New York, U.S.A. – New York City commuters lose one-and-a-half days per year waiting for delayed trains and buses according to analysis and a new infographic from moovit, the free, crowd-sourced, real-time public transportation app which launches in New York this week. Commuters travelling into New York’s Penn Station from Staten Island are the most affected, with average delay time of up to 8.8 minutes, followed by Queens (7.4 minutes) and the Bronx (5.6 minutes) on their daily commutes. Brooklyn and Manhattan commuters suffer average delays of up to 3.5 and 3.2 minutes respectively. The new infographic detailing these findings and analysis can be seen on the moovit website.

According to moovit’s analysis of MTA data, the 2012 Straphangers State of the Subways Report Card and moovit’s proprietary data, the average annual time New Yorkers spend waiting for delayed public transportation amounts to a fifth of the total time they spend on public transportation each year (12.5 days).

Moovit will be launching in New York City this week on the iOS (Apple) and Android mobile platforms to enable commuters to claim back at least  15 hours of those one-and-a-half-days spent waiting for delayed buses and trains each year. The application uses real time data from individual commuters who have also installed the app to provide minute-by-minute information about train and bus speeds and locations, providing alternative routes in case of delays and enabling commuters to get to their destinations faster.

The free app will also let commuters share additional information about their commute, such as whether their bus or train is over-crowded and the reasons for their delays. moovit also provides commuters step-by-step guidance and alerts when it is time to get off at the next stop.

Since releasing its beta version earlier this year, moovit has amassed over 300,000 users. The app launched in the US in beta six weeks ago, adding 100,000 new users just last month across twenty cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Madrid,  Rome, and Tel Aviv among others. Analysis of real-time commuter-sourced information from the app’s 300,000 users has shown that commuters using the app have on average been able to cut the amount of time they would otherwise spend waiting in delays by 43 percent.

Nir Erez, CEO, moovit commented, “New York is one of the world’s busiest cities with an equally convenient and complex public transportation system. Faced with a number of possible routes to work each morning and a backdrop of regular delays, the average New Yorker spends the equivalent of an entire weekend each year just waiting for their delayed bus or train to get to its destination.

Delays will always be an unwanted aspect of travel, but we are launching moovit in New York City to help commuters give each other real-time information on viable alternative travel options and help the fight to reclaim as much lost time commuting as possible. Essentially, we want to put the control of the New York City commute back in the hands of the commuter.”

Moovit is a free app available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Vancouver, U.S.A. —  Wacom’s digital notebook application, Bamboo Paper, is now available on Google play. Building on the application’s huge success among iPad users, the launch of Bamboo Paper for Android provides a new and exciting way for this group to share ideas and concepts on a smartphone by combining Wacom’s intuitive application and natural-feeling pen.

As of October 25, more than 4 million iPad users already enjoy the digital notebook qualities of Bamboo Paper. Following this success, Wacom has launched Bamboo Paper for Android — a free digital notebook app that allows mobile device users to create and collaborate through handwritten notes, sketches and doodles. Bamboo Paper makes using Wacom’s Bamboo Stylus family or any stylus that come with smartphones much more fun, allowing creativity to take place on the move. The app is initially available for the Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note II and the Galaxy SIII with more devices to be added at a later date. Note taking, sketching and doodling has never been easier or more intuitive on an Android device.

Bamboo Paper continues to push Wacom’s Bamboo brand mission forward, offering visual thinkers a way to construct and share ideas digitally. It provides an interface that is natural, fun and easy to use. Being one of the first apps by Wacom, Bamboo Paper adds a new element to the existing range of input devices (Bamboo Stylus range and Bamboo pen tablets) and gives users a very natural “pen and paper” experience.

As with all Bamboo products by Wacom, Bamboo Paper takes advantage of Wacom’s experience and expertise in pen-based input by offering a natural writing and sketching tool. Ideas become much more lively when using a Wacom pen, providing realistic inking and a fluid interface to make quick notes, sketches or drawings.

Bamboo Paper for Android is available as a free download in Google play and Samsung Apps.

Download the Bamboo Paper app here.

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Want to go behind the scenes of the videogame and entertainment industry? Now you can be an insider with the [a]list daily app for iOS and Android.

Published by Ayzenberg Group and produced by GamesIndustry.biz, the [a]list daily is a daily dose of industry news, exclusive feature articles, and coverage of marketing, social media and advertising campaigns that are defining the entertainment business.

Now, the free [a]list daily app developed in-house by Ayzenberg delivers the same great content published every weekday morning at www.alistdaily.com to iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Users get access to the site’s content in an elegant app, with bite-size articles and embedded videos that are perfect for viewing on the go, and with everything categorized for easy browsing.

Every issue of [a]list daily delivers new content for these sections:

• Watch – Must-See Trailers, Viral Videos, TV Spots and Interviews
• Read – Insightful Pieces on Business and Marketing
• Browse – The Latest Industry News
• Interact and Socialize – The Best in Digital Creative and Social Media
• Feature – Exclusive Interviews and Feature Articles

Key features include:

• The only news and information app catered for videogame and entertainment professionals and senior marketers
• Elegant design with easy, simply scrolling
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• Read articles and watch embedded videos in full screen
• Connected to [a]list daily Twitter and Facebook to share, shout and schmooze with industry pros

See the app in action in our video trailer below:

Download the free iOS version or Android version.

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By 2016, nearly four-fifths of 640 million mobile VoIP users will be making calls through apps downloaded on their smartphones, according to a recent report released by Juniper Research. While the mobile market has thus far been largely dominated by Apple iOS devices, Info Tech’s latest Android Market traffic numbers indicate its growth is four times faster than that of the Apple App store, making Android users an even more important target market for app developers.

Due to this overwhelming customer demand, CounterPath Corporation has announced it will be releasing its Bria Android Edition with video for smartphones and Bria Android Tablet Edition with voice, earlier than previously scheduled, and will be offering an advance preview of the softphone applications to attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain next week.

These standards-based, service agnostic softphones provide an intuitive user interface for making and receiving VoIP calls on Android smartphones and tablets, and in the case of smartphones, also video calls, sending messages and managing presence all over a Wi-Fi or a 3G/4G wireless connection. The applications will become commercially available mid-March.

The Bria Android and Android Tablet Editions are SIP-based softphone applications specifically designed for the Android OS. The Bria app provides Android smartphone and tablet users with a feature-rich application no matter where they go while still benefiting from the multiple advantages of smartphone and tablet devices, creating a truly mobile enterprise communications experience.

Bria Android Edition (for smartphones) and Bria Android Tablet Edition features allow users to:

• Talk and send messages from your mobile softphone, turning your smartphone or tablet into your primary communications device. With the Bria softphone application, you can take advantage of lower calling rates offered by mobile VoIP service providers and benefit from the extended productivity features of a mobile device.
• Use your Android device anywhere and anytime to connect with your colleagues, prospects, friends or family. Your native address book is automatically integrated into the Bria softphone on your Android smartphone or tablet, making it easy to connect to your contacts. With Bria Android Edition for smartphones, also easily integrate your Gmail, Facebook or other contacts and chat with them all within Bria, eliminating the need to jump back and forth among multiple applications.

Bria Android Edition (for smartphones) also allows users to:

• Make video calls and collaborate more easily and effectively from any location. Picture-in-picture view lets you see not only the person you’re calling but also how you appear. Participating in a video call takes communication to a whole new level: you’ll never have to miss another whiteboard diagram again. (Video calling coming soon to Bria Android Tablet Edition.)

“The explosion of smartphones and tablets in the marketplace is driving significant demand for our applications,” said Todd Carothers, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Products, CounterPath. “We are experiencing a shift in user behavior that requires a similar user experience across disparate devices that enables spontaneous voice, video and messaging conversations.

We call this device shifting. Adding video calling to Android smartphones and extending support for Android tablets is an important part of our strategy.” CounterPath will demonstrate the Bria Android Tablet Edition as well as the new video calling feature on Bria Android Edition for smartphones at Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s largest exhibition event held annually in Barcelona.

The company will also showcase other solutions based on its desktop, mobile and tablet applications that enable RCS-e and over-the-top deployments. To see the demos and learn more, visit the CounterPath Meeting Room at MWC in Hall 4, Level 6, Room 4.6HS21.

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MyFlare, the most advanced mobile emergency response system, is now available for iPhone and Android in Spanish! Peace of mind wherever you go, MyFlare Espanol cleverly employs the essential resources on a smartphone – 911, text e-mail, GPS, audio and video – with just one touch of a button to provide users additional personal safety and faster emergency response.

MyFlare Espanol acts as a personalized digital flare gun by performing ALL of the following actions instantly, automatically, simultaneously and continuously in order to give users the help they need when they need it most, whether they’re in distress or a more significant emergency:

• Instantly calls 911 or the user’s designated non-911 emergency contact
• Automatically sends a MyFlare Espanol Message via SMS text and e-mail to 10 of the user’s pre-selected MyFlare Espanol Contacts, alerting them that the user’s in trouble, including the user’s current and ongoing GPS location
• Automatically and continuously delivers the user’s text and e-mail messages every three minutes to the user’s pre-selected contacts with an updated GPS location
• Simultaneously sends 20-second optional video recordings capturing the user’s present environment, which are attached to the delivered e-mails every few minutes
• Instantly blasts an optional police siren continuously, except when the phone is not in use

MyFlare Espanol’s all-in-one functionality is simple and simultaneous — critical in a potentially life-threatening situation. The GPS, as well as all of the information sent from MyFlare Espanol, can be indispensable to a user fleeing an emergency, or worse, getting abducted, and will prove helpful as evidence in legal proceedings.

MyFlare Espanol has established partnerships with other safety leaders in the field, including Global Rescue, a world-renowned medical assistance organization, Richard Bloom, one of the country’s top personal safety experts, and Hispanic boxer Marlen Esparza, a 2012 Olympic hopeful and safety activist.

Barry Haimo, CEO of MyFlare Espanol, said, “Unfortunately, there is often insufficient time in an emergency to communicate with 911, and only some 911 dispatchers will investigate scenarios where 911 is called but the victim cannot communicate. MyFlare Espanol gives smartphone users the peace of mind knowing that there is additional reassurance in all emergencies.”

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Chili’s Grill & Bar takes digital integration to the next level by expanding the guest experience beyond the four walls of the restaurant and right into the palm of their hands. With an estimated 142 million smart phones sold this holiday season, new iPhone and Android users as well as smart phone veterans, can now enjoy the new Chili’s app, making location searches, driving directions, updated menu and online ordering available at just the push of a few buttons.

The new apps and mobile site are user-friendly with a clean interface, making it easy for new smart phone users and Digital Natives alike to search for the nearest restaurant with the geo-mapping function. Using the guest’s physical location, the technology allows users to find the phone number, address and driving directions to the closest Chili’s.

“With the constant evolution of technology, our world continues to receive information and entertainment at the touch of our fingertips,” said Edithann Ramey, senior director of marketing for Chili’s Grill & Bar. “Our guests lead busy lives and Chili’s is making it easier for them to enjoy the convenience of our bold menu offerings with these enhanced applications.”

Guests can peruse the menu browser option to choose exactly what they want to ease their hunger pains. Featured items for dine-in and To Go are all at the touch of a button including Chili’s $20 Dinner for 2, where guests select one appetizer and two entrees for one great price, and the brand’s Custom Combinations, which features any two entrees served with seasonal veggies and loaded mashed potatoes.

There are several ways to download the Chili’s app. From an iPhone, go to the App Store and type in a search for “chilis.” Follow the directions once the Chili’s icon pops up. To download the app from a computer, visit the iTunes store at www.apple.com/iTunes, plug in “chilis” into the search box to access the app. From Android Market, search for “chilis” to install the free application. For other smart phone users, simply visit www.chilistogo.com to view the mobile site with the same online ordering functionality as the iPhone and Android app.

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