A Thousand Years iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Catherine Jones iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:01 am

Formula Zee iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Rosie Whiteley iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 12:01 am

Poison Ivy iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 8 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Susan Coffey iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 8 March 2010 | 12:15 am

January 2010 Mobile Report

AdMob released its January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report, revealing a set of data about apps downloads for iPhone and iPod touch users, as well as users of Android and webOS handsets. Here are the results according to its graphics: * The download amount of iPod comes to the first among the four respondents. * Android and iPhone users [...]

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 10:24 pm

Ball Chair iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 1:00 am

Heidi Montag iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 12:01 am

Honda S2000 iPhone Wallpaper

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 1:00 am

App Sale: You Are Rich

You Are Rich is on sale for free – normally a complete ripoff! When the iTunes App Store first opened up in the summer of 2008, some jackass named Armin Heinrich released an app called I Am Rich which was basically a jpeg image of a red jewel that included some kind of “secret mantra” intended [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:50 pm

App Sale: Drag Racer: Pro Tuner

Drag Racer: Pro Tuner is on sale for free- normally $2.99 Pro Tuner is a simple drag racing game from XMG Studio Inc.  that focuses on a plethora of enhancements you can add to your ride. Dozens of cars, custom paint jobs and the ability to tweak everything from your brakes to gear ratio makes this an [...]

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 9:24 pm

NewsAlert

  I don’t consider myself a newshound, but I do like to be in the know.  I keep an eye on Wiki trends, Twitter trends and get weather and breaking news updates by SMS.    Anytime a story about the iPhone or BlackBerry comes out, I want to know.  Plus, there are artists, authors, and actors I’m [...]

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 2:41 pm

Newton’s Balls: Kinetic Physics Newton’s Cradle Simulator

You know the look.  You know the sound.   Some things you hear and never forget them.  The ‘chung-chung’ sound of a Law & Order episode.  The sound of the Bionic Woman or the $6 Million Dollar Man running.  The sound the moving red eye of a Cylon from the original Battlestar Galactica.  Chances are, you’ve seen a [...]

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 3:40 pm

App Sale: Uniwar

For today only Xpressed is slashing their price on Uniwar from 4.99 to Free! Uniwar is a turn based strategy game that can be played against the computer, online, cross platform, or even with a friend on a single phone. If your a fan of games like starcraft this could be your next time sink, [...]

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:29 am

App Launch Sale: Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer

Earlier this week Ubisoft released AC2 Multiplayer for free as a promotion. Launching a well known title I’m sure they expected a lot of downloads, which they got, but what they weren’t expecting was a buggy release where a majority of people couldn’t even play a round. Ubisoft is aware of the situation and extended [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 9:53 am

Q&F : Zombie Defense

Save the cheerleader, save the world?  Not quite, though there is a cheerleader and she could help you save the world.  In Zombie Defense, rural Texas has been- except for four survivors- taken over by zombies, all a-hankering for a hunk of your merry band.  By day, you search for contraband to use in a crusade [...]

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 7:59 pm

Just for the record

iPhone App Reviews.net does not charge for reviews. We used to offer an unsolicited paid option called “POV” (meaning that we weren’t actively fishing for paying developers) but that has been discontinued. The reason I’m bringing this up is that I recently got this email from an apparently angry spectator: —–Original Message—– Subject: iPhone App Reviews: Thanks How I [...]

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 11:14 am

Doodle Frog: The Defense os Lost Castle

A long time ago in a land far, far away, an evil witch turned an arrogant young prince into a frog.  The frog prince, of course, wanted to become human again, but only a fairy could help him.  Unfortunately, the fairy resided high in the sky, far above the lily pad land of the prince, though it [...]

Posted on 28 February 2010 | 5:44 pm

Reiner Knizia’s Knights of Charlemagne

Reiner Knizia’s Knights of Charlemagne is another great Dr. Reiner Knizia and Conlan Rios card game. Again, this is based off an actual card game that was published in 1995 to very favorable reviews. The game is themed after knights, estates and… round tables? Really, the theme is not so important because [...]

Posted on 28 February 2010 | 12:35 pm

Internet Alert

Internet Alert, from Modern Digital Media AB, is about as straightforward an app as you can imagine. Its purpose is amazingly simple: to notify you whenever a web page is updated.  On the plus side: it will track up to 15 separate web pages.  It’s also easy to set up and monitor; all you have to do [...]

Posted on 27 February 2010 | 9:03 pm

App Sale: Compression

Compression is on sale for free – normally $1.99 Compression is a snazzy, Dr. Mario – style tetris game that I reviewed a few months back. It’s casual, fun and pretty easy to pick up and play. There’s also a new $0.99 in-app purchase that unlocks another addictive game mode. A recent update fixed some of the [...]

Posted on 27 February 2010 | 6:28 pm

Blue Marble

One of the default pictures included with the iPhone is a beautiful image of the Earth as seen from space. Unless you weren't paying attention, you saw this picture when you first purchased your iPhone, and you can still view...

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 11:44 pm

iSlips -- track time and expenses, sync with Timeslips

About a year ago, I posted a survey of the time tracking apps that existed at that time. Many of those apps have been improved greatly over the last year and several new apps have been released. I myself have...

Posted on 8 March 2010 | 11:05 pm

iPad availability and first commercial

Are you thinking about getting an iPad? Late last week, Apple announced on its website that the iPad will be available to purchase starting Saturday, April 3, 2010. And starting this Friday, March 12, you can pre-order an iPad from...

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 11:05 pm

In the news

For all of you who are planning to attend ABA TECHSHOW later this month, let's get dinner! On Thursday and Friday nights during the conference, there will be several "Taste of the ABA TECHSHOW" dinners. These Dutch-treat dinners provide attendees...

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:44 pm

Review: Louisiana Legal Ethics -- free La. Rules of Professional Conduct

In October of 2009, I described a free website by Loyola (New Orleans) Law School Professor Dane Ciolino, an expert on legal ethics, called Louisiana Legal Ethics. The portion of that website containing the latest Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct...

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 11:05 pm

Review: Kensington LiquidAUX Auxiliary Car Kit with Remote -- great connection between your iPhone and your car

I listen to my iPhone in my car all the time — mostly podcasts, other times music, occasionally an audio book, and sometimes while using a GPS navigation app at the same time — but I've been in the market...

Posted on 2 March 2010 | 11:05 pm

Nuance develops medical versions of Dragon Dictation

I am a huge fan of Nuance's Dragon Dictation, the free iPhone app that lets you speak a few sentences to your iPhone and have them quickly transcribed for an e-mail, text, etc. The app works great, and when it...

Posted on 1 March 2010 | 11:05 pm

iPhone apps that I use at my desk

One of the things that I most love about the iPhone is that it gives you so much power when you are away from the office. But last week, in my review of the ZeroTap app, I mentioned that there...

Posted on 28 February 2010 | 11:30 pm

In the news

MobileMe's "Find my iPhone" feature is in the news, AT&T and Apple have reasons to be proud, developers of raunchy apps have reasons to be sad, and love is in the air at the Apple Store, all in this week's...

Posted on 25 February 2010 | 11:05 pm

Review: SpeakWrite -- dictation and transcription from your iPhone

I am a big fan of Dragon Dictation, the free app that allows you to speak short messages to your iPhone, after which the audio is uploaded to a server which quickly transcribes the audio and then sends the text...

Posted on 24 February 2010 | 11:05 pm

iDongle

If you ever wanted to perform a standalone tethered boot on your jailbroken 3.1.2 iDevice then iDongle might be for you. This is a newly developed product that can be used in a mini-USB to 30 pin adapter, or, if…

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 10:00 pm

Free Text Messages with TextPlus

The time when you paid for text messages is gone. Yes, you have to pay whether you send or receive a NORMAL text message, but with TextPlus you can forget that.

Gogii has developed an application that helps…

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 9:53 pm

MLB.com At Bat 2010 Arrives to the App Store

iPhone users that call themselves the ultimate MLB fan can now get their daily fix of game coverage and stats in real time throughout the MLB season, thanks to a new app from MLB.com called At Bat 2.0.

Not only…

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 9:52 pm

Change Your Voice and Have Fun!

If you are looking to have some fun, there is an application just for you: Voices from tap tap tap. Just think about situations when you say something funny or your friend says something amusing and you want…

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 7:12 pm

Constantly Typing Login Information? Better Use 1Password Pro!

As we surf different kinds of websites and are constantly prompted for a username and password over and over, you eventually get to a point where you think, enough is enough.

This is when a password manager enters into the…

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 11:10 pm

Write, Edit And Translate Text With WritePad

PhatWare Corporation announced that WritePad 3.1 is available already. The company provides software and professional services for desktop and mobile computers.

This announcement is about a unique piece of software that allows iPhone users to enter text and…

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:59 pm

Do You Want A Radiation Estimate?

There is a new application that is being developed that gives you a rough estimate on the your iPhone's radiation levels. According to the specifications published on Tawkon's technology page, the application uses an algorithm to determine the radiation amount…

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:02 am

Voice Email and Voice SMS by Vlingo

Vlingo 2.0 for iPhone has a few new features, including new graphical UI, SMS and Email Paste dictation.

The user interface works great, with its big, easy to hit icons. The application has helpful tips for users at…

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 9:36 am

Streaming NetFlix Movies on the iPhone

NetFlix has some great plans for the future. It is planning to develop an application for the iPhone to allow users to view movies and TV programs right from their beloved device, and the best part is, it…

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 9:04 am

iPad Production on Track

There was a rumor these days about iPad production issues. Fortune was pointing towards a possible delay, but as Foxconn sources stated it has no production problems building the newly introduced iPad.

There is no official statement, but…

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 9:17 am

Games To Download For Free Today: Funkyball Worlds And Sniper Strike

Get over the hump day blues by downloading these two free games from Handmark and Donoma Games. Funkyball Worlds ($2.99 -> Free): A ball-rolling physics-based platformer 72 levels across three different worlds.  In the game you must guide the weighted Funkyball across stationary and moving platforms as you race against the clock.  Stars can be obtained [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:32 pm

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 And EA Sports Active 2.0 Coming To iPhone

EA has just revealed that they are working on two new titles for the iPhone: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 and EA Sports Active 2.0. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 was essentially a given for the iPhone and iPod touch.  The game will feature many minor improvements to the overall gameplay, but the biggest addition is [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 10:50 am

Loopt Update Adds New Content Partners To Provide More Local Music And Entertainment Events

Loopt v2.2 is expected to hit the App Store at any moment today, which will expand on the app’s Pulse feature to help you find even more local events that you can share with friends. The update will be arriving just in time for all of you SXSW goers.  How convenient? By accessing the now conveniently [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 9:09 am

Verizon Wants Your iPad On Its 3G, Via MiFi

In what looks like a very smart business move, Verizon is apparently pushing its staffers to promote MiFi to future iPad owners. As you know by now, the WiFi-only iPad will be launched April 3rd by Apple, followed by a 3G version which will come only by the end of April. The 3G iPad will come [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 8:31 am

Want To Rate Your Life? There’s An App For That

Have you ever wondered what you were thinking or how you were feeling this time last week, last month, last year? Would you like to keep a record of your life’s ups and downs or your happy and sad moments? Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd have just released Rate Your Life, a simple but effective diary [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 7:44 am

Hadouken! Street Fighter IV Is Now In The App Store

Gamers awaiting the arrival of Ken and Ryu to the iPhone need not wait any longer. Capcom’s Street Fighter IV, is now available for download on the App Store. Choose from 8 classic fighters and battle your way in head to head combat. The game features the classic gameplay and all of the signature moves that have [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 7:01 am

Appisode 88: The Hero Has Arrived, Doodle Jump Reaches Record Highs, Plus A New Tool For Our Utility Toolbox

Chillingo’s highly anticipated title, The Hero, has finally soared into the App Store. Lima Sky has just announced that Doodle Jump has sold over three million copies on the App Store. It’s currently the top selling app of the year and has already pushed over 1.6 million units in 2010 alone. Utility Toolbox: Every Trail – [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 5:40 pm

Use Your Social Networking Skills To Help Ward Off Zombies In Tweet Defense

Promethium Marketing, a company known for marketing games (among other things) and not actually making them, has just released their very first iPhone game titled Tweet Defense.  A game that rewards you for your social networking prowess. Tweet Defense is in essence your everyday tower defense game filled with a bunch of different enemies and tower [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 4:32 pm

Customize Your Breaking News With NewsAlerts

Newshounds have a lot of choices when it comes to staying connected with current events. RSS feeds and countless apps are available that provide push notifications for breaking news but none has offered the simplicity of receiving stories based solely on specific keywords. NewsAlerts is a new app that hopes to resolve that with the simple [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 4:05 pm

Games On Sale Today: Mission: Deep Sea, FIFA 10, Deer Hunter 3D, And Diner Dash

Since there really aren’t any new quality free games to talk about today, we went with a game sale post instead.  Getting a steal of a deal is better than nothing, right? Mission: Deep Sea ($2.99 -> $.99): Developed by Hiccup Studios and published by Chilling, Mission: Deep Sea allows you to explore a beautiful 3D [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 2:07 pm

iD Generator - 2.0

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"iD Generator is the king of making fake digital IDs" "...it could spark a laugh or two and potentially impress the cutie at the bar that may actually believe that you're an astronaut." IGN.com

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Tags: entertainment fake id generate badge fbi driver license police fireman doctor csi nba nasa nurse

Changes

Major update!<br/><br/>Changed look and added extra settings (turn on/off sound and sweep)<br/><br/>Big iD card update:<br/>- Astronaut<br/>- Basketball Player<br/>- Driver's License<br/>- FBI<br/>- Heineken Party Squad<br/>- Legal Age<br/>- Lesbian Vampire Killer<br/>- Superman<br/>- Swiss Garde<br/>which brings the total to 25 cards!<br/><br/>Also fixed some bugs with memory and the (i) button

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 2:53 am

myPANTONE - 1.0.1

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myPANTONE™
Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. Now with the myPANTONE™ Apple iPhone™ app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color

1usethis Version: 1.0.1 License: Commercial
Tags: reference

Changes

• Fixed drag and drop issue where color swatch could not be dropped in palette dock.<br/>• Fixed some anomalies in the cross-reference results.<br/>• RGB data corrected in the HTML e-mail.<br/>• Improvements to image color extraction<br/>

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:57 pm

Beneath a Steel Sky: Remastered - 1.0

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“Whether you're an established fan of puzzle adventures or just a newcomer to the genre, Beneath a Steel Sky is an absolute delight.” 9/10, Neon Kelly, Videogamer.com

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Tags: games

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:53 pm

Paper Breaker - 1.1

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Paper Breaker is one of the most unique and challenging "breakout" style games. It follows the styles of the classics but also has a new unique look and feel to it.
Once you try Paper

1usethis Version: 1.1 License: Commercial
Tags: games

Changes

- added 10 exciting new levels*<br/>- smoother game play<br/>

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:51 pm

Beat It! - 1.1.1

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BEST MUSIC GAME 2009

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Tags: music

Changes

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Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:50 pm

Aki Mahjong - 1.0.4

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Aki Mahjong was designed specifically for your iPhone or iPod touch, allowing you to enjoy Mahjong Solitaire anywhere.

Combining the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong with an enchanting

1usethis Version: 1.0.4 License: Commercial
Tags: games

Changes

Fixes a bug on iPhone OS 3.1 that resulted in a white splotch being displayed whenever you tapped the game board<br/><br/>Fixes a bug on iPhone OS 3.1 that resulted in a white bar shifting the board down if you ended a game with the battery/time displayed.

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:49 pm

Flashlight + Safety Light - 2.0.1

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★★★ The Best Flashlight ★★★

Safety Light is not just the best flashlight in the iPhone App Store, it could save your life! Click to learn more ➜

One tap on the rescue icon and your

1usethis Version: 2.0.1 License: Commercial
Tags: utilities

Changes

• Updated message when starting SOS signal.<br/>• Minor bug fixes.

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:48 pm

lo-mob - 1.1

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Lo-mob brings lo-fi and photographic experimentations to your mobiles pictures.

1usethis Version: 1.1 License: Commercial
Tags: photography

Changes

Updated & new Fx :<br/><br/> 1. effect added : F Instant X<br/> 2. effect added : F Instant X Wide<br/> 3. effect added : 30’s Contact 2<br/> 4. effect updated : Slide : now in vertical format by default<br/> 5. effect added : square pola instant + b/w version<br/> 6. Ho-Mob + Lo-Mob reloaded<br/> 7. vignetting added to a bunch of filters<br/> 8. adjusted blur on many filters<br/> 9. Contact Mask Photocards : 3 filters added<br/> 10. one AE TTV effect frame center is now crystal clear<br/> 11. vignetting on Instant filters now much lighter<br/><br/>Updated & new features :<br/><br/> 1. new revision for splash screen, home screen, activity screen, information and error messages<br/> 2. social network added : Picasa<br/> 3. app now ask for social networks credentials when first connecting. In-app.<br/> 4. faster and improved Levels processing in core<br/> 5. faster and improved HLS processing in core<br/> 6. new Curve processing in core<br/> 7. new Split tone processing in core<br/> 8. Cancel button added to processed filters list<br/> 9. filters list now remembers where you were<br/> 10. new Informations area accessible from home screen<br/> 11. Informations icon turns red when new info available online<br/> 12. new About screen in the Informations area<br/> 13. new Online news section in the Informations area<br/> 14. better automatic crop for filters with frames<br/> 15. Settings are now located in the application, in the information area : in-app<br/> 16. Frames can be toggled OFF in Settings panel<br/> 17. Vignetting can be toggled OFF in Settings panel<br/> 18. FX can be toggled OFF in Settings panel<br/> 19. Blurs can be toggled OFF in Settings panel<br/> 20. Frames, Vignetting, Blurs and FX can be toggled ON/OFF on activity screen for immediate photo tweaking. Setup is kept for next photo processing.<br/> 21. Landscape mode support for all non-square filters<br/> 22. export in maximum possible resolution for all iPhone handsets, included 3GS*.<br/> 23. now compatible with Apple iPod Touch too**.<br/><br/>* So 3GS is supported. You can now export to the maximum resolution handled by your phone. However an iPhone is not a desktop computer : large 3MPixels images are painfull to process for the device, it may sometimes be a bit long to export a full resolution image to the phone.<br/>** Application remains the same on iPod Touch than on iPhone, except you can’t take pictures (big news) and the app won’t propose you to email the picture right away. You can still post it on Twitter, Picasa etc…

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:46 pm

Here, File File! - 1.1.1

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Here, File File puts ALL of the files on your Mac at your fingertips from anywhere! No syncing or manually dragging files required. Never be without that important document again!

Connect to

1usethis Version: 1.1.1 License: Commercial
Tags: utilities

Changes

✔ Startup time is roughly 3x faster on 1st gen iPhone<br/>✔ Fixed crash when tapping summary row<br/>✔ Better error message for incorrect password<br/>✔ Files with a + in the file name can now be viewed and streamed properly<br/>✔ Mac Pro is no longer cropped at the top

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:45 pm

11870 Pro - 1.01

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11870.com sirve para que la gente guarde y comparta los sitios y servicios que más le gusten mediante opiniones, fotos y vídeos en cualquier parte del mundo:

* En la versión pro no verás

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Tags: lifestyle

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Posted on 9 March 2010 | 1:43 pm

iPad on the Way: Pre-orders begin next week, delivery in April

It’s finally coming. This morning Apple announced that the iPad will be available in the U.S. on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. Then, in late April, the iPad will show up in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and UK stores. Beginning a week [...]

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 12:42 pm

Headset App Makes for an Inexpensive and Handy Alternative Wireless Headset

With the ever-growing list of practical applications for iPhone users that allow your iPhone to become an all-in-one device, sorting out the good from the bad is the only rub. While you may not have been looking for a way to turn your iPhone into a wireless headset, Shape Services’ Headset is an app that does [...]

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 11:45 am

Bella Boo is one Tough Zombie Fairy

Bella Boo won’t be winning any beauty contests. But she will keep you entertained with a pretty fun and addicting game. As Bella Boo the zombie fairy, you must battle a series of floating creatures, demons, and other evil forces who have invaded your cozy homeland of Dark Wood. You do this by encircling them with [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:00 am

Pounce Takes the Solitary Out of Solitaire

Pounce takes the solitary out of Solitaire, according to its developer, Double Apps. It’s a multiplayer card game that goes by many different names including Nertz, Canfield, Blitz, Grouch, Peanuts  and Nerf. The idea is to unload your cards in sequential order into a center field faster than your opponents. In this version, Pounce on the [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 9:42 am

Transylvania Adventure is Ideal iPhone Adaptation of a Classic

If you missed last year’s Halloween special when Transylvania Adventure was offered for free, fear not – the game is still available for a mere $0.99, which in the App Store is the next best thing. For those who remember Transylvania from years gone by, Transylvania Adventure is the iPhone adaptation made possible by RetroVenture in collaboration [...]

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 2:00 pm

Dreamwalk is a Bargain Hunter’s Dream

Just released this week, Dreamwalk is touted as “the mobile treasure hunt” and in essence, that’s pretty much what it is. It sort of equates to commercialized geocaching, but it’s really a pretty simple concept. Dreamwalk uses GPS technology to show users where prizes, or “treasure,” is waiting to be discovered. If you decide you want [...]

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 11:52 am

Strategic Board Game Lovers Unite! Boardz is Online Play

Boardz is an iPhone app that contains four classic two-player strategic board games – Chess, Go, Shogi, and XiangQi. It is designed to work over a network connection and seeks out other players as opponents. If you’ve tried Chess With Friends, you’ll have a pretty good idea of how Boardz plays out. Being a game that [...]

Posted on 2 March 2010 | 12:31 pm

Manage Voice Memos with Smart Recorder

If the native Voice Memos app doesn’t have enough features to satisfy your recording needs, then Smart Recorder may be a good option. There is greater depth, editing options, and a pretty cool method for transferring your recordings to a computer via a Wi-Fi network. Like Night Recorder, Smart Recorder has a long list of features [...]

Posted on 1 March 2010 | 2:00 pm

Color Me Happy, It’s an App for Little Kids!!!

For parents of preschoolers on the prowl for good apps that mix learning and technology, Color Me!!! by SID On is a featured app for kids that provides young children with a mobile electronic coloring book. Color Me!!! was recently updated and now has three categories—water creatures, woodland critters, and numbers. There are a total of [...]

Posted on 1 March 2010 | 11:46 am

Zepi:Dark, The Newest Zepi Theme

iPhone and iPod Touch users already familiar with OstinGames’ Zepi will appreciate Zepi:Dark, which is one of two new Zepi themes just released. Granted, those with a strong aversion to the macabre or a preference for flowery things will probably prefer Zepi:Spring over Zepi:Dark, but both versions give the game a whole new look and feel. [...]

Posted on 26 February 2010 | 11:00 am

Watch the Entire NCAA Basketball Tournament on the iPhone

Want to watch every second of the NCAA basketball tournament? The CBS Sports NCAA March Madness on Demand ($9.99, link) app features streaming video of every single game over 3G and WiFi. Also included are the radio broadcasts for every game from Westwood One. From the official app description: LIVE VIDEO STREAMING of NCAA® March Madness® [...]

Posted on 8 March 2010 | 7:47 am

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball iPhone App: MyFantasyTeam

If you’re looking for an easier way to access your Yahoo! Fantasy baseball team on the iPhone, the MyFantasyTeams ($3.99, link) app gives you almost full team-management access in an iPhone-friendly way. And it also supports football, basketball, and hockey, so you can keep using the app year round. The app’s main advantage over just [...]

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 1:18 pm

DreamWalk Turns the iPhone Into a Mobile Treasure Hunter

DreamWalk (free, link) is a cool idea: win free prizes by traveling to locations on a map, and when the iPhone’s GPS confirms you’re there, you get a coupon code emailed to you. Prizes range from small like free Quizno subs to semi-big like 19″ LCDs TVs. Are the prizes real? It looks like it. [...]

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 12:51 pm

How To Fix and Replace a Cracked & Broken iPhone Screen

If you have a broken iPhone screen, the warranty unfortunately does not cover accidental damage—it’s going to cost you money to get it fixed. To repair it, you have three options: Get it fixed at an Apple store. Do it yourself. Send it to a third-party repair company. Below is a look at each option along with the costs [...]

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 9:49 am

Eco Punk Is Free Today Only

Eco Punk (link) is a free download for today. Official app description: Defend your neighborhood from pollution by cleaning up the streets and blowing up polluting vehicles in a raging killing spree… what what? BLOWING UP VEHICLES TO SAVE THE ENVIROMENT?! Let this raging environmentalist blow you away with some REALLY AWESOME AVOIDANCE & SHOOTING [...]

Posted on 5 March 2010 | 8:11 am

Gibson Learn & Master Guitar App: Free Tuner & Metronome

The Gibson Learn & Master Guitar app (free, link) is a guitarist’s Swiss army knife. And it’s as free as a bird now. The app has 4 features that should come in hand to all guitarists, a tuner, a metronome, chord book, and lesson videos. The chromatic tuner uses the iPhone’s microphone and can tune any [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 8:29 am

Poot! 5 Interesting iPhone Farting Apps

Everyone loves a good farting app… right? While I sometimes fail to see the attraction, there’s no doubt that fart apps are very popular. By my count, there are at least 300 fart apps in the iTunes store, and that’s probably a conservative estimate. Needless to say, they’re good for a laugh and if you [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 8:25 am

JOYCE Designer iPhone Cases

iPhones have been bricked, now they’re getting stoned. Hong Kong-based fashion company JOYCE has introduced a new limited-edition line of iPhone cases for the Spring 2010 fashion season. The cases are part of this year’s Truly Gifted III program and were created by designers from Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten, Marni, Etro, Bless and Anna [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 7:25 am

MLB.com At-Bat 2010: Listen To and Watch Baseball Games on the iPhone

MLB.com At-Bat 2010 ($14.99, link) streams every radio broadcast of every Major League baseball game to the iPhone. And it features both the home and away radio streams, so you’ll be guaranteed to listen your favorite local announcer. The app also streams video of select games to your iPhone. It’s unclear exactly how many [...]

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 1:55 pm

App Review: Pastebot, Excellent iPhone Clipboard Manager

Pastebot ($2.99, link) is probably the world’s best designed clipboard manager. It’s clear that a lot of thought and refinement went into making the app. Even though the audience who require its features is likely narrow, the app is currently the best way to store and manage chunks of text and move them in and [...]

Posted on 2 March 2010 | 5:22 pm

iPad Arriving on April 3, Pre-Order on March 12, 2010

In a recent press release Apple Inc. announced the release of its ‘magical and revolutionary’ iPad in the U.S on Saturday, April 3, 2010. The April 3 release is however, only for Wi-Fi models; while the Wi-Fi + 3G models will be launched in late April. And what is more exciting to the announcement is that beginning March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 7:47 am

Jobs: iPad Incompatible to Tether with iPhone

If you have been awaiting tethering option for your iPhone, as most of you are; Steve Jobs has got some news for you. In a recent response to an emailed question, Jobs revealed that Apple's iPad, scheduled for April 3, 2010 launch, probably won't support tethering either. Although, tethering for iPhone is much in demand, it comes as no surprise that it is still a much awaited situation for iPhone

Posted on 8 March 2010 | 5:24 am

'Revolutionary' Note Taker App for iPhone Released

Have you ever wished about writing on the iPhone touchscreen with your finger when you need to jot down something quickly, instead of using the iPhone keyboard? Well, that’s not a myth anymore. VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin, who also made your life easier with his invention of the spreadsheet has forayed into mobile development and released his first iPhone application - Note Taker.Note Taker

Posted on 6 March 2010 | 9:02 pm

NASA Releases Free iPhone Lunar Rover App

It’s a pleasure to present before you news of an iPhone app release - Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator, from NASA. Known for their futuristic approach, this new offering from NASA is a strategic attempt to reach out to the millions of iPhone users all over the world and make space and the moon accessible to people in general.NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator helps you assimilate how

Posted on 3 March 2010 | 5:49 am

Cheaper, Technically Advanced Apple iPhone 4G – Coming Soon

Good news for all of you! The latest buzz is that the much-awaited Apple iPhone 4G is expected to cost significantly less than previous models. This assumption according to the analysts is based on the fact that since, 85% of the smartphone market is not willing to shell out the amount of money Apple would like to quote for their devices; a price drop is inevitable for the Apple iPhone 4G.As

Posted on 2 March 2010 | 6:54 am

Plants vs. Zombies iPhone App Sales Sets App Store Record

Another record set at the App Store as PopCap Games announced Plants vs. Zombies for the iPhone has sold over 300,000 copies and made $1 Million in sales in just 9 days. Amazing!! Isn’t it? Analyst believe that although the title ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ was slated to be a highly anticipated title, the sales report and the revenue it has generated in less than a fortnight is phenomenal.This sales

Posted on 27 February 2010 | 1:13 am

Apple ‘Finally’ Launches iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3

Apple released an update for the iPhone SDK for the iPad - iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 3 in the midst of much adulation; however retracted the same quickly without explanation. The short-lived update followed the second iPhone OS and SDK 3.2 beta for the Apple iPad, launched several weeks ago.Latest reports indicate that the version of the iPhone Software Development kit (SDK), including iPad tools which

Posted on 25 February 2010 | 1:49 pm

Apple Removing ‘Indecent’ iPhone Apps from App Store

Latest reports to have stirred the iPhone world are of Apple removing over 5000 risqué iPhone and iPod Touch applications from its online App Store. This includes banning sexually explicit material including those which had previously been approved for sale. This move comes as a surprise for the”developers” who have been raking fortunes with such iPhone apps.According to reports published in The

Posted on 23 February 2010 | 5:44 am

Google Acquires reMail iPhone App, Removed from App Store

Apple Inc. did not let Goodle Voice happen for the App Store. In a latest development, Google acquired reMail from the AppStore on February 17, 2010 and removed it from the iTunes Store. As anticipated, the reMail – considered to be one of the best apps for the iPhone; could soon make its way to Android.The reMail website already reads "Copyright 2009 Google"; however, not all of the links to

Posted on 22 February 2010 | 7:19 am

Apple iPhone, iPad Triggering Memory Shortage

The latest buzz to have hit the iPhone world is about the probability of iPhone causing memory supply crunch in 2010. This assumption has been fuelled courtesy Apple's iPhone plans this year – where the average iPhone to carry over 35GB of storage after capacity upgrades across the line, or more than the 32GB maximum available today.Analysts at iSuppli have indicted Apple of creating an

Posted on 19 February 2010 | 7:03 am

BBC iPhone App for News and Sports Announced!

The BIG news trickling out of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is that BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is launching a trio of apps: an iPlayer app, BBC News iPhone app and a Sports results app. The announcement was made during a keynote speech by the BBC internet head Erik Huggers, who announced that BBC will offer iPhone applications for its news and sport content from April

Posted on 18 February 2010 | 3:24 am

Adobe Claims iPhone user’s Fetish for Flash – Apple Unmoved

Adobe Flash is one of the most sought after multimedia platform used worldwide. However, Flash has been evidently absent in Apple iPod, iPhone and now iPad as well. This in spite of Adobe claiming that Flash is in demand and that around seven million iPhone users have attempted to download it.However, Apple seems to be dismissing the need for Flash as of now – not to mention, Flash for the iPad

Posted on 16 February 2010 | 2:07 pm

Developer’s Indicate Thumbs-up for Apple iPad

The Apple iPad finally seems to be showing its shine. Thanks to Apple developer’s interest in developing mobile apps with the introduction of the iPad in January; it has almost become tri-fold. According to Flurry Analytics, more than 1,600 new apps were initiated post-iPad launch in comparison with less than 600 in December 2009. It is indeed heartening to learn about the growing interest of

Posted on 15 February 2010 | 6:42 am

Opera Mini for the iPhone: Will Apple Approve?

Come next week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona,Spain; the Norwegian browser company Opera Software is all set to present a demo version of its Opera Mini browser - most widely-used cell phone browser is coming to the world’s coolest cell phone – the Apple iPhone.All this years since the inception of the iPhone, Apple has been earning loads of accolades for the iPhone which is

Posted on 11 February 2010 | 7:07 am

UPDATE: Dev Team Releases Pwnage Tool 3.1.5 for iPhone OS 3.1.3

If you own a jailbroken phone and have been caught in a dilemma for the last few days since the iPhone OS 3.1.3 update has been released; here’s good news for you all. Keeping alive the spirit of the cat-and-mouse game between the iPhone Dev Team and Apple Inc. the dev team confirms in a blog post about the jailbreaking being made possible for iPhone OS 3.1.3.The iphone dev team has stated that

Posted on 9 February 2010 | 1:44 pm

Rumor: Price Slash for Apple iPad inevitable?

One of the most prominent grievances most Apple enthusiasts have with the iPad is its exorbitant pricing. However, here is good news for you all! Analysts believe that Apple might soon cut down price of its much-hyped tablet. This has been concluded on the basis of Apple’s earlier trend of dropping the price of iPhone, if sales figures do not meet Apple's expectations.Although analysts expect

Posted on 9 February 2010 | 8:46 am

Jailbroken iPhones Not Compatible to iPhone 3.1.3 OS Update

Seems it’s the season for iPhone updates! It has been quite a while since the iPhone OS has been updated and following closely the release of the iPad and announcements of VoIP for 3G and Skype update comes the news of the iPhone OS newest version, the iPhone OS 3.1.3. The iPhone 3.1.3 OS is available for all iPhone versions and is also compatible with all iPod Touch versions. Although there isn’

Posted on 8 February 2010 | 6:40 am

Coming Soon: Skype iPhone App for 3G

Finally the much in-demand version of Skype for iPhone which supports 3G calling is soon to be released. In a latest blog post, the company has divulged that this update has been done of the SDK (Software Development Kit) which Apple provides to developers like Skype for the iPad.With the release of the iPhone OS 3.2 for the iPad, restrictions on calling over a 3G network have been removed,

Posted on 5 February 2010 | 5:36 am

Apple Drops VoIP-over-3G Restrictions on the iPhone

Apple has some more good news to share with you post the iPad launch. In a recent company announcement, Apple has revealed that it has done away with the restrictions that earlier prevented VoIP iPhone applications from working over 3G. iPhone enthusiasts are elated as this will unleash newer opportunities for VoIP applications, which until now have only worked over Wi-Fi.This was one of the much

Posted on 4 February 2010 | 6:44 am

Apple iPad Review: What’s Missing?

Seems the latest offering from Apple – the iPad has raked up more controversy and debate than its former products. While Apple is confident and optimistic about its tablet-style iPad computer, which represents a completely innovative class of consumer electronic devices, perfect for watching videos, surfing the Web and reading electronic books, consumers and critics feel, it is too ahead of its

Posted on 3 February 2010 | 6:48 am

Apple Launches iPad and iBookStore

The much awaited January 27 event finally arrived and as much anticipated, Steve Jobs took the state to demonstrate Apple’s latest device - The iPad. It is a tablet computer which can be simply described as visually being a ‘large iPod Touch’. Apple iPad will be initially available for sale only in the USA, and is expected to be available in the rest of the world in the early summer.The iPad will

Posted on 29 January 2010 | 8:32 pm

What to Expect: Apple Says “Come See Our Latest Creation”

Its official that Apple Inc. is bringing in their summer excitement slated every year for June; well ahead to January, beginning this decade – 2010. All eyes are on the Apple event to be held at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater on January 27, 2010. However, the event (like any other Apple event) has managed to gather enough eyeballs and subsequent list of prediction on what

Posted on 23 January 2010 | 9:53 pm

White House iPhone App Launched – Stay Connected!

An addition into the App Store invites the same level of enthusiasm as the first few had, even after some 100,000 apps now available on Apple's iTunes Store. However, one iPhone app that has caught the attention of people worldwide belongs to the White House. In an exclusive announcement citing the launch of the new White House App for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, it says that the application

Posted on 21 January 2010 | 7:55 am

iPhone4G Rumor: Touch Sensitive Housing On the Cards?

Apple’s 4th generation iPhone is duly expected to be released in the summer of 2010; however, there has been quite some hustle-bustle from this part of the year regarding it. Although, most of the news are termed a ‘rumors’; what is catching the attention is the series of leaked news, which is making the arrival of the fourth generation iPhone all the more exciting.The latest news to have leaked

Posted on 20 January 2010 | 5:57 am

AppOmator: Innovative Way to Build iPhone Apps

The music show of the National Association of Music Merchants in Anaheim, California witnessed a rather unusual occasion this week as NonLinear Software chose this occasion to launch its latest product - AppOmator. According to NonLinear Software, AppOmator will help bring resurgence in the highly competitive world of iPhone apps, as developers are striving hard to create their own additions to

Posted on 18 January 2010 | 12:48 am

How to Send Email with Attachments – Example Using iPhone Camera to Email a Photo

In this post: Camera Application to Take Pictures and Save Images to Photo Album, I demonstrated how you can take photos with the iPhone camera and save the captured images to the Photo Album. A reader asked if it would be possible to email the camera image in place of writing to the Photo Album, [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 1:03 am

iPhone Development Mentoring Now Available

A good friend once described the process of learning iPhone development as having a “high-barrier to entry.” It’s not that iPhone development is any more difficult than any other platform, rather, it has to do with the fact that most everything is typically new to developers interested in coding iPhone apps: the programming language (Objective-C), [...]

Posted on 7 March 2010 | 8:35 am

Save UIImage Object as a PNG or JPEG File

In an earlier post on saving images from the camera to the Photo Album, a question was posed asking how to save the image to another directory other than the Photo Album. Let’s walk through one way to write a UIImage object, from the camera or otherwise, as a PNG or JPG file into the [...]

Posted on 4 March 2010 | 6:38 am

Validate User Input in UITextField, with Smarts to Properly Manage Copy and Paste

I’ve written a short character validation method that you can use as a starting point for validating characters against a character set. For devices running iPhone OS 3.x and thus support copy/paste, this code will also validate characters pasted into a textfield, and if invalid characters are found in the buffer, the input is [...]

Posted on 1 March 2010 | 7:54 am

Camera Application to Take Pictures and Save Images to Photo Album

Editor’s Note:If you would like to save the UIImage from the camera to a PNG of JPEG file versus the Photo Album, you can find an example here: Save UIImage Object as a PNG or JPEG File. Also, to email an image from the camera, take a look at this example: How to Send Email [...]

Posted on 26 February 2010 | 7:56 am

Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference – Register to Win a Free Pass!

With the resounding success of the previous Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference, once again, Pearson Education and Voices That Matter have put together an impressive list of speakers for their latest event in Seattle, Washington on April 24th and 25th, 2010. You’ll have a chance to learn from some of the best in the business, [...]

Posted on 24 February 2010 | 12:13 pm

Get Application Icon Name

In a previous post, Get Application Name, I wrote a line of code to get the application name from the app bundle. The line of code below is a slight modification that shows how to get the name that will appear on the iPhone below the icon: [[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleDisplayName"]; The CFBundleDisplayName value corresponds to the Bundle [...]

Posted on 17 February 2010 | 8:35 pm

Read and Write Array, Dictionary and Other Collections to Files

With just a few lines of code, you can read/write collections to/from files. The code below shows examples for writing and reading back both arrays and dictionaries. Read and Write Collections to File NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"Hefeweizen", @"IPA", @"Pilsner", @"Stout", nil];   NSDictionary *dictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: array, @"array", @"Stout", @"dark", @"Hefeweizen", [...]

Posted on 15 February 2010 | 12:26 am

UIAlertView without Buttons – Please Wait Dialog

If you’ve ever wanted to show a simple “please wait” dialog without resorting to a custom view, UIAlertView is a good option, and is even more appropriate if you customize the alert such that no buttons are shown. In the figure below you can see how a simple alert can be shown (sans buttons) while you [...]

Posted on 11 February 2010 | 5:03 am

Sleep, Pause or Block a Thread

If you ever need to briefly pause a thread of execution, there are two class methods in NSThread you can use. Although you have to use these methods judiciously, they can be handy in instances where you need to force a delay in order to achieve some desired effect. For example, if you want to [...]

Posted on 8 February 2010 | 1:34 am

Customer Expectation Levels for iPhone Applications?

Following on from my last article, which looked at some of the reasons/motivations for iPhone Developers to develop apps (see here), I thought I would look at the customer expectations levels. That decision was brought on by a great comment that I have seen from a user called bowkomor... "The passionate developer cares about the software he creates. It's his baby! They rarely care about how much money you make with it, neither do they care to how many clients you sell it. They make it a personal honor to deliver the highest quality (bug free, easily maintainable, well tested, well documented...) software they can. That's what their care about: making the most beautiful software they can!"

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Posted on 10 March 2010 | 9:32 am

Actuate Brings BIRT to the iPhone

Actuate Corporation, the people behind BIRT, on Tuesday announced the availability of the BIRT Mobile Viewer. The free download is a native iPhone application, available on the iPhone App Store. BIRT, an eclipse-based development environment for presenting compelling data visualizations on the web, can be accessed via BIRT onDemand on a fee-free trial basis. Together the BIRT Mobile Viewer and BIRT OnDemand or a BIRT iServer, which generates and deploys BIRT content to various devices securely in a scheduled manner, enable iPhones, iPod touch and in the future, iPad users to view and work with BIRT content anywhere. A growing mobile workforce has generated demand for access to enterprise information on handheld devices including the popular iPhone, wherever decisions are made: in the local retail store or bank branch, on the assembly line or on the road. With BIRT Mobile Viewer, users get an extended rich interactive application experience for their work-related data that stretch beyond the confines of an office or Internet connection, making critical information immediately available.

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Posted on 9 March 2010 | 5:01 am

Will iPad Succeed?

Will iPad succeed? We will know the answer to this question in few months time but I would like to put my neck out and apply one of my theories about why such devices succeed example – iPhone, iPod, Blackberry, Palm, Walkman etc. For any new device to become very popular – it needs to satisfy [...]

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Posted on 3 March 2010 | 7:00 am

SAP and Sybase Extend the Reach of SAP Business Suite Applications

Today at CeBit in Hannover, Germany SAP & Sybase announced the first set of applications to Millions of Mobile Workers. This will extend the reach of SAP Business Suite Applications (including SAP CRM), to iPhone, Windows Mobile and other Mobile Device Users.

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Posted on 2 March 2010 | 5:45 am

Why Social Media Check-Ins Could Bridge the ROBO Gap

Badges, Passports, the Creator, the Founder, the Mayor, getting a Pin, picking up a raccoon..This is the language of the newest phenomenon to hit the location-enabled social media marketing world. I am talking about Social Networking Games. No longer only for geeks and geocachers, these are real tools for seeing where your friends are, in real time, as they “check-in” to locations and share what they are doing. Since the device knows where it is, you can only check in to a location you are visiting. While mobile location sharing is not new, incentives that tap our competitive side offered by a “game” are, and this makes all the difference.

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Posted on 26 February 2010 | 11:00 am

VisionSync Launches MotionCast App on the iPhone

If you'd like to get local and community news, with personalized local news alerts, or join a community of citizen reporters with incentives to share revenues, then MotionCast might just be the app for you. The team behind some of the most popular mobile apps, including iMobile Care and TatTap, created MotionCast to provide location-aware news and a dynamic platform to cast local and community news, on your iPhone. The first release MotionCast lets users personalize hyper-local news feeds by category, location, most popular, breaking, hot and by Casters. The MotionCast Community lets Casters share information, rate casts, provide feedback, and collaborate on stories through a WikiNews module.

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Posted on 25 February 2010 | 1:01 am

Level 3 Helps Deliver Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Level 3 Communications has announced it is working with France Télévisions to help deliver the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in high definition (HD) to online and mobile audiences from Feb. 12 to 28. France Télévisions is delivering the Games live to the Web and Apple iPhone during the two-week event from 7 p.m. PST until 6 a.m. PST and providing on-demand content at all other hours. The delivery is made possible using Level 3’s content delivery network (CDN) and Live Event services, alongside Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Live Smooth Streaming and Microsoft Silverlight. IIS Smooth Streaming is designed to help improve the quality of an online video stream by minimizing broadcast disruptions through varying the quality of the delivery in real time, based on the available bandwidth of a given computer.

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Posted on 25 February 2010 | 1:00 am

3Tera Chairman To Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

IT is reliable today largely because of years of investment in management, monitoring and modeling. So, as the paradigm shift to Cloud Computing occurs, will we still be able to leverage these investments? This is the question that will be asked - and asnwered - by 3Tera Chairman and CEO Barry X Lynn in his upcoming session at the largest cloud computing event in the world, the 5th Cloud Expo in New York (19-21 April, 2010). Lynn's session will focus on how the management of IT in the Cloud needs to evolve in order for Cloud to become pervasive and even more reliable that IT is today.

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Posted on 24 February 2010 | 10:00 am

How do I tweet? Let me count the ways...

Twitter is a very simple and easy service to use and becasue of its openness (via numerous APIs) there are numerous Twitter clients from providers other than Twitter itself that you can use. From thick clients such as TweetDeck to thin web-based clients such as HootSuite to mobile and smart phone clients such as TinyTwitter, there are many options. You can also tweet via basic text/SMS to 40404. And if you don't like any of these options and can program, you can always write your own Twitter client using the Twitter APIs.

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Posted on 23 February 2010 | 6:15 am

SAP Wants CA To Give It More Toys

If Phillips had moved from Oracle to CA, he might have been richer - although that's hard to believe - but not necessarily happier considering McCracken reportedly wanted him to execute on McCracken's strategy, which is reportedly focused on the cloud. In that case, note that CA Thursday joined the Cloud Security Alliance as a corporate member to help establish and promote best practices for security in cloud computing, meaning to kick in its identity and access management expertise. It said it is "working with enterprise customers and cloud service providers to securely adopt and deliver cloud services." SAP could sure use a bit of that.

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Posted on 21 February 2010 | 2:15 pm

Sybase Mobile University Virtual Online Courses

This week I am recording the sessions for the Sybase Mobile University Virtual Online Courses - iPhone Virtual Event. If your company is considering iPhone as an enterprise device, please join us for our free virtual online classes from “Sybase Mobile University” on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Companies are finding that if they allow access to corporate email and other resources from personal devices, employees will be more productive and companies can save money. Let our iPhone experts bring you up to speed on issues to consider when adopting iPhone in the enterprise.

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Posted on 19 February 2010 | 4:30 am

Neustar to Exhibit at Cloud Expo April 19-21 New York City

SYS-CON Events today announced that Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a leading provider of managed services that enable communication across networks, applications and enterprises, is confirmed as an exhibitor at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo. This year’s event will take place on April 19-21, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 8:00 pm

CSC Named “Bronze Sponsor” of All Cloud Expo 2010 Events

SYS-CON Events announced today that CSC, a provider of technology enabled business solutions and services, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo 2010 West, which will take place on November 1-3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 10:15 am

USC ISI to Present at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

What are the benefits of HPC model-based simulation technical computing? In his session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Robert Graybill, Director of Innovation at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI), will examine the benefits for four supply chain companies based on the results from a government funded project in which Cloud Computing was used as a way to lower the barriers of HPC technical computing entry for these small supply chain companies.

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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 10:00 am

Azaleos to Exhibit at Cloud Expo April 19-21 in New York City

SYS-CON Events announced today that Azaleos Corporation, the managed messaging and collaboration services company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

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Posted on 18 February 2010 | 7:30 am

Opera Courts Apple's Wrath

Risking the fire-breathing wrath of Apple, Opera plans to preview an unsanctioned version of its browser for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. Cautiously, it’s not going to show it off to just anybody, only partners and the press. How Apple will react in defense of its own Safari browser is a curiosity given its policy of not duplicating functionality and casting Google Voice into the outer darkness last year.

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Posted on 13 February 2010 | 2:15 am

Lotus Meets Apple

IBM is pushing its Lotus software onto the iPhone, iPod Touch and Macintosh. A beta Lotus Symphony 3.0, IBM’s free OpenOffice-based suite of spreadsheet, presentation and documents software, is now available for the Mac as an alternative to Microsoft Office. And IBM’s offering Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime on the iPhone as well as the Mac. It says Sametime can be used to build professional networks with social capabilities such as blogs, wikis and microblogging, as well as instant messaging.

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Posted on 12 February 2010 | 8:45 pm

The Tao of Mobility for Business

So you are looking into Mobility or creating Mobility projects. What 'Tao' should guide you daily? Here are my 10 thoughts to the Mobility way...

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Posted on 12 February 2010 | 12:00 am

Apple's iPad & Business Will Make a Knock-out Combination

On Monday I wrote an article that put my initial thoughts and findings together on the newly announced iPad's. It included my belief that the current mass of iPhone Developers are excited & poised to adopt iPad, not only with their current applications on the App Store, but creating new applications to take advantage of the iPad... A New app 'gold rush' gathering momentum!

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Posted on 10 February 2010 | 2:00 pm

RealVNC Launches VNC Viewer for iPhone and iPod Touch

RealVNC has launched its new VNC Viewer, an application for the iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to connect to and take full control of a computer anywhere in the world. Available to download from the App Store, VNC Viewer makes it possible to run applications, access documents and change settings on any Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or UNIX computer, just as though you were sitting in front of it.

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Posted on 10 February 2010 | 3:54 am

Kindle vs Publishers - The Wrong Debate

Another episode of As The E-Book Turns wrapped this week, with Amazon locked in a page-turning battle with the publishing industry. The plot twists are many, but here's a quick outline: Amazon wants to continue charging $10 for e-book versions of most new titles and bestsellers, but the industry's leading publishers think that price is too low. Macmillan, for instance, wants $13 to $15 for most of its e-book titles, a demand that Amazon conceded to last week. Hachette, another major publisher, also plans to drop Amazon's $9.99 price model, and would rather see many e-books in the $15 range. HarperCollins has made a similar move. Meanwhile, the industry just gained an ally in Apple, which has agreed to let publishers set the price of e-books designed for its new iPad tablet. It's no surprise that publishers would want higher e-book prices, particularly for hot new bestsellers. But their strong-arm efforts to eradicate Amazon's consumer-friendly pricing aren't a good way to grow a nascent e-book market (and e-reader) market.

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Posted on 8 February 2010 | 8:00 pm

Jobs Has a Few Words for Google & Adobe & They Ain’t Pretty: Reports

"We did not enter the search business. [Google] entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them... I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing. This don't be evil mantra - It's bullshit." - Steve Jobs at an employee Town Hall the other day according to Wired, MacRummors et al although he may have said "load of crap" not "bullshit"; sources vary. Jobs reportedly means to use "aggressive updates" to stay way out front of the Android phone.

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Posted on 7 February 2010 | 6:00 pm

New Media on Ulitzer - Social Media Marketing Is Hot Hot Hot

Social media marketing is hot hot hot. While the disjointed components have risen and fallien with the VC tide for some time now, a coherent roadmap is emerging for marketing a brand, product or service via social media. No longer just a fad for college kids or a way to virally promote your fart app, social media is emerging as a powerful and rapidly growing low-cost, high-reward force for driving sales. The price tag is appealing and there is no barrier to entry. With billions now being bet by the major players on the need for brands to have a mobile ad strategy, social media has evolved in the wings from a nice-to-have to a must-have for every company that sells anything. From a local pizza joint to a consumer packaged goods goliath, the power of human interaction to spread a marketing message though trusted social networks at very low cost is suddenly here (and increasingly measurable).

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Posted on 6 February 2010 | 10:30 am

Siri Brings Their Virtual Personal Assistant’s Smarts to the iPhone

Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes [...]

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Posted on 4 February 2010 | 11:32 pm

The iPad Is the Ultimate Thin Client

In my earlier post, when I railed against the iPad, it was mostly personal disappointment and letdown.  I was disappointed by the technical specs, most notably the aspect ratio, and the exclusion of USB, HDMI, and webcams.  Those items can all be added on in later iterations (which I firmly believe they will – perhaps [...] Related posts:

1. Plastic Logic and what could be the ultimate thin client
2. A Reaction to the iPad
3. Thin Client Laptops: Functionality, Security, Mobility

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Posted on 2 February 2010 | 6:19 pm

iPad on Ulitzer - I’ll Buy iPad. But What For?

I’m proud to consider myself an upper middle class American . Why am I so proud about it? Because I haven’t been born in an upper middle class American family. I came to the USA 18 years ago with $200 in my pocket on a visitor’s visa. Don’t rush reporting on me to the Immigration authorities. I was legal in this country each and every day since. Then came the work visa (H1B), after that the green card, and back in 2001, I became an American citizen. Our family consists of me (silver 15” MacBook Pro), two sons (black 13” MacBook and a silver 13” MacBook) and my wife (post World War II Windows PC own by her employer, a filthy rich international bank). I also have an iPhone.

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Posted on 1 February 2010 | 7:15 am

iPad on Ulitzer - iPad Carries Apple Chip

While the market figures out whether it wants one of those new iHyped Apple iPad tablets when they get here in March, what it would do with it if it got one, whether it will kill the Kindle, threaten netbooks or backfire on Apple, note that it’s the first time Apple is using its own chip, supposedly giving purpose to its 2008 PA Semi acquisition.

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Posted on 29 January 2010 | 3:45 pm

iPad - What It Means For Developers

Today was a historic day in computing history. While the techno-geeks will argue for the next several months what this really means and what the Apple iPad is missing or why it’s only a large screen iPod Touch, I’m going to be focused on what I think this really means to some key industries and how Appcelerator can help. From my perspective, web developers are talking up and overwhelmingly are planning new application experiences for the new iPad. We surveyed just a small sample of our community of developers and found that over 90% of them plan on building an iPad application in the next 12 months.

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Posted on 29 January 2010 | 9:00 am

SYS-CON Projects All-Time High Revenue

That was our 2010 projection two months ago. Today, as of January 28, 2010, we booked more revenue for 2010 than the entire fiscal year 2009 actuals, including unearned income with record sponsorship sales for Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West and Cloud Expo Europe events. Our revised revenue projections for 2010 is on track for an all time record revenues since our company's inception in 1994, including media sales up in January from a year ago. As I made a reference to sponsorship and expo sales, I encourage all our sponsors to take contract option 2 which includes Cloud Expo 2010 East (New York City), Cloud Expo 2010 Europe (Prague, Czech Republic), and Cloud Expo 2010 West (Silicon Valley, California) events. On Monday, February, 1, 2010, we will announce the venues for Cloud Expo 2010 Europe (June 21 -22, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic) and Cloud Expo 2010 West (November 1-3, 2010, Silicon Valley).

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Posted on 28 January 2010 | 9:45 pm

Apple Leads the Pack of Application Stores

Netsize previews survey results at M-Days mobile conference and trade show in Munich, Germany

Munich, Germany, January 28, 2010 -- Netsize, a leading mobile commerce and communications enabler, today revealed the first results of the Mobile Trends Survey 2010. Drawing from an online survey of 1,000+ professionals and practitioners, the survey provides insights into key trends that top the industry agenda, including the advance of mobile applications stores, progress towards global mobile commerce and the pivotal importance of mobile as a means to bridge our virtual and physical worlds.

Using the occasion of M-Days - one of Europe's biggest mobile industry events and exhibitions held in Munich, Germany - Netsize provided conference attendees, industry influencers and key bloggers a sneak peek into the controversial survey results, starting with respondents' views on app store leaders and the enablers that give them and their offers the competitive edge.

According to the survey, the vast majority (87 percent) of respondents believe the Apple App Store will be the most successful app store in the mobile space. Google's Android Market is a distant second (60 percent), followed by Nokia's Ovi Store (30 percent) and RIM's BlackBerry App World (27 percent). Surprisingly, applications stores run by mobile operators finished low in the list, indicating that platform providers and handset makers may well dominate the space for a time to come.

When asked to rate the unique selling proposition of application stores over other software distribution and sales channels, 65 percent of respondents put convenience ("everything in one place") at the top of the list. This was followed by compatibility "software applications specific to the device"), choice ("a long tail of thousands of applications to choose from"), and ease of payment ("operator billing, for example").

Netsize, provider of operator billing solutions to most of the large mobile device vendors for their application stores, released the application store survey findings to the stage for a lively discussion of the future of mobile and the role of software application stores during "Mobile Trends 2020, Mobile Research and App-Commerce: What Comes Next in Europe?". The M-Days session was led and moderated by Peggy Anne Salz, mobile thought leader and MSearchGroove Founder and Chief Analyst.

The complete mobile trends survey results - which cover topics related to mobile entertainment, mobile marketing, mobile commerce, mobile payments and mobile convergence - will be released as part of the Netsize Guide 2010, a comprehensive mobile industry analysis and almanac published by Netsize and written by MSearchGroove's Salz. Netsize will launch the Netsize Guide 2010 on February 16, 2010 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

ABOUT NETSIZE
Netsize, a Gemalto company, is a leading mobile communications and commerce enabler. Netsize solutions include Mobile Messaging, with SMS and MMS delivery in 200 countries; Mobile Payment through operator-based billing (Premium SMS, MMS, & WAP) in 28 countries; and Mobile Content Management platforms with publishing & editing tools to manage messaging services and mobile Internet portals. Netsize manages more than 60 million mobile transactions per month for 800 customers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. With 180 employees in 10 offices worldwide, Netsize provides both robust technical infrastructure and marketing expertise to support this successful deployment on a global scale.

For more information about Netsize please visit www.netsize.com

About MSearchGroove
Peggy Anne Salz is the Chief Analyst and Founder of MSearchGroove, the source of analysis and commentary on mobile search, mobile advertising, and social media that was recently named a top 50 influential technology blog by Konector. Her report, "Mobile Search & Content Discovery," was regarded as the first in-depth study of its kind, establishing Peggy as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies, enabling media companies and mobile operators to monetize content and services. Her most recent series of practical how-to white papers covers the basics of mobile advertising and mobile analytics, earning her a reputation as a leading mobile advertising expert. She has written hundreds of articles tracking mobile industry trends and authored the Netsize Guide for three consecutive years. Peggy has established a successful writing and consulting career based on vision, insight, versatility, and more than 15 years of industry experience. For more information, please visit www.msearchgroove.com.

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NOTES TO THE EDITOR:
For an exclusive preview copy of the Netsize Guide 2010 and the Mobile Trends Survey results prior to their official launch on 16 February, please contact Alexander Vlasblom, Group Marketing Communications Director, Netsize.

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Posted on 28 January 2010 | 4:00 am

Apple iPad Impressive, but Kindle Not Dead Yet

Apple’s iPad announcement is big news. It’s a robust tablet form factor that is a half-inch thick and weighs 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display that supports 1024x768 VGA video. The ebook implementation is everything one would expect. The application can be downloaded from the App Store and the content is managed by the “iTunes” platform, so it seamlessly integrates e-book with the other popular personal content. All iBooks are stored on your Bookshelf. As you would expect, all books are displayed on a sharp, color screen with many personalization options.

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Posted on 27 January 2010 | 11:00 pm

Macworld 2010 Announces Special iPad Event

Macworld 2010 will offer a preview of the new iPad, providing attendees with in-depth analysis and commentary on Apple’s latest revolutionary product, IDG World Expo, owner of Macworld 2010, announced today. Jason Snell, vice president and editorial director at Macworld, the preeminent news and information source for professional and enthusiast users of Apple products, and a panel of industry insiders will explore the features, functionality and provide insight into the iPad. The event will be held on Saturday, February 13, from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. at Macworld 2010, and will delve into what iPad means for users, developers, the tech industry and the ancillary industries it affects. The iPad Special Event will be followed by a Q&A session and an opportunity for a Macworld 2010 attendee to win an iPad after the product begins shipping.

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Posted on 27 January 2010 | 1:06 pm

Nokia Follows Google But Can They Capitalize In The US?

Is "free nav" from Nokia a part of a plan, or a defensive reaction to try to take back lost smartphone market share and try to establish a US beachhead in the face serious pressure from "new" movers and shakers like Google, Apple, RIM, Palm, and others? It certainly seems Nokia had no choice but to go this route, as they are in market share freefall and have had no answer for the beloved iPhone, years after its launch. They lost 10% smartphone market share in Q4 2008, while Apple and RIM took off. In the middle of all this, Ovi's May 2009 app store launch was widely considered a flop. Now Google is in the mix too, bringing some serious mobile advertising chops to-bear. Nokia makes excellent hardware and have a dominant global market share position (38%), but they seem to have stood by and watched, as the US mobile advertising market rapidly evolved. They let Google jump behind the counter while no one was minding the store.

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Posted on 27 January 2010 | 11:56 am

Apple iPad in 3rd Place Behind iPhone and Android For Application Developers

Appcelerator, a platform which is used to develop Apple Tablet applications, on Tuesday, announced the findings of a new poll taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for the Apple Tablet. Taken last week from a pool of 18,000 of Appcelerator's application developers, 554 developers weighed in with responses about their plans, interests and preferences around Apple's forthcoming Tablet. Appcelerator also announced that its flagship cross-platform product, Appcelerator Titanium, would support the new Apple Tablet. Titanium enables web developers to use industry-standard, open-source Web technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS to quickly build rich, fully native applications that run on the iPhone, Android, Apple Tablet, PC, Macintosh, Linux platforms from a single code base.

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Posted on 26 January 2010 | 4:00 pm

Whatever the Apple iPad Is, It Apparently Leaks Like a Sieve

There may be little left for Apple to announce about its purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26 was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets. The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to be at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco but now it’s supposedly on the last Wednesday of the month rather than the last Tuesday.

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Posted on 26 January 2010 | 3:45 pm

The Planet Now Offers Free Cloud Storage

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, announced sweeping changes to its server fleet with the addition of free services bundled with every new server purchase. Across the board, customers now benefit from a free control panel, free antivirus software and 10GB of free Cloud Storage on every server leased from The Planet. The bundle includes Symantec Endpoint Protection -- business-class antivirus software -- along with Storage Cloud, the company’s robust cloud storage solution. Customers can also choose from either Parallels Plesk Panel or cPanel/WebHost Manager (WHM) for their hosting environments.

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Posted on 21 January 2010 | 9:45 pm

Google Calls Off Phone Launch in China

In the wake of its threat to pull out of China, Google Tuesday postponed the Chinese launch of two Android-based phones without saying why or if it would be rescheduled. Google presumably expects the situation to escalate and the Chinese government to block access to its US site, potentially affecting service.

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Posted on 21 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

Oracle's Cloud Expo Presentation on SYS-CON.TV

Several organizations have been exploring how to realize the economic benefits of cloud computing within their own datacenter. They are looking for faster provisioning on demand, agile resource scheduling based on policies, and chargeback rules to ensure resources are optimally utilized. The current focus of such private clouds has been mainly on infrastructure enablement, leaving the applications to fend for themselves.

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Posted on 21 January 2010 | 11:45 am

SAP ERP on iPhones

I met with a team of mobile software developers this week that have developed a fascinating mobile technology that enables the user to access ALL of SAP's ERP and other SAP components on an iPhone. I am particularly intrigued because I have never seen a mobile application that can quickly enable an entire ERP with only a 25 MB download and a 15 minute set-up. The use case would be any SAP user or expert that needs to access any page or component of SAP while out of the office. It is all there on the iPhone. I was very impressed. Most often only traveling sales or service people are prioritized for enterprise mobile applications, but this technology will enable anyone in the company that needs access to the SAP system to simply login with their iPhone and go to work.

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Posted on 14 January 2010 | 12:00 pm

Wilson Kerr Launches "Location Based Services" Topic on Ulitzer

The power of Location allows information (including advertising) to be delivered to consumers most-able to act upon this information, based on their real-time proximity to the physical locations where transactions occur. Location is changing the very nature of advertising and mobile Location Based Services (LBS) are expected to see a 45% increase in revenue generated in 2010. In the next 5 years, more people will gain access to the web on their phones than on PCs. Since consumers carry their phones with them, this is a game-changer for performance-based advertising. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Nokia, Apple, Amazon, Dell, Garmin, etc are all in the mix here and there is a lot at stake.

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Posted on 14 January 2010 | 8:30 am

Google Voice On The New Google Phone

I am up late January 5th and have been awaiting the first news stories from the big Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) about the new Google phone, the Nexus One. I just Googled up the first piece (from 33 minutes ago) from, of all sources, the Montreal Gazette. In the final few sentences they capture the essence of the real disruptive innovation threat this bold Google Phone poses to business as usual for US Carriers and, I would imagine, people are applauding!

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Posted on 13 January 2010 | 9:15 pm

From Inday: Happy New Year from the Philippines!

We had a nice Undas party, even if I couldn't be in province to visit my grandmother in the semetario.

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Posted on 13 January 2010 | 2:47 pm

Will Apple Be Transforming Mobile Computing?

I have been totally excited since the booking of the Moscone West by Apple for January 27 and believe, like most of the industry followers, that Apple will be announcing their tablet/slate device. Whilst digging around I came across this great video that shows how fantastic such a device could be used in the areas of education and show some innovations that such a device could bring to students in the new decade. Could we now be on the edge of a totally e-classroom, that not only allows the student to carry e-books etc (such as in the video) but allows electronic submission of work & central management of timetables & attendance etc?

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Posted on 11 January 2010 | 8:30 am

One Million US Dollars Reward For 4G Innovators

At the press announcement was Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, Chief Executive Officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), a Malaysian Government Development Agency, driver of MSC Malaysia’s National ICT initiative. “MSC Malaysia is excited to be witnessing this announcement of mYprize at a global landmark event at CES, as it truly shows the high level of commitment from YTL Communications in establishing a regional Center of Excellence for 4G Mobile Internet Innovation, thus also promoting and stimulating an innovative culture amongst Malaysians,” said Badlisham. He also expressed his enthusiasm that the competition will generate worldwide interest from anyone with a great idea, as this will also be a platform for Malaysia to produce entrepreneurs and to attract innovators globally. MSC Malaysia’s presence at the event exemplified collaboration between the public and private sector (MDeC and YTL) in leapfrogging Malaysia into an innovation-led economy as envisioned by the Prime Minister.

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Posted on 9 January 2010 | 10:30 pm

Winners of Last Gadget Standing Showdown

Boxee Box by D-Link, an open-source media player that plays entertainment from the Internet or a computer on a TV, was selected as the winner of the Last Gadget Standing through the live CES audience applause-o-meter. The Boxee Box by D-Link supports a wide array of audio and video formats and is integrated with Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Microvision's SHOWWX, the world's first laser pico projector, was selected as the winner of the Last Gadget Standing online vote. The SHOWWX projects big, bright and colorful photos, movies, and presentations that are always in focus, yet it is small enough to fit in your pocket.

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Posted on 9 January 2010 | 9:30 pm

Phoenix Technologies Sued Over Patent Infringement

DeviceVM, a privately held software company offering Splashtop, announced on Saturday that it has filed a claim for patent infringement against Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:PTEC) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The patent claim is based on DeviceVM’s determination that Phoenix’s HyperSpace product infringes a patent owned by DeviceVM for a “Mechanism for Intuitively Invoking One or More Auxiliary Programs During a Computer Booting Process.” DeviceVM seeks, among other relief, damages for Phoenix’s infringement and an injunction barring Phoenix from making, using, offering to sell, licensing, and/or selling HyperSpace products.

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Posted on 9 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

Poker News Site Launched on Ulitzer Offering More Than 5,000 Original Articles

Poker News on Ulitzer "new-media" site launched today in Las Vegas offering more than 5,000 original news stories, blogs and articles. "Poker News on Ulitzer" offers breaking news and up-to-date information on Poker related acivities from around the world. Ulitzer is the first "new-media" platform in the world that revolutionizes how we will create, deliver, and consume content on the Web. Ulitzer authors can get started with their first article in a few minutes and may start a new "topic" on any subject or write a story and post it both to their Ulitzer author page and to any existing Ulitzer topic.

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Posted on 9 January 2010 | 7:00 pm

TomTom App for iPhone Awarded at CES

TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, announced at CES 2010 that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for its TomTom app for iPhone. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products across 36 product categories.

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Posted on 9 January 2010 | 6:30 pm

Authors Capture Inspiration When It Strikes With FastPencil iPhone App

FastPencil on Friday announced the availability of its free mobile authoring application allowing iPhone and iPod touch users to capture inspiration anywhere. The FastPencil (www.fastpencil.com) mobile app enables authors to read, write and work on books hosted at the free FastPencil publishing platform whenever and wherever they want. Mobile authoring, an emerging confluence of mobile technology and creative content generation, mobilizes authors like never before. FastPencil's mobile app lets on-the-go authors use their iPhone to easily capture and organize inspiration within their FastPencil book projects and edit their books anytime.

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Posted on 8 January 2010 | 9:00 am

icyou iPhone Application Offers Health Videos on the Go

icyou on Friday announced the launch of its iPhone app. Available for free on Apple's iPhone App Store, the application gives users convenient access to important health information when and where they choose. icyou Health Video for iPhone is available as a free download from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. icyou is the source for health videos online. On the Web site, users can find and watch health videos, upload their own, and participate in the growing community. icyou’s videos make the many facets of healthcare not only understandable but personal.

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Posted on 8 January 2010 | 6:31 am

Even Homer Simpson has an iPhone

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Sunstorm Announces Real Trophy Hunting game for iPhone and iPod touc

Kevin’s comments:  Shoot a virtual Bambi, with a virtual gun on your real iPhone.  Now time for some virtual venison recipes… Sunstorm Interactive Inc. the founder of the hunting game genre and the developer of the mega-hit game Deer Hunter proudly announces the release of Real Trophy Hunting 1.0 for [...]

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Missing apps from iPad will not appear in “widget mode”

Last month, speculation that a number of minor iPhone applications such as Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock, and Calculator “missing” from the iPad could reappear in some sort of “widget mode” similar to Dashboard on Mac OS X received a bit of publicity. According to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber’s [...]

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Is Bing on it’s way to the iPhone?

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer recently had positive words about Apple’s success with the iPhone and its App Store, adding fuel to rumors of a potential alignment between Apple and Microsoft to bring Bing search to the iPhone. “Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and commercialize [...]

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The sale of Apps, books, music, and video is expected to be big for iPad

The sale of applications, e-books, newspapers and magazines for the iPad is predicted to equal nearly 30 percent of the revenue Apple will earn from selling the hardware by the end of 2011. Analyst Brian Marshall with Broadpoint.AmTech issued a note to investors Tuesday forecasting the “sticky” nature of the [...]

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Car Minder App: auto maintenance and fuel mileage for iPhone (Free Promo Codes)

We have 3 promo codes for Car Minder to give away. This is a REALLY cool app for helping you maintain mileage, and maintenance records for your vehicle.  What do you have to do to get a free promo code?  Become a fan of our Facebook page and 3 [...]

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Apple looking to improve the quality of Apps

TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on “cookie cutter” iPhone applications that offer little more than could be offered through a web app. Between the developers I spoke to, the consensus was [...]

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ScanMe – Awesome Biometric Finger Scanner!

The Best Finger Scanning App in the App Store! Utilize this cutting edge finger scanning app to instill endless fun and confusion among your friends, family, coworkers and classmates! Con one person after another into thinking that you're "The Best!" or "The Hottest!" or any other number of polished compliments with the ability to enter your own results!

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The Jerky Boys Pinball (free promo code)

The Jerky Boys have sold millions of records, winning best comedy album at NARM for two consecutive years, also Grammy nominated. Johnny’s beloved character voices have even made their way onto Fox TV’s smash hit “FAMILY GUY.” Back in October 2009, Johnny Brennan Creator of The Jerky Boys, paired up [...]

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WildSpace: arcade game for iPhone. Free for limited time

Anyone want a job as an English translator for poorly translated iPhone App Press Releases??? Must be a team player, able to translate from Babble Fish to English, see contact below…  WildSpace is able for free! The game WildSpace is able for free only at March 8th. Lets be [...]

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