iPhone apps

Taking a Second Glimpse at Glmps

Ina Fried in News on August 5, 2011 at 12:53 pm PT

A guest spot on Digits offers another opportunity to look at Glmps, a new iPhone app that captures not only a photo, but the few seconds of video that precede the snapping of the shutter.

MapMyFitness Sprints Into Marathon-Tracking Business

Ina Fried in Mobile on August 1, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

MapMyFitness, known for mobile apps that let people track their runs and bike rides, now lets marathon-watchers keep an eye on their favorite competitors.

Nuance’s Dragon Go Is a Voice-Powered Search App That Knows Where to Look

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Voice-powered search is a crowded field dominated by the search giants — Google and Bing — but Nuance hopes to earn its place with Dragon Go, an app that not only recognizes what someone is saying, but also knows which services should be queried for results.

Eat Your Heart Out, Marilyn; Warhol Museum Brings True Pop Art to the iPhone

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 11, 2011 at 3:10 pm PT

Automated filters can do a decent job of imitating Andy Warhol, but offer little insight into how the master created his iconic designs. A new app from Warhol’s namesake museum combines a lesson in Pop Art 101 with the ability to transform one’s own iPhone images into images that evoke the artist’s singular style.

A Night of Drinking Leads to a Hangover, a Missing Credit Card and an App

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 25, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

A lost credit card after a night drinking with other entrepreneurs led Fernando Pizarro to create Remember It App. It’s a simple iPhone program that is the digital equivalent of tying a string around one’s finger. Pizarro hopes the 99-cent app will help fund some more ambitious projects that he has in the works.

A Panorama of New Apps Arrive for Taking 360-degree Images on the iPhone

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 20, 2011 at 5:58 am PT

Microsoft and Boston-based Everyscape are the latest companies to offer iPhone apps that create a single immersive, 360-degree image based video or still images captured on the phone.

Intuit Sees More Than 350,000 Downloads for SnapTax, Its Smartphone Tax-Filing App

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 4, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The TurboTax maker’s app, launched for the iPhone and Android a little more than two weeks ago, allows the simplest of returns to be filed by phone. It’s part of a broad shift at Intuit to add mobility to its hosted services.

Comcast Unit Finds New Use for the iPhone: Getting Work Done

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 30, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT

While plenty of people are using their iPhones and iPads to watch video, a unit of Comcast is betting that the devices can also play a role in helping professional video get onto the Internet. Though a niche product, it is the kind of application that many expect to see more of as businesses find ways of incorporating mobile devices into their office workflow.

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App Watch: Seeing Success on the Palm Pre

Yukari Iwatani Kane, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

Success stories about iPhone app developers are well documented, but one game maker says it has gotten better results in an unlikely place: Palm’s App Catalog for its Pre and Pixi smartphone devices. Palm, which has been trying to turn itself around, created a stir last month when it admitted that its phones weren’t selling as well as it had expected. Palm warned that its revenues for the year would be “well below” forecasts.

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Dear Apple Letters…

Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on June 26, 2009 at 11:50 am PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)