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Announces appMobi support of multitasking in iOS4.

FlyCast announces a new open source library of demonstration mobile apps that were created with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. As a supplement to Apple’s HTML5 gallery, these demonstrations illustrate how new web technologies can be used to create world-class compelling mobile experiences, obviating the need for Adobe Flash on mobile devices. The gallery can be viewed using iPhone, iPad or iPod touch by navigating to http://appmobi.com/gallery.

Created by FlyCast, appMobi is a cross-platform rapid mobile app development and deployment ecosystem. appMobi offers users the ability to “develop once” using HTML and JavaScript, then deploy to a variety of devices and operating systems, including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android tablets and phones. Apps created with appMobi are native apps, fully compliant with Apple’s SDK 4.0 terms of service.

Anticipating the upcoming release of Apple’s iOS 4, with its ability to play streaming radio in the background, appMobi also released source code that will allow any radio station to create a branded, multitasking native app that will run on Apple iPad, iPhone (all versions), iPod Touch, and any Android device.

appMobi is a new type of cloud-based “Software as a Service” (SaaS) provider, offering its customers scalable, pay-as-you-go development and deployment tools, Amazon AWS edge-caching servers for hosted application deployment, PhoneGap support, analytics, in-app payments, and advertising. The source code posted today is offered under the MIT open source license.

For more information, visit http://www.appmobi.com.

About FlyCast

FlyCast was among the first to deliver streamed entertainment to the iPhone platform shortly after its
inception, and continues to lead the way as a top ten application on multiple smartphone platforms, delivering
over 2000 channels of entertainment to millions of users worldwide. FlyCast’s unique delivery architecture has been created to serve the needs of both consumers and content owners. Today’s announcement represents the first public disclosure of FlyCast’s new mobile content development and distribution technology. For more information, visit http://www.flycast.fm.

FlyCast is a registered trademark of FlyCast Inc. The iPhone, iPad, iOS 4 and iPod touch and related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Apple Computer Corp. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.

ForeclosureRadar Releases iPhone App, Makes Professional-Quality Foreclosure Information and Services Available in the Field.

Daily auction schedules, property details, photo and note-taking tools now available anywhere.

ForeclosureRadar (http://www.foreclosureradar.com), an online service that provides accurate, up-to-date information on the foreclosure market in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, announced today that it has released an iPhone application. The application makes information on properties in all stages of foreclosure – including daily auction schedules – available to users anywhere, at any time.

ForeclosureRadar counts thousands of professional investors, Realtors, government agencies and financial institutions among its subscribers. The iPhone application is available free to ForeclosureRadar subscribers at the App Store by Apple.

The new iPhone app allows users to:

– Identify foreclosures around their current location using the iPhone’s GPS capability, or searching by map area, city or ZIP Code
– Monitor foreclosure auction activity with daily auction schedules, and quickly find properties as they are announced by the auctioneer
– Review details on foreclosures including ownership, loan history, value, equity, transaction history and more
– View saved properties, review financial analyses performed with the user’s ForeclosureRadar account, and tag and assign a status to properties of interest
– Take photos or make notes on properties that can be viewed later or shared instantly with team members

“Success in today’s foreclosure market is driven in large part by the quality and timeliness of your information,” said Sean O’Toole, ForeclosureRadar’s founder and CEO. “Whether you are an auction investor who needs instant information on the courthouse steps, a Realtor working with clients in the field, or an investor or government staffer doing site inspections, you’ll find this app invaluable.”

Andrew Katakis of CEMG, Inc., a foreclosure investor and ForeclosureRadar subscriber, said, “The data
ForeclosureRadar delivers, and tools they provide to make sense of it, simply blow other foreclosure services out of the water. Extending this experience to the iPhone adds to the value they provide immeasurably.”

“Now my team and I can enter any market, any neighborhood, and immediately and accurately answer the question ‘What’s the foreclosure situation here?’” said Michael Temby, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty who subscribes to ForeclosureRadar. “I can quickly and confidently establish my foreclosure expertise with clients in any situation.”

ForeclosureRadar is a web-based subscription service. Subscriptions are $49.95 per month with no long-term
contract. A 3-day free trial is available.

About ForeclosureRadar.com

ForeclosureRadar features unprecedented tools to search, manage, track and analyze pre-foreclosure, foreclosure auction, short sale and bank-owned real estate. The company was launched in May 2007 by Sean O’Toole, who spent 15 years building and launching software companies before entering
the foreclosure business in 2002, where he has successfully bought and sold more than 150 foreclosure properties. ForeclosureRadar is privately held and based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

M.A.D. Partners, a global leader in securing smart phones and mobile devices, announces the immediate availability of Mobile Active Defense, the first 100% cloud-based and comprehensive mobile security solution
for the enterprise. Mobile Active Defense forces all iPhone, iPad and iTouch traffic through the device VPN to the industry’s first Mobile Enterprise Compliance and Security (MECS) Server — a fully managed firewall that can either be hosted or managed.

Using zero footprint technology, Mobile Active Defense offers IT and IS professionals exactly what they’ve been waiting for; comprehensive mobile security that also allows for complete compliancy. According to M.A.D. Partners’ CTO, Rob Smith, “M.A.D. protects just about everything the CISO and CTO would want. Email security, anti-virus, spam and malware detection and removal, encryption, VPN, a granular policy driven firewall, inventory control, provisioning and of course, extensive reporting.”

M.A.D. Enterprise does not require any changes to existing security or IT infrastructure and can be up and running within hours. Moreover, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile support will be available in coming weeks, all managed through a single console interface and managed firewall.

As Larry Whiteside Jr., CISO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York puts it, “We have had the types of controls needed for security and compliance with BlackBerry for years. It is critical that we demand the same level of security be used to mitigate against the risk inherent in iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices now that they are appearing in the enterprise.”

With the success and security that was delivered with the BlackBerry and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), many information security and technology professionals looked beyond mobile security and switched their focus to more pressing concerns. However, with the rapid success and consumerization of a myriad of intelligent mobile technologies including the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Nokia Symbian and Windows Mobile devices, the lack of available security and compliance for the mobile enterprise marks the availability of Mobile Active Defense at a critical and opportune time for companies in all sectors.

Prior to Mobile Active Defense, and due to limited options, organizations have been piloting, or worse yet deploying these devices, using only the available controls from Microsoft ActiveSync and the iPhone native operating system. Multiple vendors unfortunately claim that managing these anemic features is “security.” With less than 50% of the controls offered by Mobile Active Defense — security and technology professionals have nervously been trying to figure out how to get back to the standard which they are
used to with solutions like BES. Now with Mobile Active Defense, they have their answer.

Rapadev, LLC, the development company behind ProcessAway, has released iPay POS Credit Card Terminal for iPhone.

“Since we released our innovative solution back in 2008, there has been a proliferation of credit card apps in the AppStore,” states Randy Palermo, Member of Rapadev, LLC and lead developer. “While they all essentially do the same thing, they have restrictions or shortcomings to their operation. Most competing Apps require you to use a specific merchant account provider or gateway, or they don’t have a card reader available, or they are not PA-DSS certified. We developed iPay POS to address these issues.”

The software performs captures, authorizations, voids and credits. It utilizes multiple database tables for recording transactions and repeating sale information, such as order, shipping, and customer info. There is also an option to add a gratuity to the final charge.

iPay POS supports many gateways, including gateways outside the United States. A partial listing of supported gateways include: Authorize.net, NMI, Ogone, PayLeap, PayJunction, PayPal Payments Pro, RedFin, Skipjack and PayTrace. Gateways that wish to be included in iPay POS should submit their API documentation to Rapadev for inclusion in a future update.

Rapadev has worked closely with ITSCO to have iPay POS be the first Apple sanctioned application for the iMag Magnetic Swipe Reader for iPhone. The iMag is a secure MSR capable of reading up to three tracks with a bi-directional swipe. The reader is available for ordering directly within iPay POS or at http://cardreaderstore.com.

iPay POS has been coded to strict PCI standards and has undergone PA-DSS testing. The software has passed PA-DSS certification. “It was important for us to make the investment in PA-DSS certification,” continues Mr. Palermo. “If a merchant uses a non PA-DSS certified application, that merchant is opening him/herself up to possible liability issues if any sort of fraud or other security breach happens, even if the merchant or application had nothing to do with the incident. When a customer looking for someone to
place blame on asks a merchant using iPay POS if their card was processed on a certified secure application, that merchant can confidently say yes.”

iPay POS Credit Card Terminal is available in the Apple AppStore as a free download. The application comes with the ability to perform unlimited test transactions and 10 live transactions. Additional transactions may be acquired with an In-App purchase. Further information, video, screenshots, and FAQs can be found at http://www.ipaypos.com.

Cross-platform framework includes support for HTML5, live video cloud services.

At the ad:tech conference, FlyCast announced the public beta release of its appMobi native mobile development ecosystem, a set of tools and cloud-based services that allow the creation and deployment of highly engaging smartphone and tablet apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. For the first time, ad agencies and web developers can create native mobile apps and ads using tools they work with every day – HTML and JavaScript.

Originally created to make cross-platform versions of FlyCast’s popular streaming media applications, the appMobi
ecosystem offers “write once – deploy everywhere” capability, currently supporting both Apple and Android
platforms. Unlike other cross-platform tools that only support the creation of an app, appMobi’s “ecosystem”
delivers value after deployment, with pay-as-you-go advertising, analytics, payments, streaming media content
from FlyCast’s content partners, and scalable cloud-based video and audio media streaming services. Because appMobi development is done in HTML with CSS, anything that can be designed for the web can be deployed as an app; appMobi uses no templates or “cookie cutter” forms.

The appMobi ecosystem also supports cross-platform trafficking of HTML5-compliant interactive advertising to
native apps. Interactive ads created using appMobi can be delivered across iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets with no modification needed. Apps and ads created with the appMobi ecosystem are full-speed native applications and fully comply with all Apple SDK 4.0 restrictions.

Development with the appMobi ecosystem is free. FlyCast invites interested publishers, agencies and developers to
sign up for a free account at its website (http://www.appmobi.com).

About appMobi

Created by FlyCast, appMobi is a cross-platform native app development and deployment ecosystem for smartphones and tablets. It allows any web developer with JavaScript experience to create and deliver mobile applications using
only standard HTML tools. appMobi offers the ability to “develop once” and deploy to a variety of popular operating
systems, including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7 (3Q 2010). For more information, visit http://www.appmobi.com.

About FlyCast

FlyCast was among the first to deliver streamed entertainment to the iPhone platform shortly after its inception, and continues to lead the way as a top ten application on multiple smartphone platforms, delivering over 2000 channels of entertainment to millions of users worldwide. FlyCast’s unique delivery architecture has been created to serve the needs of both consumers and content owners. Today’s announcement represents the first public disclosure of FlyCast’s new mobile content development and distribution technology. For more information, visit http://www.flycast.fm.

Safe-t-Technologies LLC announces the launch of PrayerSteward, a new and unique product for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Serving as a well-organized prayer reminder, PrayerSteward’s mission is to help users honor their promises to pray for others, even when the busyness of living makes remembering details a challenge.

Developers have incorporated a list of flexible tools, meant to provide an easy and efficient method of recording prayer promises and sharing with others.

PrayerSteward, also known as Promise2Pray, gives users an easy tool for logging prayer reminders. When one person
tells another that they’ll pray for them, they can enter the information on the spot, so they don’t forget as they go
about their day. The app allows users to also add future requests and have them show up in the prayer list at the
appropriate time.

The app is designed for personal and customized usage. Upon download, users can take advantage of the existing five
different prayer categories or erase them and create their own to match prayer habits. Notes can be added and list
displays can be adjusted, as well.

Sharing non-confidential prayer requests can be done from within the app. A user can grab information from their
address books to get the contact details they need to email others in their group or circle when they want to amplify
the power of their prayers for someone.

Another very useful function of PrayerSteward is the copy and paste feature, which allows users to copy all the
details of a prayer request email and quickly add it to their commitment log.

Some of the many features of PrayerSteward:

– Fast and easy, even for a novice
– Set the prayer category entered most often as the default
– Add extra details, such as attaching a contact from your
address book, specifying dates to pray and adding additional
notes
– One tap recalls a list of all active prayer commitments
– View list of future commitments
– View list of archived commitments
– Export all or a subset of prayer commitments in a
delimited text file
– Delete batches of archived commitments based on the end
date of the commitments
– Localized in English and Spanish

Most importantly, PrayerSteward helps people keep their promises and puts the power of prayer networking in the
hands of those who truly want to help.

If you want to get your hands on an iPhone for FREE then you can sign up to O2s latest 24-month mobile phone tariff.

There are two 24-month tariffs available depending upon the iPhone you want:

- For a Free 8GB iPhone 3G is £34.26 per month.
- For a Free 16GB iPhone 3G is £44.05 per month.

Both of these tariffs will be available from 3 April 2009 and customers will be able to enjoy access to over 9,500 public Wi-Fi hotspots, courtesy of The Cloud and BT Openzone. If you are not willing to sign up to these two year contracts O2 have kept their 18-month mobile phone contracts available for £44.05 for the 8GB iPhone and £73.41 for the 16GB version.

You will be able to get your hands on these deals on the iPhone 3G from O2, Apple and The Carphone Warehouse.

Next week will be the G1 week as the whole of the mobile phone community set their eyes on the release of the much anticipated G1 Android Phone comes into reality. It’s the first Google phone, so everybody is excited. Finally, an iPhone killer has arrived, and so some people say.

But first things first, the G1 is not really a Google-manufactured phone, like the iPhone is a genuine Apple product. The first G1 mobile handset is actually an HTC mobile phone powered by Google’s Android mobile platform and will be released through T-Mobile network. But since Google is the more popular market brand, it is but fitting that people call the phone the Google Phone. The HTC-Google phone is just the first mobile phone which will have the Android as its OS. Who knows which other mobile phone manufacturers are going to join the bandwagon as soon as they’ve found out how successful or not the first Google Phone would be. The G1 is up for release on October 22. Words on the streets say that there were already 1.5 million pre-orders for the unit. If that figure is true, well the G1 might be on the road to success then.

While those who have pre-ordered the G1 awaits the shipment on October 22, some lucky tech geeks have already had their first taste of the G1 as early as last week. And the whole week, we’ve seen several of them writing out their initial impression of the Google phone. We’ve rounded some of these reviews of the Google Phone to help you gauge whether the Google phone is worthy of your money, is worthy of the monicker iPhone killer and is worthy of the attention that it is getting right now.

Om Malik pointed out immediately that the G1 is certainly not an iPhone killer. The G1 lacks the sophistication of the iPhone touch screen features. But nonetheless he also pointed out that the G1 is certainly smartphone which fulfils what a mobile phone should do. Something which the iPhone failed to accomplis.

CrunchGear’s Peter Ha on the other hand was not very pleased with the Android as an OS and contends with the fact that the Android is still in beta stage. Hence, it is not yet a powerful and robust mobile phone OS. But he nonetheless pointed out that the G1’s hardware would have to be the one to pull off the success factor for the G1.

The Boy Genius Report wrote a very comprehensive review of the phone and pointed out that users will love the G1 for as long as they what it is. It is not a BlackBerry, nor a Sidekick but an adult Sidekick phone.

Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani also got her hands on the G1 and said that she will never trade her iPhone for the G1 for reasons such as; the device bulky form factor, T-Mobile’s 3G coverage in her area which renders the G1’s GPS utterly useless, the inability of the phone to handle multiple Google accounts. But she also praised the G1’s fast mobile web browser which is as robust as the iPhone’s Safari browser, the copy and paste functionality which we all missed on the iPhone and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Gizmodo also has a comprehensive review of the G1 and declared that it is not a finished product yet. He pointed out that there are only three working Google Apps so far – Gmail, Maps and Calendar. Bottomline is, according to Gizmodo, still depends on users’ preferences. The phone is definitely better than other smartphones available in the market today. Hopefully more Google apps will be ported as well as more third-party apps will be developed.

Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital thinks that the G1 is a very good first effort and a godsent for people who prefer physical keyboard. He also pointed out the inferiority of the G1’s user interface as copared to the iPhone, particularly the lack of ability to flick between multiple pictures and web pages or to zoom in and zoom out of a photo or web page.

Suzanne Choney of MSNBC immediately noticed the striking resemblance of the G1 with that of the iPhone particulary the black-slab form factor. But she pointed out that Google has done a good job of making the phone one of the easier-to-maneuver touchscreen smartphones, thanks to the Google Android platform. She thinks that the G1 is not as fluid and simple to use as the iPhone but it will be a popular alternative for those who don’t like the iPhone or AT&T as their wireless carrier.

Reported by cellphonenews.com, October 18, 2008