In an effort to catch the audience on their mobiles, one of the world’s largest digital publishers, BlueToad, announced it will launch an iPhone app to publishers wishing to brand their digital publication via an iPhone app. BlueToad publications are already compatible with the iPhone and the Kindle via the devices’ internet browser, and turning…
InMobi grows to be the largest ad network in South Africa
InMobi has announced today that it has grown to become the largest mobile advertising network in South Africa with over 650 million mobile ad requests per month! The service offering has also been expanded to other countries in Africa such as Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt which are also beginning to show a significant growth in…
AAXA announces the world’s brightest micro projector
My buddy Ron over at picoprojector-info.com has spotted up a really nice new micro projector from a company called AAXA: AAXA has announced a new “micro-projector”, the M1. It’s tiny (385 grams), and can almost be considered a pico-projector, but bright – it’s got 66 lumens. The M1 sports 800×600 resolution, and can project images…
Festive Tones iPhone app released by Electric Pocket
Electric Pocket has just released FestiveTones – which is a seasonal version of its MailTones app for iPhone (which I posted on previously, here). Now you can choose a festive tone to play that identifies when specific people send you emails. The collection of alert tones include sleigh bells, brass bands and carols alongside traditional…
Brief update: Clueless (game of the film) is now available in the App Store
I posted on it here before, but for those of you that had a bit of a thing about Clueless (or perhaps the actress in it, Alicia Silverstone), there’s now a game in the App Store based on it – and it’s now available for download! In the Clueless iPhone game, inspired by Paramount Pictures’…
Santa’s Voice on TeleNav GPS Navigator – ALL proceeds go to Toys for Tots
It was only just the other day when I was reporting on Navteq and the fact they have outfitted Santa’s Sleigh with GPS (yes, really – see here) – well now TeleNav are on the go and offering a Santa voice for their GPS Navigator software: Tired of the same old voice giving you GPS…
Ultra-brief: another Groovemaker Rock Ace video!
I reported the other day on the newest version of an awesome ‘casual productivity’ (like a game, but actually worthwhile spending your time on) App, called Groovemaker Rock Ace. GRA continues the great heritage set by the other Apps in the Groovemaker series, but this time introduces RRRRRRRRRRRock! And they’ve even added a big name…
GrooveMaker Rock Ace app by Skunk Anansie guitarist released!
IK Multimedia has announced the release of the first artist created GrooveMaker® app for iPhone/iPod Touch: GrooveMaker Rock Ace by Skunk Anansie’s guitarist Ace. This is the latest addition to the hugely successful GrooveMaker range of 9 currently available titles. With over 450,000 downloads since its August release, GrooveMaker has quickly become the top loop…
Broadcom’s next-gen BCM2763 VideoCore IV processor will be able to handle 20MP photos, 1080p HD videos
Broadcom announced BCM2763 VideoCore IV processor, what they say is the next generation multimedia processor capable of providing high-end performances. The new product requires less power to work thanks to the use of 40 nanometer technology — as opposed to 65nm used in current processors. Moreover, this baby is capable to process 20-megapixel photos, 1080p…
Bing goes iPhone with location-aware voice search
There are already a few iPhone apps that use Microsoft’s Bing search engine to scour the web, so it only makes sense that Microsoft launch a proper Bing iPhone app in the AppStore – nevermind the fact that Microsoft is developing mobile applications for its arch-rival’s mobile operating system. Today, Microsoft is making it easier…