MacRumors has posted a news item that should perk up the ears of TomTom and other related companies: It seems MapQuest is getting into the navigation iPhone race with a new app they are releasing. More in the post here: — MapQuest Navigator costs $0.99 and includes a 14-day trial of turn-by-turn navigation guidance. After [...]

Chilli X have been developing iPhone apps for a whole year now and to celebrate their 1st birthday they are going to do something a little bit different. Instead of receiving gifts they are going to be giving them! This coming weekend (that’s October 10th & 11th 2009) they are going to give all their [...]

VoIP company Vonage has announced the launch of Vonage Mobile, offering very low-cost international calling for the iPhone and iPod touch (and BlackBerry too). And its free. Interesting move, indeed. The iPhone app permits calls to be made via Wi-Fi or cellular connection, (the iPod touch is obviously limited to Wi-Fi calling). A release excerpt [...]

The extremely popular document sync/sharing service Dropbox has released its awaited iPhone application into the App Store for free. The app also interestingly requires iPhone OS 3.1, and offers users quite a bit of on-the-go access to accounts and syncing content while on the move. App features from the app listing: * Access your Dropbox [...]

Zipcar members, can now use their iPhone or iPod touch to quickly and easily find and reserve a Zipcar around the corner or across the globe. You can also honk the horn, and even lock and unlock the doors. The streamlined interface makes for a very smooth ride. 10 COOL THINGS MEMBERS CAN DO WITH [...]

CNN launched their CNN Mobile iPhone app today, and it will bring full print and video news reports, and even allow users to record their own news/eyewitness accounts of stories and submit it, if need be. More from the app description: — “Maximizing the revolutionary features of iPhone OS 3.1, the new CNN App showcases [...]

DailyBurn has released a new iPhone app that helps track the calories you consume by scanning bar codes of over 200,000 packaged and jarred foods. It’s called FoodScanner, and we like the idea, even if the price and implementation of it isn’t ideal. But it could make a dieter with an iPhone track their calories [...]

Starbucks has introduced a new app for the iPhone (and iPod touch as well) where you can apparently customize and order drinks right from your iPhone, which will save time and avoid lines at your favorite Starbucks location, and enable you to sip that life-giving brew that much more quickly. The myStarbucks app allows you [...]

AppShopper (a popular app profiling site) notes that Apple approved nearly 1,300 iPhone and iPod touch applications last Friday, by far the largest number approved in a single day in the past few months. Over 300 of the approved applications were games, creating a host of new selections for consumers to choose from and continuing [...]

The Wall Street Journal announced that it will begin charging for mobile access to its news content as of October 24th. While mobile applications such as the WSJ’s iPhone application will remain free of charge and will offer free access to selected content, full access will require a weekly subscription fee. Beginning Oct. 24, the [...]