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Fairlady Media introduces Whizzit Candy Blast for iPhone and iPod touch

by editor on 20. Aug, 2010 in news

Raleigh, North Carolina – Fairlady Media today announces that their newest game for kids, Whizzit Candy Blast, will be available for $.99 US on the App Store on Friday, August 27. The makers of smash-hit Spazzle have released a new game in their popular Whizzit children’s series. Children can help Wilton the Weasel fly his candy-craft over a land of lollipops while blasting candies out of the sky. One hundred candies and chocolates will fly across the sky; can your child blast them all? At the end of each game, the candies are counted up and a spectacular fireworks display will celebrate your child’s score!

Specially designed to provide super-fun entertainment for children ages 3 to 7.

Features:
* Fun artwork, music, animations, and visual effects
* Easy, Medium, and Hard settings for different aged children
* Simple controls
* Reinforces counting, number recognition, and understanding of quantities

“My own kids love this game.” said Constance Bossert, Founder of Raleigh-based Fairlady Media

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Whizzit Candy Blast will be priced at $.99 USD and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Family and Kids Games categories. Pre-release review copies are available upon request.

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Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Fairlady Media is a privately held company founded in 2009 by husband and wife team James and Constance Bossert. Leveraging their longtime experience in both development, marketing and UI design concepts, the company produces and publishes interactive media for a variety of technology platforms, with a focus on specializing in the development of mobile games for the iPhone platform. Fairlady Media has created 11 games for the iPhone and iPod touch with over a million downloads and counting. Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Fairlady Media. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Top Ranking Apps From the Foothills of North Carolina

by editor on 18. Aug, 2010 in news

Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Winston-Salem, North Carolina is not known as a hotbed of activity for iPhone game development, but acclaimed illustrator, Kyle T. Webster, is out to change that. His first game, ‘White Lines’ was released in March of 2010 and it soared into the top 20 games list in the Apple iTunes store. When over 25,000 copies of ‘White Lines’ sold in just two months, Kyle decided to dive deeper into game development and has not looked back.

Kyle partnered with a developer, Denis Hennessy, in Ireland, to build four more games. The two developers found each other on Twitter. The first of their games, ‘Plates!,’ went on sale this past Monday, August 16th in the iTunes store. Though Kyle and Denis (a founding partner of the nimble development team, Peer Assembly) have never met in person, they sometimes feel as if they share an office space, thanks to software like Skype, which allows them to video chat and collaborate in real time.

‘Plates!’ is a fast-paced game of kitchen mayhem in which plates of food zoom by on conveyor belts, while the player tries to quickly add the right sauce to each food. The game starts off at a manageable pace but quickly accelerates to a frantic speed, while adding more difficulty in the form of dynamite sticks hidden in hotdog buns that can easily be mistaken for regular hotdogs. If a player puts the wrong sauce on a food, forgets to add a sauce, or ‘sauces’ a dynamite hotdog, the game is over.

Kyle, an illustrator and designer by trade, created the game concept and designed the graphics and animations for ‘Plates!’, and Denis made it all work perfectly on the IOS platform. After five months and more than 30 full game iterations, ‘Plates!’ was ready for submission to Apple in the first week of August. The game was approved one week later and Kyle prepared some last minute marketing materials to line up with the launch on August 16th.

‘Plates!’ cracked the top 75 games list in the USA after its first day in the App Store in the Family category, and Apple Europe has already expressed an interest in featuring the game. MacWorld UK will release a 4 star review this week, as well. In its first day on the market, three unsolicited reviews were published on Monday and all gave ‘Plates!’ very high marks. Additionally, a promotional video featuring first-time game players’ reactions to the game and the video was posted on YouTube. Ads were purchased for placement on some prominent game review sites, and a web page, digital press packet, and Twitter feed were also created to help the game gain a foothold in the overcrowded iPhone game marketplace.

Kyle is hopeful not only that ‘Plates!’ will become a success, but that the attention paid to his games will perhaps encourage other developers in Winston-Salem to create some strong and exciting entries for the marketplace. Thanks to the ubiquity of the technology required to make these apps, the opportunity exists for residents of smaller towns and cities around the world to make a real splash in the iTunes store.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 12.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Plates! 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Big Mouse Media is a new gaming company owned by Kyle T. Webster, an illustrator and designer for The New Yorker, Time, The NY Times, and most other national publications. Big Mouse’s first game, ‘White Lines’ was featured three times in the US Apple Store and made it into the top 20 Paid Games list in March, 2010. Copyright (C) 2010 Kyle T. Webster, Inc.. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Before Dawn Solutions announces skEdit 4.1.3 Text/HTML Editor

by editor on 17. Aug, 2010 in news

Highlands Ranch, Colorado – skEdit 4.1.3 is the first release under the Before Dawn Solutions brand. This release includes some minor bug fixes, but more importantly updates the application to use the new support site, registration, and error handling. The new release is the starting point for the next generation of the skEdit editor.

Features:
* Support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, and more
* Project View, and Remote file management via ftp/SFTP, WebDav
* Integration with Tidy HTML validator
* Powerful Search and replace on single and multiple files, with Regular Expressions
* Code Snippets, store frequently used sections of text

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel
* G4 Processor, 1GHz or faster
* 38.8 MB Hard Drive space

skEdit (formerly skHTML) is a text editor with a focus on web development. It includes features to assist in the editing of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, Ruby/Rails, SQL, ActionScript and ColdFusion. These features include an integrated Project View to easily edit an entire project of files, syntax highlighting, code-completion and hinting, integrated SFTP/FTP/WebDAV for file transfers and editing, Tidy integration to clean files, powerful search and replace on single and multiple files with support regular expressions, snippets to store frequently used sections of text, and more.

Pricing and Availability:
skEdit has a retail price of $34.95 (USD), and is available immediately from the Before Dawn Solutions online.

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Before Dawn Solutions was started in 2003, and specializes in custom application development for customers, we also offer hosting services. Before Dawns Solutions, also develops and maintains, websites. Before Dawn Solutions has several iPhone/iPad/iPod applications in development, which will be released shortly. Copyright (C) 2010 Before Dawn Solutions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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The Media Lounge of The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel

by Marketwire - Video games on 13. Aug, 2010 in news

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 13, 2010) -  Located in the hub of technological innovation, The Fairmont San Francisco has announced the development of a state-of-the-art Media Lounge at the landmark hotel. Spanning 2,400 square-feet, the Media Lounge will offer entertainment options for all ages as well as a sleek space for board meetings and private screenings.

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iPhone App Puts Anxiety Coach within Reach of Everyone

by editor on 12. Aug, 2010 in news

Scottsdale, Arizona – Neal H. Olshan, PhD, PLLC today announced that an upgrade to its best-selling self help iPhone/iPad app, Boost (TM) v1.1, for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, is now available for download on Apple’s App Store. In its newest version of this best-selling app, Boost has added a new Depression Component to its list of Boost Performance modules bringing the total to nine. World renowned psychologist and author, Dr. Neal Olshan has brought his extensive background in treating Performance Anxiety Response (PAR) to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Dr. Olshan commented, “Thanks to the development of the iPhone, we now have a device you can utilize at any time or place to activate a Performance Boost and short circuit the Performance Anxiety Reaction. And best of all, no one will know that you are using a Boost to help yourself.” iPhone and iPod touch users have a simple yet extremely powerful tool at their disposal to help condition the mind and change their lives as they put the user in control of the restrictive results of Performance Anxiety Reaction.

As in the original version, this app goes well beyond just providing a few Boost Performance topics with popular selections such as Dating, Flying, Sports, and Test Taking. Don’t see a particular topic in the app? Boost includes the incredibly popular “Custom Boost” feature allowing you to send an email to Dr. Olshan to request your very own custom Boost recorded specifically for you by Dr. Olshan. In just a day or two Dr. Olshan will provide you with a copy of your own custom boost to address your particular anxiety.

Boost features include:
* Select from nine pre recorded boost topics
* Request your own custom Boost from Dr. Olshan
* Fully narrated introduction to the Boost by Dr. Olshan
* Full on-screen instructions remind you how to utilize the boost most effectively
* Create a favorites list for quick access to your own Boost recordings

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 3.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Boost is available for worldwide download for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch at the App Store for $1.99 (USD) in the Healthcare & Fitness category. You can also order a single custom Boost written specifically for you for only $23.99 through the app’s in-app purchase option.

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Xcelme is a full service provider of online iPhone/iPad development and marketing training. Xcelme also provides marketing consulting for developers looking to gain exposure for the apps in a very competitive market. Copyright (C) 2010 xcelMe, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Three Tips for Creating a Native iPad App

by editor on 10. Aug, 2010 in news

New York, NY – It’s in magazines and newspapers. It’s on television and radio. It’s on buses and billboards and pretty much everywhere you look (except for Apple stores, where it’s likely still sold out). It’s the iPad! Selling three million units in the first 80 days, this hot new touchscreen tablet from Apple is a runaway hit.

Every iPhone and iPod touch app developer looking to take the next step is moving into the iPad arena. Right now there are more than 200,000 apps in the App Store. With the iPad’s ability to run most of these existing apps without any modifications, iPad users have immediate access to a vast catalog of apps.

Although an existing iPhone app may run fine on the iPad, these unmodified apps provide an inferior user experience. iPhone apps pale in comparison to the sheer beauty and flexibility of native iPad apps. At the end of the day, iPhone and iPad are inherently different beasts, with different form factors and capabilities that encourage different usage patterns.

iPhone apps were designed for the iPhone, while the iPad should be treated as an entirely new platform with its own set of design requirements. Dave Wooldridge author of Apress’s latest book “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK” provides three useful tips for all iPhone developers who want to leverage their skills to master the iPad-exclusive frameworks and features to create professional apps for the iPad:

Design app interfaces optimized for the iPad by taking advantage of the new UIKit features:
* Popovers
* Split View Controllers
* Modal Views

Build powerful productivity solutions that utilize:
* New graphics functionality
* Core Text
* Document Sharing
* Advanced input methods

Take advantage of the iPad’s superior media capabilities with its new video and display options

About “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK”
Best-selling authors Jack Nutting, Dave Wooldridge, and Dave Mark show iPhone developers how to master all of the iPad-exclusive frameworks and features in their latest book “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK.”

“Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers” is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow programming guide. It has all the answers for iPhone and iPod touch app developers looking to move into iPad app development. The book covers everything an aspiring iPad developer needs to know to create great apps. Since many of the new features in iOS 3.2 are also present in iOS 4, this is one of the first books available that extensively covers several of the new APIs that iPhone developers are also eager to learn for creating iOS 4-optimized apps.

Table of Contents for “Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers”
1. Welcome to the Paradigm Shift
2. Getting Started with iPad Development
3. Exploring the iPhone SDK’s New iPad Features
4. New Graphics Functionality
5. Using Core Text
6. Popovers
7. Video and Display
8. Split Views and Modal Modes
9. New Input Methods
10. Working with Documents
11. From iPhone to iPad
12. Additional Resources for iPad Development

“Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK”
By Dave Wooldridge, Jack Nutting, David Mark
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-3021-2 / ISBN10: 1-4302-3021-5
272 pages
Published Jul 31, 2010
Print Book Price: $39.99 / eBook Price: $27.99

About the Authors:
As the founder of Electric Butterfly, Dave Wooldridge has been developing award-winning websites and software for 15 years. When he’s not creating Mac and iPhone apps, he can be found writing. Dave is the author of “The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed” and has written numerous articles for leading tech publications, including a monthly software marketing column for “MacTech Magazine.”

Jack Nutting has been using Cocoa since the olden days, long before it was even called Cocoa. He’s used Cocoa and its predecessors to develop software for a wide range of industries and applications including gaming, graphic design, online digital distribution, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and travel. When he’s not working on Mac or iPhone projects, he’s developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Jack is a passionate proponent of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks; he will speak at length on the virtues of dynamic dispatch and runtime class manipulations to anyone who’ll listen (and even to some who won’t).

Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including “Learn C on the Macintosh,” “The Macintosh Programming Primer” series, and “Ultimate Mac Programming.”

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Apress, Inc., part of Springer Science Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress offers a complete package of books on developing for the iPhone and Mac OS X. For developers who want to code games, create compelling user interfaces, or better get a handle on just what makes an App cool, Apress has books to suit. For more information about Apress, visit them online.

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B.iCycle 2.0.2 For iPhone Brings Cycling Into The 21st Century

by editor on 09. Aug, 2010 in news

Berlin, Germany – Announcing that Valley Development GmbH, the developer of B.iCycle, has released the latest update for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. This cutting-edge technology blends the function of a cyclometer with the technology of a GPS together in this all-in-one, made for the cyclist, app. B.iCycle is a handlebar-mounted tour guide that will get the rider to where they’re going with the route of their choice, while recording vital data like current, average and maximum speed, distance traveled and more. B.iCycle is the dream child of innovator, Wolfgang Held; who is a cyclist himself.

“We love biking so we had the dream of an iPhone cyclometer with GPS trails that is easy and fun to use. First, we built it for ourselves. Now it’s a great success (at least in Europe) and we can afford to make it better and better.” says Held.

Always striving to improve existing technology, Held states “Our main vision is to provide the best cycling computer app for the iPhone. We are a Germany based software development company; and have a pure focus on the iPhone OS, as we strongly believe in the software and hardware quality that Apple is delivering to its customers.”

This concept has been welcomed and widely received across the globe. It was ranked fourth out of the top grossing apps in Germany, May 2010. In addition to the cyclometer and GPS, B.iCycle stands out from the crowd with its many other features as well:

* Accurate values for current speed, average speed, maximum speed, total distance, trip distance, current altitude, climbed altitude, burned calories as well as trip time. Units can be set to US or metric
* Continuous Recording of your trip with the display turned off for up to 6 hours of battery life (“sleep mode” to be activated with the sleep button on top of the iPhone)
* Support for map zoom via multi-touch events (pinch) and much better map response and loading times
* New map type OpenCycleMap with highlighted bike paths, contour lines and biker POI
* Watch your bike automatically move on the map and zoom in on your trail
* Receive your trips via email (KML und GPX) and review them at home (e.g., with Google Earth) or share them with other bikers. You can send the data after each ride or anytime later from your track history (e.g. when there is no cellular network available). For detailed analysis of your trips at home we recommend to upload your tracks to the portal GPSies at no charge
* Suspend, pause, and resume for trips allows you to receive calls or take a break
* iPod function can be used together with B.iCycle

Device Requirements:
* 3G, 3GS, 4
* iPhone, iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later, iOS 4 Compatible
* 4.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
B.iCycle 2.0.2 is only $9.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Valley Development GmbH is based in Berlin, Germany. Wolfgang Held leads the company, and their goal is to be part of the ecosystem and offer the best user interface both in style and in usability as well as the most reliable and precise apps. They prefer well designed and easy to use apps rather than getting into feature overkill that can be found in other apps. They prefer software quality over timelines; their strategy is to steadily improve without charging existing customers again. Copyright (C) 2010 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover & Edward Turner. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Apalon releases Doodle Farter: Eat More and Save the World

by editor on 07. Aug, 2010 in news

New York, NY – Apalon today is pleased to announce the release of Doodle Farter 1.0, their new game for iPhone and iPod touch. In this simple but addictive game everyone can perform an honorable mission of saving the humanity and the whole world carrying out quite unusual for this purpose actions namely eat, eat even more, fart, get boosts and come up to the sky.

Users’ task is to simply come up as high as they can while eating hamburgers and hotdogs in Human mode and brains in Zombie mode while farting loudly getting the boost. Using accurate tilt controls players tilt the device left and right which allows the character to move in the right direction in quest of hamburgers and hotdogs.

Once the game is over users can easily submit their scores to Facebook or Twitter to immediately let all their friends know how well they have done so far. The game is also OpenFeint enabled which gives players possibility to track their progress, share their scores and achievements as well as compete with other players.

“When we develop our apps we always keep in mind our users and their preferences. I’ll be glad if beautifully simple concept of our game juiced up with challenging and fun gameplay and lots of replay value suit users’ taste” – said Peter Melnikov, VP of Apalon.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 11.2 MB

Pricing and availability:
Doodle Farter 1.0 is $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and is available on the App Store in the Games category.

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Apalon is a leading mobile and game development studio that delivered numerous successful iPhone titles. Founded as a mobile development and game development arm of the established and experienced software development vendor MoveYourWeb, Apalon uses advantages and knowledge of a solid technology company while maintaining the culture of a small boutique. Copyright (C) 2010 Apalon. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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iPhone Training Program Now Affordable for All

by editor on 05. Aug, 2010 in news

Mumbai, India – EDUmobile, the online mobile training initiative, has reduced the price of their iPhone Training Program for a limited time, in order to make it more affordable for developers living in third world nations and with limited budgets.

The iPhone Development training is done entirely online. Every week one module and course pack is delivered directly to candidates and their progress is closely monitored. The course is served through mediums of Online Video, One-on-One support from real tutors who guide you step by step, Weekly Worksheets and an online Support Forum. iPad development has also been included as part of the course modules, and the course is updated to support the latest iPhone OS4 platform and SDK. The training is conducted over a 12 week period and there are currently over 200 students and candidates in training from all parts of the globe.

EDUmobile also teaches other mobile technologies such as Mobile Testing and the recently launched and highly popular Android Training program. They also run a popular blog that provides iPhone developers with weekly tips and tricks and valueable source code snippets that they can use in their projects.

EDUmobile offers a full 30 days money back guarantee, so your investment is protected – should you decide to opt out later. To sign up for the limited time offer, developers need to register online at the website and use the coupon LIMITED97.

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EDUmobile is a spin-off independant initiative of Chakra Interactive Pvt Ltd, a company operating in the Wireless Mobile Software Development space for the past 6 years, having worked on wireless projects released by global top tier clients and publishers such as EA Mobile, Hands-on-Mobile, I-Play, Sony Pictures, Disney Mobile and Warner Bros amongst others. EDUmobile provides high quality training in various mobile technologies through Online Video, Interactive one-on-one support, Weekly PDF Manuals and Worksheets and an ongoing Support Forum. Copyright 2010 EDUmobile. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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New iPad Game to teach Kids the Alphabet and Numbers with Fun

by editor on 04. Aug, 2010 in news

Genoa, Italy – Dot Next today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Magnetic Alphabet 1.0, the iPad edition of the classic magnetic board game. The development of the application comes from our experience with children: we all have children or grandchildren between 3 and 10 and we noticed that their best games are the simple and immediate ones.

Sophisticated games leave little to their imagination, while the old magnetic board with a handful of colored letters allows them to free their imagination. Transforming this experience into a game for iPad was natural: magnetic alphabet contains 95 different pieces in 6 colors, for a total of 570 magnets to be placed freely on the board: a real stimulus for imagination and creativity of our children, without the stress of having to learn features and rules typical of more complex games.

The magnetic alphabet is suitable for children of all ages, both those who already write and those who have yet to learn the alphabet. Knowing the alphabet and numbers in preschool age helps children deal with school more certainty: this game is the ideal tool to start to become familiar with letters and numbers in the lightest and most enjoyable way.

For children who have already started the school it is a great way to combine playing and learning, thus making it more pleasant. It is a good opportunity to play with our children teaching them something: maybe this is the most important thing! It is also a great diversion for those times when kids get bored as long trips, restaurant dinners, parties with friends: unavoidable situations that are easily solved with the magnetic alphabet.

Key features:
* 95 different magnets in 6 colors, for a total of 570 pieces
* Every single magnet can be used more than once
* Save the composition as image locally
* Show your kids’ creation to your friends on Facebook
* Quick video tutorial
* No need to gather dozen of pieces all araound the room once the game ends!

Device Requirements:
* iPad Compatible
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 8.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Magnetic Alphabet 1.0 is 2.99 USD or equivalent amount in other currencies (launch price till august 15) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Game category, Kids subcategory. Support for the game is available online.

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Headquartered in Genoa, Italy Dot Next snc is an Italian privately held corporation founded in 2006 by Luca Calcagno and Michele Ferraro. Dot Next specializes in graphics, communication and software development. Our strengths are great skills, passion and attention to human relationships. Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Dot Next snc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Tom Kelly Joins MEI as Corporate Sales Manager

by editor on 03. Aug, 2010 in news

Jenkintown, PA – Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner and a leading provider of software solutions for publishers, today announced that Tom Kelly has joined the company as Corporate Sales Manager. Kelly, who has more than 20 years of experience with sales and consulting in the professional publishing industry, will spearhead the company’s corporate sales efforts.

In his new role, Kelly will work with corporate publishers, including financial services firms, advertising agencies, corporate entities such as banks, and more. He’ll help streamline publishing for these customers, who often have marketing or communications departments that could benefit from the improved production management workflow offered by the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform and other solutions from MEI.

Kelly will also specialize in helping corporate customers gain more control over their social networking presence with MEI’s new Qwalla(R) service. Qwalla lets users communicate across multiple social networks such as Twitter and Facebook while also managing RSS feeds. Some of Qwalla’s benefits for businesses include enhanced visibility via the built-in RSS directory and improved monitoring of social sites for relevant discussion and mentions.

“It’s exciting to join a company that has helped some of the world’s biggest publishers automate complex and tedious tasks,” Kelly said. “MEI offers truly compelling solutions for improving the production and delivery of marketing communications, catalogs and more – not just for print but also for the Web, e-readers, iPad, iPhone and other channels. I’m also looking forward to working with MEI’s cutting-edge social media tools.”

Previously, Kelly was an account executive for Quark, where he managed numerous high-profile corporate clients. Before that, he worked as an independent consultant for publishers in the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., areas, in addition to holding the title of director of marketing and product development at Heldref Publications in the late ’90s.

Along with sales and consulting, Kelly has hands-on experience with design, production and printing as well as converting print media to electronic media for content syndication. These skills will factor heavily into his new role at MEI as he works with customers to fulfill their unique requirements.

“Tom’s exceptional understanding of the corporate sector and its publishing needs is going to be a valuable asset to our sales team,” said Mark Leister, senior vice president of business development at MEI. “We feel confident having him on board as we launch new initiatives and focus on diverse new markets.”

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Managing Editor Inc. is an industry leader in the development of quality, proven software solutions for the evolving publishing industry. The Page Director Series of Advertising and Classified Layout Systems, K4 Publishing System, Integrated Production Suite (IPS) and IPS AdTrac deliver automated pagination, workflow and digital asset management solutions to newspaper and magazine publishers, as well as to other print and electronic publishing markets. MEI is an Adobe premier development partner and has twice been named a laureate of the Computerworld Smithsonian Collections. Additional information regarding MEI’s products and services can be found on the company’s Web site.

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Bizness Apps launches iPhone App Creator for Small Businesses

by editor on 02. Aug, 2010 in news

San Francisco – The mobile app industry is exploding and businesses of every kind are looking to create a mobile presence with smart phone applications. Large and medium sized businesses may be able to afford expensive mobile development costs but what about small businesses? Bizness Apps is here to help.

Bizness Apps is a start-up company that will provides high-end, affordable iPhone applications to small businesses that are looking to expand their existing marketing efforts. Bizness Apps has established a system that will allow us to offer iPhone application development, hosting, marketing, and maintenance of the same caliber that large development companies take advantage of, at a very affordable rate.

So who can use Bizness Apps? Bizness Apps can provide a solution for any small business. We currently have specialized application packages for restaurants, bars & clubs, realtors, lawyers, and stock brokers.

“We are extremely excited over here at Bizness Apps to help businesses make their first mobile application. We truly believe mobile is the future over here at Bizness Apps and were looking forward to helping business make their first mobile presence,” said CEO of Bizness Apps, Andrew Gazdecki.

Show does it all work? Well it’s pretty simple. You sign up to create your free account and from there you are able to instantly begin creating your application. The process is very easy and can take less than 20 minutes to create an iPhone application. From there, once you are satisfied with your application, you pay to launch it into the iTunes App Store. Bizness Apps handles the submission, hosting, and maintenance of your iPhone application for only $39 a month!

“When we first started out in iPhone developer, we noticed a lot of businesses spending $5,000-$20,000 on an iPhone application. Through Bizness Apps, we are able to offer the same quality applications that larger businesses pay for but at a much lower cost to businesses,” said Gazdecki.

How can an iPhone application help businesses? The iPhone has taken the world by storm largely because of the applications that users are able to download and use on their phone. They provide instant information and provide customers with a direct way to contact a business from their iPhone. With Bizness Apps, businesses can engage, inform, and impress customers. Check out Bizness Apps today for more information.

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Bizness Apps is the easy way for businesses to create an iPhone application. Founded in August 2010, Bizness Apps is quickly changing the way businesses create iPhone apps. Copyright (C) 2010 Bizness Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Readdle Celebrates Third Anniversary

by editor on 01. Aug, 2010 in news

Odessa, Ukraine – Readdle, a pioneer in iPhone and iPad application development since 2007, celebrates today its third anniversary. In August 2007, Readdle was the first to provide iPhone users a document reader and attachment saver a full year before the official iTunes App Store had launched. In 2010, Readdle still continues to expand upon the iOS platform by releasing new products for Apple iPhone users and opening potential to a growing Apple iPad audience.

“Over the last three years, Readdle has grown strong notwithstanding the many challenges on this emerging platform,” said Igor Zhadanov, Readdle co-founder. “Our success is based on a single platform focus – enabling iPhone owners to be productive and efficient on the go – and a great mutual collaboration between the peers in our team with an individual approach to each user,” he explained. “This serves our company and our customers very well.”

During these years, Readdle has achieved industry recognition as a strong developer of business applications for the iPhone and iPad owners. In celebration of its third anniversary, Readdle is offering a time-limited discount on all Readdle products. Price reductions will take effect for 48 hours since August 1st. Additionally, Readdle is giving away three iPads to its Twitter followers.

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Founded in 2007, Readdle provides Apple iPhone and Apple iPod touch users with high quality applications missing in a standard application set. The company flagship products are Scanner Pro, an application which transforms the iPhone into portable scanner, and ReaddleDocs, a revolutionary file manager, document reader and attachment viewer for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Copyright 2007-2010 Readdle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, iPad and iTunes are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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