Apple will drive the game market with the iPhone, according to a survey of 8,000 gamers in North America, Europe and Australia.

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch CIO.com has posted an article (single-page reprint here ) covering one company’s foray into the app development scene. Recently, clothing retailer Gap held an app development contest. The goal was to develop the “best” app to represent the retailer on the iPhone or iPod touch

Looking at Google’s Chrome OS demos today, I noticed a giant omission that bodes ill for its future: it’s not optimized for touchscreens. Chrome looks like a nifty version of a desktop OS, like a version of OS X or Windows, that pulls a lot of data from the cloud. Yeah, it’s slick, thoughtful and forward thinking,

Geotagging — adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken — brings a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Several apps let you start tagging your photos with GPS data. We’ll help you find the one that’s right for your needs

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Features , iPhone , Holidays , iPod touch Every time I walk through Warehouse Stationery (New Zealand’s equivalent to Office Depot) or Dick Smith’s Electronics (pretty much Best Buy), I’m struck by how probably half the products in each store are pretty much useless to me since I’ve got an iPhone . Thanks to the apps that come pre-packaged with the iPhone and the more than 100,000 third-party offerings now available in the iTunes Store, the iPhone has gained functionality that might have seemed hard to fathom under three years ago when Steve Jobs first announced the device

Yesterday, I had a nice little rant about why Verizon’s ads deserved to be pulled off air. But that was not to be, as the Federal Court declined to issue a restraining order on Verizon from airing the ads. The next hearing on this case is only on December 16….

Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools Google is making some big announcements today during their Chrome OS press event . In addition to the official announcement for Chrome OS they also let another little tidbit of information loose: “Just this year alone in Chrome, there’s tons of new stuff coming.

Just when we thought that the Droid threat was not as big as it was hyped up to be comes a rumor which will have Apple closely watching every move. TechCrunch reports a “super-high confidence” rumor that Google could soon be launching their own phone – complete with Google branding….

By this time next week, millions of American’s mouths will be watering in anticipation of turkey, stuffing and cranberry sau…oh, heck with that.

Filed under: Software , Freeware , Internet Tools , Open Source Camino seems a bit like the half-forgotten poor sister of Firefox. The goal of the Camino project is to produce a truly OS X-native browser built on the same Gecko rendering engine that drives Firefox. While it was popular among certain Mac geeks for a while (I even remember using it when it was still called Chimera), it seems like it’s fallen somewhat out of favor of late given the richness of browser options on the Mac.

Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about controlling a PC over the internet, silencing iPhone email notifications at night, replacing a MacBook Pro SuperDrive with a hard drive, printing over the internet, setting iCal as the default calendar, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome.

Filed under: Odds and ends , Mac 101 More Mac 101 , tips and tricks for novice Mac users. It’s so easy to take Address Book for granted, and yet that simple utility has two absolutely killer features: big phone numbers and simple envelope printing.

We have an eclectic group of deals to head today’s list of bargains. Insignia has a clock radio alarm for your iPod priced at just $13. There is the usual clock radio alarm specs, plus a remote