Best Western International today announced its debut in mobile offerings with the unveiling of its free iPhone application, titled “Best Western to Go.”

“We pride ourselves on being available to travelers no matter their location, which is why mobile accessibility was a natural next step for us”

“Best Western to Go” features include:

Search and Book: Find and book reservations at more than 4,000 Best Western hotels in over 80 countries worldwide.
Program: Create an itinerary and input addresses of attractions and restaurants. Once these have been entered, users can easily find their location using the app’s GPS-enabled map.
Personalize: Capture and categorize favorite locations in specific destinations. Travelers can also upload photos and descriptions to remember the locale.
Socialize: Stay connected with family and friends by sharing an experience, such as a lunch at a kitschy diner or a souvenir purchase. Travelers can push this information directly from the app to their Facebook page, email or to other iPhone users.

The “Best Western to Go” iPhone application marks a first for the World’s Largest Hotel Chain®, which plans to launch applications for multiple mobile platforms in 2010 that cater to the growing number of travelers staying connected via smart phones.

Best Western plans to unveil multiple upgrades to its iPhone application throughout 2010, as well as introduce applications for other mobile platforms including Blackberry® and Android™. The hotel chain will work closely with application users to incorporate helpful features that best meet their travel needs.

The free “Best Western to Go” iPhone application can be downloaded at either www.bestwestern.com/iphone or www.itunes.com/app/bestwesterninternational.

GameFly announced the release of an updated GameCenter 1.1. The updated app, now available on the App Store, includes more video game screenshots, hi-res videos for most of the 5,000 titles included in the app, expanded news coverage from Shacknews.com, and performance enhancements designed to increase usability for iPhone™ and iPod® touch users.

“We are continuing to enhance GameCenter through the user feedback mechanism which has been instrumental in helping us craft a bigger, better and more informative product”

“We are continuing to enhance GameCenter through the user feedback mechanism which has been instrumental in helping us craft a bigger, better and more informative product,” said Sean Spector, GameFly co-founder and SVP of business development and content. “GameCenter 1.1 now includes the addition of rich multimedia content like screenshots and video trailers, optimized for easy viewing on the iPhone. We really want to make GameCenter a must have app for all people who play video games.”

The GameCenter app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at http://itunes.com/apps/gamecenter.

“Now, podcasting becomes a platform that converts audiences to revenue, accelerated by the micropayment billing process that Apple has created with the App store”

The Tiki Bar TV App (2.99) delivers all the latest episodes of the wildly popular Tiki Bar TV comedy video podcast series starring Dr. Tiki, Johnny Johnny, and Lala. The show first started releasing its 5 to 10 minute episodes in iTunes on March 13, 2005 and since then its popularity has gained the cast recognition in Forbes and Business Week as innovators and leaders in video podcast entertainment.

Like the Tiki Bar TV App, the twenty-two newly launched Apps are iPhone® companion Apps for popular podcasts on the Wizzard Media Network. They offer audiences one-click access to the podcast episodes directly on their iPhone or iPod® Touch, exclusive bonus content and new social communication features, creating an unprecedented level of audience engagement.

With the launch of the iPhone App store in iTunes®, Wizzard created a unique iPhone App that can be quickly customized for each podcast and allows podcast publishers to generate a new revenue stream by marketing their own iPhone App directly to their audience. Once they have converted enough of their current audience to App users, they can then drive future reoccurring episode and subscription sales through a process called in-App purchasing. Wizzard shares in the revenue with the podcast publisher.

Wizzard announced 2009 third quarter network numbers of 12,281 podcast shows, 900,000 episodes, downloaded 332 million times in the third quarter by over 18 million unique monthly audience members. Approximately 70% of the audience for podcasts subscribe through iTunes® from which users download podcasts for their iPhone and iPod®.

Analysts project the App market to be a $1.0 billion market today, headed for $4.0 billion by 2012. With the holiday season approaching and the recent launch of the iPhone in China, Wizzard’s Management believes the number of people using iPhones and iPod Touches to consume podcasts and interact with Apps will continue to grow well beyond the current 50 million user-base.

“Now, podcasting becomes a platform that converts audiences to revenue, accelerated by the micropayment billing process that Apple has created with the App store,” says Dave Mansueto, co-founder Wizzard Media. “We believe this new process is the future model for how digital media is published, audiences are grown and revenues derived.”

“We know there is strong demand for the podcasts we distribute seeing downloads grow from 400 million to well over 1 billion in the last three years and monthly audiences grow from 4 million to 18 million,” says Laurie Sims, President of Wizzard Media. “Now that we have a method to charge for podcast content and offer reoccurring subscriptions, we believe there is dramatic change ahead for the podcast industry. Unlike most Apps in the App store, podcasters have a distinct advantage to successfully market their App in iTunes due to the fact that they have already built a substantial audience for their product through iTunes.”

“Rapid growth of the social graph is quickly expanding everyone’s network of friends, and traditional paper birthday cards are inexpensive, yet from the recipient’s perspective, a step above most virtual gifts/cards.”

In only two years Birthday Calendar has become the most popular dedicated birthday application on the Facebook Platform, with users spanning the globe. Translated into 25 major languages, Birthday Calendar automatically provides Facebook users with reminders for friends’ birthdays, as well as virtual gifts and digital cards.

Launched only three months ago, Birthday Calendar for iPhone will have over 100,000 users before the end of the year, making it the top Birthday app in the iPhone’s Social Network category. An Android version of this same application is scheduled to launch in January 2010.

Greeting Card Universe (GCU), BigDates’ web-based play in the paper greeting card market, is poised for rapid growth from the launch of the Greeting Card Universe Application on Facebook Platform. GCU sells over 270,000 original greeting cards created by more than 3,400 freelance artists. The GCU Facebook application will serve as a social front end to GCU, enabling the purchasing and sending of paper greeting cards from within Facebook. For last minute needs digital versions of the cards will also be available.

Birthdays are a key activity on Facebook, and big business as well, evidenced by Facebook sales of over $70 million in its gift store this year. Also, thanks to the exploding virtual goods market on Facebook, users are becoming comfortable making low dollar purchases from within Facebook applications. All this activity is increasing demand for micro gifting and greeting products ranging from free to $5, right on target for $3 paper greeting cards.

Nasser Gaemi, CEO of BigDates states, “Rapid growth of the social graph is quickly expanding everyone’s network of friends, and traditional paper birthday cards are inexpensive, yet from the recipient’s perspective, a step above most virtual gifts/cards.” Gaemi continues, “The sweet spot of the paper greeting card demographic was also the fastest growing segment on Facebook earlier this year.”

Tonchidot announced the global availability of the iPhone application “Sekai Camera,” a social, Augmented Reality (AR) service for browsing and sharing user-generated text, photo, voice, and other location-linked information. Launched September 2009 in Japan, Sekai Camera was recently named the Best App in 2009 by Apple Japan. Sekai Camera is now available for free outside Japan at iPhone’s AppStore worldwide (search for “Sekai Camera”).

“Sekai Camera is social, and so much fun! It is serendipity here and now. Sekai Camera will become a platform for new games, entertainment and communication. We are collaborating with many partners to create fun content. So please, join us!”

The Sekai Camera application features AR and location-based services that allow users to interact with and communicate in the real world in ways that they have never been able to do before. While most mobile AR applications today are navigation oriented, Sekai Camera is social by design, giving users the ability to communicate and have fun through interaction with digital tags that float in the real world. Sekai Camera has created a completely new interface for connecting the real world to the Web.

“Look up! Sekai Camera will change the world – please imagine!,” says Tonchidot CEO, Takahito Iguchi. “Sekai Camera is social, and so much fun! It is serendipity here and now. Sekai Camera will become a platform for new games, entertainment and communication. We are collaborating with many partners to create fun content. So please, join us!”

Some of the user generated and social communications features of Sekai Camera include:

1. Create : a Sekai Camera World

Air Tag: Create and browse futuristic location-linked digital Post-its® that float in real space. See and share in real time, text, photo, voice, and web-links that are posted as Air Tags. Leave your footprint in the real world!

Air Filter: Search for the Air Tags that you are looking for. By specifying time, distance and type, you can sort through the many floating Air Tags around any given location.

Air Pocket: Bookmark your favorite Air Tags and put them in your “pocket”. View and comment on Air Tags even when you are not at the location where the Air Tags were originally posted.

2. Communicate : a New Serendipity Experience

Sekai Life: Create a life-stream that shows how you and your friends have interacted with Sekai Camera in a timeline display. Follow other users and view their comments and actions.

Air Profile: Register and display your own profile as a personalized Air Tag. This virtual name-tag floats right above your iPhone for others to see – look up!

Air Tweet: See your Tweets as floating Air Tags, which are enabled through a mash-up with Twitter®.

Air Shout: Send and receive Air Tag messages that fly up to a distance of 100 meters.

NAVIGON AG today announced the availability of a Mexico version of its successful on-board navigation software in the iPhone App Store. MobileNavigator transforms any iPhone 3G, equipped with at least Apple OS 3.0 operating system, and any iPhone 3G S into a complete navigation device.

“Our version for Mexico further expands our international portfolio and allows travelers premium navigation capabilities.”

NAVIGON’S MobileNavigator is the most feature rich navigation App for the iPhone and currently within the top 5 grossing Apps in the U.S. App Store. The Mexico version includes many of NAVIGON’S premium navigation capabilities such as Google Local Search, Enhanced Pedestrian Mode, Speed Assistant, Route Planning and more. Included for Mexico are also NAVIGON’S sophisticated and elegant map views and branded in-map points of interest (POIs). NAVIGON’S on-board navigation approach has clear advantages over other off-board application solutions. After downloading MobileNavigator, the software and map data is saved directly on the device, which saves costly data plans. Start the application and go, while traveling in different countries no cell needed, everything is loaded in the application on the iPhone.

“Having navigation capabilities on the iPhone is extremely helpful when traveling, no extra devices or maps are necessary,” said Gerhard Mayr, NAVIGON vice-president worldwide mobile phone business & new markets. “Our version for Mexico further expands our international portfolio and allows travelers premium navigation capabilities.” NAVIGON MobileNavigator is also available for Australia, Brazil, Europe, Gulf region, Russia, Turkey and South Africa.

The NAVIGON solution for Mexico sells for US$ 59.99 and is equipped with maps from NAVTEQ®. The App is on sale for US$ 49.99 until January 15.

Key features of the NAVIGON MobileNavigator for Mexico:

Speed Assistant Provides adjustable audio-visual warnings.
Google Local Search Users have instant access to the most up to date POI search results. Simply entering steak, for example, provides a comprehensive list of steak restaurants nearby.
Enhanced Pedestrian Mode Pedestrian mode is equipped with the iPhone compass, within the application and an option for a 3D map with automatic orientation in the direction the walker is headed (3G S only), so users can at a glance know which direction they are moving.
Direct Access and Call POIs Allows navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone’s address book and to directly call the number of POIs such as a restaurant or hotel by simply clicking on the number.
Route Planning Plan a route with different destinations ahead of time.
Full iPod Integration Drivers can enjoy the full range of iPod functionalities with a simple one-click from map access to artists, titles, albums, audio books, podcasts and playlist selections.
Location Sharing Users can share their own location, an address or a POI such as a restaurant or museum via email.
Automatic Day & Night Mode
Turn-by-Turn Route List Provides a detailed list of directions, which update automatically during navigation; eliminating each maneuvers in real-time.
Coordinate Input Employ longitude and latitude coordinates as a destination as an alternative to traditional input like an address or POI by name. Email geographical coordinates for precise location identification.
Emergency Help Tapping one of the predefined categories such as Police, Hospital, Pharmacy or Gas Station provides detailed textual description of current position sorted by distance. Emergency Help tells you exactly where you are, so you can tell other how to get to you.
Favorites Displayed in Map Destinations marked as favorites by the user are displayed on the map in a named flag icon.
Branded POIs and POIs along the route
2D and 3D map view.
Automatic switch between portrait and landscape format.
Intelligent Address Entry.
Real Signpost Display.

Flight travelers often need updates on their flight status, along with airport delays, arrival and departure information, scheduled changes/time delays, gate info and even more. Avoid the stress in planning flight journeys from now on, thanks to this new iPhone Flight information app.

Rather than searching and browsing through various references, websites, blogs and reviews for the required data, the MyFlightInfo App serves all the needs of a traveler from a single-point, in being that they can now access everything from their iPhone or iPod Touch.

Launching the most beneficial iPhone app for real-time air travel information seekers! This flight information application has 2 major upgrades namely a “Date Expansion Pack”, which allows the user to view the flights which are scheduled from a day prior to the current day to 3 days in advance when compared to the standard, current day flights. The second upgrade is “Unlimited Push Status Notifications”, which allows the user to receive up to 5 automatic flight status push notifications (even with the app closed) per departure or arrival for the lifetime of the app.

MyFlightInfo has the ability to retrieve useful information such as finding the nearest airports, providing a complete real-time arrival/departure timetable, built-in maps of airport locations, gate information, ticket information, airport delay status, weather information and more.

What makes this app stand apart from others?
The Application has over 5000 airports in the app, so you are not just stuck with the major airports.
The Application has over 1000 airlines supported in the app and it covers code-sharing flights.
View a map of the airport location with our built-in images.
Email the entire flight itinerary to friends and colleagues.
Access Ticket Information and even view the meals provided for flights!
In-app upgrade option allows the user to add extra date coverage (see flights and setup notifications for one day prior and 3 days in advance).*
Options to add unlimited Push Notification Flight Status Updates direct to devices without having the app running without buying another version of the app. *
View weather information for departure and arrival airport.
View gate information where available.
Search by the hour of the day instead of having a full list of flights to scroll through.
Information is clearly displayed and legible.
Bookmark Airports and Flights for quick retrieval.
Search by Airport name, City or 3 Letter Airport Code or even by Flight Number.
*Push Notification Status Messages and the Date Expansion Pack (for Extra Dates) are available for an extra In-App Purchase Cost.
The pricing for the App is going to rock the store a little with the standard functions available for only $0.99 and the Date Expansion $0.99 and the Flight Status Notifications upgrade for $1.99.

The app is designed for the next generation technology innovators who want to enhance their mobile options in handling their own travel needs with ease.

Grab this seamless flight information app today and start receiving the updates on upcoming flights within no time.

App Website : www.myflightinfo.com

iTunes Store URL for Download : http://3d.aprls.com

Flurry, Inc. and Pinch Media, two leading smartphone application analytics providers, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to merge. This merger will solidify the companies’ combined position as the mobile application analytics market leader on the world’s fastest growing digital media platforms: iPhone™ and Android™. As a combined company, Flurry and Pinch Media analytics services will be running on more than 80% of all iPhone, iPod Touch and Android handsets worldwide.

According to Morgan Stanley’s recent Mobile Internet Report, the iPhone is growing faster than the Internet did during the 90s. With 57 million iPhone OS units sold over its first nine quarters, iPhone OS penetration is more than three times greater than what AOL and Netscape achieved, combined, over the same period of time. Additionally, comparing iPhone OS sales to other historically successful hardware launches, iPhone OS outperforms the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Apple iPod and RIM BlackBerry. Additionally, Gartner Research recently forecasted that Android adoption will overtake iPhone adoption within three years. Going forward, the company will leverage consumer insight gained by tracking usage on 4 out of every 5 iPhone OS devices and 2 out of every 3 Android OS devices to accelerate revenue generation for application developers.

“Flurry has long since admired Pinch Media’s leadership in iPhone analytics and monetization, and is proud to join forces with such an accomplished team,” said Flurry president and CEO, Simon Khalaf. “Leveraging the industry’s broadest and deepest set of data for iPhone and Android, the combined company will be strongly positioned to deliver a series of monetization and marketing optimization services in ways few other companies can.”

The merged company will retain the Flurry name, maintain existing San Francisco and New York offices and hire aggressively. In the near-term, the company’s main priorities will be to seamlessly unify its service and significantly increase the analytics feature-set offered. The company will continue to offer its analytics service free of charge.

“Joining forces with Flurry’s innovative team made perfect sense from the moment we considered it,” said Pinch Media co-founder and CEO, Greg Yardley. “We’re still focused on helping iPhone application developers succeed, and thanks to this merger we’ll be able to do so in many more ways.

The merged company will track more than 1 billion end-user sessions per month on applications installed across 50 million unique iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Flurry AppCircle, currently in private beta, is the first of a series of services designed to use data to intelligently target consumers and increase sales in the App Store. For more information, please visit http://www.flurry.com/product/appcircle/index.html.

To learn more about the merger, please visit www.flurry.com or www.pinchmedia.com

VOWSoft has released iTunes Backup Manager, a powerful Windows application that help people easily take control of the text messages, photos, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, and widget settings that backed up from iPhone or iPod Touch. Unlike the simple backup functions that are included with these handheld devices, iTunes Backup Manager lets people browse the backed up files, view and edit them, and export them to several popular PC formats.

Instead of managing files using the tiny screen and keyboard of handheld devices, iTunes Backup Manager use computer’s screen and keyboard to take control of files. It’s easy to browse through all of critical backup files, and find the ones that interest user.

iTunes Backup Manager makes it simple to view and edit files using iTunes Backup Manager’s built-in plist editor, text editor, hex editor, database viewer, image viewer, SMS message viewer, notes viewer, call history viewer, and address book viewer. Before iTunes Backup Manager, only option was to restore all of backed up files to iPhone or iPod Touch without any modification. Now, people can select, view, and modify files before replace them on handheld device. The software lets people export backed-up SMS messages, notes, and address book to text files or to Excel spreadsheet files.

iTunes Backup Manager gives people additional control over iPhone and iPod Touch. They can view and export SMS messages, Contacts, and Notes, to share with friends or just to keep a backup copy for safety.

Maintain a backup copy of all of valuable information, in case someone’s iPhone is lost or stolen. With its emphasis on security, iTunes Backup Manager lets people maintain multiple backups of iPhone or iPod Touch, so if one backup copy is corrupted or deleted, they’ll have another copy available. And people can restore all of backed-up files, restore only the files that have been recently modified, or restore only selected files.

The most powerful feature is, people can modify the backed-up files before restore to iPhone or iPod Touch, so people can do many things that they can not do before, for example, It’s simple to change iPhone’s carrier name, time string, dock type, or change iPhone game data files. People can even remove a single call history record with iTunes Backup Manager. iTunes Backup Manager can export backed-up files to computer, then import back, even people modified them.

Whether business managers who wants to ensure that staff has their critical iPhone and iPod Touch files backed up to protect the company from phone theft or loss, or a home user who wants to be able to manage the files on handheld device using a full-sized screen and keyboard, iTunes Backup Manager is a useful tool.

iTunes Backup Manager runs under Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, works with iTunes 8.0 or later, and supports iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch/iPod Touch 2G with OS 2.0 or later. A single-user license costs $34.95(US). The software comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Users can purchase the software securely online, or download a 7-day trial version, from .ipodrobot.com/itunes-backup-manager

When Vancouver welcomes the world for the 2010 Olympic games, people will not have to search hard to find the city’s varied shopping, eating and drinking spots with the stylish, GPS-enabled shopping application for iPhone and iPod Touch users, named ChicWalks Vancouver.

In partnership with ConQuer Mobile and CellMap, rising stars in the mobile space, Chicwalks Media offers meticulously researched shopping walks for fashion capitals worldwide, starting with mapped shopping routes for Vancouver, Canada and Paris, France, and soon adding San Francisco as the first US city. In anticipation of the huge influx of tourists expected for the 2010 Winter Olympics, ChicWalks Vancouver is the first in a series of apps to be launched that allow shoppers to quickly and easily discover what they want to shop for in a city, from the palm of their hand.

“Vancouver’s shopping scene ranges from top-name, international designers and chains, to funky, independent boutiques and local shops featuring unique fashions, shoes, jewellery and home decor items,” says Karen Henrich, CEO of Chicwalks Media Inc. “We document and organize it all in a way that enables shoppers to browse through snappy merchant descriptions and instantly hit the ground shopping—without having to do a lot of research and putting together tedious strategic plans.”

ChicWalks Vancouver utilizes CellTouch In-App Mapping technology—a platform developed for Virtual Shopping Malls, Tourism and Event organizations that enables consumers to connect with local businesses.

Says ConQuer Mobile Inc. CEO, Angela Robert: “The ChicWalks Vancouver iPhone App concept is the perfect complement to the CellTouch technology, which links GPS mapping to the shopping listings, right within the application. We’re thrilled to work with Chicwalks Media to showcase the most fashionable cities worldwide, in user-friendly, informative and stylish applications that help shoppers make the most of their time and energy.”

Show Me the Shopping!

Visitors to Vancouver can maximize their precious time by browsing the descriptive listings in 9 walks and deciding what and where to explore. Locals can save time by previewing what’s new, or branch out to discover another area or stores they never thought to check out. Users can immediately recoup the cost of the app through valuable, exclusive offers from walk merchants. Content is kept current with weekly updates that load quickly and seamlessly to the iPhone upon opening the application, and new walks and features and offers will be added on a regular basis.

The Origins of the Shopping Walk
The shopping walks are the result of founder and CEO Karen Henrich’s experience as a Paris tour operator and her frustration in trying to find one comprehensive source for all of the city’s key shopping areas. Through her sister tour company, Nuit Blanche Tours, Henrich has developed and led popular shopping tours for hundreds of English-speaking clients in Paris. She created shopping walks for customers by conducting her own meticulous research, on foot and online, and asking the advice of fashionable French friends. ChicWalks.com was born when she brought all of that research together in one user-friendly format that allows users to shop the way they want to, on a street-by-street basis. Chicwalks is taking the next step by creating mobile applications for each city to allow shoppers to have a great shopping experience, from the palm of their hand.

The ChicWalks Vancouver shopping app is available for $4.99 from the iTunes App Store on iPhone and iPod touch.

70 years after the start of World War II Apalon is happy to announce the launch of 100 Nazi Scalps iPhone game. 100 Nazi Scalps is an arcade styled game with unmatched graphics and sounds that allow users fully immerse into the authentic atmosphere of WW2. The iPhone game is now available for download on the Apple App Store.

This game allows players become a brave American soldier in bloody missions of World War II. The main character and other members of his squad were sent to Paris, France, but on the way their plane crashed. Everyone, except for the sergeant, managed to escape the burning plane and hide in the woods. That is how the first mission of the game starts.

Each level has its unique missions: as a fearless Nazi slayer, players have to save the sergeant, hold the position until the squad arrives, kill Nazis or even get more scalps. The supreme test is to defeat ‘The Boss’ – Nazi General – and the division of ruthless soldiers. The game immerses players in that “killing Nazis” atmosphere popular these days.

The game is likely to equal record of iPhone and iPod Touch applications developed by Apalon, that repeatedly reached TOP100 overall and TOP10 of various categories.

The game features:
- 2-way-running game-play
- 5 levels, each having a mission to accomplish
- 7 unique weapons for both hands of the soldier (managed by a scrolling selector), including a knife and a bat for getting scalps.
- Kills and scalps records

“We see a great potential in applying our iPhone development talent to the creation of small but outstanding games that address burning issues. 100 Nazi Scalps got a lot of love during its production and was hardly let into the App Store” said Peter Melnikov, VP and co-founder of Apalon. “Released 70 years after the start of WW2 this brutal adventure game will definitely find a lot of fans among iPhone gaming community”

100 Nazi Slayer can be downloaded on the App Store here

This holiday season, mistletoe isn’t the only way for couples to get on Santa’s naughty list. MyPleasure.com is shaking things up by taking an exciting new approach to sexual exploration and education with a contemporary and frisky spin on sex dice just in time for the holidays. Sex Dice Evolved introduces a whole new world of sex play to iPhone app technology. With endless intimate possibilities at a simple shake of the dice, couples can share a retreat of sexual exploration after the holiday craze and even beyond. Every combination is accompanied by expert sex advice and tips and customizable dice allow partners to express their likes and dislikes, so the experience is always fun. Plus, with the ability to share and download naughty dice, you’ll never get bored. MyPleasure believes that exploration, curiosity and education are key to a healthy sex life and has created this app for couples to enjoy.

Sex Dice Evolved App
And, for people who like to share advice and sexpertise, Sex Dice Evolved allows users to customize and publish their own sets of dice on Twitter. When a die set is created within the app, a simple click of the share button will tweet out the dice from @Sexdice, keeping it anonymous and giving dice fans a central location (twitter.com/sexdice) to see all the dice created by the community. The app will also display a code next to each set of dice, so you can tell your friends or even tweet out your code. It’s the new way to crowdsource sex tips. The app also includes pre-loaded dice for the adventurous-no holds barred as well as the curious-but-shy user. Users can modify these dice or download customized dice through Twitter or from friends. Here are a few different situations where the Sex Dice Evolved app comes in handy:

Have you ever…?
Gain the freedom to try something new, something sexy, something you might just be too shy to ask for.
How the heck do you…?
Learn a few pointers on the best way to perform a new activity, position, or how to introduce a new toy.
Wanna play…?
Don’t be afraid to ask for it, just shake the dice and say the outcome out loud.
Baby, may I…?
Set preferences so the combinations both people will want can come up again and again (or set to “never” if it’s not!)
Don’t forget to check out MyPleasure’s other leading iPhone app called MyVibe, which subtly can transform any iPhone into a fun and discrete personal toy.

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of data sets from NYC GOV (and various other third party data sets), location awareness and social media. The users get to experience the power of 30+ NYC related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a big step to help NYC GOV share their rich data sets with the rest of us using mobile platforms and social media. It uses various data sets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC GOV.

NYC Way is location aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity – based on where you are. The app allows you to update your facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited – making you the true NYC Reporter.

At the time of reporting, NYC Way stands to be the most voted for application in Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC BigApps Competition.

OneDerr Inc (www.onederr.com), a company based out of Jersey City, made the application available in the iTunes app store on Dec 4, 2009. In the upcoming release, OneDerr Inc. plans to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that would correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

Available for free in the iTunes App Store, NYC Way includes a ton of local resources. Some of the resources highlighted in the youtube demo and on the main screen are Nearest WiFi Hotspot Locations, NYC Restaurant Inspection Results, Major NYC Tourist Attractions, NYC Street Eats (NYC Street Vendors), NYC Coffee Shops, NYC Gadget Stores, NYC Events, NYC Live Traffic Cams and Traffic Updates, NYC Subway Station Locations and Alerts, NYC Police Stations, Wanted Criminals, Average Emergency Response Times, Nearest Waste Disposal Sites and Waste Collection Schedules, Nearest Post Offices, 24 Hour Pharmacies, Swine Flu Vaccination Locator, Parking Ticket Search, Volunteer Opportunities, NYC local News including NY Times, NY Post, WNBC etc. and NYC Recreation including ice skating rinks, zoos, aquariums, museums.

“We are already working on building this app for Washington DC, San Francisco, Chicago and London.”, says Archana from OneDerr Inc. “The next logical step will be to make it available on Android and Blackberry. We hope to get some funding from angel investors or VC firms to accomplish all of this, especially when we start in-app sales of featured products from local vendors.”

White Birds Productions and Bulkypix are happy to announce the BABEL RISING is now available on iPhone and iPod Touch for 0.99$ (SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE)
Buy it on App Store:

BABEL RISING:
“You are God! From high above in the sky, it appears the humans are bustling about… and building a tower. A tower, what for? To raise themselves to your level? How conceited, how foolhardy. It is time to show them the price to pay for defying the Creator!

Babel Rising is an action puzzle game offering hours of gameplay. The challenge is simple: unleash your powers to prevent the humans from building the tower.”

“You have six devastating powers at your disposal, including the thunderbolt, the typhoon and earthquake!

From the simplest to the most powerful, master them, use them one after the other and combine them to increase their impact.

Divine power is at your fingertips: sweep the screen from top to bottom and left to right with one finger or more to unleash your wrath.”

“Perform the “divine combo” successfully and sweep away the humans from the tower’s levels in one go.

Hilarious animations, detailed graphics and a soundtrack worthy of the best Roman Empire movies in a humorous setting.

Win trophies, publish your scores on-line and beat your best scores.”

Search for God and you will find him! You are the boss and mankind will be sure to remember!

Tesco Wine has launched a new iPhone app especially for anyone who has ever wished they could pick the perfect wine, tasted a classy claret at a party and wondered where they could buy it, or wanted to impress their friends with connoisseur-like credentials.

Now everybody can be a wine buff with Tesco.com’s new Wine app – developed by Cortexica Vision Systems which was founded by experts from Imperial College using pioneering visual imaging that mimics the way the human brain identifies images.

“All you need to do is take a picture of any wine bottle label from your iPhone and if it is one of the 1,000 that Tesco Wine by the Case stocks you’ll see all the tasting notes and information about that wine, including the guide price” explained Laura Wade-Gery, Tesco.com CEO.

“We hope this will democratise and demystify wine know-how by making information much more accessible. But we’re advising using the app cautiously if you’re at a dinner party – exercise good manners and discretion at all times. Tesco Wine by the case sells some wonderful, award-winning wines that are great value, so you wouldn’t want to embarrass your hosts by announcing the price tag”

The app can suggest the ideal wine, depending on budget, menu or preferred country of origin – user just tap the button or shake the phone and wait for their result, all to the glug-glug sound of wine being gently poured from a bottle and the resulting pop of the cork.

The Wine app will direct the user through to Tesco Wine by the case so that customers can buy their selection direct from their mobile phone – perfect for stocking up for seasonal entertaining.

Steve Semenzato, CEO of Cortexica, said: “This brilliant app is built upon a Vision System that is the result of six years’ research. It is unique because it does not match an image directly to another image but looks for key features to match against, just like the human brain does. It won’t matter if you can’t quite get the perfect picture – not easy to do on a curvy bottle – it should still recognise a label”

For customers without iPhones, the Tesco Wine Club has lots of information about the best wines to grace Christmas tables this season, specially selected by Gerard Bassett, the only person in the world to hold the combined qualifications of Master Sommelier, Master of Wine and a Wine MBA.

Gerard’s selections in full – made with Tesco’s own Master of Wine, Pierpaolo Petrassi – are available from the Tesco website and in the latest edition of the WineClub magazine.