The App Store hits a milestone and a lucky kid is the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest. Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of, Weston, Conn. will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule storage unit and a MacBook Pro.
Apple today announced that App Store shoppers have [...]

Aurora Feint is following up the March launch of its OpenFeint V1.0 development platform with OpenFeint V1.5, which will give game devs a new way to promote and sell their apps.
OpenFeint V1.5, released this week, is an open platform that other developers can use to add social networking and community features such as player profiles, [...]

Mark Johnson & Rob Hunter, the developer team behind Hunter and Johnson, are releasing their debut iPhone app Duck You Undo. They’re no Johnny-Come-Latelys, though. This duo already has two apps each under their collective belts and more on the way. Here, they answer our questions about developing for the iPhone and iPod touch.
When did [...]

Janice Flint is Programmer/Mom and the force behind Crystal Springs Software. She just released her first iPhone app iZilch.
When did you start developing apps for the iPhone? Did you have previous experience as a developer?
I was a math major in college, so my first programming jobs were math-related. In 1982, I did some signal processing [...]

The Star Walk Easter Egg contest is officially closed.
Congratulations to the 3 winners of the Star Walk Easter Egg contest: Dmitriy, Bob and ApppCraver reader William. All three will receive an ipod Touch from Star Walk! All the participants who wrote in to tell Vito Technology about their hunt — even if they couldn’t [...]

Yohan Le Nerriec, Chief Architect at Orb Networks, Inc., has been developing since the early days of the iPhone before the App Store and before the SDK. Here he answers AppCraver’s questions about developing iPhone and iPod touch apps.
When did you start developing apps for the iPhone? Did you have previous experience as a developer?

March [...]

Could you use $10,000? Then you need to act fast and register for Rhomobile’s Mobile Application Development Challenge. The contest promotes the company’s Rhodes framework, which enables devs to write apps once using HTML templates and run on the iPhone, BlackBerry  and other top smartphones.
The deadline for registration is tomorrow; the deadline to submit your [...]

Peacemaker – “What movie do you want to see?”
“I don’t know. You pick.”
“I don’t know either. You pick.”
“I honestly don’t care; it’s up to you.”
Ever had a conversation like that? Of course you have. Everyone has! Everyone has also found himself or herself, at some point, in a Mexican standoff with friends or family because [...]

Welcome to the high octane world of Motocross racing brought to you courtesy of 2XL Games. 2XL Supercross is a game that is looking to place a fat stamp on the racing genre. After spending some quality time with 2XL Supercross, it’s fair to say that headline racers like Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart, Fastlane Street [...]

934,047,733 downloads as of April 11, 2009, 10:54 AM EST and counting. The App Store is rapidly closing in on its 1 billionth download and to celebrate, Apple is giving anyone who downloads an app the chance to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a fully-loaded MacBook Pro.
If [...]