Conde Nast released a brand-new iPhone app Wednesday in conjunction with GQ's Men of the Year issue that provides readers with a replica of the magazine on their iPhone or iPod touch. New York Daily News reports.
But its more than just a replica: You can click on a product and be taken right to the product's Web site, you can touch a link in a music review and download that song right to your phone, you can watch video of interviews, and so much more.
In their own words: PCMag has, in collaboration with Computer Language Company, launched its inaugural iPhone app, a mobile version of its popular online Tech Encyclopedia. That's right, 25,000 tech terms, all searchable by name, in an easy-to-browse alphabetical format. Just as in the Web version, there are extensive entries, cross links to relevant terms and images that you can expand to investigate.
The App Store is cluttered with iPhone GPS apps, and sorting through them is a daunting task. This guide is designed to cut through the clutter, gather all relevant info in one place, and aid you in making the best choice. We also take a look at the strengths and weaknesses of iPhone GPS vs personal navigation devices, and examine the new elephant in the room, Google Maps Navigation.
Britney Spears is getting up close and personal with her fans through the just-launched iPhone and iPod Touch app "It's Britney!". [via MTV]
In their own words: With the "It's Britney!" app, fans get to the front of the line with all things officially Britney. After purchasing the app, fans will receive official news first hand, get exclusive messages from Britney herself, be able to create and share images of themselves and friends on stage with Britney, have access to updated photo galleries which include real time photos, exclusive tour images as well as a photo gallery of over 100+ iconic images of Britney over the years.
Additionally, the app features a "Shake Shake Shake" feature in which Britney says "It's Britney Bitch!" every time the user shakes their iPhone or iPod Touch.
Harry Potter Spells is a magic game that lets players cast spells at their opponents by using their phones as wands. With more than 100,000 apps on the iPhone, it’s getting harder and harder to stand out from the crowd. One way to do so is to launch an app with a familiar brand name. But only the highest-quality branded apps are standing out these days.
The game has 14 spells for wizards-in training. Players can conjure their magic alone or duel each other by casting spells from one device. See the trailer here.
Procter & Gamble’s Tide brand has launched Stain Brain, an iPhone app that consumers can use to find and share ways to remove stains at home and on the go. [via Mobile Marketer]
The free application lets consumers search for step-by-step cleaning instructions from the experts at Tide and other iPhone users to get answers before stains have a chance to set in. For those iPhone users who have a secret recipe for removing tough stains, Tide Stain Brain lets them instantly share their own tips and tricks within the application.
Related app: - My Janitor iPhone App - a how to guide for cleaning everything: Title, wood, upholstery, floors, cars, clothes, windows, electronics and removing stains such as red wine, grease, oil, ink, wax, gum.
Apple has rejected another app, but hopefully they will reverse their decision.
According to MaCNN , the iPhone app, Bobble Rep, was rejected for providing "content that ridicules public figures".
The app contains caricatures of politicians. Il also provides a database with the members of Congress, enabling users to navigate through list of politicians and view contact information. Representatives can be located using a zip code or GPS information.
Each of the caricature heads are combined with a body and produce a virtual "bobblehead" effect when the user shakes the phone or flicks the head with a finger swipe. "Of course that’s just a novelty, and the real purpose of the app is the database that allows you to find out who your representatives in Washington are and how to contact them."
Hilton has unveiled 7 new iPhone apps for seven hotel brands (Conrad, Hilton, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites and Hampton Inn brands in the United States).
The new applications have features that are a first for the hotel industry including a “Request Upon Arrival” service that enables a traveler to place an order for room service and have a meal in the guestroom upon arrival.
The new applications also offer “e-check in,” a feature that provides remote check-in up to 48 hours in advance.
Other features:
-- Search for hotels nearby via address, city, airport or even GPS mapping
-- Make a new hotel reservation at any of Hilton Worldwide’s 3,400 hotels
-- View, modify and cancel existing reservations
-- Redeem points and stays for members of the Hilton HHonors frequent-guest program
-- Check point balances for members of the Hilton HHonors frequent-guest program
A very useful app for anyone who doesn't remember where they parked their.
Augmented reality Car Finder sees the iPhone's camera to overlay the direction of your car and how far away it is. The app relies on the camera and a digital compass, and is compatible only with the iPhone 3GS running 3.1 or later.
Thinking of a tummy tuck? Need bigger breasts? There's now an App for that, reports The Los Angeles Times.
In fact, there are now two plastic surgery applications for Apple's iPhone that offer users information, games and the chance for people to envisage what they would look like with a new nose, face lift or many other procedures.
Created by New York-based Dr. David Shafer, it is aimed at modern patients who are "sophisticated, inquisitive and information seeking," and it taps into a database of more than 1,000 questions and answers about specific cosmetic surgery procedures.
Interesting, the app comes with a warning: "You must be at least 17 years old to download this application".
And coming soon, the iSurgeon app which combines a game mode allowing users to try their hand at surgery with a feature that gives people the chance to instantly modify images of themselves -- or their friends -- through lip enhancements, breast augmentations and dozens of other improvements.
The Flying Without Fear app contains a personal introduction by Sir Richard Branson, a video-based in-flight explanation from start to finish of a flight, frequently-asked questions, relaxation exercises and fear therapy, a fear attack button for emergencies with breathing exercises and quick tips, and a "My Program" section where each user can rate their personal fears and add future flights to prepare them for their next trip. As a bonus, the user is offered 2,000 points when joining Virgin Atlantic's Flying Club.
Spotted on TechCrunch, a humorous video released by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Dev team, giving a sneak peek at some of the rejected apps from the Microsoft Apps Lab. A couple of favorites, the "Virtual Sundial" that tells time sort of, and the “Germaphobe”, a virtual handshake app.
Now here's a useful app. My Janitor is a how to guide for cleaning everything: Title, wood, upholstery, floors, cars, clothes, windows, electronics and removing stains such as red wine, grease, oil, ink, wax, gum.
Fredy Vasilev imagines people using The Bath-O-Matic when they are about 10 minutes from home to choose the fill and temperature levels so their bath will be ready and waiting. How cool is that?.
The full list of winners will be posted on the show's website.
Spotted on Mobile Industry Review, Love Vibes, an app that will help you out by confirming that you are indeed a male or female stallion.
In their own words: A quantitative tool that measures your love making skill by sensing movement using our proprietary love rating software.
Our researchers have coalesced hundreds of data points taken from thousands of surveyed couples. By analyzing this data we have created a unique scoring system designed to translate movement into measurable results.
And... You must be at least 17 years old to download this application.
A new iphone application allows users to carry out a virtual dissection of a human body. CNN reports.
Called Anatomy Lab, the app has been developed by researchers from the University of Utah and provides images of a real human cadaver. It lets the user move between 40 separate body layers, zoom in to view different structures and rotate them to get different view points.
Utah professor Mark Nielsen told CNN that the application is aimed at medical and anatomy students who might not have the opportunity to dissect a real human body, but it's also proving a hit with medical practitioners.
ABC 7 interviewed several self-proclaimed “iPhone junkies,” then got an analysis from a psychologist, who compared the discomfort some people feel without their iPhone apps to narcotic withdrawal. Yes, they compared drug withdrawal to the iPhone.
The video discovered by Mashable in the back of one of New York City’s cabs is tough to watch with a straight face.
It might sound like a pretty outlandish idea that an iPhone application can provide jobs for refugees in Kenya, but the folks behind the Give Work App are dreaming big, writes Erica Liepmann, Associate Editor at Causecast.
Dadaab, Kenya is home to extreme poverty and the largest refugee camp in the world. Through the Give Work system, refugees in Dadaab receive Internet training and well-paying, dignified jobs.
How does it work?
When you complete one simple task on your iPhone or iTouch, the same task is assigned to a trained refugee in Kenya for quality assurance purposes. Once the task is completed and verified, the refugee is paid for the work the two of you collaborated on.
Why Give Work? 41 million refugees have lost their home and livelihood due to violent conflict. Many live on less than $1 a day. Every task you do is real work for real companies, and gives vital income to a refugee. The more you work, the more you help. And the more you help, the more pride you claim. The Give Work application includes user statistics and a breakdown reflecting how your micro-volunteering efforts have made a valuable difference in refugees’ lives.
Related: - The Extraordinaries app for micro-volunteering - The Extraordinaries is an interesting new concept in the growing field of iPhone applications — it allows people to use the every part of their spare time cow (waiting for a movie to start, riding a bus, waiting in line) to do small bits of volunteering through “micro-actions.”
The Guardian reports that Pepsi has apologised for releasing an iPhone app that encouraged men to brag about their sexual conquests.
The AMP UP Before You Score app also provided phone users with chat-up lines for "getting lucky" with 24 different types of women – including foreign exchange students and college girls.
The software provoked criticism and derision when news of its release broke yesterday, with many people complaining that it was sexist and denigrated the status of women.
Thousands of protests were marshalled on Twitter under the hashtag #pepsifail, prompting the soft drinks giant to issue an apology over the official Twitter feed of AMP Energy, the new drink that the app was released to promote.
California company Viper Start Tuesday will announce an iPhone application and car receiver that will enable users to lock, unlock and remotely start their car with the phone rather than the car's key fob. USA Today reports.
We've all heard of bathroom locator apps, but this is new, a condom dispenser locator app.
Kondom Localizr is a new iPhone app that localizes the nearest of the 3000 condom dispensers in Switzerland, in an effort to promote safe sex and help prevent AIDS.
Pick your city and you will get a detailed route to reach the dispenser.
If you're into up-skirting, there's an app for that.
Puff! the iPhone app from BottleCube lets you "blow" up cute Japanese girls' skirts by blowing on the mic of your phone or tapping with your finger. The harder you blow, the higher the skirt -- and the girl's squeal.
Customers using the app can make car payments and view account information from iPhones and iPod Touches. Information Week reports.
Account holders must register online at Mercedes-BenzFinancial.com to set up a user password and identification. The application presents a limited amount of customer information that's pulled from the same account database customers would access from a desktop or laptop. Each page of the application is limited to about five fields, which makes it easier to view on a small screen.
The app includes directions and maps to local dealers, links to insurance offerings and hotel room upgrades through Mercedes-Benz' hotel partners, and links and phone numbers to customer service reps. Customers can also view more than one account from their apps.
The company will likely develop a BlackBerry mobile app at a later date.
The Soundwalk iPhone applications launched during the Nuit Blanche in Paris, a celebration of contemporary art on Saturday October 3, had a great kick-off start.
Over 2.000 soundwalkers downloaded the app and did the aural augmented reality tour with their iPhone in three different neighborhoods in Paris: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Marais and Belleville.
Some 57.4 % of the French citizens installed the application on Saturday, followed by American (14.1%) and German (10.2%) tourists in Paris. The rest of the downloads came from the Brits and a mix of the rest of European countries.
On the launch date, the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Soundwalk iPhone applications entered the TOP 20 of iPhone travel applications on nr. 14 and received a 4.5 ranking on 5!
This is indeed a very promising start for this new travel entertainment mobile application, bringing culture to high-tech mobile products. The apps are original urban soundtracks, in which fiction and reality merge through the music, narrator’s voice, interviews, original music composition, and sound effects, combined with mapping technology, creating the sensation of walking in a film.
Intomobile reviews iCanSee, an iPhone app that converts your iPhone into a magnifying glass.
iCanSee is designed to turn any iPhone into a magnifying glass.
The iCanSee on-screen magnification controls even adapt to varied environmental situations including low-light. Once the application is launched, iPhone then magnifies anything held in front of it by as much as four times the original size, helping users read the fine print on labels, menus, contracts, books or other materials discreetly without the need for separate reading glasses.
A new iPhone app pinpoints over two hundred thousand locations where vehicle fatalities have occurred across the US.
The company’s goal is to “deliver an eye-opening and potentially life-changing experience by helping people see prior vehicle collisions and fatality locations in their neighborhoods, and along their commutes throughout the country.”
Five years of motor vehicle fatality data has been collected and inputted into the program. Statistics and graphics are used to better illustrate.
CNN has unveiled a dedicated iPhone and iPod touch app that lets users browse articles, images, and CNN video in a deeper way than before.
The CNN app features live breaking news video, push notification, personalization and location tools, and the ability to capture and submit user-generated photos and (on the iPhone 3GS) videos for CNN iReport.
The CNN app costs $1.99 and will be available later Tuesday morning in the App Store.
The 0870 app for UK users makes it cheaper for iPhone users to dial premium numbers such 0870, 0845 and 0800. TechDigest.tv reports.
How it works is that the app searches a database for the 08 number you are calling and then directs the call to an alternative landline number if it can find one.
The app has been available to Android users since January with company developer Simon Maddox stating that he believes that the app's users have saved £84,000.
Now it has become available to iPhone users though its arrival is not without controversy, As Mike Butcher points out at TechCrunch Europe it has taken Apple an astonishing 429 days to approve the app.
Conde Nast released a brand-new 
But its more than just a replica: You can click on a product and be taken right to the product's Web site, you can touch a link in a music review and download that song right to your phone, you can watch video of interviews, and so much more.
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Britney Spears is getting up close and personal with her fans through the just-launched iPhone and iPod Touch app "
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Procter & Gamble’s Tide brand has launched 
Apple has rejected another app, but hopefully they will reverse their decision.
Hilton has unveiled 7 new iPhone apps for seven hotel brands (Conrad, Hilton, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites and Hampton Inn brands in the United States).
A very useful app for anyone who doesn't remember where they parked their.
Thinking of a tummy tuck? Need bigger breasts? There's now an App for that, reports 
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