Tech Whiz Underground

Another data point that profitable businesses can be built on the back of the iPhone/iPod Touch app store: Social Gaming Network’s F.A.S.T. dogfight game, which launched in early June and lets users try to shoot down other human players, pulled in over $1 million in download fees alone in the first six weeks it was available.

SGN is clearly trying to find the revenue-maximizing price for the game – it has varied from $9.99 (the price I paid in June), to just $1.99 today. The game will eventually allow paid-for upgrades to weapons and jets when the new version comes out as well, which will bring in more dollars from addicted users.

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  Palm (PALM) has already bypassed the blockade Apple (AAPL) just put in place that prevents the Palm Pre from syncing music with Apple’s iTunes — a feature Apple has every reason to keep exclusive to the iPhone and iPod.
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  Apple was, until recent years, a very US-centric company. Macs were virtually unknown in Europe, at least outside of the realm of pro graphic designers and several other relatively narrow user groups…
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  The quarterly numbers are in for Apple. And once again they’re very good. It was another non-holiday record quarter in terms of revenues and earnings. But the real number that jumps off the page is the iPhone sales…

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