MOBILE APPLICATIONS
| Ground Quakes Beneath E-Reader Apps Following Apple's Sony Snub February 01, 2011  A New York Times report Tuesday that Apple had rejected a Sony e-reader app for the iTunes App Store has fueled speculation about how the move might impact the several other popular mobile apps in Apple's catalog. The Sony app would have let people buy and read e-books bought from the Sony Reader Store. | TimeTag: A Dependable Yet Dry Punch Clock January 31, 2011  Maintaining time sheets for jobs you're working on can be tedious, but an app for the iPad called "TimeTag" can make it less so. The software, which is offered in a commercial edition selling for $3.99 or a free version supported by advertising from Apple's iAd platform, lets you tag and categorize your time sheet tasks for easy amalgamation and filtering. |
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| News Corp. Takes a New Stab at Paywalls With Buck-a-Week Daily January 28, 2011  The classic newspaper may finally gets its 21st-century update. News Corp.'s iPad-exclusive newspaper, The Daily, is set to launch on Feb. 2. A weekly subscription will reportedly cost 99 cents. Issues of The Daily will be delivered automatically through Apple once users sign up. News Corp. told the E-Commerce Times the company cannot offer more information before the Feb. 2 announcement. | App Success May Signal the End of Internet Innovation January 24, 2011  Apple reached a milestone last week: the 10 billionth app was downloaded from its store -- the game "Paper Glider." However, the lucky downloader, who was to receive a $10,000 App Store gift card, almost didn't collect her prize. Gail Davis, a resident of Orpington, Kent, UK -- the mother of two girls who had purchased several apps, including the winner -- initially hung up on Apple. |
| Taxsoftware for iPad: A Tedious App for a Tedious Task January 24, 2011  Stop ... do you hear it? It's the sound of the taxman coming, and this year, he's coming to an iPad near you through the auspices of the app Taxsoftware.com. The company, which claims it was the first provider of online tax preparation services for both businesses and individuals, has released the latest version of its iPad software in time for filing tax returns for 2010. | Stinger Table Hockey Puts the Biscuit in the Basket January 17, 2011 If there were a hall of fame for tabletop sports games, rod hockey would be in its inaugurating class. The game, which uses metal or plastic pucksters on the end of metal rods to simulate ice hockey, is a classic and has been for decades. Now Stinger Games has brought a simulation of the game to the iPad, and it's a honey. |
| 8mm Vintage Cam App Gets Retro Charm Just Right January 13, 2011  asvsdToday's high-tech gadgets are tomorrow's Goodwill drop-box contents, and they're the-day-after-tomorrow's two-buck iPhone apps. You can find this phenomenon at work in the App Store in the guise of old video games, old-timey-camera apps, or even a few apps that let you dial a number like an old rotary phone. | Microsoft Scraps With Apple Over Silly Trademark Tricks January 12, 2011  Microsoft is fighting Apple's attempt to trademark the term "App Store." Apple apparently filed for the trademark in 2008 after launching the App Store that year. The U.S. Patents and Trademark Office turned Apple down twice because the term "app store" was too descriptive, then apparently approved an amended request, George Pike, assistant professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, told MacNewsWorld. |
| 'Infinity Blade': Gorgeous, Epic and Surprisingly Addictive January 05, 2011  Currently among the highest-grossing apps in the Apple App Store, the sword-slashing fight game "Infinity Blade" is one of the must-have games of the year. Like "Angry Birds," it's surprisingly addictive. I'm far from a hard-core gamer, but I can recognize a masterpiece when I see one. | Economy for iPad Gets a Firm Grasp on the Invisible Hand January 03, 2011  If you can't get enough information about the economy, then you're going to love Economy for the iPad. The software, which topped the finance category at Apple's App Store for six weeks, is a dynamic compilation of economic indicators for the U.S., its states and North America. Economy watchers will delight in having so much data close at hand without having to hunt for it on the Internet or elsewhere. |
| Motion Doctor a Strong Complement to Pro Physical Therapy December 27, 2010  Before you get a pain in your neck, your lower back starts bothering you or elbow starts aching, you might want to consult the Motion Doctor. Motion Doctor is like having a physical therapist in your iPad. The app was created by a Pennsylvania physical therapist, Desirea D. Caucci, as a way for people to avoid motion injuries. It can also be used as a tool by physical therapists. | A Reality Check on Righteous Privacy Indignation December 23, 2010  When I first heard about The Wall Street Journal's expose article last weekend, titled "Your Apps Are Watching You," I was outraged: My iPhone apps where sending my iPhone 4's Unique Device Identifier to marketing companies? They were tracking my location and sharing it with advertising networks? They were sharing my age and gender and ZIP code? |
| App Takes You Under iPad's Hood, Leaves You on Your Own December 20, 2010 One of the great things about the iPad is you don't have to think about geek issues like disk space, memory usage, power management and such. That doesn't mean, though, that there aren't folks in the tabletsphere who have a healthy curiosity about those aspects of the slate. For them there's an app called "System Manager." | Friends Could Use Some Tighter Knitting December 16, 2010  The recently released Friends for iPhone has a good idea behind it: Build a better Contacts app. The phonebook app that's baked into the iPhone's iOS, simply called "Contacts," can hold together a lot of information, and it syncs smoothly through services like MobileMe and Google Sync. |
| AppAdvice for iPad Gives Muddled Guidance December 13, 2010 With more than 300,000 programs in Apple's App Store, keeping tabs on all of them can be quite a chore for an iPad owner. Maybe what you need is an app to manage your app knowledge. Sure, the App Store itself offers some navigational and evaluation aids for folks browsing for apps. | App Sales Data Reveal iPad's Serious Side December 10, 2010 Productivity apps constituted five of the top 10 iPad apps this year, according to Apple. Six of the 10 top-grossing iPad apps were also productivity apps. However, all the top 10 free iPad apps were information or entertain apps. The statistics were revealed in iTunes Rewind 2010, Apple's summary of the hot trends for 2010, which lists the most popular apps for its various iOS platforms. |
