Apps
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Nokia Launches FriendChat – A New App
FriendChat, a new, free app available on the Ovi Store launches today, allowing you to have five different instant chat conversations with your Facebook friends at the same time. It makes instant messaging quick, easy, and simple. Not only are all your friends, family, colleagues and acquaintances already in your contact book, you can also swap between several active chats you are having– ideal if you are talking to different groups of friends at once. No matter where they are in the world, FriendChat lets keeps you connected to your existing network of friends on the go, featuring: Quick, responsive instant messaging with your Facebook friends on your Nokia Instant…
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Daily App Digest – 09/24/10
Latest apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today… GoBlue 1.0 IJApps today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of GoBlue 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. GoBlue is a puzzle game that tests logic and memory skills. It never finishes, players keep playing to build their score. The smarter they play, the faster their score grows. Scores are compared between friends. There are 9 hinged tiles mounted on a wooden board. The tiles are red one side and blue the other. The tiles are randomly interconnected, the object of the puzzle is to flip them all to blue. "The less moves you make, the more…
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Apple Is Killing The Mobile Phone Business
According to a report in Fortune today, they state that despite Apple being the most profitable mobile company, this has come about largely due at the expense of Nokia, Sony Ericcson, LG and Motorola. Asymco’s Horace Dediu who put this data together said, "Will Android change this picture?" he asks rhetorically. "As I’ve argued before, Android is most attractive to the unprofitable and the strategically constrained. Can having undifferentiated new products change this? As Nokia is unlikely to license Android, and RIM seems very unlikely and Apple is out of the picture, the only possible contenders are Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. "Motorola and Sony Ericsson have both…
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Awesome Concept Smart Phone From Mozilla Lab – Mozilla Seabird
Mozilla Lab’s Concept Series idea-sharing forum has produced a concept smartphone by electronics product designer Billy May, called the Mozilla Seabird. This is truly awesome. The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content as devices and technology advances. Drawing on insights culled from the Mozilla community through the project’s blog, a focus quickly developed around frustrating physical interactions. While mobile CPUs, connectivity and development platforms begin approaching that of desktops, the lagging ability to efficiently input information has grown ever more pronounced. Seabird Pico Projector With mobile phone companies such as Samsung, LG and Motorola moving…
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Augmented Reality Convenience Store Locator iPhone App – Combini
This Augmented Reality application for iPhone and iPod Touch will help you find the nearest Combinis (convenience store) from your position in Tokyo. It works with the iPhone’s camera live view. Any combini within a 1km distance will be displayed. This is great, now we need one for the US and Europe. – iPhone vertical position: 360-degree view of all Combinis nearby your location, updated in real time as you walk in the streets. – iPhone horizontal position: List of all nearest Combinis. When a station is selected, a red arrow (compass) is displayed to show the direction and the distance to that point. This application does not require a…
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Top 5 of the latest and best Photography iPad Apps
Wanting to know what the newest and latest good photography iPad apps there are available. Well, take a look at this list and why not try a few for yourself too? iAwesomizer Do want to unleash the artist inside and have fun with your photos? Discover iAwesomizer, a series of visual effects that will transform your pictures and will put a smile on your face. Although we guarantee your enjoyment it might not always be the case with the person photographed…Ah…, but that’s part of the fun! Let your creativity loose and change a picture in multiple ways by applying any number of desired visual effects. iAwesomizer lets you erode,…
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Apple Updates iPad Apps, Keynote, Pages and Numbers
Apple has just released updates to its Pages, Keynote, and Numbers iPad apps that add integration with its own MobileMe iDisk cloud storage as well as other cloud storage using the WebDAV protocol. Each app can now copy files from and save files to a users iDisk. Additionally, each app has received a number of feature enhancements and bug fixes. This suite of productivity apps was announced at the same time as the iPad in January and became available in the App Store right as the iPad was released in the U.S. The apps got their last major update in May. Take a look below to see what else is…
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Apple’s Share of Mobile Phone Industry Profits Rises to 39%
Fortune are running a report based on new research from Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, it compares Apple’s performance in the mobile/smart phone industry to that of its competitors for the first half of 2010. Apple sold 17 million iPhones during the first half of the year, a tiny fraction of the 400 million handsets sold by top manufacturers Nokia, Samsung, and LG combined. But when looking at industry profits, Apple snagged 39% of the pie while the other three companies combined to take only 32%. At the end of the day, it’s only profits that count, right? ‘We are also impressed with Apple’s ability to monetize its…
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Daily iPhone App Digest – 09/20/10
Latest iPhone apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today…. DoubleCheck 1.0 DoubleIP S.A., announces that DoubleCheck 1.0 for iPhone application reached No. 1 Top Paid & Grossing utilities charts in the Greek AppStore. In addition, DoubleCheck reached No. 6 Top Paid main chart position in the entire Greek AppStore. After the local success, DoubleCheck targets US and worldwide markets, offering users the ability to identify the mobile network of their contacts, mark it on their address book and have it always available when they place or receive a call. Portability is unveiled and mobile users with unlimited free plans between subscribers of the same mobile operator can now…
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Filterstorm For iPad
Filterstorm was designed from the ground up to meet your mobile photo editing needs. Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography. Retouching With a Touch Filterstorm contains a suite of powerful tools including curves manipulation, color correction abilities, noise reduction, unsharp masking, and black and white conversion fine-tuning. It also includes the ability to apply any of the available filters by brush, or to a color range, as well as to the entire image. While iPad processor speeds currently preclude the possibility of running a RAW workflow, Filterstorm is there to meet your JPEG…