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Indianapolis, Indiana – Sunstorm Interactive Inc. the founder of the hunting game genre and the developer of the mega-hit game Deer Hunter proudly announces the release of Real Trophy Hunting 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch platform. Building on the style and knowledge of over 50+ value games and hunting simulations, Real Trophy Hunting takes big game hunting to a new level of realism! Real Trophy Hunting requires skill, patience, and persistence as players find themselves in realistic locations, using all the tools of the trade to bring in and bag the most prized big game animals straight from the Rocky Mountains! Playing the game is an incredible experience that closely simulates real-life hunting where you’ll need the same techniques and feel the same thrills! Unmatched graphics and sounds, realistic animal behavior, rain, snow and wind effects will place you on location in the hunt of a lifetime. “Our app store game ‘Real Deer Hunting’ has been a huge success for us so we’re excited to release the next game in our ‘Real’ hunting series. Real Trophy Hunting builds on the series with more animals including some of the most prized trophies in the world. The graphics are stunning and the level of immersion is unprecedented!” – said Anthony Campiti, President and Founder of Sunstorm Interactive Inc. Device Requirements: * iPhone and iPod touch * Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later * 25.3 MB Pricing and Availability: Real Trophy Hunting 1.0 is $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category

Defenders and detractors of Apple’s upcoming tablet are both getting worked up, denying that the iPad is a computer.

The premise of Tweet Defense is simple: The more you tweet and the more Twitter followers you gain, the stronger your tower defenses will be. Clever, though hopefully RT bonuses will come in the future. $1. [ iTunes via Kotaku ]

If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X— this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is world famous for precisely the kind of stuff that you don’t want to be famous for . Infamous, even!: Mullah Baradar has been credited for rebuilding the Taliban into an effective fighting force and has been running the group’s daily affairs for many years, since Mullah Omar was forced to take a less active role in the organisation due to his failing health. And! [Mullah Baradar] is said to have developed the Taleban tactic of planting “flowers” – improvised explosive devices (IEDs) – along roadsides has been described by terrorism experts as even more cunning and dangerous than Taleban supreme leader (his old friend) Mullah Omar. What I’m trying to say is, next time you find yourself in an endless online flamewar about smartphones representing the side of Android or WebOS or Windows Mobile or BlackBerry, it is totally fine to call your opponent a terrorist. [ Times , Jeune Afrique —Thanks, Benjamin! ]

If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X— this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef , who is world famous for precisely the kind of stuff that you don’t want to be famous for. Infamous, even! Update : Apparently the magazine misindentifies the man in the photo. That’s actually Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, a former Taliban official’s who’s been spotted with his iPhone before . ( Thanks, Ray! ) Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, next time you find yourself in an endless online flamewar about smartphones representing the side of Android or WebOS or Windows Mobile or BlackBerry, it is totally fine to call your opponent a terrorist. [ Jeune Afrique —Thanks, Benjamin! ]

The Apple iPad’s expected success is overly pessimistic, says a new report from Broadpoint AmTech, which puts 2010 sales numbers at potentially 7 million units. The variance in expectations reportedly hinges on getting a little quality time with the iPad.

Support for Adobe Flash could make HP’s Slate a strong challenger to Apple’s iPad.

The Apple iPad’s expected success is overly pessimistic, says a new report from Broadpoint AmTech, which puts 2010 sales numbers at potentially 7 million units. The variance in expectations reportedly hinges on getting a little quality …

Filed under: iTS , Retail , iTunes , Apple This feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program — while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as “the visual experience of the record album,” it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. According to an anonymous source in the industry (note, not Apple themselves), the service didn’t come from Cupertino. Instead, it was designed by record companies, and agreed to by Apple as a “concession” to “make a gesture in favor of album sales.” The piece also states that Apple subsidized the creation of the first few “LPs,” some of which cost up to $60,000 to assemble and license. As you might expect with any other less-than-popular product at Apple, iTunes LP isn’t exactly being thrown into the spotlight, either. While a much more visual music experience would be perfect for the iPad, GigaOM notes that it didn’t even merit a mention by Jobs at the iPad announcement. It’s certainly possible that iTunes LP could find a new home in the future, if bands really get behind the service and make their own (a few have, as noted, but the cost seems pretty prohibitive , especially if sales aren’t that impressive), but from what this anonymous source says, the LP service is a record company concession that hasn’t paid off for Apple even in the way its originators hoped. [via iPodNN ] TUAW Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted the full text of Apple’s previously-secretive iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request after NASA released an app. The EFF found the document so draconian that it ran the news under the headline “All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple.”