Torque game engine developed for iPhone
The Torque Game Engine now supports the iPhone, enabling Torque developers to deploy for the new platform.

Apple now posting near-daily MobileMe outage updates
Taking the matter head-on, Apple is now fully acknowledging the problems it’s had with MobileMe in the past two weeks as well as the attempts to fix it — to the point where company chief Steve Jobs is involved. An anonymous Apple worker has been …

Smudgy Pictures of Nokia’s Tube Show New, Bland Interface

A bunch of new photos and specs for Nokia’s Tube, a.k.a. The 5800 XpressMusic, have been leaked to the Internet. The alleged iPhone killer will apparently come with a 16:9 16 million color TFT LCD display with 640 X 360 pixel resolution, haptic feedback, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Dual LED flash, a built-in GPS and 140MB RAM. Also, lots of grease and fingerprints, it seems.

It looks like Nokia’s updated the interface since the last round of leaked pics, but while the new design is cleaner, it’s also flat and uninteresting. If Nokia wants even the slightest sliver of possible iPhone users to sit up and take notice, this had better not be the last version of the phone’s UI. [Boy Genius]

Aurora Feint iPhone Game Is Back Sans Security Concerns

Aurora Feint, the iPhone game that was de-listed because of security concerns, has made it back onto the App Store. So what did the developers do? They ripped out the contact list integration entirely, opting for a more Nintendo friend code-like system that they will introduce in the near future. And if you’re still worried about their security, this is what they’ve currently got in place:

In the meantime, remember these things:
1) We do not pull data from your contact list before notifying you. There is now a notification in-game when this is done. And it is only done on the community page by YOU pressing the submit button.
2) We never store your contact list on our web server.
3) All data sent over the wire is now completely encrypted.
4) No contact data is saved on your phone’s hard drive anymore. This has been removed.

Sounds good to us. [Aurora Feint]

Qik Video Streaming Goes To Public Beta, iPhone App Still Coming

Qik’s video streaming service is now open to the public as a beta version to anyone with a 3G or wi-fi connection on their compatible Symbian or Windows Mobile Phone. Qik also told Venture Beat that they are still at work on an iPhone client, though they didn’t address the possibility it would be rejected.

Qik video is streamed to a personalized Qik page, and can be pushed to other places, such as Facebook apps. Latency is as short as .5 seconds or as long a 3 seconds, and the service can now stream privately to select groups. Qik says they’re intent is not to be a destination page, but be a conduit for content to appear places like personal blogs and Facebook. [Venture Beat via Electronista]