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Burning Man: An API! SMS! Foursquare! An iPhone app!

The annual tech-art festival in the Nevada desert, starts on Sunday. Normally the attendees leave their phones and laptop behind, but this year that may not be the case. As I ride from Seattle to Black Rock City, NV I am getting SMS from friends on the playa. In anticipation of wifi and possible data connections Foursquare has rolled out Black Rock City as a city (@sfslim is already the Mayor of The Man). If AT&T's service doesn't work then attendees may be able to take advantage of OpenBTS's local SMS project.

Google Voice App Rejection: AT&T Blames Apple; Apple Denies It Happened And Google Hides

Federal regulators wanted to know why Apple rejected Google’s innovative Voice app from its iPhone app store and what role AT&T played in the rejection. The rejection drew sharp criticism from around the net that Apple and AT&T were using their dominant position in the smartphone market to stifle innovation.

On Friday, AT&T told the FCC that it had no part in the decision, while Apple claims it never happened.

iPhone app with Versions of Classic HP Calculators

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced iPhone-app versions of three classic HP calculators: the HP 12c, HP 12c Platinum, and HP 15C.

Did Apple kick out 10000 apps from the App Store?

Even the Godzilla of marketing that is Apple can make beginners’ mistakes. It seems Apple’s marketing doesn’t have a clue how many apps are in the App Store, boasting 75,000 iPhone apps in a yesterday’s email collateral. So, did Apple kick out 10,000 apps from the mobile superbazaar or what?

Pantone offers color libraries for iPhone, mostly

While it's been in the App Store for the last few days, Pantone is officially launching its color discovery and management app for iPhone today, called myPANTONE.

The Pantone Matching System, among other Pantone products, is the indispensable color system for printers and graphic designers, and it offers a wider gamut of color than traditional process color printing. myPANTONE lets iPhone and iPod touch users discover new and interesting Pantone color combinations, share them, and create palette files suitable for importing in desktop applications.

Creating A Hit iPhone Game

David Whatley's fast-paced action-strategy game "geoDefense Swarm" is the latest to top the iPhone App Store.

Priced at 99 cents, "Swarm," which was released Sept. 14, is currently No. 1 in the Top Paid Apps Games genre, beating out "Madden NFL 10." "Swarm" is also No. 3 in Top Paid Apps overall.

The Top 10 Back-To-School iPhone Apps

Not everything in Apple's iPhone App Store is fun and games: And now that it's back-to-school time, students should check out some of the handy educational tools and reference guides in the App Store.

One new, popular utility that could be useful for students is Convert, a 99-cent unit calculator that's currently the no. 2 best-selling app in the App Store.

How two dads turned the iPhone into a platform for children's books

Like most parents who find themselves juggling fussy tots and multiple chores and errands, Woody Sears and Graham Farrar have surrendered their mobile phones to distract their toddlers. It wasn't just the buttons and beeps on those devices that attracted their kids -- it was also the music and video clips that turned the phones into instant toys.

"But we always felt guilty about doing that," said Sears, a 31-year-old father of two who lives in Westchester, Calif.

Facebook's 11 Million Farmers, There's An App For That

Had the urge to abandon city life and tend a cornfield instead? Millions of others are getting their agricultural fix on Facebook, thanks to the fast-growing game FarmVille.

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