Apple today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices worldwide. The 25 billionth app — a free version of “Where’s My …

Studio Neat , best known for the Glif , which enables you to mount an iPhone to a tripod, has released its first iOS app. Frames is a time-lapse/stop-motion movie app that enables you to create these sorts of films on the…

Fancy Pants Chillingo Ltd Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: March 01, 2012 “Every last pixel of Fancy Pants feels as though it's dedicated to making its platforming as smooth and…

To echo the New Yorker’s line about musicians and nightclub owners , Apple authorized retailers lead complicated lives. Big-box chains like Target and Walmart have to plan distribution and promotions weeks or months in advance, but with Apple’s notoriously tight-lipped ways regarding new…

It’s one week exactly until the world knows what the new iPad is all about. For many of us here at TUAW, that means getting prepared to do a lot of writing about the new features, putting our existing iPads up for sale, and eagerly anticipating what cool new things…

Big Fish Games has been producing Mac and PC titles for a while, and we’ve chronicled a few of their iOS outings here on TUAW. The company has long tried to bring its own flavor …

Apple and Google are unlikely bedfellows in a legal dispute surrounding Google’s Street View technology. The mapping technology presents a 3D view of a road using Google Maps on iOS and Android devices. It’s tremendously useful when you need to pinpoint a location …

TUAW’s Mike Schramm first wrote about the BiKN (pronounced “beacon”) smart case and radio tags for iPhone back during our CES coverage. Today, the BiKN (US$119.99 with two tags, $99.99 with one) is …

Research company RetailSails has released a report placing Apple at the top of retail chains with an average of US$5,600 in sales per square foot. By comparison, the jewelry store Tiffany comes in at a distant no. 2 with $3,085 …

Reader Alexander Wright dropped us a line this afternoon to point out that Best Buy is now selling all variants of the iPad 2 for $50 off the usual list price . Given that…