Sometime in the spring of 2010, Canada’s Scotiabank will be offering “secure access to their bank accounts – anywhere, any time”. Besides checking your balance, this project will also allow customers to pay bills and make transfers. Scotiabank’s partner in this project, M-Com, looks like they mainly deal with secure WAP sites and SMS; M-Com…
Savant’s Home Automation by iPhone Comes to Canada
Savant has been selling an iPhone app called Rosie since last September that allows users to command just about all things electronic in the house: lighting, security, and home entertainment. By combining a hardware hub at home with a monitoring server, subscribers can remotely control many functions, like security (cameras), climate (A/C and furnace), and…
Only today: Chillingo’s Super Shock Football for iPhone is free!
As part of its Black Friday Sale promotion, mobile gaming company Chillingo sent me an email to announce that their Super Shock Football is available for free! I already grabbed it. 🙂 The company also said their other title, Secret of the Mysterious Island, will be available for only a buck, down from its regular…
Pizza Hut iPhone app scores another award, this time from Forbes
Just when we reported that MMA has honored Pizza Hut’s iPhone app with two awards, the company has scored another award for its iEfforts. This time it’s Forbes Magazine, which named the application as the #1 Branded Mobile Application of 2009. Commenting on the new award received, Pizza Hut’s Bernard Acoca said: “It is very…
Yowza!! adds coupons from new retail partners just in time for the holiday season
Yowza!!, a mobile local coupon service/iPhone app we covered in the past, announced addition of coupons from new retail partners — including Toys R’ Us, Babies R’ Us, Robbins Brothers, Hobby Lobby and ULTA Beauty Stores. In addition, the company also said that its coupons will be available on the Android platform, through a partnership…
Saskatchewan Roughriders App Very Popular on the Prairies
Canadians are gearing up for the big football game of the year up here in Canada. That’s right, the Canadian version of the ‘Super Bowl’, the ‘Grey Cup‘ is being played this Sunday in Calgary… Featuring the Montreal Alouettes vs. the Saskatchewan Roughriders. If you’re familiar with the CFL, you’ll know that Saskatchewan’s fans are…
Microsoft Bringing Silverlight to iPhone?
Nobody’s really holding their breath to see Flash on iPhone, but of all companies, Microsoft might be the one to offer a reasonable alternative. Microsoft UX Platform Manager Brian Goldfarb was demoing Silverlight working on an iPhone to wirelessly stream H.264 video at the Professional Developer Conference ’09. Now, it’s a bit of a mis…
Kid who Rick Rolled jailbroken Australian iPhones lands job as a developer
Remember the iPhone worm Will talked about a little over 2 weeks ago, the one that made an estimated 21,000 jailbroken iPhones in Austrilia with SSH installed switch their wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley? The guy who developed that worm is a 21 year old named Ashley Towns. He just scored a job…
iPhone camera app Snapture 2.0 adds photo sharing, auto-focus and color modes
Snapture has updated its popular camera application for the iPhone. Version 2.0 builds on its powerful predecessor (which we covered in the past) to include new features such as: Photo sharing to Facebook and Twitter Auto-focus and tap-to-focus New color modes: black & white, sepia and inverse Rest of the features from the previous releases…
PCMag iPhone-izes its online Tech Encyclopedia
PCMag in collaboration with Computer Language Company has launched its first iPhone app which is a mobile version of their popular online Tech Encyclopedia. In other words, the dedicated application allows you to search through 25,000 tech terms or browse them in alphabetical format. And just like in the web version, there are extensive entries,…