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News: Mix: Google 2008, South Korea, iTunes movies, Choose Your Adventure
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — Among the fastest rising terms in the United States during 2008 were “att” and “iphone,” according to Google’s Zeitgeist results for 2008, which examines search terms whose frequency increased compared to 2007. AT&T and iPhone took the third and fourth spots on the list, respectively, behind “obama” and “facebook.” South Korea will suspend its Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability, or WIPI, requirement on April 1, opening the door for foreign handsets like the iPhone. The WIPI requirement effectively blocked foreign handset makers from entering the South Korean market, which is currently dominated by local companies Samsung and LG. Korean ...

News Roundup for December the 11th
Apple Eclectic — It’s turning out to be a bit of a roller coaster ride owning one of the new aluminium MacBooks. The latest ‘bump‘ in the road — keep reading and I’ll explain why that was funny — comes in the form of reports that the Nvidia GPUs in the new 15″ MacBook Pro suffers from the same manufacturing fault — which, without getting overly technically, appears to be ‘bumpy chips’ — which caused problems for laptop manufacturers, including Apple, earlier this year. This could be the cause of the occasional ‘black screen of death’ we’ve been hearing about. Meanwhile, Apple has released a flotilla of firmware ...

iPhone Game Roundup: Hero of Sparta, Killer Pool
Macworld — by Peter Cohen, , Macworld.com Killer Pool Billed as "the most realistic pool game on the iPhone," Killer Pool features 8 Ball, 9 Ball, UK Black Ball, Killer and OctoKiller. You use your finger to swipe to shoot, you can spin and swerve, and the game follows official APA 8 and 9 Ball rules. It costs $2.99. Hero of Sparta Gameloft's latest entry for the iPhone is Hero of Sparta . Players take the role of King Argos as you journey from the depths of the Underworld to the summit of Mount Olympus, battling monsters and other weird and magical things along the way. The game features eight 3D levels, bad guys like Cerebrus, the Cyclops and ...