WaterField Designs, a San Francisco manufacturer renowned for its high-quality, custom notebook sleeves, bags and cases for digital gear, today introduces two cases for the Apple ipad: the sofisticated Smart Case and the super-thin ipad Slip Case. Both new cases offer protection for the ipad and come in six colors. They fit perfectly into the personal size WaterField Muzetto metro bag. WaterField now offers four ipad cases including the previously announced Ultimate SleeveCase and ipad Suede Jacket. All are available for pre-order at sfbags online.

“The Smart Case with its bold colors and distressed leather sides is a really unique, eye-catching case,” explained owner, Gary Waterfield. “The Slip Case is simple and light – but protective – and both cases are easy to spot. Users can match them to our popular Muzetto bag since the personal size is a great fit for the buzz-worthy new ipad.”

WaterField Designs’ ipad Smart Case offers solid ipad protection in serious style. An Ultrasuede(R), scratch-free liner with a high-impact, rigid insert for screen protection is enveloped by a vibrantly colored, water-resistant exterior, available in six color choices. The Smart Case is flanked by naturally tanned, distressed brown leather and – like all WaterField cases – is custom fitted; in this case to the Apple ipad dimensions.

The slender Slip Case for the ipad uses the same vibrantly colored, water-resistant fabric on its exterior. A plush interior and impact-resistant plastic protect the screen and finish the simple, light case. Both new ipad cases are light, protective and easy to spot among bag contents.

WaterField’s four TSA-friendly case options for the ipad – the Ultimate SleeveCase, the ipad Suede Jacket, the ipad Smart Case, and the ipad Slip Case – allow travelers to breeze through airport security with their Apple ipad safe within its protective sleeve.

http://sfbags.com/products/ipad-cases/smartcase-ipad.php

SNAPPS, a long-time IBM Advanced Business Partner and new Apple Development Partner, identified an opportunity for synergy between the enterprise business software giant IBM and the hip, cool consumer-focused Apple and decided to actively link them together. The first offering, SnappFiles, demonstrated by IBM at MacWorld in San Francisco last week, is a free app available on the Apple App Store that delivers secure access to and collaboration on corporate documents stored in IBM Lotus Quickr or Filenet P8 ECM systems. With work underway to support other IBM ECM systems such as IBM Content Manager and Lotus Connections Files next month, SnappFiles is designed to be a single point of entry into corporate document management systems.

“We’ve designed complex business systems, workflows, and critical customer-facing applications in our tenure working with IBM products,” said Rob Novak, president of SNAPPS. “Bringing these processes outside the corporate firewall and into the hands of Apple customers is a natural progression. We have several applications in development, and plan to bring our years of experience to bear on real business solutions for Apple customers.”

Inspiration for SnappFiles came from the most unlikely place – unless you happen to have a teenager. Novak explains: “I was helping my 14-year-old son set up his new iPod touch six months ago and noticed he had a mesmerizing game called Paper Toss – the objective of which is to toss a crumpled piece of paper into an office trash bin. It occurred to me that if you could throw away paper on this cool device, why couldn’t you retrieve documents securely?” The next day, SNAPPS joined the Apple Developer Program and started work on SnappFiles. Work on an iPad-optimized version is underway, since the form factor of the iPad will, according to Novak, make “corporate document management the killer business app for the iPad.”

“SNAPPS’ work with our open APIs has produced some very timely and astounding results for the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software, IBM Lotus. “We’re convinced that IBM’s social software solutions and SNAPPS’ innovation will produce some impressive apps for all the Apple devices.”

SnappFiles is available now in the Apple App Store, free of charge. A professional version with enhanced capabilities is in the works, as are several other apps linking IBM’s Lotus software to Apple devices. SNAPPS also develops custom solutions for Lotus Quickr applications and makes free templates available.

For more information about SnappFiles, visithttp://snappfiles.snapps.com, and for information about SNAPPS, visit http://www.snapps.com.

San Francisco, CA – iPhone(R) app Random Haiku was approved by Apple on Monday, February 8th, and launched in the App Store for sale that evening. Random Haiku is a creative experience that engages both the left and right brain sensibilities with five apps in one!

The Haiku title tab is where your poetic skills come to play. A Haiku poetry generator creates random verses of three lines in 5-syllable, 7-syllable, 5-syllable form with the press of a button or a touch and drag on the screen. Vivid seasonal imagery can be generated embodying feelings of tranquility conveying an ultimately positive emotion. Rich, serene words are used to produce each Haiku generated. Producing a sensible, provocative Haiku form takes some creative thinking. Once a great one is produced, simply select by touch then copy the Haiku for pasting into a social network status or anywhere else – email, Notes file, etc.

And four other tabs have packed the app with so much more. The app is also a:
* Random number generator and dice roller that will throw dice onto your screen with a quick shake and flip.
* Random letter generator enabling customers to create their own word-building games from a set of randomly generated letters.
* Random password generator with the ability to generate and store a password between four and twenty five characters in length.
* Random algebraic speed Or psychic number divination game. Test yourself or compete with friends either mathematically or psychically.

Leveraging iPhone features to add fun, three of the tabs contain sound and visual effects to expand the experience.

Random Haiku Theme: ADAPT
The theme for Random Haiku, and future Dynamicore apps, can be succinctly summed up with DCI’s originally coined acronym – ADAPT – App Diversity Accelerates Productive Thinking. DCI’s devotion to diverse, productive thinking is reflected wholly in Random Haiku, and other apps are currently being designed with ADAPTability in mind.

“Our goal is to provide apps that are designed to move someone using them from a mathematical to an artistic thought with the speed of a tab touch”, said Rob Lind, president and chief architect of Dynamicore. “Why not provide apps that keep the customer’s mind busy in a variety of ways? We believe this will lead to greater creative exposure and broader-based entertainment and learning. It is a gift of nature to have multiple talents and interests and our apps will regularly exercise those powers.”

Experiences Using Random Haiku
One early customer gave the following feedback: “This is the app that Philip Glass would have built, if he built apps. Strangely compelling. The rub-to-fade and accelerometer add to the legend.”

DCI’s demo audience fully enjoyed the app as well. It was noted that they loved the sound effects and the visuals as well as the natural use of the accelerometer functionality. With the built in drum effects the app customer can jump right in and add a little sound spice to any lively event. But depending on the volume of the party one may need to plug into more robust amplification.
Random Haiku 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the

San Francisco – A special Macworld 2010 conference session – targeted at corporate and business decision-makers – will attempt to demystify the entire process of producing custom iPhone and iPad software, from start to finish.

The high-level session, entitled: “Demystifying iPhone & iPad App Development: A Non-Technical Overview for Decision-Makers and Idea People,” will be held on Saturday, February 13th, from 10:30am to 11:45am, as part of the Macworld 2010 Conference & Expo, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“What we’re doing here is unusual – and perhaps unprecedented,” says Ron Diamond of Los Angeles-based Parade of Progress Productions, who will present the session. “There’s lots of information out there for developers themselves … but to my knowledge, no one has ever tackled this all from the perspective of the Client: namely, just what does a decision-maker really need to know in order to lead the creation of their own branded ‘app’?”

The session thus encompasses the entire spectrum of developing software, both in general, and for the iPhone and iPad in particular.

“The mobile space has many untapped opportunities, especially for brand extension,” says Diamond. “But it’s a big challenge to get up to speed on such a vast and quite technical subject, and yet do it in a non-technical and unintimidating way. So we’re going to cover the gamut from what software development is and how the process works, all the way up through developing and deploying for the iPhone and iPad … and do it all in a little over an hour. It’s really quite ambitious.”

The session will culminate with a ‘big picture’ look at the future of Mobile. An extensive list of Action items and third-party resources will also be provided.

“Demystifying iPhone & iPad App Development” is presented as part of the “Users” track of the Macworld 2010 Conference.

Session Topics:
* How Did We Get Here?
* What’s In these Devices, and what can they Do?
* Software Development: An Overview
* Rates & Budgeting
* Styles of Apps
* Mocking up the User Interface
* Concepts & Terminology
* How Developers Work
* The Tools
* Hello, World!
* Deployment: for Beta testing and In-House use
* Deployment: on the App Store
* Resources for the Developer in You (or Your Company)
* Action Items
* The Big Picture

Time and place
* Saturday, February 13, 2010
* 10:30am to 11:45am
* Moscone Center, San Francisco

Session Information

With Macworld 2010 around the corner, the iPhone continues to lead innovation and dominate the smart phone market. iPhone application development has become an even bigger market with well over 140,000 available apps boasting just over three Billion downloads. Key indicators from 2009 and projections into 2010 as seen by iPhoneAppQuotes, a Macworld 2010 First Looks exhibitor, include:

* App developers see more earning potential with iPhone platform – current apps available for Palm Pre: 1,000; current apps available for Google’s Android: 20,000; current apps available for iPhone: over 140,000

* In 2010, iPhone application development will triple and reach 300,000 (Source: IDC, the Street)

* Request for quotes to develop new iPhone applications are up 30% from June 2009; Q1 requests are expected to be up 20%

* With over 100,000 registered iPhone app developers, iPhoneAppQuotes has experienced a 20% increase in registered developers in the last 3 months

* In only 10 months, over 3,000 leads for developers have been generated by iPhoneAppQuotes

” iPhoneAppQuotes has made a huge impact on our business, generating a sales growth of 200% in only the first four months,” Christopher Young, CEO and founder of Momentum Mobile, Inc., said. “We don’t consider them just a lead referral company, we consider them a key team member. The ROI they show is incomparable to other methods used in our business.”

In response to this trend, Macworld 2010 will debut the Mobile Applications Showcase, highlighting the latest innovations from iPhone app programmers. One of the fifty exhibiting companies will be iPhoneAppQuotes, a leader in iPhone App resources. The five-day expo runs from February 9-13 in San Francisco.

San Francisco, CA – Announcing that FeelSocial Inc., the developers of Football Toss 2010, have released an app that allows users to compete against their friends to achieve high scores and show off their passing skills. Toss the Football through the swinging tire using your iDevice and beat the high scores.

Football Toss 2010 brings a unique realism to the iDevice gaming front by putting together a physics engine that takes factors such as gravity and angles into account. If your football ricochets off the tire, you will notice how well designed the physical aspects are.

Football Toss 2010 is the newest addition to the already booming tossing platform on the iDevices. Whether you are looking to kill a few minutes waiting for the bus, or need to spend extended periods of time such an entire commute, this application is the perfect solution. Three different difficulty levels will keep you coming back time and again to achieve high scores.

Football Toss 2010 Features:
* Three difficulty levels; easy, medium & hard.
* Stunning animated 3D environment.
* Physics engine with attention to realism in trajectory, gravity and ricochet.
* High score tracking for competing with friends.

Pass the iDevice around at your next Football party and let the pre-game festivities begin. Get everyone in the mood by having a quick round of Football Toss to see who has the sharpest aim amongst your friends. Football Toss 2010 is quick, fun and has difficulty levels for people of all ages to be able to enjoy.
Football Toss 2010 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category.

Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more. iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch  display lets users physically interact with applications and content.

iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad will be available in late March starting at the breakthrough price of just $499.

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“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

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iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. The precise Multi-Touch interface makes surfing the web on iPad an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. Reading and sending email is fun and easy on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard. Import photos from a Mac®, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

Apple also introduced a new version of iWork® for iPad, the first desktop-class productivity suite designed specifically for Multi-Touch. With Pages®, Keynote® and Numbers® you can create beautifully formatted documents, stunning presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with charts, functions and formulas. The three apps will be available separately through the App Store for $9.99 each.

iPad syncs with iTunes just like the iPhone and iPod touch, using the standard Apple 30-pin to USB cable, so you can sync all of your contacts, photos, music, movies, TV shows, applications and more from your Mac or PC. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer.

iPad’s brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad’s larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard.

iPad is powered by A4, Apple’s next-generation system-on-a-chip. Designed by Apple, the new A4 chip provides exceptional processor and graphics performance along with long battery life of up to 10 hours.* Apple’s advanced chemistry and Adaptive Charging technology deliver up to 1,000 charge cycles without a significant decrease in battery capacity over a typical five year lifespan.**

iPad comes in two versions—one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G. iPad includes the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi, and the 3G versions support speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks. Apple and AT&T announced breakthrough 3G pre-paid data plans for iPad with easy, on-device activation and management.

Continuing Apple’s dedication to designing and creating environmentally responsible products, each iPad enclosure is made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free.

Apple today released a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad, so developers can create amazing new applications designed to take advantage of iPad’s capabilities. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

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January 13 – CBS Mobile and CBS Television Stations today announced that stand-alone news apps for CBS-owned television stations in 13 markets are now available from the App Store. The free apps for iPhone and iPod touch users deliver the latest local news headlines and stories, full length on-demand video, slide shows and Twitter updates from news anchors and reporters at local CBS Television Stations. In addition to the dedicated local content, the apps connect users with breaking CBS News stories and on-demand video from across the nation and around the globe.

“The CBS Television Stations applications are a logical extension of our CBS News app; they give us the chance to engage users at a grass roots level and expose them to the news that matters to them the most,” said Rob Gelick, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CBS Mobile.  “These apps are also a great way for us to extend the CBS brand and provide users with a new and convenient way to discover and experience the depth of our local news coverage.”

Features of the stand-alone apps include:

• Latest Local News Headlines and Stories from CBS-Owned TV Stations in 13 Markets: Branded apps feature local news, sports and features for CBS-owned stations across the nation, including WCBS-New York, KCBS/KCAL-Los Angeles, WBBM-Chicago, KYW-Philadelphia, WBZ-Boston, KPIX-San Francisco, KTVT-Dallas/Fort Worth, WCCO-Minneapolis/St. Paul, WFOR-Miami, KCNC-Denver, KOVR-Sacramento, KDKA-Pittsburgh and WJZ-Baltimore.
• Full News Video Integration: View on-demand video news coverage from your favorite local market reporters, and from CBS News.
• Local Geo-Targeted Weather: Real time and extended weather forecasts targeted automatically by each user’s location. Users can also check weather conditions in other cities.
• National and Global Breaking News from CBS News: The latest breaking news and on-demand video throughout the day from CBS News reporters across the globe.
• Twitter Feeds: Insights and breaking news from anchors and reporters in local markets. Users can also navigate by topic through the unique “News Trends” section—a collection of the top stories from feeds across Twitter.

CBS Mobile partnered with Treemo Labs (http://www.treemolabs.com) to develop the application, and Transpera (www.transpera.com) to power the pre-roll video and ad capabilities in the application.

The CBS Television Stations apps are now available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. Users can search for their favorite local station app based on the branding for the CBS-owned television station in their area.

The 2009 Best App Ever Awards nomination period is quickly drawing to a close. The awards team has been tracking the leaders in each of the 56 categories. With less than two weeks to go in the nomination process for the 2009 Best App Ever Awards, the team is proud to present the top nominees in all open categories. The top five apps that have received votes from the iPhone app community are presented in alphabetical order here:

Created by 148Apps, the 2009 Best App Ever Awards are expected to greatly exceed the interest of last year’s inaugural competition, which received nearly 100,000 votes for over 1000 apps, since the 2009 awards’ announcement, over 2,900 applications have been submitted from over 13,000 nominations to date. Tasked with honoring the best apps, and not just the best selling, the awards were the first iPhone OS application achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store.

All app nominations must be submitted online at the Best App Ever site through December 31, 2009. Finalists will be announced on January 1, 2010 and will include the top five popular nominees in each category, combined with five nominations from industry experts. Voting for these finalists will run through January 31, 2010.

The top 10 nominated iPhone apps overall will compete for the title of Best App Ever.

Winners in all categories will be announced at the 2010 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

http://www.bestappever.com/leaders/

Renowned Digital Artist and iPhone Developer release iCreated Version 2.0 turning iPhone and iPod Touch screens into mobile Art Galleries. Andrew C. Stone, CEO and Chief Computer Scientist at Stone Design Corp. has been creating enlightening software on the Mac, and NeXt platforms since 1984, offering many best selling Apps, like “Twitterlator Pro”, “Gesture” and “iGraffiti” for the iTunes App Store.

Acclaimed digital artist, David Scott Leibowitz, has been exhibiting his impressionist style art in galleries across the country for over thirty years, using his web site, Leibo.net to promote, and exhibit his work worldwide. Since the App Store opened in 2008, new tools for creating graphics and altering photos began to appear and artists everywhere quickly began to utilize what is essentially a new computing platform. Currently, there are over 30 iPhone artist’s work showcased in iCreated.

“Like the iPod, iphones are quickly spanning the globe, offering a new level of connectivity between artists and audiences and making the possibility of image sharing as easy and ubiquitous as music sharing.”

The first 18 images that appear when the app opens are contributions by some of the world’s most talented iPhone Artists and some of their most memorable Art. They are; Xoan Baltar, (Ourence, Spain), Kevin Barba, (Chicago,USA), Tony Cece, (Virginia, USA), Russ Croop, (Colorado, USA). Miguel Girard, (NYC, USA), Dan Hoffman, (New Jersey, USA), Steve John, (United Kingdom), Julia Kay, (San Francisco,USA), Emmanuel Martinez, (Manila, Philippines), Cedric Philippe (Nut), (Saint Claude ,France), Jose Andres Guijarro Ponce (La legra negra), (Cuenca,Spain), Barbara Ripepi, (Milan, Italy), Sean Sheridan, (NYC,USA), Patricio Villarroel, (Paris, France), and Mike Wallis, (Bedford, United Kingdom).

The next 9 images are new additions by co-creator David Scott Leibowitz, and the original 18 iPhone artworks from version 1.0

The iCreated Gallery button reveals a constantly evolving on-line gallery of iPhone Art, uploaded from around the world, and selected for their beauty, and uniqueness. The Gallery provides a space for this evolving art medium to flourish, as established and aspiring Artist’s use this app as a powerful promotional tool. Currently included in the Gallery are artworks by gifted international iPhone artists, Mauro Ballabeni, (Bologna, Italy),Corliss Blakely, (Vermount, USA), Willie Cole, (Connecticut, USA), Matt Connors, (New Jersey, USA), Robert Dawson, (California, USA), Rita Flores, (New Jersey, USA), Helene Goldberg, (California, USA), Fernando Lopez del Hierro, (Madrid, Spain), Yan Min Lee, (Taichung, Taiwan), Deborah McMillion, (Arizona, USA), Travis Morgan, (Illinois, USA), Susan Murtaugh, (Wisconsin, USA), Amy Nelp, (Colorado, USA), Benjamin Rabe, (Hamburg, Germany), Mia Robinson, (Washington, DC, USA), Matthew Watkins, (Canada and Italy), and miguelb2000 (Villa del Carbon, Mexico).

“You’ve heard the phrase, There’s an app for that,” said Mr. Stone, “Well, now there’s an app to showcase art created exclusively on the iPhone, transforming this already revolutionary device into both an artist’s studio and exhibition space.”

Each piece of art in this virtual gallery is linked to the apps that were used to create it, giving artists and art lovers the tools to create and deliver their own art to iCreated. The exhibited work in the gallery is also linked to the contributing artist’s web site or other personal web space, so that iPhone users can communicate with the artist and discover more of that artist’s creations.

“Since people first started painting on cave walls,” says Mr. Leibowitz, “art has served our basic need to express ourselves and share our experience with others. iCreated brings that impulse into the 21st century.”

iCreated is available for just $0.99 (USD). Get it today at the iTunes AppStore.