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iPhone developers report that Apple’s Game Center has finally gone live. Formerly limited to a sandbox-only development environment, accounts and friends that were created for the sandbox will not apply to the live production system on Apple’s servers. Game Center is now prompting for new credentials — and developers are sharing usernames on Twitter. Older [...]

Game Center is almost out in consumers’ hands, but that hasn’t stopped the folks at OpenFeint from pushing forward on their unofficial social network for gamers. PlayTime is a newly-announced feature of the third-party social networking software that will allow players on both iOS and Android to play in real-time with each other, and even [...]

In case you’re just getting off of work, just waking up, or your plane just landed after a 15-hour flight, here’s all of today’s Apple news condensed into one quick post:

Steve Jobs looked good at today’s event, which was attended by Steve Wozniak. Steve J. did a nice shout-out to his [...]

Maybe it’s coincidence, but probably not. On the eve of a rumored announcement of an updated US .00 Apple TV, Roku has cut the price of its media players. The standard definition model has been slashed to .99, and the high definition model has been trimmed by to .99.

The Roku hardware supports 50 [...]

Apple adorns San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Like clockwork | Photo by Dave Schumaker)
Tomorrow Apple will host its annual iPod event, I say annual because this event has been held on a predictable schedule with a predictable series of releases for the past four years. In the four years Apple has never [...]

Don’t you just hate it when songs go missing from your iTunes library? I know I try to make sure that my iPod, phone, and computer contain the same songs so that there is no need to wonder which device to use when I feel like listening to something. Here, my organization skills [...]

Just in time for the days of, well, skipping out on video games and getting back to the books, Sega has decided to try and tempt you away from that schoolwork by dropping prices across the board on its iOS games. Golden Axe, Shining Force, Streets of Rage and Ecco the Dolphin are all on [...]

As preparations begin in San Francisco (check out the Yerba Buena Center’s new look) for the September 1 press event, here’s a brief review of what’s likely and unlikely to go down.

iPods are a given, and likely to be the thrust of the event. Apple has refreshed the line every year in September since the [...]

So far, one of the main arguments against widespread implementation of HTML5 video has been the uncertain licensing future of the H.264 standard. Proponents of Flash video and organizations committed to license-free software, like the Mozilla foundation, said that while H.264 was currently royalty-free (and would remain so until 2015), there was no guarantee that [...]

MobileMe customers who use the web apps will experience some down time later today as Apple performs some scheduled maintenance.

Expect the web services to be offline between 10:00 PM and 12:30 AM Pacific Time. Apple doesn’t mention if other services will be affected, so we assume you’ll still be able to send and receive [...]