The problem is, we just don’t know where they’re going. In a Saturday blog post, the company announced it is “…taking a new direction” and won’t be offering their current apps to new users.

SimplifyMedia has been offering free software for computer-to-computer and iPhone-to-computer music sharing over the internet. Using the iPhone app, you could connect to your computer at home and stream albums, playlists or songs without any complicated firewall setups. A newer version of the software also allowed remote access to your iPhoto library.

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Norwegian web browser developer Opera has revealed that the company’s mobile browser application for the iPhone is just “weeks” away from submission to the App Store for approval.

According to sources, the new Opera Mini iPhone app was likely to be six times faster than iPhone’s native Mobile Safari web browser. 

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If your iPhone backups and restores are taking a ridiculously long time, Apple suggests you take a quick peek at your Camera Roll.

In a new Knowledge Base entry, Apple reminds users that photos are backed up each time you do a sync, even if there are no changes to the Camera Roll. The result can be a sluggish backup or restore.

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Fallen Earth is a respectable postapocalyptic MMO — I’ve never played it (one MMO is enough for me, and the gigantic World of Warcraft is still claiming my time), but it’s grown pretty popular since release in September of last year. And now the game is set to pick up another chunk of audience, as the owner Icarus Studios has announced that they’re releasing a Mac client for the game.

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London, UK – SMEStorage today is pleased to announce that its iSMEStorage iPhone application is live in the Apple App store. The application is the first iPhone application to let users access and manage over 10 storage clouds from their iPhone in one Cloud file view. Clouds from which files can be viewed and managed include Amazon S3, RackSpace CloudFiles, Box, Apple Mobile Me, Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft Live Mesh, Gmail-as-a-cloud, Email-as-a-Cloud, FTP-as-a-Cloud, Google Docs, and WebDav enabled clouds.

CEO Ian Osborne states, “We are very happy to add the iPhone to the list of clients that users can use to get access to their files from our platform. This application provides access to an amazing array of storage clouds right from the palm of your hand, and provides sophisticated file sharing, file security, viewing and sync-to-device features.”

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While we weren’t able to stay the whole time (the life of a TUAW blogger at a covention is varied and hectic), the iPhone Game Developers’ Luncheon at GDC 2010 was a pretty enlightening experience. After a little varied networking among guests, hosts PlayHaven, Cooley Godward Kronish (a law firm that specializes in startup companies), and MplayIt started up the panel discussion. The iPhone developers in attendance were Igor Pusenjak of Lima Sky (the creators of the very popular Doodle Jump) and Bryan Mitchell, a solo developer who created a game called Geared that’s risen to the top of the App Store charts.

The most interesting thing we learned at the luncheon (in among a lot of legal talk about forming corporations and copyright law) was where these two developers came from. Mitchell was a filmmaker who had to work construction “after film work dried up in Las Vegas,” and decided to jump in on the app business to make extra money. His game only made a few bucks a day at first, but after spending a little on advertising, Apple featured his game in “What’s Hot.” After that, he was off to the races.

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Steph Thirion’s first iPhone game was Eliss, a touchscreen-based arcade game that had you combining and maneuvering planets around one another, and trying to size-match them up with black holes to earn points. As he told us (stay tuned for an exclusive interview with the indie developer), it was pretty hard — even more so than he actually intended it to be.

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Rancho Santa Margarita, California – Michael Vallez of CrazyMikesApps and Bryan Bowers of iProduceApps today are pleased to announce the release of their new iPhone app marketing eBook. It is titled “Secrets To Effective iPhone App Marketing” and covers twenty separate topics relating to iPhone app marketing and promotion.

“Mike and I have spent the last few months working on this book” said Bryan Bowers, founder of iProduceApps.com. “Each of us has such extensive experience in our respective areas and our combined knowledge is now packed into this book.”

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Lugo, Spain – Small Wonders S.L. has just added more unlockable content to Battle of Puppets 1.2.2, their fascinatingly odd and original, linear strategy game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Adding to the recently included OpenFeint leaderboard and achievement integration, AI improvements and harder difficulty levels, Small Wonders has been working to include all of the most requested features to Battle of Puppets. Also, in celebration of the update Battle of Puppets is now only $0.99 permanently!

Touting a vibrant artistic style, Battle of Puppets combines beautiful graphics, the hallowed art of puppetry, and ruthless combat! Its players are cast as silent puppeteers, who must strategically control their hordes of marionette minions as they battle across a series of 22 American theatres on their quest for Broadway acclaim. All 22 theatres have custom operatic backdrops of famous landmarks, and now each one has a global leaderboard through OpenFeint.

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Royal Palm Beach, FL – Announcing that Techno Gurus, the developers of iBrr Bluetooth Receiver and Remote 1.0, has launched a new application in a new niche. This is a brand new app that uses peer-to-peer networking via WiFi or Bluetooth technology to transform an iDevice into a remote control. iBrr also provides a secure way to ensure that others have no access to the device.

iBrr Bluetooth Receiver and Remote is the original peer-to-peer music control app, and remains the most feature-rich device to device remote available in the app store. iBrr is easily the best-designed and easiest-to-use app for turning iPhones, iPads or iPod touches into a receiver and remote set. One device is used to control the music playing on the other, which is usually connected to a stereo or speaker system via the headphone jack or an Apple-brand docking station.

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For the last panel of GDC 2010 day two, David Whatley of Critical Thought took the stage to talk about the App Store success he found with his games geoDefense and geoDefense Swarm, and almost dared other iPhone developers to follow his “guaranteed plan” to go from “zero to Time Magazine.”

He’s got quite a background in the trenches of coding and game development, having designed and run online mulitplayer games for over a decade with his “day job” at a company called Simutronics, but he decided to take to the iPhone in his spare time both to learn the platform and see what he could do with it.

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Queen Creek, Arizona – Technical Made Easy today is pleased to announce the release of Easy Quilt 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch. Easy Quilt provides step-by-step instruction with video based lessons on every aspect of Quilt Making. This new application ensures that the Art of Quilting can be taught and referenced from a mobile device.

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Folks at AppleInsider are reporting that iPhone OS 4.0, which is expected to be released in June will finally allow third party iPhone apps to run in the background. Multi-tasking is one of the most requested features by iPhone users.

AppleInsider claims that “people with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances” have told them that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS.

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