It’s not just indie companies like ngmoco or Zynga trying to grab a slice of the mobile gaming market—TV networks like *Disney*, *ESPN* and Nickelodeon have all recently made aggressive moves into the space. Nickelodeon just launched the AddictingGames iNetwork, a mobile offshoot of its AddictingGames.com casual games portal. The…

If all goes as planned (and it does more often than not where MLBAM is concerned) baseball fans with iPhones/iTouches and the MLB.com At Bat will get a live streaming doubleheader Thursday. And that’s just the opening act. Plunking down a one-time fee of $9.99 will provide live out-of-market video…

Online restaurant guide Urbanspoon is now part of the IAC (NSDQ: IACI) portfolio, adding more local flavor to the mix with Citysearch. The acquisition was announced this morning with the company’s Q1 earnings but actually took place Feb. 13; no financial details were disclosed but IAC has been vocal about…

Hulu is currently working on a streaming video application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is set to launch within the next few months, reports Alley Insider, which quotes anonymous people as saying it will be and it will be “badass.” But more surprising than an insider saying that…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has published a couple of patents recently that indicate the company is looking to improve the function of the user interface for the iPhone. Specifically, the patents detail that the phone will use the accelerometer gyroscope, or proximity sensor to detect what the person holding the iPhone…

Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray has a way of guestimating sales of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) products by visiting various stores and watching how many are being sold. While there are some problems with the approach (margin of error, doesn’t count all channels) with some historical back-up it can give a…

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Smule, which was founded by Stanford computer scientists that make musical games for the iPhone, has launched its latest product today on the iTunes App Store: “Leaf Trombone World Stage.” The 99-cent application works by blowing into your iPhone microphone and sliding your finger along the touchscreen…

AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson is in discussions with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to extend its hold on the iPhone until 2011, reports the WSJ, which quotes people familiar with the matter. Without an extension, AT&T’s contract is reportedly set to expire next year. If the extension is granted, AT&T’s grip on…

Digital Chocolate was a late-comer to the iPhone, releasing its first games for the platform in December last year. That didn’t seem to be a major issue in terms of sales though: “Penguin was No. 1 through Christmas. Tower Blocks was No. 1 in February. Brick Breaker Revolution made it…

Will Apple’s iPhone make its way to South Korea now that a local regulation that made it difficult for foreign handset makers to enter the market was lifted earlier this month? According to local press, it looks like the Korean love affair for the iPhone, is “one-sided”. While South Koreans…

If you ever wanted an outsider’s view of Silicon Valley as it relates to the iPhone, check out the brutally honest essay written today by U.K.-based Ewan MacLeod, an entrepreneur, consultant and part-time writer. It explores how Valley-based entrepreneurs are approaching mobile with tunnel vision. That is, the only thing…

Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu has come out with a report based on his supply chain and industry sources saying that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is working on two new iPhones—dubbed iPhone Sr. and the less powerful iPhone Jr.—and has a build plan of 5 to 6 million units for the…

Tapulous’s Tap Tap Revenge is the most downloaded iPhone and and iPod Touch application with 34 percent of all users downloading the free game to their device, according to comScore. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) monitored two million online users to see what applications they downloaded to their devices after syncing their…

Last week, we asked: “Is the rush to develop iPhone apps creating the next bubble?” The question sparked a ton of debate as to whether the web traffic and application downloads from iPhone and iPod Touch users are significant enough to build a business. Now, The New York Times is…

Carriers on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted predictably to the roll-out of Skype’s iPhone application last week, fearing that the service will eat into their already declining voice revenues. In the US, iPhone distributor AT&T (NYSE: T) has restricted its use over Wi-Fi networks while in Germany, the…

There is demand beyond the iPhone, much more demand, according to Nokia’s EVP of new markets Anssi Vanjoki, in a lengthy interview with Venturebeat.com. While the iPhone may have paved the way for consumers to think of mobile phones as much more than devices to make calls and text on—thanks…

France’s dominant carrier Orange is rolling out an iPhone application on April 7 that will allow subscribers to access more than 60 television channels live, including the country’s national channels, TNT channels and thematic channels, in what could become an interesting gauge of consumer appetite for mobile TV. The launch…

Mobile entrepreneur David Bluhm has built several successful mobile companies—including mForma and Medio Systems—thanks in part to very clear business plans, The longer-term mission of his latest venture, Zero260, isn’t quite so clear, though. This week, at CTIA, Zero260 launched three basic photo-sharing apps for the iPhone—PhotoFeedd, TravelFeedd and CarFeedd.…

Skype plans to roll out an application for Apple’s iPhone this week at CTIA that will allow users to make free calls to other Skype users when they are connected to a WiFi hotspot. The WSJ confirmed the story today, but GigaOm reported rumors last week. The announcement will likely…