APPLE NEWS

Speaking at the American Magazine Conference, Oprah praised the iPad and named some of her favorite apps

By simply moving a compass equipped device, one can see the countries, oceans and seas located in the pointed direction.

Secret of the Lost Cavern is an adventure game that plunges the player into an inspiring journey that takes place during the Paleolithic period in prehistoric time, 15,000 years B.C.

With TouchUp, iPad owners can paint image effects and adjustments directly onto their photos.

With 123 Sticker HD children build and paint sticker scenes while listening to fun sound effects, 25 popular children's songs, and color names spoken in multiple languages.

Words Magic is a challenging, new word-building game for iOS. Deceptively simple in its premise, the player must connect a starting word and an ending word.

Tabata-Timer is an interval timer for professionals such as sports people or personal trainers, who are looking for maximum results in minimal time with their fitness regime.

Miniatlas Anatomy is a comprehensive resource, providing a huge database of anatomy images with explanatory texts that help doctors effectively communicate with patients and peers.

Fly Effect Real 3D is one of the few existing games in the world that offers users not only two dimensional play but also 3D.

PDF Expert for iPad focuses on solving various tasks that many people face daily.

Billionaire Tom Siebel shares a chilling elephant attack horror story that left him and his iPhone ripped to pieces.

Google Goggles, a service that lets you search by taking pictures, is now a feature of the Google Mobile App for iPhone.

Microsoft may shed some light on its tablet plans during the Windows Phone 7 launch on October 11th

Weet, an iPhone Twitter client, has received a big update which brings image compression and resizing, timeline gap detection, and much more.

Mac users can now purchase Left 4 Dead 2 via the Steam Store

WD today introduced its new My Passport Essential portable hard drive, My Passport Essential SE portable hard drive, and My Book Essential external hard drive.

Censor It allows users to add censored logo's and graphics to any photo using the iPhone camera or photo's from their photo albums.

Hitachi today announced its new 375GB/platter, 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM, 2.5-inch hard drives - the Travelstar 5K750 and the Travelstar 7K750 hard drive families.

Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient.

The components for the new Apple TV likely cost less than $64.

Apple has improved the iPhone 4's ship times in the USA to 5-7 business days.

Instant Update helps you to update your statuses faster. It is a three-in-one app, saves your time, shares your statuses in the fastest way and also shares your exact location.

A video recording app, Flexicorder allows both front and back cameras for iPhone 4 to be used during a single recording session leading to some interesting possibilities.

AXA in Belgium is marketing their free iPhone application with an innovative magazine ad.

Sintek is denying a previous report by DigiTimes which said the company is providing Apple with sample iMac touch panels.

A chart by CNN FORTUNE depicts the incredible sales trajectory of the iPad since its launch

According to August data from The Nielsen Company, Android is now the most popular operating system among people who bought a smartphone in the past six months

It took $1.7 million to convince a North Carolina couple to sell their home to Apple so the company could use the land for a $1 billion dollar data center

You play as one of the last remaining humans in the zombie apocalypse, a tough biker and mechanic who's turned a giant construction wheel into a vehicle and anti-zombie weapon of mass destruction.

Ghosts! is a spooky action-packed game where players use a flashlight to find invading ghosts and other enemies in a dark landscape.

CSS3Machine lets you create and experiment with CSS3 styles and animations on your iPad

Netflix has updated their iOS app with video out support for the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G.

Actor Tony Curtis who died Wednesday after suffering cardiac arrest was buried with his iPhone.

Glif, a nicely designed tripod mount and stand for the iPhone 4, is looking for a Kickstart.

FreeTaxUSA has used a high speed camera to capture the destruction of an iPad by a shotgun.

Nitrozac & Snaggy have published a new Joy of Tech comic detailing the secret features of Steve Jobs' new home.

Twitter CEO Ev Williams has announced that he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter.

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered that the new Apple TV is set up for installing applications.

Microsoft is preparing to battle it out with Apple in the Mall of America by opening a larger retail store mere yards away from the Apple Store.

Skype has hired Tony Bates, a top official at Cisco, as its new chief executive

Tango is an iPhone application that lets you make video calls over 3G and Wi-Fi

LG Electronics has dropped plans for building a tablet computer based on Android 2.2 Froyo.

In an interview with the Telegraph, UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he is proud of his iMac setup

Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of Be. Inc, argues that the OS doesn't matter since most are a derivative of the same one anyway

iBye, an application to backup and store your iDevice data on a FTP server, has been updated to version 2.0.

Google has launched a new site for its upcoming Google TV product which takes you through a tour of the features

Microsoft and AT&T have sent out press invites to the Windows Phone 7 launch event on October 11th.

Amazon is now directly selling the iPad to customers instead of using third party retailers.