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Digital Americana: A Magazine For iPad, And A Sign Of Things To Come

Digital Americana has just popped up out of nowhere, claiming to be "the first literary & culture magazine developed especially for the interactive tablet experience."
Or to put it another way, it will be "a new interactive magazine made exclusively for the Apple iPad". And anyone can contribute.

The editors are looking for fiction, artwork and photography [...:]

Publisher Fights Apple over nip-slip iPhone app

There's been a tremendous amount of peek-a-boo over racy apps in the iTunes store lately. Following a purge of apps with names like Epic Boobs — which once squeezed their way past censors — some of them were re-instated.
Most of the offending apps, however, were produced by small shops. The hotties available on the iTunes [...:]

Report: Apple Wants 5M iPads During First Half of 2010

Apple has told its Taiwan suppliers to produce around 5 million iPads by mid-year, one analyst said Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger called talk of production delays "just false alarms" after Apple recently announced an April 3 U.S. availability date for the first iPads.
If correct, Berger's projection would be a [...:]

Verizon: iPad Will Help Sell More MiFi Devices

Verizon sees a way to cash-in on the iPad, despite AT&T having the exclusive data contract for the Apple tablet device. In a memo, the rival wireless carrier sees the new Apple gadget as "an opportunity for VZW" and urges employees to promote its MiFi wireless router as a stop-gap connection method until a 3G [...:]

iTunes LP is a failure, but Apple never really cared about it anyway

Over six months after it was first unveiled, iTunes LP is a total bust. Apple launched its interactive album format with a library of six iTunes LPs: since, only 23 more have been added to iTunes.
What the heck happened? According to Paul Bonanos writing over at GigaOm, it all comes down to two things: [...:]

"Tweet Defense" uses your Twitter statistics to kill zombies

Forget Plants vs. Zombies… how about Tweets vs. Zombies?
Tweet Defense is a cute little tower defense game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that boosts your units power based on your Twitter activity, including status updates and number of followers, as you fight off wave after wave of the undead. A Twitter account is not [...:]

eBooks now outnumber games on the App Store

This is kind of a no-brainer once you actually think about it, but according to Mobclix, a mobile device advertising agency, the number of eBooks available on the App Store has surpassed the number of games for the first time ever, with 27,000 eBook apps to 25,400 games.
The reason here is pretty simple: there's little [...:]

Capcom's "Street Fighter IV" now available on the App Store

Hadouken! I hope you've been practicing your hurricane kicks and lightning cannonballs, because Capcom's much anticipated port of its beloved Street Fighter IV fighter is now available for $9.99 over on the App Store.

I'm hustling to jump on a plane, so while I've picked the title up, I haven't yet had time to try it. [...:]

Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz describes Steve Jobs showdown

We all love Steve, but it's still common knowledge that our beloved Apple leader can be a bit ornery, especially when he feels like his intellectual property is being threatened. Of course, he doesn't always get it right, as evidenced by a great little blog post made today by former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who [...:]

The Simplest Simple Desktops

I love Simple Desktops. You can guess what sort of web site it is.
Just simple desktop backgrounds. All of them are fantastic, and all of them look great on your Mac.
They've been collated by Tom Watson, who says the designs he features are for people who "want less, but not boring". You can submit [...:]