Glu Mobile has announced the release of its latest installment for its fave skateboarding game Tony Hawk with the release of Tony Hawk: Vert for mobile phones. Among the new features of the latest Tony Hawk game include innovative point-of-view perspectives, new tricks for skateboarding daredevils, new game play options and bonus mini games. Tony Hawk: VERT is now available at major carriers and from the Glu Mobile site.

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Vodafone is now taking pre-orders of the all-new Blackberry Storm2. The new Blackberry Storm2 features Wi-Fi and is expected to hit stores by October 26. Among the new features of the Blackberry Storm2 include the “Sure Press” technology, Blackberry OS 5, quad band, a 3.2 megapixel camera with zoom and 2GB of internal memory. The Storm2 will come free for customers who avail of it at Vodafone with a £35 month contract.

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Everyone is often told to spend wisely and avoid going over your budget. Many may have this in mind but normally, they still overspend anyway. One problem is budget tracking and fitting their needs according to their available cash flow. This time, with the Mint.com app, you can use your iPhone as a useful ally in making sure that your are really saving and not actually throwing your money away.

Mint.com releases a useful free app with new features. Among the features include a virtual accountant where you purchases are categorized and a “Push” alert to make sure that individual are aware of the transaction related to their account.

The Mint.com app is free for download and is now available at the iTunes store. This app is simply a must for people who tend to overspend or have issues with regards to the proper handling of money and embarking on shopping sprees.

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A few days back, speculations were rising that Google would be releasing the Android v1.6. Well now it is all official! Google officially launched the Android v1.6 (also known as the “Donut”), armed with a wide array of features that should make Android developers all jumpy and curious. Among the new features of the Donut include CDMA support and better resolution which bump screens all the way up to 800×480 thus providing support for better images for higher end-screens.

Other enhancements include a new “Quick Search” box and a battery usage system. These and a whole lot more of enticing features are what the new Android promises to provide developers. Google expects first sanctioned appearances on devices to start popping out by October.

(Source) Mobile Crunch

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Back in June, the Yowza app for the iPhone was posted on Mobile Whack. Now, a second version of this popular couponing app has been released, making saving easier for coupon-crazy individuals looking for special deals and discounts via their very own mobile device. The Yowza version 2 for the iPhone or iPod Touch comes with new features that include a “My Stores” tab and integrated road maps to make sure you are directed to the proper stores when it comes to availing of discounts coming your way.

It even comes with a “Share Your Savings” feature which allows you to pass on the amount of money from using the Yowza app through popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter, or even simply by an email.

The Yowza app Version 2 for the iPhone is now available for free download at the iTunes App Store.

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For all the Blackberry owners and users out there, the enhancements that MyCaption has added to their niche software should be something that will work to their advantage. Already a marquee provider of voice recognition software, MyCaption has added new features to the popular software with the capability to attach a convenience key for its productivity tools. This includes:

• Compose a new email;
• Create a new Calendar appointment
• Create a new Task;
• Write a new Memo

From the preference menu, users can select any of these four functions to launch with a single-click. The convenience key is located on the side of a BlackBerry smartphone. Its main benefit is that a user doesn’t even have to look at the smartphone to operate it.

The software is now available. Current users of MyCaption can upgrade to the new version for free. New users can begin by enrolling for a Free Trial.

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For the many followers of rock bands such as KISS, here is your chance to get an app that can prove to be a great memorabilia. Called the Virtual Concert Lighters, get one from any band such as KISS, The Who, Motley Crue and so on. But today, the popular virtual concert lighter is that of KISS which comes right on time with the launch of KISS 35th Anniversary World Tour.

Features:

• Free upgrades for life - new features will constantly be created for the Virtual Concert Lighters
• Fully customizable with a choice of 24 full-color official KISS lighter cases.
• Unique scrolling text marquee
• Realistic flame sways and moves as you move your hand
• Dynamic sound effects and musical riffs

The KISS Virtual Concert Lighter is available now to coincide with the band’s recently launched 35th Anniversary world tour. Through a deal brokered by Signatures Network, the KISS Virtual Concert Lighter will be the first of several licensed tour lighters available at the App Store this summer.

The KISS Virtual Concert Lighter app is now available at the iTunes store for only $0.99.

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When it comes to flash drives, all we know is that storage capacity counts. But as far as SanDisk Cruzer is concerned, adding malware protection to help safeguard data seems to have caught the eye of Network Products Guide for its new found innovation. In fact, Sandisk Cruzer Secure USB drives have copped the 2009 Product Innovation award for its unique portable device.

The new features are very much welcome by users these days as we are all aware of security breaches when it comes to portable media that helps us carry our data anywhere. And for addressing that need, Sandisk Corporation gets lauded for this new important feature. The award recognizes vendors from all over the world whose innovative products bring essential changes to the information technology industry.

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise secure USB drives help businesses mitigate the risk of data loss by imposing mandatory, hardware-based encryption on all files along with password protection to safeguard data stored on company-issued drives.

Cruzer Enterprise with McAfee Malware Protection extends these security defenses with automatic, device-resident malware scanning that prevents malware from attaching itself to the portable drive and in turn, infecting the internal enterprise host.

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Considering the apps that have come out at the Apple app store, you can bet that Apple has carefully taken that into consideration as far as conceptualizing the highly anticipated next iPhone. And while we all know that the iPhone has many uses, it seems Apple is planning to transform this mobile device into a gaming device as well, equipped with more features to complement the 3D graphics that is expected to highlight it as well.

As well as an improved 3D graphics chip for better visuals the phone will have better Bluetooth support for add-ons like game controllers and a higher-speed network suited to MMO games like World of Warcraft, which was earlier spotted on an iPhone.

This new features are to be expected. Today we see a lot of iPhone users going crazy over the apps they can get and a lot of them have come from familiar game consoles and platforms. The move is likewise seen as the incremental penetration of Apple into the gaming market so don’t be surprised to see Nintendo and Sony studying the moves of Apple from hereon.

(Source) Video Games Republic

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In what seems to have first been a concept, LG Electronics has formally announced that its wearable 3G Touch Watch Phone (GD910) will officially be launched in the global market next month for around $1,200. With the intro of this new watch, a new type of shape, size and interface is expected to storm into the market, something similar to the James Bond movies we have been used to see. been used to see.

Boasting a 13.9mm-thickness, the 3G Touch Watch Phone delivers functions of a cell phone on a small size device like a watch. In particular, it supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA(High Speed Downlink Packet Access) network as well as video telephony with a built-in camera. It also comes equipped with a 1.43-inch full touch screen, the 3G Touch Watch Phone features mp3 playback, waterproof support, TTS(Text To Speech) function, Bluetooth connectivity and more.

That is quite a list of features that should make the initially seen concept model into a living demand. The price tag may be heavy on the pocket but that is the price you have to pay for a loaded phone oozing with new features and of course overall design.

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Office productivity using the iPhone is expected to get broader and better as Quickofffice Inc. announces new features for this program for business professionals on the go. The latest update adds new capabilities to its four applications namely:

• Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite
• Quicksheet
• Quickword
• Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice has a continued robust product roadmap and will be adding important new features such as editing support for Office 2007 files and the ability to access email attachments sent through the iPhone’s email system.

The updates to the separate applications were submitted to the App Store and are expected to be available soon.

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Musician are expected to benefit a lot from this new app available for the iPhone. iLike, the leading social music discovery service, today announced a suite of new features for musicians, including integration with Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace, as well as a turnkey system for any artist to quickly create and distribute their own custom iPhone app.

These integrations expand on iLike’s existing syndication model and enable more than 300,000 artists who use the iLike Artist Dashboard to save time and reach more fans via these new channels.

The new content syndication destinations announced today, described in detail at www.iLike.com/manage, include:

• Twitter: Artists can now link their iLike and Twitter accounts, bringing their “tweets” to more fans via the iLike music feed, the artist’s iLike profile, and the artist’s page on Facebook. Likewise, when an artist posts a new song, video, or concert listing, iLike will notify fans via Twitter.
• YouTube: Artists can now sync their YouTube channel and iLike account. Every video an artist posts to iLike will be automatically posted to their YouTube channel, and vice versa.
• MySpace Concert Listings: iLike now lets artists enhance the concert listings on their MySpace pages, via a widget that adds prominent buy-links and allows fans to “RSVP” to a concert and see who else is going. Artists can also configure their iLike Artist Dashboard so that any blog, bulletin, or video they post at iLike is also posted on their MySpace page.
• Facebook Pages “Music” Tab: Artists can now add the Music tab to their Page on Facebook. The Music tab, by iLike, features the artist’s songs, concerts, videos, bulletins, blogs, and tweets.
• Artist dot-com Websites: The iLike Artist Dashboard now allows artists to manage the content on their own official dot-com websites via embeddable javaScript widgets.
• Ticketmaster: Songs, photos, and videos posted to the iLike Dashboard will also appear on the artist’s page on Ticketmaster.
• Artist iPhone Apps: iLike today announced a turnkey system to enable any artist to rapidly create and distribute their own iPhone app featuring the artist’s concert dates, photos, blogs, bulletins, and videos. A self-service system allows artists to customize the look and feel of their app and submit it to the iTunes App Store.

In addition, iLike continues to syndicate artist content to more than 45 million music fans across the iLike network, including iLike’s leading music applications on iGoogle, Facebook, hi5, Bebo, Orkut, and iLike plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player.

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Have you missed updating the new number of a close friend? How about updating your address book? Well all that is about to change once you get a hold of the new DubMeNow software that can do all of these for you.

DUB eliminates the need to swap, save, enter or update any more business card data. You can also ‘tag’ or note information about the contact and see when and where you met on Google Maps.

New features include:

DUB ID –your unique username or identifier allowing you to exchange information without having to give out your mobile number or email address.

Group DUB – the ability to exchange contact information with multiple people at once during a meeting, conference, seminar or other large group gathering.

Google Maps – Never forget where you met someone again – this feature loads the location and address where the invite took place into your contact’s information.

CRM Integration — Dub now sync’s with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM and Siebel.

Twitter – DUB invites displayed on Twitter

(Source) DubMeNow

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