Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb obtained the following list of must-have apps from these 5 web übergeeks: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress likes smart travel social network Tripit Chris Messina, open source community organizer likes Twitter client Tweetie Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global likes note taking service Evernote Baratunde Thurston, Web Editor at The Onion likes Twitter client Tweetie Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org

iPods sparking and catching on fire? KIRO, the Seattle ABC affiliate, has obtained 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission detailing cases of iPods catching on fire resulting in injury.

  According to TechCrunch, Social Gaming Network’s F.A.S.T. dogfight game, which launched in early June, earned over $1 million in download fees alone in the first six weeks it was available.

AT&T has reported results for the second quarter and they show that the iPhone if propelling wireless revenue to almost half of the company's total revenue.

Your intrepid apps law bloggers, the iFart lawyers, were there in spirit last night when Wyatt Cenac asked, incredulously, whether iFart and Pull My Finger had "real attorneys....jewish

Did Apple's iPhone manufacturing contractor in China Foxconn torture a 25 year old employee who lost one of sixteen 4G iPhones he was entrusted with causing him to commit suicide by jumping from a 12 story building to his death?

App Store entry Cannabis discovers nearby cannabis-related institutions and organizations in your state as well as links to legal coffee shops abroad.  The program carries a $2.99 price tag (App Store link) and is rated 12+.

When I was an Assistant District Attorney at the Bronx District Attorney's Office I was assigned to the Citizen Complaint Unit.  While occasionally someone with a real complaint would walk through the door, the CCU was essentially a clearing house for all the wackos of the Bronx. 

CNet reports that Apple has begun refusing to give developers promo codes for iPhone applications rated 17+. Apple allows its iPhone developers to request up to 50 promotional codes for their apps when they are uploaded to the App Store.

A change in terms to the Amazon.com Product Advertising API License Agreement is forcing mobile applications developers to discontinue offering iPhone apps that use Amazon's data.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has advocated that "social networking on the iPhone is a huge opportunity, and the fact that the big guys are ignoring it for now leaves the door open for a newcomer to get long term market share."

Video game maker EDGE GAMES has convinced Apple to remove iPhone puzzle game Edge from the App Store based upon claims of trademark infringement.  To read the article, click here.

According to Fierce Mobile Content, a recent trademark filing suggests Microsoft may be planning to launch a second application storefront in addition to its forthcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

GetJar, an independent app store, yesterday announced 1.5 billion app downloads in its first year of operation. GetJar has been around since 2004. It features close to 50,000 applications — such as Google Maps and the Opera browser — and works on all major platforms.

Some smart tips from BlackberryCool to help sell your app: Constantly experiment with price points Getting featured is your top priority Choose the right time to launch your product Choosing the right category Searching optimization through branding To read the article, click here.

Apple announced Tuesday that after a year in existence, its App Store has counted 1.5 billion downloaded applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some stats:  In April, Apple announced 1 billion apps had been downloaded from its store, after just 9 months of being open.

Interesting piece in today's WSJ entitled "Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps." The article notes that Apple gets 30% of any third-party app sales, and that as of today customers had downloaded more than 1.5 billion free and paid apps.

Legal filings aggregator Justia tags cases filed in federal court with relevant keywords including "iTunes."  This makes finding new filings related to whatever keyword interests you quite simple.

Welcome to our new blog, published by lawyers Kevin Houchin and Joel Rothman.  Houchin and Rothman are better known as the attorneys who filed the now infamous iFart v.