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CBS Sports NCAA March Madness and MLB.com At Bat 2010 Now Available for iPhone
Mar 9th
Spring is in the air and March is a perfect time for all you sports fans out there to get your daily fix with the release of CBS Sports March Madness [iTunes Link - $9.99] and MLB.com At Bat 2010 [iTunes Link - $14.99].
For the full list of features to both of these great sport applications, follow us after the break!
CBS Sports NCAA March Madness is a great buy for anyone who can not get enough of their collage hoops. Not only does it provide you with live streaming video of 63 games over EDGE/3G and Wi-Fi but it also provides all of the following great features.
- Video highlights on demand from every game
- LIVE STREAMING OF THE SELECTION SUNDAY SHOW ON MARCH 14
- Westwood One Radio coverage starting on March 16
- Real time graphical bracket with updates on game match-ups, regions, and scores
- Exclusive CBSSports.com Edge Matchup game previews, including team-by-team analysis and matchup comparisons
- Alerts for favorite teams, as well as upsets, buzzer beaters, overtimes, and more
- Breaking tournament news coverage
- Box scores, recaps, and team stats
- Access to CBSSports.com tournament brackets (requires sign-in with CBSSports.com ID/password)
- Log into your Facebook and Twitter accounts to comment on games and talk trash to your friends
MLB.com At Bat 2010 is more of the same great baseball application from the 2009 season so you can still listen to the audio of every game in the regular season and postseason live, get scores and highlights, get push notifications, live streaming video (blackout restrictions apply), etc… They’ve even went ahead and added some brand new features for 2010.
- Spring Training statistics and LIVE audio
- LIVE video with MLB.TV beginning mid-March
- Breaking news, schedules and interactive rosters and player stats for every team
- Video library searchable by player and team
- Enhanced LIVE game video (Regular Season)
- Home/Away broadcast feed selection (Regular Season)
- Background audio playback
- Additional enhancements to come during 2010 season, including a suite of ‘At The Ballpark’ advantages in At Bat 2010, from customized, proprietary content to fan-experience tools and more
If you pick these up, let us know what missing features you’d like to see included (if any) in the comments below!
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Zombie Castle Defender ‘ZombieSmash!’ Coming to iPhone and iPod touch
Mar 8th
Whether you are a fan of the Castle Defender genre or Zombies, you are sure to love the soon to be released ZombieSmash! for iPhone and iPod touch.
In similar fashion to the very popular Plants vs Zombies, ZombieSmash! adds a few new tricks to Castle Defender games with the addition of some fancy ragdoll physics and excessive amounts of cartoon gore. Look for ZombieSmash! to drop in the App Store sometime this month for $1.99.
Check out the official trailer after the break!
[Via Touch Arcade]
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ITunes Store/App Store Outage?
Mar 7th
We’re getting lots of reports from lots of different places that Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store are down or otherwise erroring out for users.
Hopefully Apple is working on a fix and things will be back up soon. In the meantime let us know if you’re getting errors, what kind, and in what country…
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Apple Removing Wi-Fi Scanning Apps from App Store
Mar 4th
Cult of Mac reports that Apple has begun removing apps from the iTunes App Store that scan for Wi-Fi access points. It looks like these apps are being removed due to their use of private APIs, which is prohibited by the iPhone SDK agreement. This would make it similar to the recent removal of apps that misused the iPhone camera DCIM folder to store and exchange documents.
There’s been some suggestion, however, that list reflects a policy change from Apple closer to the recent removal of sex-based apps.
Our speculation is that Apple has either added the Wi-Fi private APIs to their static analysis tool, or has just finally gotten around to checking for them. That would make it appear like a new policy when it’s actually the originally agreement finally being enforced.
Some developers believe long term lack of action by Apple equals tacit approval for private API use. Those beliefs likely have to start changing. When Apple makes an API public, they’re guaranteeing that developers can use them and have faith Apple won’t break them (and the apps built on them) in a future update. Private APIs are the opposite — Apple can and will change them at any point, breaking apps that try to use them when they shouldn’t. In some cases Apple is working on public versions of private APIs and will release them in future versions of the iPhone OS. In other cases they aren’t — sometimes for security, other times just for proprietary reasons.
In either case, this isn’t the first and likely won’t be last set of rejections. While we feel for developers, we feel more for users who may have come to depend on the functionality of these apps.
If you’re a developer who’s dealing with this and have a better take on the situation, please let us know!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
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Buzzie Unofficial Google Buzz App Hits App Store
Mar 4th
The first unofficial Google Buzz application, Buzzie, [$1.99 on sale - iTunes Link] has made it’s way into the Apple App Store.
Up until this point all Google Buzz users have had to rely on Google’s web interface, even on Google’s own Android OS, so Buzzie is a welcomed addition within the App Store. Whether or not Google decides to step up and release their own native application remains to be seen. The way things have been going between Google and Apple lately, who knows if they’d even be interested in attempting to get a official Buzz application into the App Store… or if it would be approved?
So if you use Buzz and give Buzzie a try, let us know how it works for you!
[Via Gizmodo]
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Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available in App Store
Feb 25th
They are finally here RPG fans, Final Fantasy [$8.99 - iTunes link] and Final Fantasy II [$8.99 - iTunes link] were released earlier today in the App Store for your iPhone or iPod touch. Each game will cost you $8.99 but that seems to be a small price to pay for such classics as these.
Final Fantasy features the bonus dungeons added to later editions of the game – the Soul of Chaos and the Labyrinth of Time. Part 2 also contains the bonus dungeons added to later editions from the Soul of Rebirth and the Arcane Labyrinth.
If you try them out let us know us what you think in the comments below! Do they live up to the hype or are there better ways to spend $18?
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Apple Yanks “Explicit” Option from iTunes
Feb 25th
We are sorry to pass on the news, but Apple has yanked the “explicit” category that was spotted earlier today within the App Store submission software, iTunes Connect.
An iPhone developer tipster told Gizmodo s/he verified the removal by contacting Apple via telephone and were basically told it was something Apple was considering but not to expect to see the explicit option back anytime in the near future.
So it looks like explicit content has seen its day in App Store — just another reason for some of you to jailbreak, eh?
[Via Gizmodo]
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