After adding support for editing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in version 2.0, DataViz immediately “went back to work” to further improve its mobile office suite – Documents To Go. As a result, version 2.1 was born, packing several improvements in the PDF viewer, including: “Go to” page Maintaining last viewed location Opening password-protected PDFs Thumbnail, Fit…
Knocking Live Video brings live broadcasting to the iPhone
Pointy Heads Software, the folks behind Knocking Live Pic, are out with a new iPhone app from the series – Knocking Live Video, which is touted as the “world’s first broadcast app.” Just like their earlier application, this one also establishes live, device-to-device connectivity regardless of proximity or other barriers, broadcasting live streaming video from…
Awesome parody of iPhone ads by UK newspaper
This must be the best take-off of the year by one of the red-top newspapers in the UK 🙂 The Sun, which is celebrating 40 years of informing the nation this year, has parodied the iPhone advert in ad for their own newspaper. There are some excellent mirth-making touches in this little vid – I…
Is it going to be a Merry iPhone Christmas in the UK?
Well, the answer could be both yes and no, depending on what your perspective on things is…. If you are retailer or an Operator selling the iPhone, and you are looking purely at revenue, then yes, Christmas could be a VERY good time – you’ll shift tons of boxes, and sign up tons of contracts…
Square: A nice idea on paper, but a nightmare to implement and a small market to attract
One of Twitter’s founders, Jack Dorsey, just launched Square. It’s yet another company that attempts to tackle the issue of making mobile payments work, but instead of trying to become a completely new payment processor, they are depending on the existing infrastructure of plastic credit cards built by Visa, MasterCard and American Express. People who…
Video: DROID Ain’t no Princess
The Motorola droid ad campaign is in full swing, and the potshots at iPhone just don’t stop. The tagline for this ad is “It’s not a princess, it’s a robot. A phone that trades hair-do for can-do”. I’m usually not one to post advertisements (we’ve got enough banners as is), but Verizon is doing a…
Scotiabank Launches SMS Service, BlackBerry, and iPhone Apps
Last week Scotiabank hinted that they would be launching some mobile services, and now SMS alerts and iPhone and BlackBerry applications are available. The apps are little more than ATM and branch locators bolstered by GPS integration, which is too bad – I’m sure a lot of folks would like to be able to check…
SEGA Puts More Primates in Spheres For Our Amusement; Super Monkey Ball 2 Released for iPhone
Last year, SEGA released Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone. The title was a port of SEGA’s successful Super Monkey Ball series that first started on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2001, but since then has made it across multiple platforms. Super Monkey Ball was also used in demoing the iPhone’s ability to run games with…
EA Bringing Mirror’s Edge to the iPhone
EA announced early this morning they will be bringing Mirror’s Edge to the iPhone. Mirror’s Edge was released late last year on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC and it follows the story of Faith who is a member of a group of runners who are vital in transporting sensitive information as the world is under…
Fring’s iPhone app gets one-way video calls
Few days ago we talked about the brand new version of Fring for Symbian S60 which enabled Skype video calls. Now the company is bringing the same/similar functionality to the iPhone and iPod Touch users. The “similar” part comes from the fact that iPhone users can see the person they’re talking to, while the other…