If you follow my articles you’ll know by now that we’re a soccer family. Both my boys play for school teams and we all particularly love watching internationals. For soccer fans everywhere 2010 was World Cup year, held in South Africa for the first time. As the USA is not primarily a soccer-playing nation, the team nevertheless did very well in the group stages. Today’s soccer wallpapers bring back memories from the biggest soccer competition in the world, played this summer.

Samsung introduced its iPad competitor at IFA today, and here’s the first commercial for it. What do you think?

iHurricane HD is the second hurricane tracking app to be reviewed here in our series. It comes in 2 versions, the free version reviewed here and the paid version that includes push alerts. Released only a week ago for iPad, iHurricane by HurricaneSoftware.com hasn’t gotten off to a good start. With all its best intentions around increased functionality, the app is usually reduced to crashing mayhem. I’ve received a swathe of reports from users complaining about immediate crashes, and my version is no different. What is the point of a super-excellent app if it simply doesn’t work?

If you love listening to music or watching movies with your iPad, you know how great sound adds to the pleasure. Unfortunately, speakers have come equipped with those annoying wires—until now.

The array of applications available in the Apple iTunes apps store is mind-boggling—and so are the sales figures. Some totals released today show the store’s amazing success.

Professional songwriters have enough problems already, like getting their songs recorded and getting paid for them. Now they have something to make their lives a little easier, as a major licensing organization goes mobile with an app for iPad.