Another developer has just entered the North American turn-by-turn GPS fray, joining Navigon, Sygic, iGO and others in providing an alternative to help iPhone 3GS and 3G users get where they need to go. CoPilot Live North America by ALK Technologies, Ltd. made it to the App Store earlier today and joins previously-published versions of [...]

After it was removed last week for legal reasons, the iPhone application Offender Locator has returned to the App Store with appropriate modifications to make it acceptable. The new version of the software does not include California sex offender data, as it is illegal in the state for anyone to profit from the distribution of [...]

eBay’s iPhone app has received an upgrade to version 1.4.0 and now includes push notifications and the ability to pay with PayPal directly from the app. The new push notification feature can let users know when they have been outbid or when the auction of a watched item is about to end. The App Store [...]

Emails can be unique, but sometimes you just need to tell the boss you’re “Running 10 minutes late,” or ask a spouse what they need from the store. Pastie makes sending common text blocks to contacts fast and easy. Pastie gives you a space to type out common messages, then decide whether you want to [...]

Apple’s iPhone App Store is most popular for its free and cheap apps. As a result, most apps and casual games are available for 99 cents or less. But there are plenty of expensive apps in the App Store, too, and people do buy them. The most expensive app in the U.S. App Store today [...]

Duke Nukem 3D for the iPhone has just made its debut in the App Store. This version of the popular first person shooter game first appeared in 1996 for the PC, with subsequent ports to other platforms along with multiple expansion packs and add-ons made available in the years since. TouchArcade has taken a first [...]

CourseSmart, a subscription e-textbook service, released its App Store software last week. The program, entitled “eTextbooks for the iPhone,” offers 7,000 different textbooks for college students from 12 different publishers. It is free for subscribers, and the company states that students save an average of 50 percent on books. In an interview The Wall Street [...]

This week, USAA, a small bank that serves mostly military personnel, has updated its iPhone application to allow customers the ability to deposit checks remotely. The feature will work by having customers photograph both sides of the check using the iPhone’s camera. Revealed in a story in Monday’s New York Times, the new feature highlights [...]

There are thousands and thousands of iPhone applications, but you hardly have time to keep up with their pricing changes, let alone new releases. The FreeAppAlert web service will keep you updated when formerly paid apps switch to being free, taking away all that searching. You can set up FreeAppAlert’s site to notify you via [...]

Google has updated it’s popular Google Mobile iPhone App that fixes the issues of OS 3.0 affecting the voice search feature. When you installed the iPhone 3.0 operating system, you would have noticed that lifting the receiver to your ear and speaking your command would no longer function. Google admittedly broke Apple’s rules by releasing [...]