Tag: IPHONEAPPS

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 ...

The iPhone increasing lets you do many things, but playing a real piano in real time so far hasn't been one of them -- at least until this past week at CEATEC, the annual consumer electronics show held in Tokyo, Japan, which we were fortunate enough to attend. On display at the Yamaha booth was one of the more impressive iPhone apps we've seen to date: Called Finger Piano Share, since it lets ...

The iPhone may not be as big in Japan as it is in the States, but that hasn't stopped Nissan from developing an app that shows the residents of Yokohama City, Japan how to drive better. The new program is part of a trial service called E1 Grand Prix. Here's how it works: The app connects to your car's On-Board Diagnostics (OBD), and extracts information in real-time to determine how efficiently ...

You can't turn on the radio without hearing the impact Auto-Tune, a software program that corrects a singer's pitch. Whether that's good or bad is up for debate, but that hasn't stopped both schools of thought from cashing in on the craze. Jay-Z pumped out his anti-ballad 'Death to Auto-Tune,' and, on the other side, T-Pain now further cements his status as 'King of Auto-Tune' with a new iPhone ...

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 ...

Like Heather Locklear of 'Dynasty,' 'TJ Hooker,' 'Melrose Place' and 'Spin City' fame, Greg Grunberg is one of those actors fortunate to have starred in three back-to-back hit series. His first big roles came in the J.J.-Abrams-produced 'Felicity' and 'Alias,' but now he is best known for the NBC show 'Heroes,' in which he plays Matt Parkman, a policeman who can hear what other people are ...

It's heartening to see the success of Public Radio Player 2.0, the official public radio iPhone app; it's reached nearly two million downloads. Produced in conjunction with the country's various public radio networks, the app offers up hundreds of stations and podcasts, and lets users search the massive collection for live and on-demand streams. There is, however, one major hurdle: Apple's total ...

When then 17-year old Michael van Poppel somehow got his hands on an Osama bin Laden videotape two years ago and sold it to Reuters before anyone else had even heard of it, the landscape of media changed, so claims ReadWriteWeb. Van Poppel owns the Netherlands-based news aggregator, Breaking News Online, which operates under a simple, anti-large scale news source premise: smaller, people-run ...

Another sure sign that our capitalism system is broken: While PhD-educated physicists take jobs at Wal-Mart and single mothers hold down four jobs just to put factory-farmed food on the table, the creators of the iPhone game Beer Pong Challenge are making more than $7,000 a month in money from in-game advertising. Business Insider broke it down, and figured out that for every 1,000 impressions, ...

Sorry, iPhone users, but the 'King of All Media' won't be available on Sirius XM's new iPhone app, released last week. You'll have to get your fill of fart jokes and conversations with naked women somewhere else (may we suggest the Playboy channel for the latter). According to Daily Finance, the absence of Howard Stern's show is due to, in his words, a "contract rights issue." Monday, fans ...

God bless Dunkin' Donuts. Just when we thought the classic combination of coffee and donuts couldn't get more appealing, the beloved chain introduces a slick, interactive way to keep up with group orders. Say goodbye to pencil and paper, folks. According to Mashable, 'Dunkin' Run' (which launched yesterday, here) works as a Web or mobile application that gathers and organizes large orders, ...

Are you a clean-freak, on-the-move, not-entirely-struggling artist? If so, 'Brushes,' a new art application for the iPhone, could be for you. Eliminating the need for cumbersome (and messy) brushes, paint tubes, pencils, sketchbooks, and other supplies, the app allows aspiring iArtists to create miniature oeuvres with the tips of their fingers. According to The Daily Mail, many digital artists ...

High-end jeweler Cartier garnered itself a bit of (perhaps unwanted) attention this past weekend when it filed a trademark infringement suit regarding a small time iPhone app developer -- Digitopolis Game Studio. The company created a pair of apps, called Fake Watch and Fake Watch Gold Edition, which featured recreations of Cartier's "Tank" watch. Oddly enough, Cartier didn't sue Digitopolis, but ...

More than one of us here at the Switched office are political junkies, so we couldn't help but get a little excited when Mashable posted its list of the five best iPhone apps for keeping abreast of all things political. The list includes asap - Politics ($0.99), which collects the best political content from newspapers and Web sites, as well as Politics - The Essential Collection ($1.99), which ...