Team Alpha is a shoot-em-up, action game where, according to Sad Cat Software, your task “is to eradicate all mutants in a government lab where a secret biological experiment has gone awry.” The app offers nearly 200 rooms of mutant-shooting mania with big guns. Good times.

Apple’s stock dropped 5 points on Tuesday to close at $197.37. The stock saw a run last week after the release of a raft of new products, hitting a high of $208.71. One analyst suggests there’s resistance to the stock going above $207 (even though 2010 price targets are between $250-$300), but perhaps investors took some

Leaping way, way ahead of competitors, Apple has approved more than 100,000 apps for the App Store, according to App Shopper, an app tracking site. By contrast, there’s 246 apps for Windows Mobile, which has been around for six years, and about 96 apps for the Palm Pre (see Palm’s list of WebOS applications). Google’s

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Hardware , Retail It’s now safe to shop for Apple products without fear of getting burned by a last-minute release, at least for the next few months. Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, told Gizmodo today that “… the holiday lineup is set.” Apple typically does this in late autumn to simply let customers know that it’s safe to start spending money.

After rubbishing the iPhone in the “Droid Does” ad campaign and also taking a direct swipe at iPhone’s carrier AT&T earlier, Verizon now seems all ready to work with Cupertino in the future. According to a statement by the CEO of Verizon Communications, Ivan Seidenberg, the ball is entirely in..

Filed under: Software , Reviews , Beta Beat I discovered Gruml a while back, but didn’t write about it right away because there were too many glitches in the first beta to make it really interesting. Thankfully, recent releases have smoothed out the vast majority of the kinks, and I can now present — with gusto — a great RSS reader that interfaces with Google Reader

Remember Verizon’s ‘Droid Does’ ad campaign that called upon Motorola’s new Droid phone as the iPhone killer? A preview of this phone by the folks at BoyGeniusReport throws some light on what we can expect from this new Android based smartphone

Filed under: Cool tools , Security , Snow Leopard Most of us have really crappy, insecure passwords. Sure, we tack a couple of numbers or punctuation characters at the end of our cat’s name, but that’s a far cry from secure — especially since we also have the equally nasty habit of using the same password on every single site/service/machine/device with which we have regular contact. We’re not just asking for trouble, we’re offering it a delectable stolen identity sandwich

I recently came across orbit, which is one of the best navigation options available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I have an iPhone that has over 100 applications and it’s definitely a pain to get to the applications on the last page. I can always put the useful applications on the first page but

Here’s what might happen if Apple invented an  iPhone called the 4G Talk.  Except, unlike what you would expect from Apple, it talks and doesn’t have anything nice to say. Put your headphones on — as it taunts the poor guy trying to use it, the phone also doesn’t say stuff you’d want your co-workers to

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store We’ve mentioned Digital Chocolate and their App Store releases before, of course, and we’ve even mentioned just how prevalent they are — they’ve been extremely prolific in releasing new titles, and as a result, they’ve posted on their website that they are more or less ubiquitous in search results . They say on their official blog that any search of a “single digit” on the App Store search window has about a 20% chance of pulling up a Digital Chocolate release. If you search for “D,” “H” or “3,” they’re the number one hit

With a wealth of baseball data available with just a few taps, FanGraphs Baseball is a must-have app for any fans who wants to learn more about the game they love.

OK, I’ll be the one to step up and admit it: Some of us here at Cult of Mac have a… little problem with bags. We’re bagaholics — and I’m the worst. I even have a bag to hold all my bags