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"Tekken" iPhone port coming soon, says Namco source

After Street Fighter, Tekken's one of the biggest fighting game franchises around. It's no surprise, then, that the iconic Namco brawler would be quick to follow Capcom's Street Fighter IV as an iPhone-specific port.
There's nothing official yet, but according to Pocket Gamer, an anonymous source has told them that iPhone and iPod Touch owners can [...:]

Panic Are Watching You Watching Them

This, ladies and gentlemen, is today's Best Thing Ever.
Panic are the people who make fabulous Mac software like FTP client Transmit and web dev box-of-tricks Coda.
Now they've made their own status board – it's a monitor hung on the wall, displaying an internal web page that aggregates stuff from different sources and displays it [...:]

Canon Answers Nikon With Its Own Instant Rebate Sale

It's Hanukkah come early! Well, not really, but Canon's fresh new instant rebate sale may have you itching to light up that menorah!
Most likely a response to Nikon's recently announced instant rebate sale, Canon's sale is actually pretty impressive. They've definitely got Nikon beat in the sheer variety of lenses that qualify for [...:]

Daily Deals: $139 iPod touch, App Store Freebies, Text Soap 6

We start the week with a deal on the iPod touch, starting at $139 for an 8GB first-generation MP3 player.Also on tap today is a new batch of App Store freebies, including "Big Brain on Fire," which is described as a rhythm-based puzzle. Last on your top trio is Text Soap 6, a Mac application [...:]

Is Apple Preparing to Yank 'Cook-Cutter' Apps from AppStore?

Apple has begun cracking down on App Store developers hawking 'cook-cutter' applications with little or no advantage over similar Web-based apps, according to a Monday report. The tighter requirements are likely designed to ensure App Store offerings are unique to competitors.
"Last month or so [Apple:] has started cracking down on basic applications that are little [...:]

iPad Ad Features $8 to $15 E-Books

Along with a glimpse of Apple CEO Steve Jobs attending Sunday's Oscars, viewers may also have seen the first public shots fired in the ebook pricing wars between the Cupertino, Calif. company and online retail goliath Amazon. The 30-second commercial included several best-sellers appearing on the iPad's iBookstore and at prices spanning $7.99 to $14.99.
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"Portal 2″, Steam, other Valve games officially coming to the Mac

Well, it looks like it's official: after accidentally leaking the existence of a Mac client in their latest beta, and teasing the same in a series of hysterical promotional images, Valve has announced that the Steam games delivery service will indeed be coming to OS X… along with the sequel to their nabacularly terrific [...:]

The Slow Motion Secrets of the iPad Oscar spot

On Friday, we mused about what would happen if Old Spice's "I'm On A Horse" campaign was applied to Apple's products… which seemed ridiculous enough a suggestion at the time, but if the recent Oscar Night iPad spot is anything to go by, maybe Apple decided to go just that route.
After all, slowed down [...:]

Blockbuster Mac Sales Expected to Carry into 2010

If you are diminutive in stature, the best way to boost your ego is to stand next to an even shorter person. In the world of finance, you compare a not-so bad quarter against a real stinker. Such sleight-of-hand translates into exceeding Wall Street comparisons. That is what's happening with Mac sales for February 2010 [...:]

Blockbuster Mac Sales Expexted to Carry into 2010

If you are diminutive in stature, the best way to boost your ego is to stand next to an even shorter person. In the world of finance, you compare a not-so bad quarter against a real stinker. Such sleight-of-hand translates into exceeding Wall Street comparisons. That is what's happening with Mac sales for February 2010 [...:]