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Imagine creating an iOS game and seeing it downloaded illegally by thousands of users. Worst still, Apple, through its Game Center, seems to condone the practice. This is what GAMEized is facing, according to a message on their blog.

App Store customers living in Taiwan can now request full refunds for purchases, as long as the request comes within seven days of the original purchase date. This change in Apple’s policy is the result of the island’s consumer protection laws requiring such return policies, according to Michael Kan from IDG News.

Three years after the first app was downloaded and installed from the App Store, the total number of apps purchased has exceeded those of music. This news comes as the result of a new asymo survey released earlier this week.

Apple has announced a new App Store volume-purchasing plan for its business customers. The new service, which should be available soon, will allow businesses and education institutions in the U.S. to purchase apps in volume and distribute them within their organizations.

Apple TV could soon join the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad as being able to run native apps. This possibly has been reinforced thanks to some code uncovered in iOS 5 from a 9 To 5 Mac reader.

Electronic Arts has officially acquired PopCap Games, the developer of Plants vs. Zombies, Bejewelled 2 + Blitz and many other popular iOS titles. While EA purchased PopCap for $750 million in cash and stock, if the company hits a series of revenue milestones, around $1.3 billion in total could end up being spent on the acquisition.

The popular iOS application StumbleUpon! has recently received an update. Now, the application looks much better on the iPad, and the app is also improved when running on the iPhone, too.

Good news, guys: This August, a digital edition of Cosmopolitan aimed at men will hit the iPad App Store, and will be called "CFG" ("Cosmo for Guys").

Earlier today, we told you Screens had received a handy update. Now, another popular VNC client, LogMeIn Ignition, has been updated and a few new features have been added.

The popular iOS app Opera Mini Web Browser has recently received an update, which makes a variety of improvements and fixes to the application.

Star Trek: PADD is the iPad application every Star Trek fan should own. It's as simple as that.

The popular VNC client for iOS, Screens, has recently received an update. Now, the application supports Apple's upcoming OS X Lion, and various performance improvements have also been made in the update.

The Pitchfork Music Festival now has its own official iPhone app. The application (Pitchfork 2011) is currently available to download for free in the App Store, and is natively compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch.

LensFlare ($0.99) is an iPhone application that allows users to enhance photographs by adding lens flares. Recently, the application received an update (version 7.0) adding two new kinds of flares: “SuperFlare” and “Transformers.”

Great news, TV fans: The CW Television Network has recently released The CW Full Episodes, a new, free iPhone application that allows users to watch full episodes of their favorite TV shows on-the-go, on an iPhone or iPod touch.

Apple is expected to release OS X Lion later this month for Mac users. At the same time, we believe a new version of its iWork suite of applications both for OS X and iDevices will arrive as well and here is why.

Oh, bad news, PokéFans: As many of you will remember, the other day we told you that an official Pokémon application is App Store-bound. This got a lot of people wondering whether Nintendo was planning on bringing more apps, maybe classics like Super Mario Bros. or the original Pokémon games, to the App Store. However, Nintendo has recently confirmed that this is not the case, and that despite the aforementioned iPhone app, the company will continue to only develop software for its own hardware.

Just how popular is the App Store? Apple announced today that 200 million iPhone/iPod touch and iPad users have downloaded 15 billion apps since the store went online in July 2008. The company made the announcement via a press release.

Great news, retro gaming fans: The popular Bungie-developed Mac game Marathon is now available in the App Store. The application is natively compatible with the iPad, and is available to download for free.

Time Warner Cable has just updated its iPad app, adding several new features. However, if you recently jailbroke your tablet via JailbreakMe, we have some bad news: TWCable TV isn't going to work.

Last night brought bad news for the guys in Cupertino, CA: According to Dan Levine of Reuters (citing a court document), a U.S. judge has rejected the preliminary injunction Apple recently filed against Amazon. The disagreement, as I'm sure you remember, revolves around the recently launched Amazon Appstore.

A new iPad application offers users a series of portraits of world leaders, all of which were shot by noted photographer Platon at the United Nations over the past year. The app, POWER Platon, is available for $9.99 and features over 100 images in total, along with an introduction by David Remnick (of The New Yorker).

Boost Your Beauty is a new iPhone app that allows users to learn about plastic surgery, and even try applying some nips and tucks to an image of their choice.