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iPhone application development house taptaptap has published sales figures for the first month of sales for their two AppStore applications, bringing further insight into overall sales volume and figures for the online store. The two applications developed by the company are WhereTo, an application that provides a more general GPS interface to the iPhone with location-based services, and Tipulator, a simple tip calculator. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/13/appstore-developer-taptaptap-publishes-sales-figures 8/13)

Qik, the startup that allows users to stream live mobile video from their cell phones, has released an application that allows users to use the service from their 3G iPhones. Unfortunately, the application isn’t available through Apple’s sanctioned App Store, so users will need to jailbreak (hack) their iPhones to use it. And because Apple has yet to enable video capture on the iPhone, we probably won’t be seeing a “legit” application any time soon. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/13/qik-enables-live-video-streaming-from-3g-iphone 8/13)

After relying on MLB’s iPhone app for baseball scores and nice looking video highlights, Cynopsis stumbled across a free app called SportsTap that provides quick, down and dirty stats for all the major sports including MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA, PGA, English Premier League soccer and the Olympics. (Cynopsis 8/14)