In a move that probably surprised no one but the developer, the Apple app store has rejected an iPhone app which emulates the venerable and still popular Commodore 64 microcomputer from the early eighties.

After what has been a fairly shaky start in the acceptance or rejection of apps for the Apple App Store, there is now some talk of instituting a rating system for games sold via the store.

Get down to your closest Apple Store and make a pest of yourself (just a little). What will likely be the year’s top title is running on every Mac there, even though it won’t go on sale for a couple days.

The series of flaps over the approval of apps at the Apple App Store continues unabated, with the latest imbroglio involving whether or not an app user should be able to impersonate religious figures.

Today’s winner of the “What were they thinking?” prize is the Apple App Store for releasing a “game” in which an infant must be shaken, apparently to death, before it will stop crying.

The patent watchers have been at it again. This time they have come up with an Apple patent that may presage a Wii-like device for Apple TV.

Being in business for yourself is rarely easy. A case in point is the fact that, although a relative handful of have made big money, most of the individuals writing applications for the iPhone make little if any money.

So, you are sitting at home with (*cough*) nothing better to do and trying to think of a low impact way to spend a little of your pay / unemployment / savings? Well, here are a dozen ways to spend (or not) your cash and have a good time doing it.

As if the iPhone has not become one of the most ubiquitous devices of the 21st Century, now it’s profile has become even higher, this time as an illegal card-counting device in Las Vegas.

With 20,000 applications now available on the iTunes App Store, you might think it would be really, really hard to get enough visibility to actually make real sales. Fortunately for a fortunate few that isn’t the case.