Technology has been known to perk up businesses and this time around, Vocera has unveiled its own batch of smartphones, aiming to assist medical professionals and staff in rendering efficient patient care and flexible mobile communication as well. The Vocera smartphone was jointly developed with Motorola, offering a one-touch voice-user interface running on the Mobile 6.1 operating systems.

With this new device, doctors and clinical personnel will be able to access business applications as well such as clinic system alerts, asset tracking and medical reference. It even allows them to communicate since it has corporate e-mail provisions as well.

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Each day, iPhone and iPod Touch owners are regularly checking the hot performing apps at the iTunes app store. And if you checked, the latest app in the “What’s Hot” section is the Navy Patrol: Coastal Defense app which is available on an extended special sale at $0.99. The app incorporates RPG and RTS elements via water-based environment. The game is from ICS Mobile which also announced that there will be a major update of the full version.

The new update will introduce a revamped and more intuitive user interface, backward compatibility with all older SDKs and a new “Attack Sub Turret”. The third of fifteen chapter updates entitled “Air Force Supremacy” is currently in production and should be available for download within a couple of weeks.

Check out the video of the latest Hot iPhone app:

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Samsung and T-Mobile USA have announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Behold II, a mobile phone that runs on the Android platform. The phone carries the same touchscreen features most phones provide today using Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface for widget customization and T-Mobile’s high speed 3G network. Other features of the Samsung Behold II include a 5 megapixel camera, visual voicemail, an MP3 player, GPS, Bluetooth and 16GB of internal memory.

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Dropping by the iTunes store will reveal a wide array of apps you can use for any purpose. As far as an app made for grocery and shopping, there is one that has become the “APPLE” of the eye of iTunes users in Flixoft’s Grocery Gadget Shopping List. And because of that, Apple has given recognition to this grocery gadget app, a favorite app even by Apple’s staff members.

And Flixoft can only strive to get better. In fact, they are planning to update the app with a scheduled release in the Grocery Gadget 2.1 by October. Updated version features include improved syncing capabilities, intelligent store and item coupons, units of measure, aisle creation per list and store, as well as an overall enhanced user interface.

Flixoft’s Grocery Gadget List App can be downloaded at the iTunes store for $4.99.

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Getting the tunes into your iPod is one thing but for the people who want to experiment with some mixing and dubbing, the Breathrough DJ software for iTunes should be the software for you. A product of algoriddim, any MAC user can mix music according to his liking. Features of this app include an Automatic Tempo & Beat Detection, Auto-Cut Scratching and extensive MIDI Support, combined with the program’s redesigned user interface.

Djay 3 is available for a free 15-day trial and can be purchased in full at its website. It can also be purchased at Apple for $49.95 or 39.95 EUROS.

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A lot of phone geeks (especially the women who love the color Pink) would love to be in Belgium these days. Apparently Samsung is set to unveil a limited edition Samsung Star S5230 which will be known there as the Samsung Star Think Pink. And as you would guess, the color of the phone is what makes it a limited edition, something you may not see in the market today.

The pink color is in support for Think Pink Belgium. For every phone purchase of this limited edition Samsung Star Think Pink handset, 10 EUROS will be donated to them. But if you are wondering about the features, don’t get your hopes up. It is still the same Samsung Star S5230 that has features like a 3” touch screen display, TouchWiz user interface, 3.2 megapixel camera and the usual Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.

The Samsung Star Think Pink will retails for about 149 EUROS and is available until December.

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For gamers, Wolfenstein is certainly something familiar. It goes by the same genre as Doom where a player goes through a series of mazes in an underground setting to fight off monsters and reach the boss. Now, the same popular RPG game, Wolfenstein RPG comes to the iPhone and the iPod Touch, a game that will certainly be downloaded by people addicted to such first person RPGs.

In Wolfenstein RPG, players can save the world as Sergeant B.J. Blazkowicz, leader of an elite U.S. fighting unit, who is imprisoned by the evil Axis Army and must annihilate enemies in 9 action-packed levels. Utilizing the innovative Multi-Touch user interface of iPhone and iPod touch, players tap to pick up weapons to hit, kick, dynamite and destroy super soldiers, zombies and the shadowy Harbinger of Doom; swipe to control fighting and walking motions; and use the accelerometer to propel the sniper rifle into action.

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Let us get a little bit naughty with the iPhone. Being single has its own perks and the best way to rate your relationship history is to keep track of them via software app for the iPhone or iPod Touch for memories to show off after some time. The Little Black Book 2.0 for the iPhone or iPod Touch can do just that, an app suited for bachelors and bachelorettes.

Features of the Little Black Book 2.0:

• Quick contact entry on the fly with First Impression
• Dial Lock to calm heated arguments or prevent “drunk dialing”
• Import and secure existing contacts from your Address Book
• Text message and Google Maps support
• Overhauled user interface

Rate your relationships and store those precious moments are only some of the things you can get out of this iPhone app. The Little Black Book 2.0 app for iPhones or iPod Touch is now available at the iTunes App store for $4.99.

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When it comes to GPS devices, most of us would not be found having one in hand mainly because no one wants to be seen carrying around a large device just to make sure that they will not get lost in a crowd. However thanks to IDC Design Corporation, a miniature and compact pocket GPS locator is now available for kids, adults and elders so they won’t have to worry about getting lost again.

The ECCO Personal Pocket GPS locator is certainly a welcome addition to the world of navigation these days. Already available in Amazon, users can simply lock in their starting location with the press of a button. ECCO acts like a compass and once users are ready to return, its’s simple user interface will guide them to their original saved location with a directional arrow and a distance meter.

Features:

• Compact size
• Simple user interface
• Convenient status display
• Easy Visual Cues
• Backlit LCD interface
• Multi-user capacity
• Long-distance range
• Advanced GPS technology
• Rechargeable battery power
• Stand-alone device

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iPhone app developers need all the help they can get as far as advanced scripts and codes are concerned. While they can get a lot of them online, here is one that is sure to be a big boost to their needs.

With the need for reference and source codes in the programming needs, About Objects releases of a couple of iPhone 3.0 developer examples as free, downloadable Xcode projects. These example projects form a progressive series of codes designed to aid developers on their needs, another resource that they can surely find helpful.

These apps are free for use by iPhone developers either for learning or for actual use. Here are some of the example projects released by About Objects:

• First App demonstrates the basic steps to configuring an iPhone app’s user interface programatically, without requiring an Interface Builder (.nib) file.
• Editable Detail View demonstrates the use of controls such as text fields and buttons, including how to connect controls to the code that implements their behavior.
• Animating a View introduces developers to the fundamentals of using Core Animation to animate view transformations.
• Simple TableView demonstrates how to configure a table view programatically to present a list of values.
• TableView with Navigation builds on the Simple TableView app to show how to use a navigation controller to manage navigating from a list to a detail view by tapping on a table row.
• Editable TableView demonstrates how to add, remove, and reorder rows in a list view, and how to edit model object property values in a detail view.
• TableView File Persistence shows how to create and populate a list of model objects from a property list (plist) file, and how to persist changes to the list.

These samples can be downloaded at the About Objects website.

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So much for playing those stored tunes on a recurring manner, now you can always get more tunes via the trusty radio. That is the new feature that you can have on your iPhone with the launch of the TuneCast Auto Live FM Transmitter software app for iPhones and the iPod Touch. With this new app, you can get the best radio station frequency while mobile.

Also, you get the ClearScan Live app which allows the iPhone to display the FM frequency and the controls on its screen. This hardware-software combination is the first to utilize an iPhone application to control FM transmission and utilize GPS coordinates to determine the clearest FM frequency at the user’s location.

Benefits:

• Activate ClearScan and utilize the GPS capabilities of the iPhone to identify the clearest FM frequencies, based on geographical data as well as results from other TuneCast Auto users in the same geographical area.
• Contribute to the quality of ClearScan’s recommendations by rating how well specific stations work at your current location
• Manually change frequencies and set favorite channels as presets.
• Minimize the number of devices you interact with in your car. Control FM transmission and music seamlessly all from the iPhone user interface.

This app will be available by Fall. The Tunecast Audio Live retails at $79.99 while the Clearscan Live is available for free at the app store.

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There is a new way to help iPhone and iPod Touch owners through the Kindle store. Amazon today launched a Kindle Store optimized for the Safari Web browser on iPhone. Now when users of the Kindle for iPhone app click on “Get Books,” the new Kindle Store tailored for the size and shape of the iPhone and iPod touch screens automatically opens in Safari.

This optimized Kindle store offers iPhone and iPod touch app users quick and easy access to the Kindle Store’s 280,000 books, including 106 of 112 New York Times Best Sellers and most New Releases that are available for $9.99 or less.

The Kindle for iPhone application was released on March 4 and within days became the most popular books app in the iPhone App Store. iPhone users can shop Kindle’s massive selection of books on the iPhone and iPod touch using Apple’s Multi-Touch user interface.

Amazon’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes Kindle customers’ bookmarks across Kindle, iPhone and iPod touch, so you always have your reading with you and never lose your place. Kindle customers can read a few pages on their iPhone or iPod touch and pick up right where they left off on their Kindle.

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