Apple purchased digital mapmaker Placebase in July for an undisclosed sum, according to Seth Weintraub at Computerworld. Placebase, which we wrote about last year, is a Google Maps competitor that focuses on adding layers of public and private data to existing maps with an easy-to-use API. One use for the product, called PolicyMap, layers various types of data — like home sales, crime, [...]

The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn’t buy companies it’s not going to use. Meaning, Apple’s getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google. Seth at ComputerWorld, who put this together, points to a post on GigaOm last year detailing the awesomeness of PlaceBase vs. [...]

It’s not often I find an app as easy to pick up and play as Bunny Breeder. Though the title made me think it was a tycoon, I soon discovered otherwise. The object of the game is to try to guide these fluffy bunnies back to their home. Sounds easy? It is at first. As I tapped play, I was faced with a bird’s eye view of a pen of sorts, containing the rabbits. Now, being as enthusiastic as I am, [...]

From the makers of Dizzy Bee and Bed Bugs comes Flipside [$2.99], a remarkably fun and original matching game. Flipside presents you with a board of two-sided tiles. Each tile has a shape on each side (star, heart, diamond, circle, and X). Your goal is to match 3 or more tiles of the same shape. It all seems pretty straight-forward until you realize you get penalized if you match tiles on the back-side [...]

Documents To Go 2.0 was released today and includes the promised Excel file editor. While we haven’t taken a deep look at it, we’ve tested creating and editing Excel documents and so far are really impressed with the number of features and how quickly it works. The Excel spreadsheet editor on Documents to Go 2.0 includes the ability to create and edit Microsoft Excel files. This joins [...]