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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Aug. 2

iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for Aug. 2

Posted by | Aug 2, 2010 | |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Brother UK has served up what it says is the world’s first iPhone app that allows users to scan to and print from their mobile phones. iPrint&Scan is free to download and allows customers to wirelessly print from and scan to their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad — with a compatible printer from Brother’s latest inkjet multifunction printer range.

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Nielsen: iPhone still most desired smartphone

Nielsen: iPhone still most desired smartphone

Posted by | Aug 2, 2010 | , |

Multipurpose smartphones that allow users to access the web and email as well as run thousands of apps and share text and picture messages are now 25% of the U.S. mobile market, up from 23% in the last quarter according to recent data from The Nielsen Company (http://www.nielsen.com/). By the end of 2011, Nielsen predicts smartphones to overtake feature phones in the U.S. market.

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UK troops using an iPad app in training

Posted by | Aug 2, 2010 | , |

UK troops are using a special iPad app to learn how to handle a fire mission — when artillery is being fired at the enemy from several miles away, reports the BBC (http://macosg.me/2/mv).

In early trials at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, troops have learned the jargon and procedures more quickly than before, when they were sat listening to lessons from instructors, the article adds. The goal is for smartphone and tablet technology to be used to speed up training across the army.

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PlayOn to play on the iPhone, iPod touch

Posted by | Aug 2, 2010 | , |

PlayOn (http://www.playon.tv/index.php), a service that allows you to view streaming media from the web and computers on a variety of devices, is coming t the iPhone and, eventually, the iPad, reports “MediaBeat” (Your tiny MacOSG URL is: http://macosg.me/2/mu).

PlayOn originally planned to release an iPhone app via the Apple App Store. However, with Apple not having yet approved the app, the company has instead developed a mobile HTML5-driven web app, notes “MediaBeat.”

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