Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , iPhone , App Review Several readers have urged me to try the Gokivo Navigator for the iPhone [ iTunes link ], so today is the day. The app is U.S. $4.99, but that only provides you with GPS navigation for 30 days

Fans of Stephen Colbert’s dry wit, rejoice: MTV Networks has released an updated version of their iPhone app that features The Colbert Report’s The Word, just for you. Now you can have Colbert in your pocket to bring out whenever you need a pick-me-up for a crappy day

Storm8, the developer of popular gaming apps like iMobsters and Vampires Live is in the news for all the wrong reasons. A case has been filed against the company by Washington resident, Michael Turner for allegedly harvesting cellphone numbers of iPhone users downloading their iPhone apps. This is not the…

Filed under: Steve Jobs , Apple History As Dave Caolo told TUAW readers a few days ago , Fortune named Apple CEO Steve Jobs ” CEO of the Decade ” for his phenomenal leadership at Apple and how he has remade four industries (music, movies, mobile telephones, and computing) in the past ten years. Part of the Fortune article was a collection of rarely seen photographs of Steve Jobs . From the early days with Steve Wozniak, to his recent battles with pancreatic cancer, the photos chronicle the life of the iconic CEO

With great graphics, cool kung fu sounds, and a multi-player mode, FaceFighter is really entertaining. Add in the ability to create custom foes, and hilarity quickly ensues.

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Bluetooth , Apple Apple, being the innovative corporation that it is, applies for patents many times per year. While many of these items may never make it to market, the company is proactive in making sure that possible patents are filed as soon as possible in order to protect the intellectual property that’s been developed

Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools Bambooapps has released a simple and useful utility called Quiet Read that has earned a spot on my Mac’s menubar. With a simple drag-and-drop, it lets you save a web page for later review

Filed under: Hardware , Retail , Odds and ends , Apple , Holidays As a guy who likes shopping online, but who still appreciates the act of going into a retail store for big purchases, I love this news. Apple has introduced a “Reserve and Pick-up” service for the holiday season. The name is a little unwieldy, but it gets the point across.

Filed under: Software , Odds and ends , Developer , Deals , iPhone Want an iPhone app business without all the boring hassle of actually programming and releasing iPhone apps? Boy, does Brice Milliorn have a deal for you! He’s auctioning off his iPhone app business , which he says has 87 different apps for sale, over on eBay . Milliorn says he started out developing apps on his own, but the business is just too big for him to keep up so he’s selling all of the apps and their rights , all of the source code, and technical support for two months to transition everything over to the new owner.

Despite all the never ending debates about whether or not Droid matches up to the iPhone, one thing that Motorola and Verizon deserve to be credited with is the timing of the launch. With the shopping season just starting, the companies can well expect the sales of Droid to pick…

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail Apple typically opens retail stores in high-end shopping areas, and this one is as high-end as it gets.

The next gen iPhone could well help you checkout at retail stores, borrow books from a library or pay at a toll-booth. If rumors are to be believed, Apple could be deploying RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) sensors in future iPhones. We had reported a few months back about Apple having…

Filed under: Rumors , Wireless , Apple , iPhone If you’re tired of dropped calls and dead zones, and pondering the merits of turning in your iPhone for a DROID… hold on there, champ. AppleInsider says it’s received a copy of a report by OTR Global, claiming that Apple has signed contracts to produce a UMTS / CDMA hybrid iPhone to be released in the third quarter of 2010.