Amazon has released an update to its Kindle app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update removes the Kindle Store button from the app to meet Apple's terms and conditions. What is more interesting is that you can now read over 100 newspapers and magazines with high resolution color images.

• This update removes the Kindle Store button from the app.
• Read over 100 newspapers and magazines including The Economist and Reader's Digest with high resolution color images. Visit the Kindle Store to subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered, or purchase individual issues.
• Customers who receive newspapers and magazines on Kindle can download recent editions to their iOS devices from Archived Items. Many newspapers and magazines are supported, and more are on the way.
• Share quotes and passages with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter while reading.

Kindle is my app of choice for reading books, newspapers and magazines on my iPad. I find it a much better experience than iBooks and the Kindle Store has a lot more content too. It is a shame that the Kindle Store button had to go but Amazon would have had to give Apple 30% to offer content through in-app purchases!

[Free – iTunes link]

UPDATE: Nook and Google Books apps have also been updated to remove links to their external stores.

Angry Birds has been updated with 15 new levels.

Mining and Dining with the burrowing piggies continues! With a bottomless appetite, the bad piggies have burrowed deep in underground caverns to hide the eggs they stole from you. Use the landscape and geology to your advantage to chase the pigs out of their hiding holes, gather rare gems, and retrieve the eggs!

• 15 new levels for the Mine and Dine episode!
• Find more collectible jewels!
• Problems with loading times when starting Angry Birds? We fixed 'em!
• Mighty Eagle still in business: Buy once, unlimited use!

With the release of Angry Birds Rio, I was expecting new content on the original Angry Birds to quickly cease. I’m so glad I was wrong.

Angry Birds is available on the iPhone for $0.99 on the iPhone and $1.99 on the iPad.

[iPhone iTunes link] [iPad iTunes link]

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Apple has released iOS 4.3.5 for iPad, iPod touch, and GSM /AT&T iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, and iOS 4.2.10 for Verizon iPhone, which fixes a security vulnerability with certificate validation.

Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS Description: A certificate chain validation issue existed in the handling of X.509 certificates. An attacker with a privileged network position may capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS. Other attacks involving X.509 certificate validation may also be possible. This issue is addressed through improved validation of X.509 certificate chains. CVE-ID

This latest release arrives just 10 days after Apple plugged the jailbreakme PDF exploit with the release of iOS 4.3.4.

Plug into iTunes and check for updates to get it. As always, if you're Jailbroken already, stay away or you'll lose your Jailbreak.

[Apple knowledge base article]

 

Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners — who previously made headlines before they sold Palm to HP — is back with some interesting views on how Apple’s App Store might have already killed Google’s open web.

McNamee asserts that search, which makes Google billions in advertising revenue on the desktop, has been reduced to 1% of mobile activity, effectively obliterating it as a business. He blames/credits that to Apple and their App Store model, where they present the internet not in open, standards based web pages but closed, proprietary native applications.

The open web was too wild for the mainstream, MacNamee says, which makes Apple’s iPhone and iPad far more accessible, approachable, and comfortable. (He also thinks iPad is the most important device since the IBM PC and urges everyone to get one.)

McNamee doesn’t seem to be casting Apple as the villain of the open web, or the hero of the app mainstream, but rather both, or rather still commenting on the re-closing of the web.

That’s something we’ve been speaking about a lot on our podcasts lately. Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, etc. all started as mainstream-friendly, walled-gardens built on top of the internet. Eventually, they had to give users real email and real web access, and the walled gardens fell.

Now, however, the App Store has repackaged it again. And Facebook has erected a new, more social, but just as walled a garden. And Google is having to walk the line with Android and Plus and other services to provide a good experience while still staying as open as their original philosophy allowed.

MacNamee thinks it’s done in Mobile. Google’s model lost. I’m not so sure. “It is what it is” is far too easy and final for the turbulence we’re still undergoing. Apple is all in on open HTML5 as a second development platform, for example, so just like Google they’re embracing/hedging what they feel is the best of both models. That might be the new normal. We might finally be recognizing one model doesn’t work for everyone, and a combination of the two is more than the sum of it’s parts — or its soundbites.

Video after the break.

[Fortune via Android Central]

Bird Smash Pro, an iPhone and iPad game by Y. Yoon, has been updated.

Your village was destroyed by ruthless birds. As the last remaining blue pig, you must seek the revenge! Destroy as many birds as possible!

• iPhone/iPod/iPad game
• Full HD/Retina display support
• OpenFeint leaderboards and achievements
• Infinite levels with various themes
• Weapon store using your earned virtual cash(eggs) – Five different types of great weapons to choose from
• Simple controls
• In-App-Purchases to quickly add more virtual cash(eggs)
• Unique visual effects
• Easy-To-Follow In-Game Tutorial

Bird Smash Pro is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99. Screenshots and video available after the break.

[iTunes link]

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Meatball Marathon: Being a superhero was Snacky G’s dream. He was pretty passionate about saving people, but equally as passionate about junk food. That’s where his dilemma came in. After much thought, he finally came up with a way: he’d take the two things that meant the most to him and bring them together in one beautiful combination. He hatched a brilliant plan to be the first superhero that would save the world from unhealthy junk food by eating it all himself! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• Snap Camera!: Add notes to your photos! Just snap a photo, write as many notes as you want, move them around with your finger and it’ll be saved with the notes overlaid on it. Now with a new UI. [$0.99 for iPhone - iTunes link]

• Photo Hunt HD: Find the 5 differences between the two photos before time runs out. [$1.99 for iPad - iTunes link]

• Word Chaos: A new fun and addictive word scramble game that uses Official Alphabet Photography letters featuring landmarks from all over the world! It's a new twist on a word game that uses the left and right side of the brain! [Free for iPhone and iPad - iTunes link]

• Eco Mania: Hungry little bins are starving and haven’t eaten in days. They need your help! Have fun and save the environment. [Free for iPhone - iTunes link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Mobile Nations 3: Full House!	Kindle App and HP MovieStore now available for TouchPad Leno, Fallon, and Glee's Lea Michele enlisted for TouchPad advertising Life on webOS and webOS only – robbed and getting comfortable with just the TouchPad
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Netflix released a tiny update, ostensibly to add compatibility for the recent iOS 4.3.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (and iOS 4.2.9 for Verizon iPhone) firmwares, yet it seems to have addressed a huge pain point for developers as well — compatibility with iOS 5.

So if you’ve been suffering without your Netflix fix, head on over to the App Store and tap the update button.

[Free - iTunes Store link]

Facebook for iPad has been uncovered in the recently updated Facebook for iPhone. A twitter user discovered a hack to make it visible — editing a file on your iPad to change the UIDeviceFamily ID in the apps plist file to get the iPad interface up and running app, but you do need to have a jailbroken iPad to be able to do this.

It is not just the iPhone version blown up to fill the iPad's screen either. This is a totally different interface with slide out navigation menus and a separate chat menu too. Techcrunch has spoken with one of its sources who claim that this is the actual Facebook app for iPad and it will be officially launched soon.

I have tested the app with my iPad and it does seem to work very well. It looks and feels totally different to the iPhone version of the app and navigation is very well done. I also tested uploading photographs and it is seamless and offers access to your photo library as well as the camera on the iPad 2. It does have a few little rough edges that will need to be ironed out but that, sadly, won’t come as a shock to users of the beleaguered Facebook for iPhone app!

It will be interesting to see if Facebook expedite the launch of its iPad app now that this has leaked out.

[@AeroEchelon via Techcrunch]

An interesting iPod touch screen shot has been uncovered from the just released iOS 5 beta 4. The screen shot shows a toggle switch for cellular connectivity. Could this mean that the iPod touch will be getting a 3G data option when it is refreshed later this year?

The iPod touch would benefit hugely from data connectivity, especially with the introduction of iMessage in iOS 5. An always on messaging device, without the need for a costly voice and text plan would definitely be a hit for parents with younger children.

Personally I think this is just some code left over from the iPhone version of the beta and nothing more than that. However it would make a lot of sense for Apple to offer it as an option!

[9to5 Mac]