AmericanGreetings.com, the online division of American Greetings Corp, is joining the iPhone wave with a dedicated application, allowing users to browse, personalize and send e-cards to anyone with an e-mail address. More than 80 designs are available for everything from birthday, friendship and thinking of you – to holidays and other special occasions. The application…
USA Interactive’s iUSA and iAmerica help users get to know America and its policies
The first sentence of USA Interactive’s press release is quite pretentious. It goes like this: The entire U.S. government — and its history — have just gone mobile. With that sentence they are announcing two iPhone apps: iUSA and iAmerica, which reportedly provide users with access to everything from their local government to the White…
Apple will stream tonight’s Underworld concert to iPhone for FREE!
Streaming? iPhone? Is that even possible? Sure is. And Apple is going to stream the first ever live concert to the iPhone, for free nonetheless! Tonight, Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 9:00PM PST (that’s West Coast time), Apple will be streaming the Underworld concert to iPhones using Apple’s own HTTP streaming standard. By using variable…
CoPilot Live Satellite Navigation arrives for iPhone
ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot Live satellite navigation system has been approved for sale via the iPhone App Store and is now available in UK for Apple iPhone 3G and 3Gs for a one-off fee of £25.99. Running in portrait or landscape display mode, CoPilot Live brings full featured turn-by-turn navigation to iPhones, complete…
Donna Karan gets an iPhone app
Luxury brands are not strangers to the iPhone and now we have Donna Karan getting her own application in the AppStore. The free app is launched yesterday to coincide with DK Fall 2009 Collection delivery. Here’s what the press release says about the app (it gets personal): In this new unique vehicle of woman to…
Finger iPhone app is not what you think it is
What would you think about the application called Finger? Well, for one thing, I thought it will make me use my middle finger less in daily interactions with people. But wait, it’s not like that. Quite the contrary, the Finger app (it still sounds awkward) is all about watching and creating animated gestures of a…
Call of Duty: World at War gets a companion iPhone app
Activision is bringing its popular Call of Duty franchise to the iPhone. The first title is Call of Duty: World at War and is designed as a companion for the blockbuster game. Developed by Treyarch, the iPhone app is not game, but a tool to help registered players by providing them with access to latest…
Friday Fun: Baseball Superstars for iPhone
Baseball Superstars from Gamevil claims to be the #1 baseball game in the App Store. I can’t confirm or deny that, but I certainly can confirm that the game is lots of fun for any baseball fan. The characters, colors, physics and overall gameplay experience are tons of fun. If you enjoy baseball, you’re going…
Can’t get laid? Looking to get sexually assaulted? There was an App for that, but Apple pulled out
Exactly one month ago today I wrote about an application called “Sex Offender” for the Apple iPhone that would use the device’s built in GPS to show you where registered sex offenders are living. This application wasn’t free, which may have very well been the reason it was pulled. Under California law you’re not allowed…
Phil Schiller admits that Apple censors the App Store like China censors the internet
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller has been having an email exchange with John Gruber, who originally broke the story about the hell iPhone application Ninjawords had to go through, that amounts to nothing more than an apology letter and a detailed explanation that there were a lot more swear words…