AT&T has finally approved Sling Media’s Slingplayer app for the iPhone to run on the 3G(s) model via 3G wireless networks. The application had been previously only available over WiFi until now.
So, if you own a slingbox, and you’ve paid $30 for the iPhone app, you’ll be able to watch all your TV shows right [...]

Cross posted from http://www.marcforrest.com/2009/11/18/16-apps-for-your-new-iphone/
I have had a couple of people ask me recently what are the “essential” apps for getting your iPhone up and running. With over 100,000 apps in the app store at the moment, it is almost impossible to give an exact list. So what I wanted to do is give you my [...]

Poker apps have already been a big hit for the iPhone and the action looks to heat up even further with the release of World Poker Tour Texas Hold’em for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you’re a fan of the WPT televised poker broadcasts you’ll be immediately right at home with the World Poker [...]

The guys from Yahoo & Flickr have released a new Flickr iPhone app(Open iTunes), which enables you to easily share the photos you’ve captured with iPhone’s camera, geo-tag them, and add them to sets.

You can also view your Flickr contacts pictures, as well as view recently uploaded pictures by your contacts. You can also [...]

If you’re one of the millions of players who have jumped on the online poker bandwagon, you may have searched for a way of playing real-money online Texas holdem on your iPhone. Probably without finding any.
Because of Apple’s resistance towards opening the iPhone platform for gambling, there are no real-money poker games available for the [...]

Qik [Free - iTunes link] update… removes Wi-Fi-only restriction?!
For those unfamiliar with Qik, it lets you stream live video over the internet, and archive it via Qik.com.

It has been a long time coming, but finally MXit has been released for Apple’s iPhone. It is available from the iTunes Appstore. MXit is the leading mobile application coming out of South Africa with over 12 million users internationally.
Here are a couple of screenshots of MXit for iPhone:

(via TechStartNews)

To use Skype, you must be connected to a wi-fi hotspot. It will not work over AT&T’s data network. That limits its usefulness, and limits your mobility. People want the calling feature on their phone to just work, 100% of the time. That’s not this.
You can’t receive calls to your main number via Skype. Sure, [...]

A tipster — a very reliable one — tells me that Skype is almost ready to launch that iPhone version, perhaps as soon as next week. CTIA Wireless, a large mobile industry trade event, kicks off in Las Vegas next Wednesday, so perhaps the announcement will be made there. I am working on getting more [...]

If you develop apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can now start making those apps more social. With just a few lines of Objective-C code, your users can log in to Facebook from within your app, find their friends, then share what they do in your app back on Facebook, which opens up [...]