According to a recent report, Apple "is not afraid of [Facebook's Project Spartan] at all," and the company is even rumored to be "lending some minor support."

The Best iPad Apps Of The Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The Best iPhone Apps Of The Week, is published separately.

Wacom has recently launched its stylus-centeric iPad app, Bamboo Paper, which Apple fans can download for free until the end of this month. Furthermore, the company is releasing an accompanying accessory - Bamboo Stylus - in the near future.

Magellan has recently updated its line of RoadMate applications for the iPhone, adding new features such as Yelp integration, Google Local Search and access to the very latest map updates.

The most important thing you need to know about Ball Frenzy is that despite its appearance, it's not really a soccer game. In fact, according to its developer, the application encompasses aspects of marbles, pool, soccer and bowling.

In the first beta version of iOS 5, Apple has added an amazing feature called "AirPlay Mirroring." This allows users to wirelessly mirror their iPad's display on an HDTV, providing its equipped with an AirPlay capable device (like an Apple TV).

According to a recent report, the popular CoPilot navigation applications will soon be relaunched in new, "premium" versions. As noted by the app's developer, CoPilot Live Premium will feature support for Facebook Places, Wikipedia search and real-time traffic updates.

The Best iPhone Apps Of The Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The Best iPad Apps Of The Week, is published separately.

According to a recent article, Rovio is planning on adding some location-based features to Angry Birds in a future update, dubbed "Magic."

Rovio's "Mighty Eagle" Peter Vesterbacka recently confirmed that the company's Angry Birds games are downloaded more than one million times each and every day. The news was delivered at Mobile 2.0 Europe - openIDEAS Conference, several days ago.

Facekandi is a recently updated application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to engage in a Chatroulette-style game using Apple's FaceTime video calling service. The app is currently available to download in the App Store for $0.99.

Another week, another Apple lawsuit. New York publisher John T. Colby is suing Apple over the use of the word “iBooks,” according to news first reported by Tuaw.

Yahoo! has just released two new app discovery tools: Yahoo! App Search, a desktop tool which is accessible via Web browsers, and Y! AppSpot - an iPhone application, which is currently available to download for free.

Rovio has recently updated Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD, adding a new theme and 15 brand new levels. Furthermore, gamers can now search out "collectable jewels" and pop piggies on stalactites.

Monster Soup is a recently released, universal application that's currently available to download for $0.99. In the app, players are presented with a fun, colorful puzzle in which they must rescue the "Soup System" from "a menacing, moon-sized maniac."

BBC iPlayer is in the process of planning its international rollout, but don't get too excited - before the online service hits the USA, it's heading to western Europe, apparently by the end of this year.

Shazam has just announced a brand new feature, which it has incorporated into its premium Shazam Encore application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The feature - called "LyricPlay" - allows users to tag a track and immediately view the song's lyrics in real-time.

Musicon is a recently released application for the iPhone and iPod touch, which allows users to add music albums to their Home screen. Currently, the application is available to download in an ad-supported version for free, in the App Store.

Twitterrific for Twitter has just been updated, and a variety of new features, improvements and fixes have been added to the application.

Adobe's three Photoshop iPad apps - Eazel, Color Lava and Nav - have recently received a price reduction, and now each application can be downloaded for $3 or less.

Earlier today, TechCrunch managed to get its paws on around 50 megabytes of pictures and documents outlining an upcoming Facebook product – namely, “a new photo sharing app for the iPhone,” which the website admits “looks amazing.”

The popular Google Reader client, Mr. Reader ($3.99, iPad only), has recently received a great update. Now, users of the application can send articles to Readability or a Macintosh computer (via "Send2Mac"), or create a note in Evernote.

Halfbrick Studios has brought us some great iOS games, and the developer's upcoming Machine Gun Jetpack looks like it's going to be no exception. While the game is a while off hitting the App Store, TUAW was able to catch up with Halfbrick at E3, and shared the spoils of its meeting in an article that hit the Web recently.