News: Mobile

• LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone offers weekend sale
  Nick Spence
  Nov 06 2009

  LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone and iPod touch, which normally retails at £17.99 (US$30), for this weekend only will be available at a 30 per discount worldwide via the Apple App Store. The popular ...

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• Launch virtual helium balloons with Ballons for iPhone
  Nick Spence
  Nov 06 2009

  Chester, UK based iPhone developer Shiny Development has released Ballons and Ballons Lite for iPhone. The application lets you launch virtual helium balloons and track their progress around the ...

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• World Tech Update Nov. 5, 2009
  Nick Barber
  Nov 05 2009

  In this week’s World Tech Update, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tours Asia and talks about the future of television, HTC launches the HD2 smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5, Intel gets slapped ...

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• Apple's App Store: 100,000 Apps, But Most Are Unused
  JR Raphael
  Nov 04 2009

  This week, Apple is flexing to impress. The iPhone-maker officially announced its tightly controlled App Store has surpassed the 100,000 mark when it comes to available applications. A hundred ...

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• iPhone vs BlackBerry: Survey Pits Sexy Against the Suits
  Tom Kaneshige
  Nov 03 2009

  The "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" stereotypes in Apple's famous ad campaign have nothing on the findings from a new study of BlackBerry and iPhone owners. The survey, done by consumer electronics ...

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• Paid iPhone apps deliver money, but only for the top few
  John Cox
  Nov 03 2009

  About 30% of Apple's App Store downloads are paid applications, and about half of all iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded at least once. These downloads have reaped close to 1 billion ...

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• Canon intros photo printing app for iPhone, iPod touch
  Nick Spence
  Nov 02 2009

  Canon has introduced Easy-PhotoPrint for iPhone, a free application for iPhone and iPod touch.Compatible with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch, the application prints photos wirelessly to Canon ...

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• Android 2.0: Your Complete Primer
  JR Raphael
  Oct 28 2009

  Feeling hungry? Try a taste of Eclair, Google's brand new Android operating system. Google took the wraps off its tasty-sounding OS, also known as Android 2.0, on Tuesday. The software is expected ...

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• Harvard Medical School develops swine flu iPhone app
  Nancy Gohring
  Oct 27 2009

  Want to know if you’ve got the swine flu? There’s an app for that. Harvard Medical School is selling an iPhone application for US$1.99 with a variety of information and services related to the ...

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• Docs to Go 2.0 for BlackBerry Gets New Features; Still Pricey
  Al Sacco
  Oct 26 2009

  Business-software-maker DataViz just dropped a message to let me know that is has upgraded its mobile document viewing and editing software, Documents to Go, to version 2.0. The new software is ...

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