Online service for smart travel, Dopplr, announced the launch of Dopplr – The Social Atlas, a free iPhone application that “puts the combined wisdom of the world’s smart travellers in your pocket.” You can use the app to find nearby recommended places to eat, stay and explore. Moreover, if you make new discoveries of your…
VSC Consulting launches specialized PR service for smartphone app developers
With the proliferation of the smartphones, guess we expected to see some traditional marketing and advertising agencies specializing in application promotion services. That said, VSC Consulting, a U.S. boutique PR firm, announced a new service division focusing exclusively on iPhone, Blackberry, Android and other mobile application developers in need of mass market awareness. The division,…
Crowded iPhone AppStore prompting Apple for a refresh?
The AppStore is a lot of things, but it’s not an easy place to navigate. With over 65,000 iPhone apps available, discovery of new applications is becoming an increasingly serious problem. If you’ve even casually kept tabs on Apple’s top iPhone apps lists, you’ll probably have noticed that there’s a lot of turnover in the…
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models iPhone app is as close to porn as you’ll ever get on the iPhone
Sports Illustrated found a neat way to re-invent itself and make few dimes along the way. Their idea – prepare an iPhone app with models from the 2009 Swimsuit Issue. Yeah we know, the Swimsuit issue was released back in February, but it’s better late than never. Not surprisingly, considering Apple’s puritan policy, SI is…
Warner Bros’ Guinness World Records allows players to end up in THE book
Warner Bros has teamed up with Guinness World Records for a neat marketing plot. Their idea is to promote the Guinness World Records game, by allowing the player who secures the most points by August 15, 2009 to get its name included in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition book. Of course, you’ll need…
ChaCha Voice Search on iPhone outperforms voice-enabled search from Google and Yahoo!
Don’t just love David vs Goliath stories, when a little guy beats the big bully? On the similar note, we caught a press release from ChaCha. Apparently, MSearchGroove found that ChaCha’s voice-enabled mobile search “proved superior” to two other options for the iPhone: the Google Mobile App and Yahoo Mobile App. This, of course, shouldn’t…
Modulation Index brings true Adobe Flash streaming radio to the Apple iPhone
Modulation Index has recently announced that their Tuner2 Hi-Fi Radio app is the first ever iPhone application to natively support the true RTMP protocol for streaming audio via Adobe Flash Media Server. Sure, we’ve seen quite a few “world’s first” announcements, but apparently Modulation Index’s onto something. As a result of their solution, radio stations…
GP Racing from Brawn GP Hits the App Store
Formula 1 fans are well aware that the Brawn F1 team are leading the Drivers AND Constructors Championship this year. Not only that, but it looks like they’ve already won another race… the race to bring the first worthwhile F1 racing simulation to the iPhone! This is welcome news for the F1 fan for sure.…
Barnes & Noble releases iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry eBook reader and announces eBook store
Barnes & Noble, a chain of retail bookstores in America that I greatly miss, announced yesterday that they’ve opened an eBook store with 700,00 titles, which includes roughly 500,000 books that are in the public domain, and that readers will be able to enjoy their books on the iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry. This move…
Sun Danyong, 25 year old Foxconn employee, commits suicide after misplacing an iPhone prototype
With Apple’s Q3 results coming out today at 17:00 New York time, the company is under extreme pressure to deliver some fantastic numbers in what is best described as a horrific economic situation. You think that’s pressure? What about 25 year old Sun Danyong? An employee of Foxconn in the Shenzhen part of China, he…