City of Boston is going iPhone with a dedicated application called Citizen Connect. The idea here is to allow citizens to quickly file civic complaints by snapping a photo of neighbourhood problems and email them directly to City Hall. Using the built-in GPS receiver, the photo is geotagged making sure the local government knows exactly…
Streamezzo, Atos Worldline team-up to power mobile TV application on the iPhone
Streamezzo and Atos Worldline have recently announced a partnership to power an interactive Live TV application for the iPhone. The solution is designed to enable operators and broadcasters to offer iPhone subscribers great mobile TV experience, combining the power of Streamezzo’s technology and of Atos Worldline in-depth experience in the telecom market with large volume…
Stanza iPhone ebook reader gets an update
Popular ebook reading app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Stanza, has been updated. The main point of the version 1.9 is that it has been optimized to better sing along iPhone OS 3.0. Moreover, pages are now turning smoother in both orientations. In a nutshell, it’s a small update, which doesn’t bring much new to the…
Control your Comcast Cable services with the new Comcast iPhone app
AT&T has already done it (iTunes link). DirecTV is all about it. Now, Comcast has thrown their own iPhone app into the mix. The digital cable television, phone and high-speed internet provider has just launched a new iPhone app that allows customers to control their Cable, Voice and Data services from the palm of their…
Acrossair Helps Find Your New York Subway Station
Acrossair is showing off a great new location-based augmented reality app for the iPhone that helps New Yorkers work their way around the subway. As you can see from the video, it makes good use of direction detection the iPhone 3GS by showing you both which stations are in the way you’re facing the camera,…
iPhone Game ‘Scoops’ from NimbleBit Available for Free This Sunday
Ever heard of ‘National Ice Cream Day‘? Me neither. But apparently in 1984, Ronald Reagan declared the third Sunday in July to be National Ice Cream Day. If I was president I’d do a lot of things like that as well. ‘National Steak Day‘, ‘National Wear a Velvet Robe to Work Day‘, it’d be great.…
ABSOLUT VODKA goes iPhone, Android
ABSOLUT VODKA is extending its marketing to smartphones, big time. They announced a mobile application for the iPhone and Android platform called Drinkspiration by ABSOLUT. The uber-cool looking app is designed as an interactive encyclopedia of recipes that helps you “find and share personalized drink recommendations based on spirit, taste, weather, time of day, bar…
King.com goes iPhone, Facebook
Online skill games company, King.com, has released its first-ever games for the iPhone and Facebook. We’ll focus on the iPhone in this article, of course, and I’m sure you can find out more about their Facebook offering from other places. Amazon Survival will be King.com’s first iPhone title, and from what we’re hearing more are…
Google Search on iPhone 3.0 Locates Position
Google has updated their mobile search page for those visiting through Safari on iPhones running OS 3.0. Now your search will take into account My Location, to provide location-contextualized results. The feature has been included in the iPhone Google Mobile App for a long time already, but this is a cool addition for those who…
World of Warcraft App for iPhone Released
Gaming heavyweight, Blizzard, has just announced a mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch to provide players with access to their World of Warcraft Armory database. What can you find in there? Just about everything – event calendars, equipment lookups, player-versu-player information, and lots more. For those of you who don’t know one of the…