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Foursquare has released an update to its popular location-based social networking application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sporting a completely redesigned user interface, the update also provides a more efficient checkin process, category support in the “Places” view and a pull-down-to-refresh option. Users can also now view a history of where they’ve been, and ...

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UpNext has released an update to its interactive 3D city map application for the iPhone and iPod touch, adding support for three new cities and integration into the Foursquare location sharing service. In addition to New York City, the update now adds 3D maps for Boston, Washington, DC and Austin, Texas. Integration with Foursquare now ...

The City of Edmonton, Alberta has announced plans to sponsor an application development contest. Scheduled to be formally announced later this month, the Apps4Edmonton contest will aim to encourage local iPhone developers to create apps that improve municipal information sharing and communications. The contest will offer $50,000 in prizes and the winning application will be ...

Metron for iPhone OS was developed by a classically trained musician to aid in the practice of runs, excerpts and complete compositions. More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS ...

As specumalated in yesterday’s Giz Explains, Barnes & Nobleis coming out with an iPad version of their ebook app, which will, interestingly, include B&N’s bookstore. Really? More » More: continued here ...

Filed under: Gaming, Software, Other Events, iPhone, App Store “What kinds of games do you like?” Adam “Atomic” Saltsman asked of his panel audience at the Canabalt postmortem during the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. “Role-playing” was yelled out, as was “puzzler,” and eventually Saltsman picked “platformer” as the genre. Without another word, he quietly ...

Alamofire has released a major update to its Gowalla location sharing application for the iPhone and iPod touch, introducing a completely new interface design and support for several new features. Gowalla 2.0 now allows users to upload photos when checking in, browse photos from friends, or view photos that were taken at a specific location. ...

Welcome to this week’s gaming edition of iPhone Gems! Though the biggest news of the week was Capcom’s release of Street Fighter IV for the iPhone, reviewed here, three other titles were also worthy of the spotlight in this roundup. All three are sequels to previously released and reviewed games, and all three include notable ...