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Runmeter 2.0 for iPhone 3G/3GS Powers Your Training with First Text-to-Speech Tweets and Google Map Sharing

Info — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:30:07 +0000

iPhone fitness application developer Abvio announced Runmeter 2.0, the most comprehensive running application for the iPhone 3G/3GS. Runmeter turns your phone into a powerful GPS stopwatch, giving runners feedback to run faster and increase endurance. Runmeter 2.0 is the first iPhone application to offer built-in Twitter text-to-speech, so runners can hear Twitter replies from their coaches, friends and family during training.

“Runmeter 2.0 is the first running app that you can control and use while your iPhone is sleeping and secure in your pocket or armband”

“Runmeter is very easy to use, and it has more power than any other application and sports watch I’ve tried. I’ve logged over 250 miles using Runmeter,” said George Ayoub, a runner and Runmeter user.

It also is the first iPhone application with the ability to start or stop the application from Apple’s earphone remote, and the first iPhone fitness application to allow direct Google Maps sharing via email or Twitter. Runners can now easily share running routes with friends, coaches, running partners and their entire community of Twitter followers. And, unlike many GPS-based applications, Runmeter 2.0 is battery-friendly — runners can train for up to six hours without recharging or using a battery extender.

“Runmeter 2.0 is the first running app that you can control and use while your iPhone is sleeping and secure in your pocket or armband,” said Steve Kusmer, co-founder and CEO of Abvio. “We are an extremely customer-centric, innovation-driven company and use the products ourselves. These influences drove the creation of Runmeter and will continue to drive us forward and benefit our customers.”

Runmeter 2.0 gives you all of the tools and data you need to help meet fitness and running goals, whether that goal is to complete your first 5k race or train for a full marathon. It includes maps, a complete calendar of all your runs, graphs of elevation and pace, spoken announcements of your statistics as you run, and much more.

Runmeter 2.0 is entirely iPhone-centric. It requires no Web site login or monthly subscription and is completely ad-free. Runmeter 2.0 is available now from the Apple iTunes Store for $4.99 (US). For a comparison of iPhone running applications, including Runmeter, RunKeeper Pro, iMapMyRun+ and AllSport GPS, visit www.abvio.com/running-guide.

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New Single Malt Whisky ‘Malt Matcher’ App: Taking The Guesswork Out Of Giving

Info — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:39:05 +0000

Choosing a Single Malt Scotch Whisky for yourself can be intimidating. There’s so much choice but not much clear information. And the head-scratching really starts when you want to buy the perfect Single Malt for someone else – perhaps as a generous seasonal gift.

Where do you begin? You want your gift to be appreciated. You want it to show you’ve taken trouble to choose the right bottle. Above all you want it to delight, not disappoint. But how do we know what our relatives, friends or colleagues really enjoy and value? Now there’s a way out of this maze just in time to make our Christmas [New Year] [holiday] gift-buying a bit easier.

Malt Matcher is a new tool that cuts through the mystifying array of brands, regions, flavours and age statements that often face the Single Malt Scotch Whisky buyer.

The Malt Matcher allows you to easily match a Single Malt to the individual tastes of your family, friends or colleagues. It means you can choose the right Single Malt with far greater confidence and, at the same time, demonstrate just how much thought you’ve put into it.

Available online at www.maltmatcher.com or as a free iPhone app available to download from the iTunes store at www.apple.com, the Malt Matcher has been designed to help you find the perfect gift through one of three simple methods. If you already know the Single Malt that your friend usually drinks but want to buy them a gift that is a little different, you can find matching Malts that offer similar flavours.

Perhaps you know the region from which they enjoy their Whiskies – for example, Speyside Whiskies are generally sweet and fruity in character. The Malt Matcher can help you find those similar Whiskies. Or, if you know the types of food they like, you can use the Malt Matcher to identify those Single Malt Whiskies whose unique flavours best match that particular food.

Whatever the Single Malt gift you’re looking for this festive period, the Malt Matcher is a simple way to make sure that gift will be truly enjoyed by the people you care about, rather than disappointing the recipient and embarrassing the giver.

Perhaps now you deserve to find a bottle as a gift to yourself!

Runmeter 2.0 for iPhone 3G/3GS Powers Your Training with First Text-to-Speech Tweets and Google Map Sharing iPhone fitness application developer Abvio announced Runmeter 2.0, the most...

New Funambol Plug-in Lets iPhone 3G Users Migrate Address Books, Easily, Freely and Wirelessly

Info — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:56:24 +0000

Funambol Inc. today announced the availability of its new free Funambol plug-in for the iPhone. The Funambol plug-in enables users to easily and freely sync their address book from an older phone to an iPhone 3G over-the-air. It also enables users of the iPhone 3G (as well as original iPhones and iPod Touches that have been upgraded to 2.0) to wirelessly back up their contacts for free, and to easily keep their contacts in sync with popular webmail systems, and email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird.

The free plug-in, which was listed as a top 20 cool third party app for the iPhone 3G by IDG News Service, can be immediately downloaded from the Apple App Store, from its Productivity section.

“One of the first things that iPhone 3G users want is contacts on their phone and they don’t want to type them in,” said Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol CEO. “The Funambol plug-in makes it really easy to migrate contacts from an older phone, webmail system or email client. Plus it freely backs up contacts to a server without a cable. It is easy to see why the Funambol plug-in was just named as one of the top 20 third party iPhone apps.”

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iPhone 3G is bigger than Apple itself

Info — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:00:12 +0000

Yesterday launch of the iPhone 3G demonstrated that Apple didn’t anticipate how big this second coming would be and that if the first version became a sensational hit, this next version will be even bigger than Apple itself.

This is the first time in mobile history that an upgrade of any cell phone resulted in an instant megahit worldwide and even Nokia hasn’t enjoyed the same level of costumers commitment with their products. Apple is setting the bar too higher even for them and this could force them to renew its strategy faster to stay ahead of Apple itself.

iPhone killers have come and gone and none of them have fill the space left by Apple with the original iPhone, we were all arguing about Apple decision to go with Edge instead of 3G technology, the lack of copy and paste and even the luxury price, now all those rants and rave didn’t prove to be a factor taken into account for millions of people buying the first generation.

But at the same time this new iPhone became a hit for Apple some problems started to flow, mobileme service suffered some glitches and was pull back, activation at the Apple Store didn’t work properly for thousand of new iPhone 3G users and out of stock stores that didn’t anticipate this kind of success for the second coming of the iPhone.

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Itunes 7.7 and AppStore launched today, 3G iPhone tomorrow

Info — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:31:44 +0000

In anticipation of tomorrow storm, Apple launched a new version of Itunes that will sync all your media with the new iPhone 3G and at the same time the AppStore was opened with more than 500 applications ready to run.

The AppStore will represent more than the music and video download service for Apple, it will drive million of iPhone users looking for better solutions that fit their needs, it will be the epicenter of the Next Big Thing, some call it the Second Coming, but the show is just starting and there is a long way to run for Apple on the new Business and Mobile Application platform, but with 500 native applications, 125 of them free for everybody to download the AppStore has a good starting lineup.

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iTunes reaches 5 billion songs download, moving 50,000 movies daily

Info — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:48:35 +0000

Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US* and features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. Also, iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store.

iTunes features movies from all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their Macs or PCs, all current generation iPods**, iPhone™ and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®. iTunes Store customers can also purchase new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios on the same day as their DVD release.

The iTunes Store is the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over eight million songs, over 20,000 TV episodes and over 2,000 films including over 350 in stunning high definition video. With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as iTunes Movie Rentals, integrated podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, the ability to turn previously purchased tracks into complete albums at a reduced price, and seamless integration with iPod® and iPhone, the iTunes Store is the best way for Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music and video online.

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Apple iPhone 3G Threatens to Impact Global Mobile Phone Market

Info — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:08:35 +0000

With a thousand eyes watching, Apple has unveiled the long-awaited second generation of its iPhone at the annual developers’ conference (WWDC2008) in San Francisco on June 9.

With support for faster 3G wireless networks, the new iPhone has attracted fervent interest from consumers, and will undoubtedly increase the Corporation’s degree of internationalization. In the past three years, Apple’s Local market has had 48% share of its whole sales, European market 22% compared.

Expanding brand and product lines as well as broadening the international market, analysts believe that if Apple can keep these three plates
spinning, it will successfully go global. Apple’s iPod mainly sells at home at present, with 60-70% of them sold through retail establishments, 70-80% of which are mainly located in the U.S.

However, global demand for the new iPhone is extremely strong. In those markets which are not officially authorized by Apple, consumers started to get iPhones unlocked. According to the market research firm Net
Applications, the unlocked Apple iPhone will prevail in almost every country in the world, and China’s sales on unlocked iPhones will reach
500,000.

There is no doubt that consumer desire is to make Apple iPhone easily enter these new markets. Apple is changing the rules of the game as well by increasing the number of operators to cooperate in some areas. In Italy, Egypt and Switzerland, consumers have more choices. In addition, Apple has become increasingly flexible on the revenue-sharing mechanism, and is willing to cut income sharing to achieve non-unique modes of cooperation.

Apple will also make great effort in China market. Tootoo.com, the global leading B2B search engine, analyses that China has become the world’s largest consumer of mobile phones, and has more mobile phone users than any other country. To seize the numerous Chinese consumers, Apple is expected to set up its first franchised store in Beijing during the Olympic Games, as well as work together with China’s largest mobile operators actively for cooperation. Although the Cooperative Agreements has not yet been reached, the iPhone engine will undoubtedly quickly start for the multiple streams of income as soon as Apple gains a firm foothold in the Chinese market.

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It’s time for Apple to create a Gaming Division or buy a major game developer

Info — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:14:05 +0000

Now that the iPhone is turning itself in a real threat to PSP and Nintendo DS, Apple should seriously consider entering into the full time game development to provide amazing games to the new mobile gaming platform.

To become a mobile game developer Apple should consider to two different approaches:

1. Create a Mobile Gaming Division
It’s not an easy task to find good game programmers grazing on the pasture. All major game developers are hunting down every creative game designer available and only if Apple creates an aggressive hiring strategy that conquers employees from gaming firms offering a lucrative salary.

Game developers are like young children, they are passionate about their projects and Apple should create a totally different environment to those new creative minds, nothing too difficult for Apple, but different from Apple’s mantra.

2. Create a Joint Venture with Sega and Pangea
Sega is a well known game developer and its looking to expand its mobile gaming development, so Apple can inject Sega fresh cash needed to buy some licensees and create new gaming technologies while Sega can supply Apple the most amazing gaming experience, turning this new gaming platform into the most profitable one.

In the other hand is Pangeasoft, a small gaming developer firm, specialized in Mac games that has demonstrated strong skills developing joyful children games.

With Pangeasoft Apple can create a gaming division aimed at young children with the already known Pangea characters. It is a real plus for Apple to have Pangeasoft, they are passionate and committed mac game developers.

I believe that the better option for Apple is to invest or buy Sega or Pangeasoft, those companies are ready to create amazing and creative projects.

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iCall promises free VOip calls from your iphone

Info — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:49:10 +0000

Icall the new Skype alternative is reporting that their flagship VOIP application is being ported to the iphone. It will let you make phone calls on the iPhone via a WiFi connection, receiving incoming phone calls via your regular cell and switching the calls to VoIP when a WiFi connection is detected, and more.

Check for iCall for the iPhone at http://www.icall.com/iphone/

iCall working on the iPhone

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Apple executing its iphone deployment strategy, expect massive sales this summer

Info — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:28:44 +0000

Apple has placed the iPhone in different countries in order to execute a chess like strategy, that when the timing is correct all the pieces attack at the same time the most vulnerable enemy, Apple hasn’t selected a favorite enemy, but they have been firing back with copycats, ripoff, patent infringements and so on, in order to take advantage of Apple slow negotiations with some important carriers.

Every month you find a new iPhone killer from the most famous handset designers, Nokia, Philips, Samsung, even Google Android now represents a threat to the iPhone, but a well orchestrated deployment, bigger carriers, a possible price cut and new business features could position the iPhone where Apple never thought.

But the deployment is in is initial stage and there’s a bigger than expected customer base ready for the iPhone in different markets worldwide, check the Apple sales possibilities (in millions):

That’s a 1240.39 million possible iPhone users covered by mobile partners, Apple 10 million sale target for this year can be accomplished by selling 0.01% to get 12.4 million users. The gray market is not taken into consideration in this calculation because in can only be measured by Apple, but it could represent more sale than Apple can handle.

There’s a pending discussion with China Mobile, which has more subscribers than USA citizens and this is a market that Apple has been trying to conquer.

Information obtained from Carriers respective websites – Annual Reports

• iPhone Carriers List at http://aaplinvestors.net/
• Worldwide Telephone company subscribers
• Wikipedia.org
• Yahoo News
• Apple.com
• Maccentral.com

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Is Mac OS X left behind or put on hold

Info — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:48:10 +0000

The WWDC is just 6 days away and rumors are flying, people are trying to read Steve Jobs mind while everybody else is trying to guess what may come, but something for sure is that this year WWDC is not about Mac OS X completely, the spotlight was grabbed by the iPhone and this is the new fresh revenue stream for Apple and they won’t blink to keep this shiny new toy pumping money to Apple’s accounts.

Mac OS X is the fundation behind the iPhone, while the iphone has a tremendous engineering what really makes things look so enjoyable is the beast inside and this beast is being tweaked to provide even more excitement, this WWDC the world will see what thousands of third-party developers have been cooking for months.

Expect more Games, enterprise applications, utilities, more simulations of other well known applications ready to be ported to the platform and why not a iPhone Big Brother in the form of a new mobility device, that doesn’t alienate the iphone or ipod touch sales.

Apple bet on mobility and they are going for the market, the .me domain rumors if true proves in some way that mobility is the new Apple horizon. They have been fighting for the living room and won it, they have been fighting for a powerful, easy to use OS, and with OS X they won it, they have pioneered the mp3 market and there is not a good contender, they entered late to the mobile phone market with the iphone and it seems that this new war is in Apple’s favor. So if this trend continue and improve, there would be a bloodbath between the second place contenders trying to grab some marketshare.

OS X has given Apple the strenght and ability to have different devices (ipod, iphone, Apple TV, and others) working with the same OS with a tremendous success.

There is not rumored features about the new major update to Mac OS X, but if we look closely to what Microsoft desperately shown for Windows 7, don’t expect less from Apple, where multi-touch, mobility and internet will play the most important roles.

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Radioraft: New monster ipod based waterproof sound system

Info — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:45 +0000

Now you can let anyone be the DJ in the pool, lake, river or ocean. It sounds incredible and projects stereo sound a full 360 degrees using patented technology. So, no matter what side anyone is on, the whole party will hear the same crisp clean JAMS! Place your Ipod inside the watertight glove box and control the sound at the waterproof controls. Plus, choose the optional Sirius Satellite and simply dial in your favorite genre. This extremely rugged system has 400 watts pushing 5 speakers, while offering 8 continuous hours of play time. If you really want to get things jumping, get the optional subwoofer!

Let the Jams from this awsome system set your next Party off. Imagine that music on the water pumping out of this sexy, floating stereo. If you party on any type of water, you have got to get this sound system! Check out these features and options:

Five speakers
360 degrees of stereo sound
Subwoofer (optional)
Plays ipod/MP3 w/ waterproof drydock
Sirius Satellite (optional)
400 watts of power
Rechargeable battery w/ 8 hour play time
6 Stainless steel cupholders (Beer not included)
Custom tube cover with your logo (optional)
Rugged roll bar (optional)

Source: http://www.radioraft.com/

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Microsoft: Oops I did it again

Info — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:53:14 +0000

Microsoft has been showing what the next version of Windows would be and how innovative it can get when it comes to design computer interface. The next version will pack touchscreen technology system-wide, from Paint to Word, all major applications will benefit from this great technology the Big M is putting in people’s hands, finger pinch, image resize with two fingers and paint with both hands, those are the most out of the world features and we all will get crazy by the time Windows 7 hits the street. Long lines will be in front of any computer store, people will be fighter to get their hands in something so dramatic that will give us the WOW Factor all over again.

The only little problem with this new extraterrestrial technology is that you don’t need to travel the future to use it, the iphone has provided the same technology more than a year ago, but wait… Microsoft is anticipating what Mac OS X could have by telling people: See we provided the first touchscreen OS to the masses, Apple copied it. Smart. Microsoft will always succeed selling other people ideas.

The real problem is that Apple is not marketing Mac OS X to the masses, so Microsoft takes this advantages and looks like the real innovator to some people living under a rock or blind enough to see the real deal.

The iPhone has been the most copied, criticized, emulated, ripped off and trashed device of all time, but in the end everybody would like to have an iphone, even Nokia (the 800 lb gorilla) demonstrated a device that resemble the iphone and then said it was for research purpose. See an Engadget.com video below.

So, it is a mix situation, the Big M shows something to the public that may of may not end making or never be ready for mass consumption and that has been used by millions of people, then claims it is innovation in its more sincere form, Apple does little or nothing to promote its technology.

Let’s hope that Apple advertise a little more the Mac OS X and its technology to cure some people blindness and gain more marketshare at the same time.

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