Hotel Dream Apps for Hospitality Industry Launched at 2011 HITEC

Logiclink, Inc. Introduces Hotel Dream Apps for the Hospitality Industry at 2011 HITEC - iPad Apps Include Hotel Concierge, Lobby Ambassador, Event Planner, and Dining Touch N Serve

Logiclink, Inc. announces the release of Hotel Dream Apps, a suite of four iPad applications for hotel guests and staff. Hotel Dream Apps include Hotel Concierge, Lobby Ambassador, Event Planner, and Dining Touch N Serve. The applications are customized for each hotel property though Logiclink’s pioneering mobile content management system.

Hotel Concierge provides guests with information and access to: hotel dining options, local attractions, guest services, virtual room tours for upgrades, maps and directions, airline boarding pass access and mobile printing, flight information, and a multilingual virtual concierge.

Lobby Ambassador is used by hotel staff to manage guests’ lobby needs such as check in/out, housekeeping requests, bell desk, room upgrades, VIP butler service. This line buster app communicates via instant text messages and email integration with point of sales and property management systems.

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Invisibility™ iPad 2 App Enables Invisibility

Invisibility Achieved Through iPad 2 App - Levity Novelty LLC has today released an iPad app that provides simulated invisibility of the iPad 2 screen on a table or other environment, even as the device is moved. The Invisibility™ app is available in Apple’s online App Store for US$0.99.

The Invisibility user simply takes a photo of the table, then lays the iPad flat on the table or lifts one corner. As the user rotates the iPad around its center, or a corner, a perfectly stationary image of the table underneath remains clearly visible.

By all appearances, the screen has disappeared and the user is looking through the iPad as it moves. Users can even see the inside edge of the iPad through the screen, as well as shadows seemingly cast on the table by the empty iPad frame.

Dream of Invisibility Achieved
From the Arabian Nights to the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter’s cloak, storytellers have dreamed of invisibility. Magicians use mirrors and sleight of hand to astonish audiences and make objects disappear. While the Invisibility iPad app can’t yet be adapted to the size and flexibility of a garment or cloak, its core method – combining cameras, motion tracking software, and a large display – can some day be combined to make a greater range of objects disappear.

Uniquely Matched for iPad 2
Invisibility for iPad relies on key technologies introduced on the new iPad 2:

3D gyroscopes that tell the app exactly how the iPad is being turned
a camera that lets users take a life-size image of its environment, such as a table top

Together with the motion-detecting accelerometers built into all of Apple’s iOS mobile devices, and the iPad 2’s high performance graphics, Invisibility draws over a hundred “stationary” images each second as the iPad moves, giving the table top image – or any other image the user chooses – a fixed reality whose location and orientation are seemingly independent of the iPad. The iPad becomes a moving window into a virtual world.

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Brain Stimulation Mobile App for Babies

Brain Stimulation for Babies is Focus of New Mobile App Using Universal Symbols and Sounds - Startup iPercepToolz, Inc. launched ‘Baby Symbolizer’ for Father’s Day, a high contrast early development app for Apple iPhone, iTouch, and iPad.

iPercepToolz, Inc. (iPT), announced the release today for Father’s Day of ‘Baby Symbolizer’, its first mobile device app available on iTunes, specially designed to stimulate early brain development in newborns through the use of interactive high contrast universal symbols, shapes, patterns, and sounds.

According to Mies Hora, iPT President, “The majority of designs used in typical nursery accessories and decor are either pastel colors that babies can’t see, or complex images and patterns just too confusing for their early perceptive abilities. Knowing personally how stressful caregiving can be, we designed a low-cost but highly effective and eco-friendly tool to simultaneously soothe newborns and young babies while stimulating their brains. In fact, my own son Hudson is Chief App Tester for iPercepToolz.”

More than forty years of scientific research on what infants perceive at successive stages of development has revealed that babies who are given appropriate stimulation show sustained developmental advantages over babies in less stimulative environments. Researchers discovered that newborns not only prefer to look at high-contrast graphics, but that such images can help produce breathtaking results:

* Increase infant concentration skills and attention span
* Focus and develop eyesight, hand-to-eye coordination, visual tracking, and object permanence
* Stimulate creation of synapses (brain cell connections) by speeding up myelination (insulation of nerve pathways)
* Calm and soothe
* Enhance natural curiosity, neck strength and head control.

Baby Symbolizer is now available at the iTunes App Store for $1.99, and features 34 high-contrast graphics that are viewable in a continuous ‘Slideshow’, or an ‘Interactive’ mode that encourages infants to touch, explore and discover bold visual/sound response buttons. Touching the heart shape produces a ‘heartbeat’ sound and the wave pattern produces an entertaining ‘splash’, for example.

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New Multimedia iOS App Snakes from Encyclopaedia Britannica Kids

Deadly Snakes Rendered Harmless (And Fun!) in New Education App -- Latest iOS App from Encyclopaedia Britannica is a Garden of Reptilian Delights - Kids can now get up close and personal with venomous cobras, deadly boa constrictors and poisonous adders, and it’s all perfectly safe.

Snakes, a new multimedia app from Encyclopaedia Britannica Kids, makes it fun to learn about all those slithering animals, with games, puzzles, fact-packed articles and beautiful multimedia. The new mobile download for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is aligned with the school curriculum and designed for ages 8-12, though even the youngest and most ophidiophobic kids can enjoy it.

The range of features, which makes Snakes like several apps in one, includes:

interactive games, including a photographic memory-match, virtual jigsaw puzzles, photo “brush-offs,” and magic-square puzzles;
videos and stunning photography;
reliable, factual articles on snakes, where and how they live, how they evolved, their sometimes deadly characteristics, and how on earth they move without arms or legs;
interactive maps showing the natural habitats of different kinds of snakes worldwide;
quizzes that let kids test themselves on what they’ve learned.

“These beautiful reptiles captivate kids when they see them at the zoo, learn about them in school or encounter them in the woods. This app will fill in the facts and details about snakes in a way that’s both educational and fun,” said John Russell, who heads the development of Britannica’s mobile apps. “It’s perfect for home, the classroom and to keep kids happy and engaged wherever they may go with their families.”

Snakes is the latest addition to the Britannica Kids series of apps introduced last fall. Others include Dinosaurs, Solar System, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Rainforests, Volcanoes and Aztec Empire. The series gives children in the middle grades engaging new ways to learn using the digital devices they prefer. Working with its development partner, Concentric Sky, Britannica plans to introduce a new app on Knights and Castles later this spring.

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Students Create Own iPhone and iPad Apps with GameSalad® Software

Students Engage in Game Development with New iPhone® and iPad® Game Design Course at iD Tech Camps - Students can create their own iPhone and iPad apps using GameSalad® software at iD Tech Camps this summer, no programming background necessary. The tech education program's new Game Design for iPhone and iPad course debuts in June and allows students to create interactive games using simple drag and drop tools.

The games section of the Apple® store may get a little crowded after this summer – iD Tech Camps is debuting a new Game Design for iPhone & iPad course, aimed at making the app development process universally accessible. The new course opens up the game app market to students ages 10-15 without programming backgrounds, giving them a “make your own game” experience with GameSalad® software.

iD Tech Camps is a specialized summer program that offers courses in everything from game design to iPhone app development, web design with Flash®, 3D animation with Autodesk® Maya®, filmmaking, robotics and more. Students ages 7-17 participate in weeklong day and overnight classes at 60 prestigious university locations across the U.S. Graduates leave with the skills and practical experience to accomplish surprising things, like publishing apps in the Apple store.

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3D iPad Wallpaper App - 3D Wallpaper Pro

3D iPad Wallpaper App Raises the Bar in the Appstore - iNetwallpaper.com Limited proudly presents their flagship iPad Wallpaper App, 3D Wallpaper Pro. With sleek and stylish design, delivers unique and exclusive iPad Wallpaper, raising the bar in iPad and iPad 2 wallpaper apps.

3D Wallpaper Pro Redefines what people should expect from iPad wallpaper apps; this new iPad-only app gives users unique and exclusive HD images with stunning levels of detail and depth.

Professionally designed specifically with the iPads touch screen in mind, 3D Wallpaper Pro's wallpapers are sumptuously-rendered and totally immersive, whilst not distracting when using the iPad as normal.

There are currently 8 wallpaper packs for 3D Wallpaper Pro, Pack 1 and 2 are included and the other 6 can be purchased through the app itself. Each pack contains 50 unique images. Themes include Digital Abstracts, Imaginary Landscapes, Sci-Fi and Psychedelic Fractals. The app will be constantly updated, with more packs on the way, and users will be offered free monthly updates to add and grow their collections.

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Free iPad Web Browser with Tabs - Terra

Terra, Popular Free iPad Web Browser With Tabs, Adds Bookmark Import - Readdle, the publisher of the best-selling iOS applications for business and productivity, has announced the release of Terra 1.2, a new version of their popular free web browser for the iPad. Recently ranked as #1 free iPad application in the US, Terra 1.2 adds bookmarks import from Safari, Firefox and Chrome making it easy to transfer bookmarks from the computer to the iPad.

Terra for the iPad is designed for tabbed web browsing, featuring unlimited number of tabs that people can quickly switch between. There are a number of great features - on-page text search, full screen browsing, private mode and ability to save web pages and download files for offline viewing. All of these come at unbelievable price - Terra is absolutely free.

Terra 1.2 makes it easy to transfer bookmarks from the desktop browser to the iPad. As Readdle's customer survey shown, inability to import bookmarks from the computer was the main reason why people abandoned third party browsers on the iPad. With Terra 1.2 this is no longer the case.

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New Coloring Book App Color Mix for iPad

Kids Mix Their Own Colors in a New Coloring Book App for iPad - Color Mix for Kids adds an educational twist to a child’s coloring experience. It allows children to mix primary colors on a palette and use those mixed colors to draw.

Children’s creativity has always been limited by a box of colors chosen for them. If their school funds art studies, they may have some opportunity to mix paints and learn the color wheel. However, their exploration via creative play is always restricted by limitations in art supplies, and frankly, the mess that it makes. By using virtual paint, Color Mix for Kids allows for unlimited play and unlimited color selection.

In addition, Color Mix for Kids’ incremental approach to color mixing provides children a more concrete learning experience than traditional finger painting. They can see that equal portions of blue and yellow do not make the same shade of green as two portions of blue and one portion of yellow. This valuable lesson in color theory comes easily through creative play. According to Eightfold Education founder, Justin Lewis, “Color theory is an important educational foundation in order for any early elementary student to develop a talent for art.”

Color Mix for Kids provides a multi-touch enabled canvas to allow siblings or classmates to share and create together. This feature prevents the inevitable arguments that will arise when one child overrides another child’s control of the app.

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iPad Hand Therapy App Dexteria to Improve Fine Motor Skills

BinaryLabs Takes iPad in New Direction with Hand Therapy App - Inspired by his daughter's need to improve her fine motor skills, app developer Frank Jensen is leveraging the multi-touch capabilities of the iPad into a tool to improve fine motor skills in kids and adults.

BinaryLabs is turning the iPad into a tool for improving fine motor skills with the introduction of Dexteria, a new app for the iPad. The app features interactive multi-touch activities designed by licensed occupational therapists.

"There are thousands of apps for the iPad, but very few of them take full advantage of its unique user interface," said Jensen, CEO of BinaryLabs. "The iPad can detect several simultaneous touches. I asked, 'Other than gaming, which is a saturated market segment, how can I put that capability to good use?'"

The answer came to him immediately. "Like many kids, my kindergarten-aged daughter was having challenges with her fine motor skills," said Jensen. "The key to improvement was a consistent regime of hand and finger exercises. I wanted to be sure she was ready for kindergarten, and fine motor skills are often overlooked as an important factor in school-readiness. Dexteria helps kids get ready for school."

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Original Strategy Board Game App for iPhone iPod Touch and iPad

Original Strategy Board Game App for iPhone iPod Touch and iPad FOURSIGHT™ Arrives in the Apple Store and On Facebook - Original Strategy Board Game App from Clinical Psychologist. Promotes the Life of the Mind Through Play on The Go or At Your Desk.

Software development company, Digital Dopamine Entertainment™ announced that FOURSIGHT™ is now available for purchase at the Apple®, iTunes® App Store and in the Lite version on Facebook. A game of CALCULATION & DECEPTION, which describes itself as “Depth without Complexity”, is priced at $.99 and can be downloaded at appstore.foursightapp.com.

Created by practicing clinical psychologist, Reid Daitzman, Ph.D., FOURSIGHT™ is an all new board game app rivaling classics like chess -though easier to learn, master and ultimately enjoy. Though built purely to entertain, playing FOURSIGHT™ further contributes to learning “foresight” (hence its name); promoting critical thinking skills and expanding the life of the mind through play. FOURSIGHT™ primes players to plan ahead (in this case) against 3-levels of artificial intelligence- providing encouragement and rewards along the way. “It’s about promoting the life of the mind in a fun and engaging way,” explains Daitzman.

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HD Audio Editing Software Pocket WavePad for iPad

WavePad Audio Editor New iPad HD Version - Pocket WavePad HD is one more way to easily record and edit music, voice, and other audio while on the go with your iPad.

NCH Software, the leading provider of audio, video, business, telephony and VoIP tools and utilities worldwide, today announced the release of Pocket WavePad HD Audio Editing Software for the Apple iPad. This new release is an upgrade from the iPhone version of WavePad from October 2010, and takes full advantage of the iPad’s larger screen for precise audio selection and editing for iPad users.

“I can't wait for the iPad version of WavePad to arrive,” said WavePad user and audio aficionado Andrew Wardell. “The very tactile method of manipulating audio in this app, combined with the amount and quality of features NCH has packed in has made iOS a serious competitor in the mobile audio editing space.”

The iPad Pocket WavePad HD Audio Editor will provide a remarkably easy way to record and edit audio, voice and other sound recordings while on the go. Recordings can be exported from Pocket WavePad for you to share, use, or even broadcast later.

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Learn Everything on New Casino Table Game Quick Seven®

Everything You Need to Know About the New Casino Table Game Quick Seven® Before It Hits the Online Casinos bet365 and Paddy Power - Learn everything about the new casino table game Quick Seven® before it hits the online casino bet365, via the Finsoft software platform, as well as the online casino Paddy Power, via the OpenBet software platform (formerly Orbis Technology Ltd.).

Quick Seven®, unlike most casino games, allows players a chance to get involved in the game by making discard decisions, pressing existing wagers, hedging losing wagers, and the ever popular hitting of the hands.

Within the first quarter of 2011, the new casino game Quick Seven® will be added to both the Finsoft software platform and the OpenBet software platform (formerly Orbis Technology Ltd.), via our partner Electracade Ltd., with the online casino bet365 leading the launch for Finsoft and the online casino Paddy Power leading the launch for OpenBet.

What Makes Quick Seven® Unique

Unique Game Concept:
-If the player's initial card dealt is six or less, the dealer deals to the player's hand until it totals seven or greater. If greater, the dealer will discard one card of the player's choice, leaving the player with the option to hit or stand.

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iKandl™ a Fun Birthday App for iPhone iPod touch and iPad

Cupcakes Gone Wild! iKandl™ is the Fun and Eco-Friendly Birthday App for iPhone - iKandl is an interactive, multimedia birthday and special occasion app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The new version of iKandl includes adorable animal cupcakes, a built-in birthday calendar, plus support for multiple languages.

Brothers Technology, LLC has released version 1.3 of iKandl™, a new social networking birthday app for Apple mobile devices. iKandl allows users to send friends and family fun, interactive, and personalized greetings.

Each iKandl greeting includes a live voice recording and choice of irresistible cupcake with lighted candle. After listening to the greeting, the recipient can make a wish, “blow out” the animated flame, and then enjoy the celebratory applause.

iKandl greetings are sent via e-mail and can be archived, shared, or forwarded to friends. Anyone with an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad can download the iKandl Player for free directly from the iTunes App Store.

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Windows PowerPoint Remote Control for iPad iPhone and iPod Touch

Slideshow Remote: First iPhone Application to Display PowerPoint Slides on Apple TV - An easy-to-use remote control for Windows PowerPoint now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

LogicInMind releases Slideshow Remote 2.6 with an exclusive AirPlay function to wirelessly stream PowerPoint slides to the all-new Apple TV. With more than one million Apple TVs sold in three months, more and more Slideshow Remote users can take advantage of this unique feature during their professional meetings and presentations.

Slideshow Remote is a wireless remote control for Windows PowerPoint. This easy-to-use application lets presenters advance slides from their iPhone. The advanced features will benefit presenters who can better communicate and impress their audience: preview slides, quick-jump to any slide, read personal notes, download the presentation and view slides without a computer. Mobile users will appreciate the ability to easily redirect Slideshow Remote output to a monitor or a projector using the Apple VGA adaptor, as well as any high definition television using the new Apple TV.

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iPhone iPad App to Search Sort Find Photos Instantly

App for Instant Finding of Photos on iPhone and iPad Presented by pixolution - visolu Photo Finder: Search. Sort. Find. - visolu Photo Finder changes cumbersome searching for photos on iPhones and iPads into a quick and even fascinating task. visolu finds images for all those, who have loads of photos on their devices and still want to find the right one in no time.

visolu is a new and unique app for iPhone and iPad, sorting and displaying images according to visual similarity within seconds.

Based on innovative technology developed by pixolution, hundreds or even thousands of images can be viewed simultaneously. The unique visual display allows users to keep track of their photos even in very large image sets. Using visolu is very intuitive: by dragging and zooming into the area of interest, individual photos can be looked at. After finding the right picture it can for instance be send by e-mail. More features are to come soon.

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iStory Now Available for iPad from iTunes App Store

iStory Interactive Children’s Books Now Available for iPad - iStory, a new interactive children’s book app for the iPad, allows young readers to fully engage with each story they read through a series of auditory and visual interactions. For example, not only can a child watch bubbles appear on the pages of their storybook, but they can actually reach out and pop them.

iStory, a new interactive children’s book app for the iPad, allows young readers to fully engage with each story they read through a series of auditory and visual interactions. For example, not only can a child watch bubbles appear on the pages of their storybook, but they can actually reach out and pop them.

Rather than another book reader on the iPad, each iStory book functions as its own app with its own icon – letting users easily find and launch the books their kids currently enjoy reading directly from one of the iPad’s home screens. With its new line of stories now available in the iTunes App Store, children will stay connected for hours with entertaining and educational stories that teach valuable life lessons.

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iPad Multi-platform Streaming Solution Support from NetroMedia

NetroMedia adds iPad Support to Multi-platform Streaming Solution: Streaming high-quality video (up to 720p) to Apple's popular Tablet device completes NetroMedia's "4-Screen" delivery solution - capable of reaching Desktop computers (PC / Mac), Tablet PCs, Smart-phones (e. g. iPhone, BlackBerry) and select Set-Top Boxes.

NetroMedia, global CDN and streaming service provider, is proud to announce today the addition of Apple iPad streaming to its suite of online broadcasting services. This new feature was launched as part of the company's Multi-platform strategy, in order to maximize online streaming media coverage.

Released in early 2010, the iPad is Apple's latest addition to the Tablet PC market, achieving an impressive one-million sales in its first month. It is considered by Apple to be a "magical and revolutionary" device designed for easy Internet surfing and media consumption.

The encoding profile used to reach Apple's iPad can also be used to serve the iPhone, PC and Mac computers.

Streaming to the iPad (Apple iOS) is done using H.264 video compression with AAC (Main Profile level 3.1) audio via RTSP/RTP. NetroMedia uses packetizing technology to prepare the stream for iPad viewing.

The encoding profile used to reach Apple's iPad can also be used to serve the iPhone, PC and Mac computers. Both on-demand and live streaming are supported.

24/7 access to an online self-management streaming portal is included with NetroMedia's services. This is where users manage and provision channels "in the cloud", as well as analyze their project's usage statistics.

Earlier this year NetroMedia announced the transition from bandwidth-based services to a pooled-bandwidth environment across channels. This move prepared the ground for a cost-effective Multi-platform streaming solution, in additional to increasing the distribution of unused bandwidth within accounts.

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New Getty Images' iPad App from Ubermind

Ubermind Celebrates Getty Images’ New App for iPad: Getty Images Brings Over 24 million Creative, Editorial and Archival Images to the iPad

Ubermind, leading developer of next-generation mobile apps, today announces the release of client Getty Images' free iPad app, creating a new era of convergence between creative and media professionals and today's powerful mobile technology. This app marks developer Ubermind's third major iPad app launch.

The Getty Images app brings the same powerful search capabilities of the Getty Images web site to a new and exciting user experience, designed exclusively for iPad. Creative and media professionals can harness the power of Getty Images' entire collection of over 24 million creative, editorial and archival images, whether in the office or on the go, completely by iPad.

Other features of the Getty Images app for iPad include:

* Shake the iPad to see random search results
* Compare up to four images side by side to find the perfect shot for a project
* Scroll through thousands of images in seconds
* Sign in to your Getty Images account to save images to existing lightboxes or create new ones – in real time
* Add voice recordings to lightboxes
* Share lightboxes, single images or multiple images with others via email

“The iPad is an unparalleled platform for displaying and interacting with digital media, and enables Getty Images to

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