Puzzlejuice adds all kinds of bells, whistles and fun to the “word game” genre. The equally excellent 7 Little Words goes in the opposite direction, boiling wordplay down to its core. It offers just seven words and a series of letters (in groups of two or three at …

Samsung USA has been on the warpath against Apple fans lately with a series of ads that show bored, desperate people standing in line for Apple’s next product while happy hipsters show off their Android-powered Sammy devices. …

Last year when Best Buy was planning its Super Bowl ad, the retailer’s US marketing chief, Drew Panayiotou had a revelation. Instead of getting a music or movie star for the commercial, Panayiotou suggested the company …

Just before I headed out of San Francisco at the end of Macworld | iWorld last week, I met up with a few of the guys from BearExtender , who make an impressive product that will boost the Wi-Fi signal coming into your Mac. The guys…

Tank Hero Clapfoot Inc. Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: July 26, 2011 Battle through dangerous arenas and become the Tank Hero! Fast paced 3D tank action on your iPhone. Take out your enemies with cannons, heat seekers, grenades, and howitzers. Battle against cunning enemies and…

Avatron’s Elliot Chase just shrugs when asked about Air Dictate, an app his company had to remove from the App Store after Apple discovered it made use of Siri that they didn’t approve of. “There’s no good news,” he said while talking to us at Macworld |…

Back in early January, wireless optimization firm Arieso released a report on the bandwidth usage profiles of various smartphones and other devices . It noted a surge in download and upload usage for the iPhone 4S, moving the new phone ahead of the iPhone 4 and various Android devices to take over…

On the first day of Macworld|iWorld , one of the talks on the main stage was by three people who help bring the animated series South Park to life each week: David Lenna , Ryan Quincy (Animation Producer), and…

A Dutch appeals court has dismissed Apple’s appeal to have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in the Netherlands on Tuesday. The move confirmed the Dutch lower court’s ruling from last year which stated that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 were not…

Apple’s textbook endeavor may be off to a better start than anyone expected. According to Global Equities Research, a firm that tracks iBook sales, iTunes customers downloaded over 350,000 textbooks in the first…