Food on the Table
The Food on the Table is the perfect mobile application for moms and dads. Learn how it can be personalized and helps to plan meals and find recipes while helping to manage a budget.
Film Independent’s Movie Hackathon Awards $2500 prize to the best film-related app
Film Independent hosts a 41 hour Movie Hackathon to see who can build the best film-related app! Judges from top startups and film companies asses apps that make watching movies either easier or more social.
Kargo Mobile Teams Up with AT&T APIs & Developers
Kargo, one of the largest mobile publisher platforms explains how they are partnering with AT&T, their APIs and the development community as a whole to create rich mobile applications.
Angry Birds TV? Rovio Makes the Dream Come True
Angry Birds maybe the best selling app in history. They expanded their app portfolio with partnerships with Lucas films, season specials, holiday specials etc. Now they are set to turn Angry Birds into a TV show. Premiering on March 16th, the new show will air on a weekly basis and promises to pack as much punch as the game itself.
Apple and Google Create Massive App Economy
How big of a money maker are apps? What country’s GDP is the size of the global app economy? How does app use compare to TV in terms of time spent per day? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has answers.
Penultimate 4.0 now part of Evernote
Penultimate is the original and easiest-to-use handwriting app for iPad that combines the natural experience of pen and paper with the flexibility and syncing of Evernote. Lose the paper, keep the handwriting, and remember everything.
Bringing SMS Services Anywhere in the World with Telerivet
Hermione Way interviews Joshua Stern, CEO and Co-founder of Telerivet, a cloud SMS service that allows anyone to create SMS applications anywhere in the world.
Bounce wants to help you and your loved ones be on time
Bounce is an upcoming mobile app that uses Google Now-style notifications for appointments by monitoring traffic conditions in real-time to let you know when to leave. It also adds in a customizable buffer for all that extra time like walking to the car or finding your keys. An Android prototype has already notched more than 12,000 downloads and is getting some pretty enthusiastic reviews, and the company has now kicked off a crowdfunding project to raise money for the iPhone version. The team says they’ll make the app when they hit 5,000 $5 backers and they’re aiming to release it by mid 2013. Backing the project will guarantee a copy of the app, which will cost $5 a month when it goes on sale.
iPhone App Makes Map Navigation Easier to Visualize
Crossfader has developed Version 1.4 of AR-MAPS, an iPhone app that supports augmented reality (AR) on maps. AR is one of visualization solutions. This map application represents the ground on the bottom half of the screen, showing a map there. On the top half, it shows a video, with AR tags attached to destinations on it. This makes navigation easier to visualize.
Compared with the first version, the new version has features to reduce battery consumption, such as powering the camera down when not in AR mode. Also, if the iPhone is fixed in place, such as in a car, the mode can be set not to change if the phone’s orientation is changed.
Summly: News Noise Trimmed
He launched the second and improved version of Summly, a mobile app that generates bite-sized summaries of news stories that fit neatly on your phone screen. No scrolling, no tapping, no chasing down links to media website. Just the news, or as much that can fit in 350-500 words.
The app, which was released Thursday for the iPhone, pulls in news articles from hundreds of online sources and uses an algorithm to extract key words and phrases to build a coherent summary. D’Aloisio said Summly gives readers more content than a Tweet, but doesn’t overwhelm them with pages of text.
