Gameloft Releases The Settlers for iPhone [Video]

Gameloft’s latest title, The Settlers, is now available in the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch.

Welcome to the world of The Settlers! You’ve arrived in a wondrous place populated by Romans, Vikings, and Mayans competing or cooperating to reach a variety of goals. These goals include occupying land, ensuring the supply of raw materials, or simply trying to create the most beautiful settlement. There is more than on path which leads to success – you can engage in trade, forge alliances, or lead your army into battle

Features:
- Gather resources and build a lively and bustling town in an ancient world. Your decisions and skill in managing and protecting your settlement will determine its fate.

- The strength of your units depends on how effectively you have built up your settlement and paid attention to the economic relationships within it.

- Three nations to govern: Conquer new territories, defeat rival armies, and establish an empire with your warriors that encompasses lands and continents.

- A huge number of parameters to manage: Dozens of building types, settlements, soldiers, raw materials, and much more

- An accessible game for everybody, thanks to extensive tutorial missions and multi-touch gameplay, ideal for strategy games.

You can purchase The Settlers from the App Store for $4.99. It takes 227MB of space.

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Squarespace Launches an iPhone App

Squarespace has launched an iPhone app which allows users to manage their websites and blogs from their mobile phone.

The service powers tens of thousands of sophisticated websites for businesses, bloggers, and professionals worldwide. It breaks the parts of your site down into bricks which can be snapped together to make any combination you like, using designs from name-brand designers.

Completely custom. Completely free. Manage your entire Squarespace site on-the-go with the new Squarespace iPhone Application. You can post and edit blog entries, upload pictures on the fly, save drafts, preview your updates, and access your site’s statistics (including recent referrers, search queries, RSS subscribers, and more). For power users, the Squarespace iPhone application can manage multiple accounts all at once, allowing you to quickly switch back and forth between them.

View your site statistics.
Stay on top of your site’s traffic by viewing your unique visitors, page views, popular search terms, RSS subscribers, top referrers and more.

Manage your content.
Approve posts, edit drafts, delete content and publish to multiple Squarespace sites. All your content will be manageable on-the-go.

Preview your site online.
With a full-featured, live preview mode, you can ensure everything on your site looks perfect before you click “publish.”

Post to your site.
Snap a picture on your iPhone, and post it right to your Squarespace site. Or easily compose blog entries, and publish them directly from your “Post” tab.

Manage multiple accounts.
Quickly jump back and forth between multiple Squarespace accounts. Post a blog entry on one site, finish a draft on another, and check stats for a third…all from within the app.

Edit your posts.
Draft a blog post on your iPhone, and schedule it for publication later in the week–you can edit it at anytime. Your categories and tags will all be at your fingertips.

Upload Multiple Images.
Squarespace’s iPhone application lets you upload, order, and manage multiple images attached to a single post.

Online/Offline Editing
If you’re in an area with low reception, our iPhone app allows you to compose and save messages directly on to your phone. When you get signal again, just click “Sync” to push posts to your live site.

You can download the Squarespace app from the App Store using the link below…

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RadioShack Will Carry the iPhone

RadioShack has announced that they will carry the iPhone in stores beginning later this month.

“As part of its ongoing mobility strategy, RadioShack is pleased to announce that it will introduce Apple’s iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a limited number of company-owned stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City metropolitan areas beginning later this month. RadioShack expects to introduce iPhone in stores nationwide in 2010. For more information about exact store locations and product availability, visit www.radioshack.com.”

These additional outlets will provide Apple with a greater retail presence during the holidays and perhaps easy the burden off the very busy Apple Stores.

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Apple Announces Reserve and Pick Up Holiday Shopping

Apple is making holiday shopping easier with a new Reserve and Pick Up option.

With Reserve and Pick Up, you can make sure the top things on your list are definitely under the tree. Reserve an iPod or Mac online today and it will be waiting for you to pick up and purchase at an Apple Retail Store from December 15 to 24. You can even have many products wrapped. It’s just another way we make it even easier to get through the holiday crowds — and your gift list.

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Broadway Apple Store Opens November 14th

Apple has announced that the new Upper West Side Apple Store will be unveiled at 10:00am on November 14th.

Photos of the store show an amazing and distinctive curved glass roof, set into a nearly-triangular corner at 67th Street and Broadway, notes ifoAppleStore. A huge image of a red velvet curtain currently covers the glass facade of the store.

You can take a look at a flyover and a couple pictures taken by ifoAppleStore below…

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Facebook Chat Could Be Coming to iChat

Facebook is preparing the launch of their XMPP connection interface which will allow you to use Facebook Chat through iChat and variety of other clients.

According to process one, this is big news for XMPP because it solidifies the protocol as the standard for Instant Messaging. With Facebook adding ~300 million users to the many Google Talk, Yandex, Live Journal and other deployments, XMPP could become the most largely used instant messaging protocol in the world.

Facebook announced their decision to support XMPP in May of 2008. The IMtrends bot has discovered that the XMPP software stack has been deployed on chat.facebook.com.

We are proud that this XMPP support is built on a customized ejabberd XMPP server as announced several times by Facebook development team, including one of their latest conferences in Edinburgh in September 2009: Functional Programming at Facebook by Chris Piro and Eugene Letuchy.

The missing piece is currently what login and password to use to connect, but I am sure it will be announced by Facebook in due time.

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Apple to Step Up Security Against Jailbreakers?

A job posting at Apple suggests the company may be looking to step up efforts to block jailbreaking.

Apple is currently hiring for an iPhone OS Platform Security Manager.

The Core OS group is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on the platform security of iPhone OS. The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats. The team is made up of a variety of security experts with backgrounds in system security and reverse engineering.

Its unclear whether this is a new job position or whether Apple is hiring to replace an existing position.

One of the notable job responsibilities is: ‘Driving a methodology for proactively finding security vulnerabilities’. As recent updates have shown, this likely means searching for and closing exploits used to jailbreak and unlock.

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8GB iPhone 3GS to Launch Before Christmas?

Sources indicate that AT&T may be considering the launch of an 8GB iPhone 3GS, according to the BoyGeniusReport.

“Definitely not confirmed, but rather interesting nonetheless. We’ve heard now from two sources that AT&T, and we guess Apple, are contemplating launching an 8GB iPhone 3GS at the $99 price point before Christmas. One source said this was AT&T’s way of combating the DROID madness.”

This would actually make sense given the recent press attention to the Motorola DROID.

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Google Launches Google Dashboard

Today Google announced Google Dashboard, a simple view into the data associated with your account.

“In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more.”

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Fortune Declares Steve Jobs ‘CEO of the Decade’

Fortune Magazine has declared Steve Jobs ‘CEO of the Decade’ publishing a detailed report of his successes.

How’s this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

The article takes a look at Jobs history with Apple, where the company is now, and what the future holds. Much of this information has been heard many times but it is still an interesting read.

After creating more than $150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next? Given his penchant for secrecy and surprise and his proven brilliance, it’s a fair bet that he’ll let us know when he’s good and ready.

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