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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San Francisco,U.S.A — Crittercism, the world’s first Mobile App Performance Management (APM) platform, announced on October 3, the availability of its new mobile app crash reporting service for HTML5. The new service allows developers, for the first time, to view errors and issues for HTML5, Mobile Web and Hybrid apps through Crittercism’s real-time app performance monitoring service.

Crittercism is the first and only solution to allow developers to manage all apps, regardless of language, native iOS and Android, HTML5, Mobile Web, combined native, or any other combination through a single interface. Available for a free 30-day trial, developers can sign up and download the lightweight SDK in less than five minutes. Once integrated, developers simply log in and see all identified bugs in real-time.

“Wrapp has hundreds of thousands of users and is growing rapidly. We’ve created a fun and easy way to give free and paid gift cards to Facebook friends, which involves an intricate combination of code, mobile payments and several app configurations,” said Nicklas Ansman Giertz, Senior Developer, Wrapp. “We are always trying new methods of mobile app development that span across native iOS and Android as well as HTML5. Crittercism provides us with a great overview on exactly how our apps are being used and performing, especially now that we are combining native code with HTML5.”

“Developers are continually exploring and pushing the boundaries of mobile app development. We started out as mobile developers, so we understand how important it is to explore new languages, techniques and best practices in order to offer the best service,” said Andrew Levy, Crittercism co-founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to offer developers, of all sizes, an easy method of uncovering issues and bugs in their HTML5 and Hybrid apps.”

In addition to Crash Reporting, Crittercism also offers advanced Mobile APM features such as Handled Exceptions, Breadcrumbs, Crittercism NDK and Dynamic Real-Time Alerts to developers under a 30-day free trial. Following that, developers can choose from three flexible billing plans: Free Crash Reporting, Premium Error Monitoring and Enterprise App Monitoring.

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Potsdam, Germany — Using refund.me, you can check straight away whether you’re eligible for compensation if your fight was problematic: just enter your flight no. and with a few mouse clicks you will find out how much you could be refunded for. The complaint form, which you can complete on the spot and which can be signed online, can be forwarded to the airline directly.

“Until now, many passengers have forfeited their compensation payments because they considered the complaints procedure to be too cumbersome. That’s why we wanted to create a fast method for helping passengers worldwide. You’ll be able to check if you’re eligible for a claim as soon as you leave the airplane. However, if you prefer to take your time with this, you can use http://www.refund.me instead. Flights can be checked and claimed for up to three years retrospectively,” explains Eve Buechner, the CEO of refund.me GmbH.

Easy and hassle-free handling
The passenger only has to enter their flight no. and a few additional details into their smart phone and a few seconds later they will know how much they could expect as a refund. The information is adjusted in accordance with EU regulation 261/2004 and other factors. The complaint form is created in real time; it can be signed by mobile phone or online and is transmitted automatically to the respective airline.

Download in English and German
This app is free for iPhone users: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/refund.me/id524565639. It will shortly be available for Android, Windows and Blackberry. In the meantime you can now open http://www.refund.me on your mobile in order to check it wherever you are.

The Company
refund.me GmbH is a subsidiary of the venture capital business quantumReality GmbH, which has its headquarters in Potsdam. It was established in 2012 and its intention is to make the rights of passengers more transparent, practicable and easier to enforce. The strategic aim is to use complex logic to convert legal ordinances in the area of passenger rights into automated processes.

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Kotka, Finland – Shiver Me Timbers! Nitro Games has been hard at work bringing Capn’ Jack Barrels travels and challenges to Android in the form of Sink ‘Em All! We are at the same time happy to announce that we have a big free update for the iOS version of Sink ‘Em All! with six new levels, and two new purchasable special weapons!

Arr me hearties! Nitro Games has released Sink ‘Em All! on Android so all he, Androids’ out there can join me cause! And at the same time a big free update to the iOS game Sink ‘Em All! Update 1.0.5 contains a full free chapter with six levels of Sweet&Sour mayhem, a new level Kamikaze boss, a new Dragon Serpent chapter boss, and two new special weapons!

This action packed iOS game holds 24 levels and awesome pirate-y havoc with cool ammunition such as Balls of Steel, Great Balls of Fire, Fart Bomb, Homing Missiles, Vortex Mines and much more! Shoot your way through different enemy ships and bosses in three different chapters, each including six levels and beautiful locations. Show the world your heroic deeds in online scoreboards!

Features:

• Android: 4 chapters each including six levels with waves of badass Black Covian ships.
• iOS: 5 chapters each including six levels with waves of badass Black Covian ships.
• Cool ammunition to shoot them into kingdom come: Balls of Steel, Blue Balls, Great Balls of Fire, Human Catapult, Fart Bombs, Homing Missiles, Vortex Mines and more.
• Bosses who, among other things, have tentacles or Breath Fire.
• Game center: show the world that you are the man by dominating the online charts!

So me mateys prepare for some fast paced naval combat and equip yourself with some kick-ass special weapons to defeat those wantin’ to steal yer treasure!

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Massachusetts, U.S.A. — After an extensive vetting process, the editors of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, have selected the rulebook app as the exclusive mobile app to publish The Bluebook on mobile devices.

The Bluebook is the authoritative style guide for legal citation in the United States used by lawyers, scholars, judges, law students, paralegals and others involved in the legal profession. A joint venture of the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and The Yale Law Journal, it is the most widely circulated law-related book in the world.

“The rulebook app helps us keep our promise of making The Bluebook as accessible and useful as possible,” said Conor Tochilin, president of the Harvard Law Review Association. ”We are excited to see The Bluebook available in such an easy-to-use digital format.”

The rulebook app easily allows legal professionals to reference federal and state court rules, codes and style manuals. The app incorporates all the functionality of paper rule books, such as highlighting, bookmarking and note-taking, and adds functionality unique to digital devices, including searching, hyperlinking and multitasking. It also keeps the mobile version of The Bluebook, as well as its other content, current with regular updates that are seamlessly integrated without overwriting the user’s personal highlights and annotations.

“We are honored that the rulebook app has been chosen as the mobile app for The Bluebook,” said Gregory Hoole, president of Ready Reference Apps, the developer of the rulebook app. “There is an unmistakable paradigm shift occurring from paper to paperless publication. The Bluebook editors’ proactive move into this new space will provide a great benefit to law students and legal professionals alike.”

Currently in its nineteenth edition, The Bluebook was first compiled in 1926 by Erwin Griswold, a Harvard Law Review editor and later, dean of Harvard Law School.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – AVG Technologies, the provider of Internet and mobile security to approximately 108 million active users, has released its Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report. The report highlights the growing use of mobile devices to connect with social networks and how this is fast becoming a preferred method for cyber criminals to spread malware, particularly on those devices running Android.

Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Chief Technology Officer at AVG, said: “We detected a big increase in the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to target Android users. Cyber criminals are finding it very convenient to distribute their malware straight to a mobile device via these networks.

The growth of the Android platform has been phenomenal, which has not gone unnoticed with cyber criminals who have discovered it to be a lucrative target for their malware. In 2011, Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market, Google Play.”

Social networks have become a key source of information and communication. Twitter now has more than 140 million active users^[1]; and Facebook has over 845 million users^[2], with some analysts expecting that figure to reach 1 billion this year^[3]. The result: targeting those who use Facebook is like targeting around 14 per cent of world’s population or approximately 43 per cent of global internet users.

Consider also that there are over 300 million Android phones already activated, with over 850,000 Android phones and tablets added to that number each day^[4], and it is clear these two trends combined result in a new threat: infecting Android devices using social networks.

Most mobile devices are tied into operator billing systems making monetization of malware a lot more effective than on traditional computer systems. All the attackers need to do is trick users to install a malicious app on their device through which they can then gather cash using the phone companies’ billing systems by utilizing premium SMS services. In many cases, this is done by charging low amounts on an infrequent basis so users don’t even notice.

The Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report includes examples of this:

• On Facebook, all it takes for a cyber criminal to attack is to set up a fake profile which downloads malware to a device and randomly invite Facebook users.
• On Twitter, a cyber criminal creates a spam profile and then posts tweets containing shortened hyperlinks to malware using trending hashtags. The way in which Twitter works makes sure the tweet appears on the top of many people’s Twitter feed.

About the report

The AVG Community Protection Network is an online neighborhood watch, where community members work to protect each other. Information about the latest threats is collected from customers who participate in the product improvement program and shared with the community to make sure everyone receives the best possible protection.

The AVG Community Powered Threat Report is based on the Community Protection Network traffic and data collected from participating AVG users over a three-month period, followed by analysis by AVG. It provides an overview of web, mobile devices, spam risks and threats. All statistics referenced are obtained from the AVG Community Protection Network.

AVG has focused on building communities that help millions of online participants support each other on computer security issues and actively contribute to AVG’s research efforts.

To download the summary of the Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report:http://www.avg.com/filedir/news/AVG_Community_Powered_Threat_Report_Q1_2012_summary.pdf

To download the full Q1 2012 Community Powered Threat Report:http://www.avg.com/filedir/news/AVG_Community_Powered_Threat_Report_Q1_2012.pdf

Visit the AVG Newsroom at: http://www.avg.com/press-releases-news

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