Rochester, New York – Even with iOS 4.1, the iPhone continues to be magical and revolutionary, but it still doesn’t do one thing that phone owners really need. The iPhone doesn’t tell you who is calling!

Users must purchase and assign musical ringtones and then try to remember which song is for which contact. For years, other phones have been able to speak the caller’s name or number allowing busy professionals to know who is calling without looking at the phone. No Tie Software’s AutoRingtone app and service empowers users to create custom Talking Ringtones using TEXT-TO-SPEECH.

Instead of relying on stock ringtones, users can create their own talking “Caller ID” ringtones, that say exactly what they want, such as “Steve, the President is calling. He needs your advice. Again. Should I let it go to voicemail?” They say your first million is the hardest. Perhaps that’s why it took seven months for AutoRingtone users to create 1,000,000 custom talking ringtones but only three months for the second million?!

Recently, No Tie teamed up with independent rock band Fulton Read to create a private label version of AutoRingtone, called Fultones. Fans of Fulton Read can combine several music clips with the AutoRingtone TTS service to create custom ringtones. The app is free and provides links to Fulton Read’s music on iTunes.

With AutoRingtone Pro, users can select from Dozens of professional (British Man or Woman, Old Man, GPS Gal, etc.) and funny voices (Jersey Girl, Valley Girl, Space Alien).

Users can also select nearly 200 sound effects as an attention-getting introduction!

There are no limitations. Create unlimited ringtones and messages are completely uncensored. Indeed, many users are taking advantage of that feature!

Ringtones are downloadable in both .m4r as well as .aiff formats, so they can be created on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad but used on iPhones as well as other phones. iPhone owners can even create ringtones for their non-iPhone owning friends to use when the iPhone owner calls those friends!

No Tie created a funny video, seen by thousands, demonstrating how the service works, called “AutoRingtone: Behind the Curtain”!

AutoRingtone has been a consistent bestseller since introduction, reaching as high as #3 in its category. No Tie reached this milestone the old fashioned way, providing a great app and a great service, at a great price. AutoRingtone Pro is on sale now for just $0.99!

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Since 2008, No Tie Software has been delivering fun and clever iPhone apps, including bestselling Text-to-Speech, Ringtone and Sound FX apps such as AutoVerbal, AutoRingtone and 100sounds. Copyright (C) 2008-2010 No Tie Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Colorado Springs, Colorado – Pi’ikea St. LLC today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Interactive Alphabet 1.0, their new children’s learning game specifically for Apple’s revolutionary iPad device. Interactive Alphabet takes alphabet learning for babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers to the next level by offering a high level of interactivity with the letters of the alphabet.

Interactive Alphabet for iPad makes learning the alphabet a hand-on experience. The original artwork and characters draw them in, fun animation and sound effects peak their interest, and memorable unique interactions, such as eating the Apple, playing with the Squid, zipping the Zipper, and making music on the Xylophone keep them coming back for more. Each letter is softly spoken and the upbeat music and sound effects will have kids dancing, mimicking, and asking Mom or Dad if they can have their own iPad. Babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers, and even parents will have tons of fun with this great new app!

“We realized early on that kids were drawn to the iPad because of the ease of interaction (direct touch screen) and familiarity with their parents’ iPods and iPhones”, says co-founder Matt Smith. One of the surprises was that even younger children could interact with the iPad, as opposed to the iPod/iPhone. “The larger screen makes it easier for them”, says co-founder Ben Lew. “It doesn’t take as much dexterity if the app is designed with a focus to reach those younger kids”.

Matt and Ben were inspired to collaborate across the country to build an iPad app that would be fun and playful and take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen. After working on the app and creating a simple virtual version of ABC flash cards, Matt and Ben turned to their key user demographic (kids), to get some feedback. The feedback was good, and they could have submitted to the App Store, but they chose not to.

“We were happy that it was good, but we wanted to make something great”, says co-founder Ben Lew. Matt and Ben went back to the drawing board to figure out a way to take the app from good to great. “Once we got out of the mindset of mimicking physical abc flash cards and opened our minds to the possibilities of what we could do different with an iPad app, we knew what we had to do. Thus was born the version of Interactive Alphabet we are releasing on the iTunes App Store.”

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 60.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Interactive Alphabet 1.0 is $2.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

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Pi’ikea (pee-ee-kay-uh) St. is a small team of development and design talent that loves to make things that make kids happy. They collaborate virtually to produce excellent, polished, and engaging products for kids. Copyright (C) 2010 Pi’ikea St. LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Cramberry, an application for fun, easy, and efficient flash card memorization on the web, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, received a major update today. This new version of Cramberry adds a brand new, more intuitive and visually rich user interface and a more efficient algorithm for presenting flash cards. Lateral Communications, Inc., the makers of Cramberry, are making the update available to existing users for free today.

“We’ve listened to our users’ feedback and rewritten almost every part of Cramberry from scratch in this update,” said Ishaan Gulrajani, co-founder of Lateral Communications. “Now users can create long, detailed flash cards with images and text formatting.” Users can create and study flash cards from Cramberry’s website or from their iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. “On the website, users can also share sets of flash cards with friends or classmates and study tens of thousands of free sets created by other users. Users can even download sets to their iPhones or iPads,” said Ishaan.

About Cramberry:
Cramberry is a website, iPhone and iPod touch app, and iPad app which lets users memorize information quickly and easily by creating and studying flash cards. Users can create flash cards through the Cramberry website and sync them to their iPhone or iPad, or create flash cards directly on the device. Additionally, users can study from Cramberry’s online collection of over a million free public flash cards on topics ranging from foreign language vocabulary to medical terminology and multiplication tables. When studying, Cramberry presents the front of each flash card to the user and asks him or her to guess the contents of the back. Based on the response, Cramberry prioritizes cards and presents difficult cards more frequently, helping the user memorize those cards quickly. This combination of powerful studying methods and easy to use, well-designed software makes Cramberry an ideal choice for studying.

Cramberry is available as an iPhone and iPod touch application, a separate iPad application, and a web application at cramberry.net. The new update to all three applications is free for existing users. The iPhone and iPad apps are available for download for $4.99 and $6.99 (USD), respectively. A free basic account is available on the Cramberry website which offers access to the same flash card management features, but is limited to studying 30 cards per day. Users can upgrade to Cramberry Pro for one year for $9.00.

Cramberry 2.0

Lateral Communications is a Pennsylvania corporation which develops fun, useful education software for the web and mobile devices. Their flagship product, Cramberry, lets users create and study flash cards online and on their mobile devices. Cramberry was created by Ishaan Gulrajani – a student, software developer, and co-founder of Lateral Communications. Copyright (C) 2010 Lateral Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Honolulu, Hawaii – Shacked Software LLC today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Flickpad 2.0, a new kind of photo application for the iPad. Quickly keep up on all the photos your friends and family are posting on Flickr and Facebook. Flickpad makes viewing and exploring photos an entirely new, fun, and addictive experience.

Flickpad uses the unique multi-touch capabilities of the iPad to make interacting with your photos almost lifelike. Don’t like a photo, flick it off the screen and a new one appears. Want to make the photo larger, pinch to zoom. Like to check out the entire album, double tap a photo. Find an awesome photo and want to save it for later, touch the photo with two fingers.

Feature Highlights:
* Flickr and Facebook, the top two photo platforms on the planet
* Fast user switching. Share an iPad with someone? No problem, quickly and easily switch between user accounts
* Supports Flickr photo sets, favorites, comments, views, Interestingness, and more
* Supports Facebook albums, album comments, album likes (read-only), photo comments, photo likes (read-only), and more

Give it try for free:
Check out Flickpad Lite! Flickpad Lite delivers all the functionality in Flickpad but only supports two user accounts and following a limited number of contacts. It’s perfect for those that only follow a few friends or for those wanting to try out Flickpad prior to purchasing.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 4.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Flickpad 2.0 is $9.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

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Shacked Software, LLC is a small software development company based in beautiful Honolulu, HI. We are passionate about developing software for Macs, iPhones, and iPads, with commercial software releases on all three platforms. Copyright (C) 2010 Shacked Software, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Rome, Italy – Treebune s.r.l. today is pleased to announce the launch of a new web service, Pushme.to Business which can enable Companies to reach the customers on their iPhones avoiding SMS costs, send rich multimedia messages, get real-time feedback from the users. It only takes your customers to download a tiny app that enables them to receive short instant messages from you or your partners, with images and rich text. They can get it worldwide, directly on iPhones, on-screen like an SMS. It’s free, easy and they can even reply to you if necessary.

Note, that you’ll no longer need to ask your customers their mobile number, respecting their privacy and increasing satisfaction.

Pushme.to Business will be available in two versions:
* Branded, when Company-branded version of Pushme.to app is published in the Appstore;
* and API, when Company is give the tools to push messages to its users using Pushme.to infrastructure.

Advantages of Pushme.to Business over SMS or email communication:

* Pushme.to combines SMS-like instant delivery to the mobile phone with the goodness of an email: generous character limit, images and rich text; Pushme.to instant communication can cost up to 20 times less than SMS communication;

* You gain major control over your user base and real-time feedback. Apart from the image side, offering an iPhone app to your customers has some great marketing advantages – you always know how many users actually receive your messages and who these users are, moreover, they can interact with you and instantly respond to your initiatives.

We are not yet offering a public API, since image sending relies on our infrastructure. However, you can contact us if interested and we will find the best solution for you. Important note: Treebune srl is by no means starting a mailing system to make its current user base available to advertisers, only giving businesses a tool to reach their existing audience.

mPayy, Inc., an emerging leader in mobile and online alternative payments, today announced the availability of its “mPayy Mobile Payments” application from the iTunes store for free download to all iPhones and iPod Touches. The application extends functionality mPayy recently released on the Android platform to the millions of iPhones and iPods in circulation.

“The largest concentration of mobile commerce purchases conducted thus far is the more than 1 billion downloads from Apple’s App Store,” stated Conrad Sheehan, CEO of mPayy, Inc. “It’s only natural that mPayy extend its mobile debit payment platform to the iPhone, the distribution of which will only continue to grow. mPayy looks forward to enhancing the experience of iPhone applications with its secure payment services, and tapping into the incredible talent pool of thousands of iPhone developers seeking to expand mobile commerce opportunities on the platform.”

All mPayy Personal and Business accounts may use the iPhone application to make and receive person-to-person payments, track activity, and withdraw funds from their mPayy accounts to linked bank accounts. Business account holders are also able to issue refunds for any sale through the application, even if it occurred on their website.

Once members open Business accounts, they will be able to generate their own API key to unlock mPayy’s payment services, and add secure debit payments to their online or mobile websites and applications. API keys may be used to authorize one-time or recurring billing subscription payments for digital content and other services. Merchants can receive mPayy members’ shipping information via additional service calls to fulfill orders conducted through its online and mobile payments service.

https://www.mpayy.com

The V Phone uses the Internet connectivity to route your calls and SMS. This basically means that users who can access the Internet on their iPhone are able to make mobile voip calls through their service providers free of charge or at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional PSTN calls.

The V Phone is now available to users of iPhones at the App Store, this mobile VoIP app for the iPhone not only offers users the ability to make VoIP calls, it has the distinct advantage over its competitors of being able to send text messages or SMS’s using your VoIP Provider.

This iPhone sip client has features such as call and SMS history. Users can dial from their history logs and even add a contact from the history list. The iPhone mobile voip app integrates with your phone’s contacts making it easier for users to make a call or send a text message. The iPhone sip softphone has a built in voice help to assist users setup the app for their chosen VoIP Provider. iPhone users will not be disappointed with this mobile sip app and its extensive features.

This iPhone sip client has even a troubleshooting function. Logs can be sent to the developers to inspect and troubleshoot connectivity, login and network issues. The V Phone as a mobile sip client or mobile voip app for the iPhone enables users to retrieve voice messages or voice mail from their provider using the app’s DTMF capabilities. In addition, this iPhone mobile sip softphone has a useful feature called a dial plan. Dial plans are prefixes like typing ’00′ before a phone number as required by some VoIP Providers.

The differential advantage of V Phone over the other  Mobile VoIP software is that it is not locked to a specific provider and users have the flexibility to add multiple VoIP Providers for voip calls in this mobile sip app.

Summary of Features:
* SMS over IP
* History logs of calls & SMS
* Dial from history
* Contacts integration
* Supports DTMF
* Accepts Incoming calls with sip to sip or DID
* Multiple codecs support
* Registration status
* Supports any provider using the SIP protocol
* Multiple VoIP Provider account setup – for calls
* Multiple VoIP Provider account setup – for SMS
* Not locked to any VoIP Provider
* Voice & text help
* Dial plan and prefix feature
* Add to Contacts from History
* Troubleshooting logs feature

http://www.thevphone.biz/iphone.html

PlayHaven, an online universe of fan communities for iPhone games, and Mobclix, the industry’s largest targeted mobile ad exchange, released data today predicting that iPhone game usage is likely to set records in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, soaring to levels 28 times greater than the same weekly period last year.

“The week between Christmas and New Years has become the great ‘Game Rush’ for iPhone games – essentially what Black Friday is to brick and mortar retailers,” said Raymond Lau, co-founder and CEO of PlayHaven. “This soaring increase in iPhone game downloads is even more spectacular when you consider the slow holiday sales this year for console game titles.”

From January through November, sales of console titles were down 12 percent from the same time frame last year, according to retail analysts.

Lau said consumers are looking to their iPhones increasingly for entertainment. With more than 15,000 game titles available to-date in the App Store, the popularity of Apple’s mobile device continues to soar even in the face of renewed competition from Android.

PlayHaven also predicted that in the coming year, discovery of games and applications is increasingly going to originate outside the App Store. By the end of 2010, Lau said up to 25 percent of iPhone app purchases may originate at some location other than iTunes or the App Store as companies like PlayHaven seek to capitalize on the increasing complexity of app discovery in a universe of more than 125,000 titles.

“Consumers are looking to personal devices as a key source of entertainment and the game app market is seeing a surge,” said Sunil Verma, co-founder of Mobclix. “With the data from last year and information on this year’s trends, it’s clear that a lot of time and money will be spent on iPhone games this week. Developers are in a good position to monetize their games through smart marketing and ad decisions.”

The Mobclix PlayHaven “Game Rush” forecast is based on analysis from across the Mobclix mobile ad exchange. Mobclix used historical app download data and calculated a projection based on the increased number of Apple mobile devices sold during the year.

VoiceCorp today launched a speech-enabling iPhone app, called “ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal”, which allows iPhone/iPod Touch users to listen to (as well as view) text RSS feeds of blogs and websites. The app, which is available for free, enables users to listen to up to 3 English text RSS feeds of their choice. To select the feeds, users can either add the address of the feed manually or let the app search for feeds on any chosen blog or website.
With ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal users can:

- Browse articles while listening to other items by using the
next and previous control buttons.
- Choose a setting to play all feed items automatically one after
the other or manually.
- Navigate using the touch screen to listen to specific news.

Due to the inherent size of the iPhone/iPod Touch screens and its use in situations where someone is on the go such as travelling, commuting or exercising, being able to listen to the text-feed content of blogs and websites provides users with a convenient and easy-to-use alternative to just reading. Users don’t need to synchronize their iPhones to listen to the selected feeds, these are updated automatically and on-the-fly directly to their ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal app.
ReadSpeaker audioMob Personal is available for free from the App Store.

iPhone Apps Are Latest Gold Rush

The iPhone has minted a gold rush. In just two years, the iPhone has become not just a gold mine for Apple Inc., but also for companies that create the software programs that run on the device. Since Apple launched its iPhone applications storefront via its iTunes software, more than 100,000 applications have been created (148Apps – Nov 2009), with more than 1 billion downloaded onto iPhones and iPod Touches.

iPhone applications are specially designed software programs that work exclusively on the iPhone. They vary from sports updates to video games to utilities that allow people to use their iPhones as flashlights or as locators of the nearest Tim Hortons.

For media companies especially, iPhone applications are about staying ahead of the curve. In industry parlance, it’s called being where the audience is. Optimistic industry observers such as Dale Fallon, director of Score Media Inc.’s mobile division, expect that within two or three years the audience for sports-based mobile Web sites and software will be the same size as the current Web audience.

Meanwhile, the applications act as incremental revenue streams, double as effective marketing tools and allow smaller media companies to extend their brands.

At Pelmorex Media Inc.’s Weather Network (Canada), the iPhone application WeatherEye is just part of the channel’s expanding mobile arsenal. The network’s offerings include a mobile Web site, desktop widgets and an application launched in March for use on the BlackBerry device.

The free WeatherEye has been downloaded almost 750,000 times since the end of October, with just under half of those by people outside of Canada. The French version of the application is the most popular weather application in France.

“From a return on investment perspective, it absolutely makes sense,” said Mark Thompson, director of The Weather Network’s mobile division.

Apple takes a 30% cut of any iPhone applications that are sold at its virtual store, but for applications offered for free, the companies do not have to share their advertising revenue with Apple.

The surge in iPhone applications has also benefited developers. With companies now scrambling to find anyone capable of making these programs, some developers command upwards of $200 per hour and applications cost between $15,000 to $50,000 to create.

Certain developers have found themselves in the spotlight after finding some of their applications – which invairiably retail for less than $5 – have yielded more than $250,000 in sales in thier first couple of months, convincing some to give up their day jobs in the process.

“It’s a market that has appeared out of nowhere, really,” said Ian Maskell, SEO of CA-based application developers site iPhone App Freelancer.

“All of a sudden, anyone who knows how to make an iPhone app are making lots of money off it. It’s one of those things that doesn’t come around very often but when it does, the first people through the gate make a bundle,” he said.

However, with developers being in such high demand, the prices quoted for the development of some applications is proving prohibitive for many, so Maskell came up with a plan.

With what he believed to be a killer application idea, but struggling to find a developer (within his budget) who could help, Maskell set about creating iPhone App Freelancer, to connect “ideas people” to programmers and developers. “Through our website we offer companies and individuals with great ideas the ability to turn them into iPhone apps with little or no programming knowledge”.

“Much like an auction, we bring entrepreneurs and businesses together with experienced iPhone application developers in the most cost effective manner possible” – says Maskell.

“We have approximately 800 members, and a pool of about 300 developers who receive notification whenever someone posts a new project,” he says. “I would estimate we’ve had close to 100 projects completed.”

And just how important will the iPhone become as an effective marketing tool in the coming months and years? “One customer stated that about 60% of the estimated five-million monthly page views they recieve on their site were generated by the iPhone” – Maskell states.

“With those kind of figures, you can see the potential is there for getting your brand exposed to a massive and ever increasing audience” Maskell continues – “from a business perspective, there is a massive captive audience at your disposal with the iPhone and the application market – the advertising potential is massive”.

The mobile advertising market is expected to hit $12-billion (USD) by 2013, compared with about $1.7-billion this year, according to research company Informa Telecoms & Media.

“If you’re not in the mobile space, you’re missing a very big opportunity to communicate with your consumers,” Mr. Maskell concludes.