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id's classic shooter has finally been (officially) ported to the iPhone. And thanks to oversight from John Carmack himself, there are a number of improvements that make it worth a purchase even for Jailbreakers.

If you live some place where it gets really cold in the winter — you might already be familiar with the advantages and convenience of a remote-start car system. Rather than fumbling to open an icy door or waiting a few minutes for the car to start and the heat to come on, you can start the car using a keyremote and even turn the heat on, so that by the time you get to the car, it’s on and warm.

Palm Pre users rejoice: a new version of webOS, 1.2.0, is now available. It’s about 79 megabytes heavy, and it brings several new important features, one of them being support for paid app purchases from the App Catalog.

Apple announced Monday that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store since the e-commerce site's launch in July 2008. The company also said that there are now more than 85000 apps available.

Google Inc will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States.

The mobile version of Google Book Search gives would-be Amazon Kindle buyers another option for reading classic literature on-the-go.