GPS technology has put Booyah right where it wants to be — at the center of the latest hot trend for casual gaming.

The Palo Alto-based startup uses global positioning technology to power a Monopoly-like game in which players “buy” real-life properties and “rent” them to others in exchange for points.

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If you want a cautionary tale about doing business with a company you don’t know anything about, consider the story of a California businessman - I’ll leave his name out of it - who ordered a batch of Apple iPhones last August from a liquidator who gave an address here in Ledyard.

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A lot has happened since the Los Angeles start-up FreedomSpeaks made a splash in September with its CitySourced mobile application, a finalist at the annual TechCrunch 50 competition. The app enables anyone with an iPhone to snap a picture of graffiti, potholes or unsightly trash around town, tag it with a GPS location and transmit the data to the city.

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The Outer Web. What does that mean?

I heard the term for the first time at an “Augmented Reality” panel here at the Austin Convention Center today, and thought it to be a nifty handle for a technology that’ll probably be big in the near future. It’s also a clever way of looking at what augmented reality, or “AR” might mean.

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Over coffee on a rainy Monday a couple of weeks ago, Gowalla Inc. CEO Josh Williams defined his idea of success. “When we’re influencing people to go out and visit a national park because of this social network,” he said, “that’s when I get excited.”

He wasn’t talking about a few thousand people, either. He wants tens of millions of people using his location-based mobile phone application when they travel, whether

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Since the great app rush began, Web companies have scurried to build mobile apps. In some cases, they have realized that their services are better suited to cellphone screens than computers. Zillow’s iPhone app has been downloaded by more than one million people. Take Zillow.com, the real estate Web site, where people can hunt for prices and other details about houses.

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A recent study by Stanford students has revealed a very worrying rise in iPhone addiction, highlighting impulsive behaviour inspired by Apple’s celebrated iPhone.

In a survey of 20 students with iPhones, 69pc reported that they likely forget their wallet before forgetting their phone.

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Just one month ago we brought innuendo-laden news of the Korean sausage, a meaty snack that was being used by commuters to control their iPhones whilst still wearing gloves. It turned out that the meat-sticks worked just like a human finger, even while still inside their plastic covers.

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Google today more formally put its weight behind HTC in defense against Apple’s lawsuit. The company hasn’t become an official component of the lawsuit but in a statement defended Android and the partners that make its phones.

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The exciting and well-documented rift between Flash vendor Adobe and iPhone heavyweight Apple has generated headlines for months. Fueled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ reported charge that Flash is buggy and will be rendered obsolete by HTML5—an indictment Adobe has repeatedly refuted—the Adobe vs. Apple battle makes for some great copy.

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While Apple may not have had a chance to compete in the recently concluded Winter Olympics—and that’s a shame, too, as we understand the legal department boasts quite a formidable four-man bobsled team—the company did manage to take home a gold medal in Fortune’s annual list of “most admired” companies. That marks a three-peat for Cupertino, as Apple had previously claimed the top spot in both 2008 and 2009.

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Speculation over whether or not Verizon will get a contract to sell the iPhone is pointless. But no matter the outcome, Apple is on track to sell at least 35 million of the iconic handsets in 2011, an analyst told investors Friday.

Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig said selling 33 million iPhones this year is “basically achievable” this year, no matter if Verizon becomes the second handset carrier this year or AT&T remains Apple’s exclusive carrier throughout the remainder of 2010.

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Apple Inc. sued phone maker HTC Corp. on Tuesday, alleging the phone HTC makes for Google Inc. violates numerous patents on Apple’s iPhone.

Mario Queiroz, vice-president of product management for Google, holds up the Nexus One smartphone running on the Google Android platform. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement Tuesday.

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Suspicions confirmed: The iPhone is habit-forming. A survey of about 200 Stanford University undergraduates revealed that almost a third worry about becoming addicted to their iPhones, think they may be using them too much and dread becoming “one of those iPhone people.”

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A couple of Steve Jobs stories caught our eye today, one of which says Apple’s CEO is not running the latest version of the iPhone OS. According to information extracted from an email reply signed Steve Jobs, the Jim Henson Celebration honoree is still rocking OS 3.1.2.

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People rarely talk about iPhone app piracy, but when they do, it’s sounds devastating: 90 per cent piracy rates, $US450 million in lost sales, etc. Here’s the truth: App Store piracy isn’t a big deal – and it never will be.

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The interactive game, called Nasa Lunar Electric Rover Simulator, is an interactive game for the Apple iPhone where users are given an insight into what it could be like to support lunar mission.

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Prestigious fashion house Dolce & Gabbana is planning to stream live coverage of two of its major shows to be held in Italy later this week to mobile devices including the iPhone. The D&G and Dolce & Gabbana Women’s Fall shows, to be held in Milan, will stream live to mobile devices in a move which according to the fashion house demonstrates that they have “always been a pioneer in the technological experimentations of the digital communications market.”

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Apple has increased its over-the-air download limit to 20MB, meaning you can get more gaming fun on the go.

It’s very impressive what a lot of iPhone and iPod touch developers have managed to cram into 10MB. They don’t do this to save space on Apple’s servers, however.

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Google on Wednesday acquired reMail, a popular iPhone application that provides “lightning fast” full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP e-mail accounts. Terms of the deal were not released.

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