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/).
Game studio BeiZ has announced Mandy and Andy – The Seasons 1.0, their new, US$0.99 children’s iPhone-book. It continues the interactive Mandy and Andy book series. In this book cuddly Mandy and Andy cats present the seasons of Northern Hemisphere together with their friends.
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MyRegistry.com, which specializes in online gift registry technology, has released an US$1.99 iPhone app that offers a new method of building a gift registry. It employs barcode scanning technology to allow users to add any item imaginable to their gift registries or wishlists with a single zap of their iPhones.
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Yellow Field Technologies and Coach Joe Beer has announced MyZones 1.0, exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. The US$3.99 app calculates training heart rate zones that can be used by runners, cyclists, triathletes from keen fitness enthusiasts to focussed racers. MyZones can calculate your personal zones from maximum heart rate, race HR data, or professional lab test results.
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Apple has acquired Siri (http://siri.com), a mobile “assistant” app maker, heating up the Apple-Google competition. According to a pre-merger notification released by the Federal Trade Commission, and first noticed by Robert Scoble (http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/13015365163), the transaction apparently won’t be held up by any antitrust reviews.
Here’s how Siri describes itself: “Just like a real assistant, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to your preferences over time.
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Microsoft and HTC have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will receive royalties from HTC. And the deal may help HTC in its legal fight with Apple.
Last month Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.
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