This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]

In this week's world dominating iPhone app roundup: Your every whim, robotically indulged! Radio champagne, poured generously! Football stuff, assimilated! Your computers, turned into wirelessly controlled zombies! Death foods, avoided! And more.. If you'd rather view this roundup in a single page, click here. Siri: Speech recognition apps recognize speech. Search apps search. Concierge apps consolidate services. Siri does all of the above: To use the iPhone app, you just have to say aloud a com...

http://gizmodo.com/5465526/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps/gallery/

PAL PlayStation Store Update: You're Late, Squall [Europe]

Six weeks after it arrived on the North American PlayStation Store, PAL users can finally relive what I, at least, think is the best Final Fantasy game of the lot: FFVIII. It's the standout addition to this week's store update, though there's plenty of other good stuff to tempt you, from the Aliens vs Predator multiplayer demo (having been playing it, I hope singleplayer is the game's strong point) to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 demo, which I've also been playing (albeit on PC) with a little m...

http://kotaku.com/5464821/pal-playstation-store-update-youre-late-squall

PlayStation Store Update: That's Nice [North America]

If you like to dabble, this week's North American PlayStation Store update is for you, with five new PlayStation 3 demos to download and enjoy and at least one new game. And if you own a PSP, things get even better, with the addition of two new titles, one an After Burner game, the other an Armored Core game. But it's the Aliens vs. Predator and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demos that my put a strain on the PlayStation Network this evening, both available for download. Don't forget Tecmo's Fret Ni...

http://kotaku.com/5464581/playstation-store-update-thats-nice

Giz Explains: Why HTML5 Isn't Going to Save the Internet [Giz Explains]

The beardier parts of the web-o-sphere have been abuzz about HTML5, the next version of the language that powers our internet. Will it revolutionize web apps? Will it kill Flash video? Will it fix our gimpy iPads? Yes... and no.The tech press recently transformed HTML5 from a quiet inevitability to an unlikely savior: When YouTube and Vimeo started testing it, it's was invoked as a Flash-killer, and the emancipator of web video. When Google used it to design a new Google Voice web app, among oth...

http://gizmodo.com/5461711/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet

Haiti: OSM and Sat Imagery for Free iPhone App

Update: The iPhone app referenced in this article has since been released on the App Store. Crisis Mappers from around the world have been working around the clock to create maps and other tools for relief workers in Haiti. The earthquake caused tremendous damage to the road network and updated maps are necessary to enable food and volunteers to traverse the island. The volunteer-driven Open Street Map project has become a central data source for the Crisis Mappers. It is regarded by many as the...

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/haiti-osm-and-sat-imagery-for.html