Google Voice on the iPhone has been something of a sore subject for me. If you need a full-recap of the whole sordid iPhone/Google Voice story see this story from December or more of our coverage. I even started a little site devoted to waiting for Google Voice on the iPhone called IsGoogleVoiceAvailableForTheiPhone.com.

It has been 6 months and 19 days since Apple claimed it had not “rejected” Google Voice but was “studying” it. During the course of Apple’s “study” the company moved to purge all existing Google Voice apps from the App Store.

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I’ve always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It’s sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting — an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news.

Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the articles from the site, as well as the blog posts, staff tweets and streaming video from the Slate podcasts. Once content is downloaded you can read it off-line, which is a worthwhile feature. Access to Slate on the web is free, and you can read Slate from any mobile browser by going to mobile.slate.com.

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The 2010 Game Developers Conference kicks off today in San Francisco, and TUAW is in attendance to check out the latest and greatest in iPhone game development. The conference boasts a whole track dedicated to iPhone gaming this year, and all week long, we’ll be bringing you panels, news, and interviews straight from the conference floor. This morning, panel number one was from Stephen Detwiler and James Marr, two engineers at Ngmoco, to talk to developers about how they put the server software together for Eliminate, the “freemium” first person shooter that’s serving as their flagship app lately.

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Namco is bringing the popular Tekken franchise to the iPhone. It’s not confirmed whether it’s a port of the original game — released back in 1994 in arcades, then on the PlayStation — or the current Tekken 6.

This comes a few weeks after Capcom announced the release of Street Fighter IV for the iPhone, leading to an eventual fighter game showdown in the App Store. While both games on the iPhone is pretty awesome, I’m waiting to see how they will look and play on the iPad. I also wouldn’t mind seeing even more Namco titles on the iPhone – especially selections from the Tales RPG franchise.

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Filed under: Developer, iPhone

In a step towards transparency, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has made the entire iPhone Developer Program License Agreement available for the general public. This is the document that all iPhone developers must agree to when they become part of the iPhone developer program.

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Filed under: Hardware, Software, App Store, iPad

Wired’s Brian X. Chen noticed that Apple’s iPad press release touts “12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad.” Take a look at the screenshot at right and you’ll see twelve apps: Videos, iPod, Maps, Photos, Mail, Safari, App Store, iTunes, YouTube, Contacts, Calendar and Notes. That means a few apps that ship with the iPhone — Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos — are missing.

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Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

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Filed under: Gaming, Software, Developer, iPhone, App Store, SDK

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Filed under: Rumors, Odds and ends, iPhone

The Daily Telegraph reports that a new Apple patent has surfaced which could potentially allow the iPhone, or another Apple portable, to act as a sort of electronic key. The potential applications are as limitless as the number of things locked by old-school metal keys. It could be used for cars, offices, homes, or lockers. Basically, anything that could have an electronic receiver mounted to it in place of a metal tumbler-style lock could then use an iPhone as a key.

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Filed under: App Store, iPad

Wired noticed that there are some notable exceptions among the announced iPad apps, including Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos.

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Filed under: Software, Developer, iPhone

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Apple Financial, iPhone

At long last, Apple and China Unicom Ltd. are working to introduce Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones to China.

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Once again, the App Store’s loss has turned out to be Cydia’s gain. A week after Cupertino removed Wi-Fi stumbler applications like WiFiFoFum, WiFi-Where and yFy Network Finder from the App Store, Aspecto Software, the developer of the WiFiFoFum application has announced that the company is releasing its popular WiFi stumbling application for free on Cydia Store.

WiFiFoFum is among the earliest Wi-Fi Stumbler iPhone apps to release on the App Store and offers a very easy way to scan the neighborhood for 802.11 wi-Fi networks and provides information like the SSID, MAC, RSSI (signal strength), channel, AP mode, security mode and transmission rate about the networks it detects. WiFiFoFum was available for $2.99 at the App Store and has been downloaded several thousand times since it first launched. It is available on Cydia Store for free. However, their website continues to say that their iPhone app is available on the App Store. 

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Cuneo, Italy – Pawn Software today is pleased to announce the release of Elemental Dusk 1.2.2, a strategy card game for iPhone inpired by Triple Triad, a minigame of Final Fantasy VIII. Triple Triad is a famous game that gathered a lot of followers and spawned differend communities on the web. Elemental Dusk is a game based on its simple rules with beautiful custom graphics, yet it can be very strategic and addictive in nature, making it suitable for a short play on the go as well as for longer game sessions.

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