Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. , is pleased to announce that the critically acclaimed Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars from Rockstar Leeds, the winners of the 2009 Develop Award for Best Handheld Game Studio, will be making its way to the iPhone™ and iPod® touch this fall.

“Chinatown Wars is a perfect match for the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “We are very excited to bring this incredibly ambitious version of Liberty City, with this level of detail and immersive gameplay on Apple’s new gaming platforms.”

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is currently available for the Nintendo DS™ and is also coming this fall for the PlayStation®Portable system. The game follows the story of Huang Lee, a young Triad who travels to Liberty City after the mysterious death of his father. Players will navigate their way through the streets as they uncover the truth behind an epic tale of crime and corruption within the Triad crime syndicate, delivering the unprecedented amount of depth that has become a true trademark of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

Destiny Media is pleased to announce that recording industry professionals who are registered to receive pre-release music will soon be able to access the newest tracks from their iPhone or iPod Touch. The completed player application was submitted to Apple for inclusion in the Apple App store on May 9 and approval is expected imminently. Users can find the latest information on availability athttp://www.plaympe.com/iphone/

With versions for 24 different languages, the Play MPE(R) system is the global standard for labels to distribute new pre-release music to trusted recipients including radio, music reviewers, VIP’s, DJ’s, buyers, etc. securely through the internet before it is made available for sale. The system features the ability for labels to encode their own releases and manage their own recipient lists while ensuring that content will only play on computers that are authorized. Copies are watermarked using proprietary Destiny technology, making it possible for labels to trace illegal leaks back to the original recipient.

The private Play MPE(R) network currently has 31,500 industry professionals from six continents registered to receive exclusive content from over 1,000 record labels. 158,000 tracks are available for high speed download in superior HD audio and recipients are able to download broadcast quality music videos, album cover artwork, promotional information and meta data, which can be exported seamlessly into radio automation systems. iPhone and iPod Touch users can seamlessly export into their iTunes library.

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Online real estate broker Redfin today announced the availability of the Redfin App on the App Store. The app lets iPhone and iPod touch users view homes for sale on the Multiple Listing Services (MLS) and upload photos and notes from a home tour to Redfin’s real-estate search site.

A Fast, Full-Featured Real-Estate Application for iPhone and iPod touch

Built by the team that coded Redfin’s search website, the Redfin App delivers a complete search experience built from the ground up to run fast and work well on the iPhone and iPod touch. Users can locate nearby listings or open houses using location-based services or search any neighborhood by name or postal code, filtering the search by property type, square footage or the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.

The Redfin App displays listings quickly using Google Maps, and includes every photo and feature of the listing, all in a native format that loads quickly and supports easy, gestured-based navigation using Apple’s Multi-Touch user interface.

“Redfin’s technology focus has always been on serious home-buyers, and this focus has always been underpinned by an overwhelming advantage in the quantity and quality of listing data we have for each market,” said Sasha Aickin, the leader of the search engineering team that built the Redfin App. “Where many apps show 70% of the listings, the Redfin app shows virtually 100% of the broker-listed homes for sale. And we show all the photos, not just one, with details on every feature of the house, not just a handful. Our goal in providing all this data on the iPhone was to be an addiction not just a distraction.”

Currently the app only includes listings in areas of the U.S. already supported by Redfin’s website:

• Seattle area
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Sacramento area
• Southern California
• Boston area
• Washington, DC area
• Chicago area
• New York’s Westchester County and Long Island, excluding the Hamptons

Redfin plans to expand to every major metropolitan area in the U.S. over the next two years.

EditGroove Software announces the release of the DVD Bit Budget Assistant(TM), a professional, fully-featured video “bit budgeting” utility for the iPhone. It is also designed with Educational users in mind.

“How much stuff can I fit onto my Video DVD?”
“What bitrates should I encode in Apple’s Compressor, for DVD Studio Pro?”
“Can you help me make sense of all this?”

Those are never-ending questions, since creating a Video DVD can be an arcane process, and often involves finding one’s way through a complex Excel spreadsheet.

What is Bit Budgeting?

Quantity versus Quality:  That’s it, the basic set of trade-offs facing anyone creating today’s optical video media.

Bit Budgeting is an integral part of that planning — it’s the process of choosing a balance between how much and what kinds of program material (”assets”) you want to include on your Disc, vs. what you can “afford” based on the room available.

The DVD Bit Budget Assistant makes this process far more easy, and even fun. It’s a more portable, interactive alternative for experimenting with these “what-if” bit budgeting scenarios, in the form of a pocket-sized brainstorming tool that you can always carry with you.

The application has been carefully and thoughtfully designed to be useful both to Professionals already working in the industry — especially those who aren’t content to rely on the usual cookie-cutter assumptions — as well as Students of film, video and digital media.

Now accessing law terms on the go has never been easier with Barron’s Law Dictionary for the iPhone, designed exclusively by Prelude Mobile for law school students offering convenience with complete and thorough definitions, just like the printed edition. Users can look up any term, and view clear, concise definitions instantly.

The entire dictionary downloads to a user’s iPhone, and can be accessed anywhere without the need for an Internet connection. It is fast and efficient with over 3,000 legal terms including property law, real estate law, commercial contract law, tort law, and many other topics. The dictionary also lets iPhone users “drill-down” to any other legal term found in a given entry and maintains a history to make navigation back to the original word fast and simple.

Easy to find terms and easy to understand definitions make this dictionary highly useful for students, paralegals or law professionals.

About Prelude Mobile, Inc.: Prelude Mobile, Inc. specializes in language reference and writing assistant products for the mobile platform. Through Prelude’s technology, users can have ready access to the tools they need, whether for use by students, professionals of various types, or writers.

China Unicom on Friday confirmed in its interim results that it had reached an agreement with Apple to carry the iPhone in China. The news supports word of finished talks and will launch the smartphone sometime in the fall. Most terms aren’t available, but China Unicom has said the deal extends for three years and that two models will be involved, at least one of which is likely the 16GB iPhone 3GS.

Past agreements in Russia and elsewhere may be clues as to the terms of the deal, as they have often had minimum unit sales guarantees attached. Unofficial details from Chinese site cnBeta have claimed that, in keeping with the conventional Chinese approach to phones, hardware prices will be high in return for lower service rates: while an 8GB iPhone 3G would cost 2,500 RMB ($366) on a two-year contract, the actual service plan would cost just 186 RMB ($27) per month.

China Unicom is the only domestic telecom operator that holds a WCDMA license. WCDMA is the only 3G technology that iPhone can use in China. The number of cellphone users in China has reached 687 million, 3 times the size of the US market.

The iPhone is expected to hit the world’s largest mobile market this October.

Bake-Guru®, the iPhone app for dessert loving bakers that combines generations of traditional recipes and plenty of new concoctions invites you to take it’s first ever “Batch to School” Original Cookie Recipe Challenge. This competition is a golden chance to show off your most unique cookie formula and head back to school or campus with a brand new iPhone3G and one less book (a cookbook)!

Bake-Guru® is the must have ‘back to school’ tool of fall 2009 for avid college snack makers and parents that want to wow kids and friends at bake-sales, parties and other school functions. This chic cookie app eliminates lugging recipe books back to school dorms or to the grocery store. So get your best recipe out and take the challenge and possibly win a new iPhone 3G**.

Entrant’s recipes for the “Batch to School” Original Cookie Recipe Challenge will consist of a cookie recipe that is either a rolled cookie, holiday cookie, drop cookie, bar cookie or a type of biscotti. The creative possibilities are endless! Submit your original cookie recipe, your name, address, email address and daytime telephone number, along with an optional digital photo of your prepared cookies for the chance to win the Bake-Guru® Grand Prize.

One Grand Prize winner will receive:

• One new iPhone 3G**
• One $50 gift certificate from Williams-Sonoma
• One free version of the Bake-Guru app for the iPhone 3G **
• The best original recipe will debut on the next version of The Bake-Guru iPhone app.

Five runners-up will receive:

• One free version of the Bake-Guru app for the iPhone or iTouch
• Recipe will also be featured on the next version of The Bake-Guru iPhone app.

Procedures and Rules:

All recipes and entry information must be sent in via email to contest@bake-guru.com starting Monday, August 31, 2009 thru Thursday, October 1, 2009 (by midnight EST.) The competition winner will be notified by email or telephone by October 9, 2009

For more information on all rules and procedures on Bake-Guru’s 2009 “Batch to School” Original Cookie Recipe Challenge please go to http://www.bake-guru.com/contest.html

**Activation and cell service is the responsibility of the contest winner.
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Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced the availability of its Wyse PocketCloud(TM) App. PocketCloud is a brand-new app that allows IT administrators and end users to access their PC and virtual desktops remotely through the convenience of their iPhone or iPod touch.

“Wyse has always been focused on helping businesses with thin computing hardware and software that improve productivity, security, manageability and lowers overall TCO,” said Daniel Barreto, Chief Software Architect at Wyse Technology. “Now we can add convenience to the growing list of benefits we deliver to our customers. Being able to access a remote desktop in the datacenter, the cloud, or your home while on the go using an iPhone or iPod touch is not only a significant technical achievement; it also reflects Wyse’s philosophy to enable ubiquitous access to data and applications from any mature platform.”

For individuals who are caught away from their computer, but need access to information on their mobile device, PocketCloud is a simple and effective way of taking your computer with you. For IT administrators that are tasked with managing large numbers of computers, they can now get quick and easy access to an end-user machine through the convenience of their iPhone or iPod touch device.

PocketCloud uses a highly optimized Wyse implementation of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 6.0 to connect and communicate with a virtual or physical machine. It leverages years of experience in embedded application development to achieve high performance, even while being operated on a smartphone with constrained resources.

The PocketCloud App is compatible with iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch.

Wyse PocketCloud accesses any physical or virtualized infrastructure that supports the Microsoft RDP protocol, and it additionally supports the VMware View 3.1 connection broker in direct and tunneling modes. SSL is supported in both cases, and the 1.0 release has experimental support for RSA 2-factor authentication. Wyse PocketCloud integrates seamlessly into an already-established VMware View host environment and does not require any special setup or software installed.

“Combined with VMware View, the industry-leading desktop virtualization solution, PocketCloud provides easy, secure access to your desktop,” said Patrick Harr, vice president of marketing, Desktop Business Unit, VMware. “This is a nice addition for customers looking to accommodate user’s demands to access their desktop, data, and applications from anywhere and at any time.”

Wyse PocketCloud connects to Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista Business, Windows 7, and Terminal Services features in Windows Server products.

PocketCloud also includes a Windows client side companion application that enables more advanced capabilities such as Thin-Browser(TM): an enhanced, server-side browser capability, enabling full access to Websites with Flash content. PocketCloud Windows agent can be downloaded for free from www.wyse.com/iphone.

Wizzard Media , the world’s largest podcasting network, today announced the availability of 15 new iPhone Apps available for purchase in the App Store.

The new Apps, including Spanish2Go and YOGAmazing, are companion Apps for popular podcasts offering convenient access to the podcast, show extras, bonus content and new social communication features. Also released were several classic audio book Apps including Dracula, Around the World in 80 Days and The Jungle Book. All Apps are priced between $1.99 and $2.99.

The Today in iPhone podcast companion App, Tii, available in the App store August 15th, has been purchased by 9% of the show’s monthly unique podcast audience in the first 11 days, rising to a high of number 19 in the top 100 list of all paid Productivity Apps.

“With over 90% of the App purchasers who took the time to review and rate the App giving the Tii Podcast App a 5 star rating, we believe this early data demonstrates the strong audience loyalty and engagement of podcast audiences,” says Laurie Sims, President of Wizzard Media. “We are excited to see a 9% monthly audience conversion rate so early in the product lifecycle as it begins to validate our new App monetization product for podcasters.”

“I have been very happy with all the positive feedback from my audience,” says Rob Walch, host of the Today in iPhone podcast. “The Tii Podcast App is taking my audience interaction to a new level and I recommend it to all podcasters.”

http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/media_v2.php

Seedonk (www.seedonk.com), a platform for viewing, managing and sharing camera feed over the Internet announced today the beta launch of its consumer network camera management service. With features such as Seedonk IM, Seedonk iPhone App , and Seedonk Facebook App, Seedonk enables users to easily view and share their cameras feed anytime, anywhere.

Seedonk is designed and built as a game-changing platform for the consumer network (IP) camera market and fulfills two important needs in this industry today:

Easy to Use – Seedonk makes network camera installation and usage easy and painless. With zero-configuration camera set up and Auto Camera Network Management, Seedonk helps people easily setup and operate their cameras with no technical knowledge required.
Expands Camera Applications – Seedonk brings hot consumer applications in mobile and social web space to the network camera, making it relevant and attractive to mainstream consumers.
As part of the beta launch offering, users can access a free trial to Seedonk’s services with any PC webcam. Users will be able to see and share their webcam from anywhere online.

“Seedonk represents a paradigm shift for network cameras, we help bring network cameras out of its niche security segment to mainstream consumers, in terms of both its usability and its applications,” said Herman Yau, CEO, Seedonk. “We are excited to provide our network camera partners with a service that lowers the barrier for consumer adoption and raises market excitement and demand. We are making network cameras relevant to everyday consumers.”

http://www.seedonk.com/home.htm