We present some of the most exciting popular games you can play on your iPhone, including thrillers, car racing and adventure. Enjoy gaming!

Papa Sangre

You are lost deep in the land of the dead. Your eyes are useless here — but your ears are filled with sound. And what is that you can hear….?

All you know is someone is in grave danger and desperately needs your help. Can you save them and make your escape or will you be trapped in the blackness forever?

Papa Sangre is a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. Somethin’ Else has created an entire world using the first ever real time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device. The only negative part of the game is its price, which is $6.99 (Rs 317).

Grimm

Deliver a lost child to his home, navigating Victorian delights and avoiding the spectre of Mr Grimm in this dark and stylised side-scrolling adventure.

Guide your pram through over ten worlds and eight mini-levels of twisted and macabre delights. Launch the baby from the carriage to solve puzzles and combat villainous enemies.

Survive the fiendish intentions of Mr Grimm as he doggedly pursues you, presenting new challenges along the way. All you need to pay is $0.99 (Rs 45) for this game developed by Robox Studios.

Real Racing 2

Real Racing 2 is a sequel to one of the hottest racing games on iOS. Take control of 30 officially licensed cars including the 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT 500 and test your driving skills in this sublime racing game. Put your pedal to the metal and challenge your friends via Game Center. This game developed by Firemint is costly with a price tag of 5.99 Pounds (Rs 374).

N.O.V.A. 2

Gameloft’s first person shooter sequel is finally available on App Store. N.O.V.A. 2 (Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance) is packed with new weapons, powers and fierce enemies. Play against your friends or the entire world in five different modes in this FPS hit. Price – 3.99 Pounds (Rs 242).

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has just made it to iOS. Help archeologist-adventurer Lara Croft to stop the evil spirit Xolotl and retrieve the Mirror of Smoke in this popular console game now available on the App Store. SQUARE ENIX Ltd, the developer of the game, has priced it at 3.99 Pounds(Rs 242).

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline

Asphalt is back with the sequel to this hit car racing franchise. Take control of some of the world’s fastest dream cars around exotic locations such as L.A., Tokyo and the Bahamas. Select your vehicle whether you’re more Ferrari or Aston Martin and challenge up to 6 friends in online and local multiplayer mode. You will need to pay 2.99 Pounds(Rs 181) for this game developed by Gameloft.

Zomato.com (previously known as Foodiebay.com), one of India’s online food guides and restaurant directories has launched a mobile application for Android based phones.

This application allows users to search for nearby restaurants based on the user’s location. Through this application users can view menus, contact details, reviews, photographs, location and discounts for different restaurant.

While location of the food joints is also available through the google map, Zomato provides additional information which makes it special.

Currently it has a listing of more than 10,000 restaurants across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata.

Deepinder Goyal, Co-Founder and CEO, Zomato said, “We are proud to be the first restaurant portal in the country to develop an Android application. The users will be able to enjoy all the functionalities of our website on the Zomato application.”

Zomato.com was launched in July 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah, IIT Delhi graduates, and is an online food guide and restaurant directory.

Company also plans to increase the number of listings and the number of cities it serves.

The Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) constituted by the Cabinet Secretary in 2009 to suggest ways of improving mobile banking in the country, where only 26 per cent of people have bank accounts, has submitted its recommendation.

The committee has recommended that the cap on daily mobile transaction be increased from the current Rs 2,500 to Rs 5,000. In its recommendation the IMG has suggested a 2 per cent commission per transaction, to be collected from the customer.

Banks, in turn, must pay the telco a minimum of Rs 2.25 per transaction or 1.4 per cent of the total amount which should be gradually reduced to 1 per cent over five years.

If the telco were to set up mini ATMs (retail outlets where people can also withdraw cash) then banks must pay the telco a minimum of Rs 3 per transaction or 2.25 per cent of the amount.

The committee has recommended that telecom operators be allowed to work with different banks in different areas, but that no retail outlet should be allowed to service two different banks.

When mobile banking services are launched, any cell phone customer will be able to create a ‘mobile linked no frills’ account to deposit, withdraw and transfer money. He will execute these transactions through a mobile based m-PIN system or through micro ATMs run by telecom service providers.

At present, only customers who have a bank branch within 30 km of where they live can avail mobile banking facilities. The committee has recommended a relaxation of this norm to allow every one with a mobile connection to benefit from mobile banking.

RBI in its earlier guidelines had allowed banks to employ telecom operators as business correspondents, thus enabling banks to exploit the pre existing, dense telecom retail and wireless network particularly in far flung regions. This move by the RBI LED to joint ventures like the recently announced SBI-Airtel and ICICI-Vodafone mobile banking partnerships.

If the recommendation by the Inter Ministerial Group is accepted, it will pave the way for mobile banking to reach each mobile user in the country. With the total number of mobile connections crossing 700 million, mobile banking will bring in millions into banking and will also bring revenue for banks and telecom operators.

Facebook has posted on its blog that it will allow third party App developers access to users’ home addresses and cell phone numbers.

On the surface it appears that data will be accessed by third party developers only if users agree to share it. While installing a new app, users are asked whether they are comfortable with sharing information, but in their hurry to install the app, they often overlook the conditions put forward by the developers and give their consent without considering the implications of their actions.

There are already rogue applications galore on Facebook, spamming users in multiple ways. Some of these get people to share their phone numbers by asking them to sign up for a service. The process of accessing personal information will become easier than ever for developers who may then sell the data thus collected to SMS marketing and cold calling companies.

Users can make sure their data is not compromised by making their Facebook profile more private. Some users defend Facebook saying the information may be used for delivering purchased items without websites having to bother users for their address time and again.

The average number of apps downloaded for every iOS device sold stands at 60 whereas in 2008 the figure stood at 10.

These numbers were revealed in a survey conducted by Asymco, a company led by a former Nokia employee. The Apple App store has served about 10 billion app downloads, which seem to be more in demand than the music on iTunes is.

Asymco has found out that about 30 million apps are downloaded every day. The 60 apps per device average was arrived at by dividing total apps downloaded by total number of iOS devices that exist. The number of apps per device may actually be more because all the iPhones and iPods ever sold cannot still be in circulation.

With time, more devices will be sold, and as a result more apps will be downloaded. With music downloads, Apple reached the ten billion mark in 67 months, whereas with apps it is close to that figure in almost half the time, in only 31 months.

The apps on the iPhone or other iOS devices may work to lock the customers within the Apple ecosystem because the prospect of getting all the apps again may deter customers from moving to other platforms such as Android or Windows Phone 7.