls to

Google Voice is currently in beta and invite only.

[via Engadget]

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Any fan of comic books or super heroes like Super Man or Spider Man knows the name Stan Lee. Lee created some of the coolest heroes to ever hit the big screen or TV. I spent many a day as a child watching cartoons of Lee’s creations and live action films.

Stan Lee has announced a new and exclusive comic for the iPhone called Stripperella. The sultry super heroine stars in an exclusive four-volume comic book series written by Lee and with art by Anthony Winn.

The comic is only available on the App Store. The mild mannered identity of Stripperella is Exotica Jones, an exotic dancer who fights crime at night… or does a striper fight crime during the day. I’m not sure, but if you are a fan of Lee’s work this may be the app for you.

[via Stripperella]

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Despite many other URL shortening services out there, here is another new service on this field: appsto.re. It focuses specifically on iTunes links.

Why use appsto.re URL’s? According to them:

• They contain the name of your app, making people more likely to click.
• They take people straight to iTunes, increasing the chance people will buy your app.
• They are short! So they are easy to share on twitter or where ever.

However, a TechCrunch reader tells us that iPhone apps already have short URLs, e.g. http://itunes.com/apps/scavenge.

[via TechCrunch]

Despite there’s an upside for developers, the upcoming Apple tablet computer could have a downside for app developers, Forbes says. The problem? Inconsistency in term of developing app –especially related to the screen size and resolution of these devices.

If Apple rolls out a tablet computer, it could make building applications for its portable devices more complex. That’s because developers–who have built more than 65,000 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch–say one of the big advantages to developing apps for these devices is consistency.

[via Forbes]

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Apple’s decision regarding App Store promo-code restrictions on apps rated 17+ has been fixed, according to SlashGear, enabling developers who are responsible for such software will be able to pass out free-trials to their audience and community.

[via SlashGear]

Google recently released Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application and currently supports iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 or above. For the time being, it’s only available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Our Latitude web app provides all the core functionality you might expect: you can see the location of your friends on a map and modify your privacy settings so that you control how your location is shared and with whom. In fact, if my friends and colleagues back in London haven’t yet noticed my absence, they’ll see in Latitude that I’m currently vacationing on the beach in Australia. Hi guys, remember me!?

You’ll also find basic Search and Directions functionality to help you get around the world. And just like our Google Maps for mobile client apps (and more recently on desktop Google Maps), you can press the “blue dot” to be taken to your approximate current location on the map with My Location, thanks to Safari now supporting the W3C Geolocation API.

[via Google Mobile Blog]

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Yeah, the economy is bad. We all know that, you only have to turn on the TV or read anything to know that. Despite the poor economy and tanking computer sales Apple has been able to continue turning impressive profits.

Apple also gets some serious help from its world-beating iPhone. According to Apple’s recently announced financials for fiscal Q3 2009, it increased iPhone sales by a whopping 636%. That has to make Steve Ballmer’s sphincter tone tight enough to rip a plug out of his office chair.

Apple says that it sold 5.2 million iPhones during the quarter. While iPhone sales grew, sales of the iPod were down 7% to 10.2 million. I am betting iPhone sales are hurting the iPod with subsidized iPhone pricing about the same as some iPod models.

Just discovered a site exploring 25 abstract and beautiful wallpapers that can be used to improve your iPhone screen. Which one do you like best? Mine is the one I posted below.

[via PSDFan]

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The high-end online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter.com recently released its free iPhone application, the Net-App [iTunes link]. It allows shoppers to browse and purchase new clothes and shoes as well as to create wish-lists and share them with friends.

According to Alison Loehnis, vice president of sales and marketing at Net-a-Porter.com, one-fifth of Net-a-Porter.com’s customers have an iPhone or iPod Touch. Launched in June 2000,  the Net-a-Porter website  has been viewed by over 1.8 million women each month.

[via NYT]

Nimbuzz, a mobile social messenger, combining instant messaging, geo-presence and VoIP, recently announced its new iPhone and iPod touch updates (with a brand new desktop client for Apple Mac computers).

The iPhone upgrade lets you share photos, music and videos; Push Notification ability with home screen alerts of incoming calls or chats and; You can share and retrieve the location of your Nimbuzz buddies on the go.

Now you can try exploring the new Nimbuzz Apple suite: Mac [download Nimbuzz for Mac] and iPhone [download Nimbuzz for iPhone].

Nimbuzz claims that it is already enjoying Top 10 ranking on all iTunes AppStores in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via Nimbuzz Blog]

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