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Hasbro, which owns the intellectual property rights to the classic board game, released its own test version of online Scrabble earlier this year, opening the slow and clunky beta Facebook app to an indifferent public last week. So far, it has about 9,000 users in the U.S. and Canada...
Blecher said he expected that Facebook - which he said had been notified before the suit was filed - would comply with Hasbro's order to scrap the app. Scrabulous was still up by late morning P.T.; a spokesman said Facebook would issue a statement shortly...
Hasbro holds the intellectual property rights for Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, while online rights have been licensed to EA, which built the authorized app on Facebook. Outside the U.S., however, Mattel holds licensing rights, and the company has already filed suit against the Agarwallas in India...
...real fun begins when you tap on the icon called "App Store" and start browsing the hundreds of add-on applications that have been developed just for the iPhone. You'll find tons of games (I like JirboBreak, a free game inspired by the Atari classic Breakout) and mobile versions of popular websites like Pandora, Facebook, MySpace and the New York Times. Most apps will cost you, but the vast majority are $9.99 or less. The apps work on the old iPhones too, but you'll enjoy them a lot more on the iPhone 3G because many of the programs...
...virtual keyboard, perhaps the iPhone's most unloved feature, remains unchanged. I like it, but some people find it so torturous to type with that they refrain from sending e-mails or typing Web addresses altogether. Fortunately, the new apps in many ways serve as shortcuts to popular websites, reducing the need to do much typing. So, instead of launching the built-in Safari browser and typing a URL, you can just tap on, say, the free WeatherBug app to check the forecast or the iScopes button to get your daily horoscope...