Tag: IPHONE APPS

England honored the seminal video game character Lara Croft with her own street earlier this year. Now, London's St. Pancras International Train Station has given the 'Tomb Raider' heroine another grand tribute, in the form of "the world's largest iPhone." Comprised of 56 functional iPads, the monument continuously brandishes scenes from the new 'Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light' iOS app, ...

PlayStation Euro-gamers will soon have access to a new app that dramatically expands the Sony gaming experience. The company's PlayStation Europe site recently released details concerning an official app for the iPhone and the iPod touch, as well as for "most Android compatible handsets with a minimum of OS 1.6." The app purportedly allows users to access their trophies, share their ...

Since the dawn of man, not a single person has ever enjoyed dieting. Controlling any urge, after all, is never fun, and it certainly isn't easy. Nowadays, it seems like every other week presents a completely different diet trend or a new healthy cookbook atop the best-sellers counter at the bookstore. Getting started with a new diet, however, doesn't have to involve books, consultations, or ...

With flying becoming a luxury, folks want to snag the cheapest fares they can grab. But, as is the American way, they don't always want to do the work required to get the deal. According to USA Today, the new FareCompare 'When-to-Fly' free app sends a push notification whenever the price of a preselected flight route drops below the current lowest fare. For U.S. flights, the price needs to drop ...

Vincent Hunter clearly has a bit of a paranoid streak. The Dallas man was preparing to visit relatives in Hartford, Connecticut, but, first, he needed to set up his home security system and streaming iPhone app so that he could monitor his residence from over a thousand miles away. While we think there's something strange about a man who can't trust that his home won't be robbed each time he ...

So, you've decided to quit smoking. That's a great first step, but where do you go from here? Do you hurl your cache of Lucky Strikes into the incinerator? Call your local hypnotist? Or do you just blaze through an entire pack in one sitting, until even the faintest smell of tobacco sends you into a fit of dry heaves? We can't help you choose a path to carcinogenic emancipation, but we can tell ...

As both a nerd and someone who is physically active, there are few things your writer loves more than combining a love for gadgets, stats and sweat. The $99.99 LiveRider iPhone kit turns your iPhone into a serious bike computer. Sure there are countless apps that can track your speed or map your route using GPS, but serious cyclists want more (and more accurate) info at their fingertips. ...

Lookout, a mobile security company, embarked on an absolutely massive study that examined the code of some 300,000 Android and iPhone apps. Dubbed the App Genome Project, it looked at a large cross-section of mobile apps and found that an unsettling number of them were accessing your personal information, and sometimes without alerting you. According to Lookout, 33-percent of iPhone and ...

The Obama '08 campaign helped to pioneer the use of mobile applications in political campaigns. Now, the remnants of that grassroots group, Organizing for America (OFA), is releasing a new iPhone and iPad app that will connect voters with Democratic representatives and candidates -- just in time for the fall elections. The official OFA app has all the features you'd expect from a political ...

Share For every iPhone app that actually serves a worthwhile purpose (even if that purpose is only to amuse the user), there are hundreds of useless offerings that are only meant to dupe unwitting shoppers. Technology has also given rise to an influx of "snakeoil" gadgets that weasel money out of gullible consumers with false promises. Dr. Greg Pearson has devised an iPhone app that, upon ...

If it looks like a BBC app, reads like a BBC app, and quacks like a BBC app, proverbial logic would dictate that it's gotta be a real BBC app, right? Well.... AdAge reports today about a new swarm of paid iPhone apps that market themselves as "readers" for newspapers and media outlets like the New York Times and the BBC, even though they aren't actually affiliated with or officially licensed ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Using only sounds from the first and second Terminator movies, YouTube user Pogo created a funky dance tune cut and chopped with images of Ahnold, Sarah Connor, and of ...

In an atmosphere of disappearing print magazines, increased TV viewing on the Web, and a tough market for both car buyers and dealers, one of the few successful car companies alive today needs to change the game a bit. So with the introduction of a niche-y hot hatch that isn't even that cheap, Volkswagen hits hard with quick and dirty campaign on everyone's favorite toy -- the iPhone. This ...

We told you about the Dunkin' Donuts iPhone app. QSR told us about the Burger King app, and TechCrunch told us about the Pizza Hut app. Well, we've now gotten word from Gizmodo that Chipotle -- the Nick Nolte to Taco Bell's Gary Busey -- has an app of its own, as well. With the app (which can, of course, be gotten at Apple's App Store), anybody with an iPhone or iPod touch can locate the ...

Nobody likes making a trip to the bank, with its long lines, stacks of forms and slips, and blandly innocuous Top 40 playlists. For customers of the Texas bank USAA, though, avoiding a visit to the bank is about to get a whole lot easier. The New York Times reports that USAA bank will allow its customers to deposit checks using the bank's own iPhone app starting some time this week (The bank ...