Awaiting AppStore launch, international game developer Simiotica announces immediate availability of the iPhone and iPod Touch game aMaze! via Installer.App. aMaze! is very realistic transition of the classic wooden balance game Labyrinth, where players guide steel ball through a maze avoiding holes, to the iPhone.

“Large multi-touch screen, OpenGL ES and OpenAL support, built-in accelerometers make iPhone most powerful mobile gaming device on the market. We have developed aMaze to meet expectation of the iPhone owners for games with innovative gameplay not yet possible with other devices. While awaiting the launch of the official AppStore, we make it available through the Istaller.App to let iPhone entusiasts enjoy it as early as possible”, explains Alex Dubov, Simiotica CMO.

read it here simiotica.com

Otter Products is now offering limited-edition pink cases for the iPhone and iPod nano in an effort to raise money to help fight breast cancer and raise awareness of the disease. It is donating 10 percent of the proceeds earned off these OtterBox for iPhone or iPod nano Defender Series cases to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, which supports access to care and finding a cure for breast cancer, with a focus on the medically underserved.

read it here pdastreet.com

Remember when we showed you an iPhone controlling a TiVo over IP by means of Telnet?

Well, over at the TiVo Community Forum, a user named Duckfin has compiled a “quick and dirty little program” that gives the iPhone and iPod touch a proper TiVO Remote.

read it here gizmodo.com.au

I recently challenged you all to come up with the most ridiculous iPhone 2 concept designs possible, and boy oh boy did you ever deliver. What you’re about to see is over 100 of the most impractical, nonsensical and flat-out retarded mobile phone designs the world has ever seen.

read it here gizmodo.com.au

We all miss copy/paste on the iPhone. But you will forget the problem with MobileTextEditJ! This little text-editing tool finally supports what everyone was wanting so much: copy/paste. You will need the latest build of the program which is 1.1.3.

read it here iphoneworld.ca

The iPhone continues to impress in terms of gaming possibility. Raging Thunder isn’t actually done yet on the iPhone (obviously—judging by this video there are more glitches on this thing than a Matrix full of black cats), but once it gets rolling, the award-winning game, put together by Polarbit, looks like a pretty sweet racing experience.

The accelerometer actually serves as a nice wheel (with a little help from the Wii wheel), and the graphics aren’t too shabby, either.

read it here tuaw.com

Silicon Alley Insider discovered yesterday that NBC has formatted a few of its shows — “30 Rock” and “The Office” — to stream on the Apple iPhone.

You need to be using the phone’s Wi-Fi connection, not AT&T’s Edge cellular data network. And the experience is nearly unwatchable because “the quality of the video stream is atrocious,” wrote a commenter on the site, David Dugan Michael Learmonth.

read it here bits.blogs.nytimes.com

This guy in the video uses his iPhone to control the plant watering system. The plant watering system is able to take directions from the iPhone because when the guy rotates the iPhone, the status is updated to a web server via JavaScript.

read it here tinsiders.blogspot.com

For the past decade or so, Microsoft Outlook has been the standard in personal information management. As a Windows Mobile user, I also used Outlook Mobile on my Treo 700wx. Actually, in combination, the desktop version and the mobile version of Outlook work pretty well, but there were a few quirks that bugged me.

read it here iphonebysteve.com

Whether you’re waiting in a dentist’s office or standing in line for Hannah Montana tickets, you need to stay in touch with the world around you. I suppose you could ask another human being what’s the latest news, but come on, this is the 21st century.

This is where your iPhone comes in.

read it here artoftheiphone.com

Sometimes, we at TUAW get awesome tips from our readers—this is proof. A certain, unnamed individual sent us some pictures of the latest build of the iPhone firmware showing .Mac push e-mail.

read it here tuaw.com

Mophie announced the release of Juice Pack, the first “Works with iPhone” certified battery extender on the market. While other vendors have released iPhone-compatible accessories for charging the phone’s battery, devices that receive Apple’s official certification ensure optimal connectivity with the iPhone.

read it here macworld.com

BURLINGAME, CALIF. -You’ve got to love Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs.

Rather than just telling everyone his plans, Jobs just lets everything get a little weird. And the meltdown at Synchronoss--the company that’s done a great business hooking all those iPhones up with carrier AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) since the iPhone was launched last year--is just the latest example.

read it here forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia gadget to more than a dozen countries starting later this year.
America Movil SAB, controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said it plans to bring the iPhone to all of its Latin American operations but didn’t offer more details about the arrangement, including whether it would be the exclusive iPhone provider in the targeted countries.

read it here ap.google.com

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- France Telecom SA (FTE) is in talks with Apple Inc. (AAPL) to sell the U.S. company’s iPhone handset in other countries, Chief Financial Officer Gervais Pellissier said Wednesday.

France Telecom is in talks regarding “more than just two countries,” Pellissier said in response to a question during a conference call about whether the company was hoping to secure the rights for the iPhone in Spain and Poland. “It’s in discussion...we’ll see what the results are,” he said.

read it here money.cnn.com

Natuba is a new photo sharing site that targets iPhone users with an emphasis on mobile uploading. It comes from Richard Yoo, a former CEO of Rackspace and Serverbeach.

iPhone users with Natuba accounts can add their snapshots to the site by emailing them to a special address.

read it here techcrunch.com

Well, here’s the story. Let’s start this off by saying that we think this might be a little bit too early, but you never know with Apple. Anyways, we told y’all last year before the first iPhone launched that AT&T employees were not allowed to take vacations from June 15th to July 15th.

read it here boygeniusreport.com

Submit your Leopard or iPhone application today!

Make sure your Mac OS X Leopard, iPhone SDK, or iPhone web application gets the attention it deserves. The Apple Design Awards feature seven categories that recognize technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement—including two new categories for iPhone development.

Don’t wait, submit your entry today. Submit your entry here developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/

Readdle, the leading provider of the book and document reader services for the iPhone and iPod Touch, announces its plans to release a native iPhone application for storing and reading office documents and eBooks on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Readdle is a web-based application that allows transfering, organizing and viewing documents on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

read it here readdle.com

ivyskin introduces XyloT2 Special Edition cases for iPhones and iPods - Published on 05/05/08

ivyskin is proud to introduce XyloT2 Special Edition cases for iPhones and iPods. Now available, the finest in sleek durable protection, ultra slim XyloT2 special edition Modena Yellow, Raz Red, Royal Blue and Jet Black. Made of hard-shell plastic and features a minimal wall thickness, full touch-thru acrylic screen and Xylo Surface scratch protector.

read it here ivyskin.com

The iPhone’s built-in camera has gotten a lot of flack for being less-than-perfect, but for some of us who have grown used to the worst of the worst, the iPhone’s camera is like a breath of fresh air. Sure, it could use a zoom lens, significantly better low-light capabilities, and mo’ megapixels, but it does a pretty decent job for most users.

read it here arstechnica.com

(openPR) - Copenhagen, Denmark (May 6, 2008) – A new iPhone web application will allow users of TraceWorks’ Headlight marketing management software to keep an eye on the performance of their campaigns wherever they are.

Headlight is web-hosted software that streamlines everything from media planning and digital asset management, campaign deployment and campaign measurement – online and offline. And it only takes five minutes to learn.

read it here openpr.com

Payless Car Rental, a low-cost rental car company providing exceptional value to travelers, is one of the first car rental agencies to build a customized version of its website for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

“Payless saw the need to create a slimmed-down version of its new website for the iPhone and iPod Touch community,” said Jeff Lin, Project Leader of Payless’ web marketing strategy team. “Payless’ iPhone interface adds convenience and loads up faster than a full website would on an iPhone or iPod Touch,” he added. “By pointing their iPhone or iPod Touch to http://www.PaylessCarRental.com , iPhone and iPod Touch users can book a car in just three easy steps.”

read it here prnewswire.com

Thanks to Vodafone, ten more countries are set to officially be blessed with the release of the iPhone. These are Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.

read it here blogs.inquirer.net

Kensington Computer Products Group on Monday announced the release of the Battery Pack for iPhone and iPod and Mini Battery Pack and Charger for iPhone and iPod. They’re available for $69.99 and $49.99 respectively.

Both are designed to provide iPhone and iPod users with additional talk time or play time. The larger version, designed for heavy-duty usage, provides up to 100 hours of additional music playback time, 21 hours of video and six more hours of talk time.

read it here macworld.com