Santa Clara, U.S.A. — Ferrotec USA is excited to announce the launch of Pashadelic onto the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, this unique crowd sourced photo spot scouting & photography sharing portal gives users the power to connect with a global community of photo lovers.

Users have whatever they need to scope out all the best spots to snap shots and share awesome photo spots they discover daily around them.

The idea behind Pashadelic is simple. Mobile savvy photography lovers get together in the app, share their favorite photo spots while taking their own awesome photos. Users simply connect and browse through the app to see where all the best tagged photo spots are. The best locations to snap photos naturally bubble to the top and Pashadelic’s GPS integrated map lets all users know where they are and how to get there.

Completely free and 100% crowd-sourced by unbiased photography enthusiasts, Pashadelic lets users tag everything from landmarks and wild areas to specific neighborhoods. Since Pashadelic automatically geo-tags all it photos, users can easily find the locations they are looking for. Get ready to discover the preeminent photo location forum on iOS, share photos with a network of users that love to snap pics as much as you do, and get it all done from a single easy-to-use hub from anywhere.

Pashadelic is currently available for download on the App Store for Free in the Photo & Video category.

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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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Hamburg, Germany — With their first iPad app, the German start-up company Frankbooks enables users to communicate with other readers, as well as with the author or a particular character from the novel via an integrated Facebook plugin. Users can take part in the story and in return join a global reader’s circle within the app – which allows them direct access to the novel’s author.

This new way of social storytelling allows authors to create advanced narrative structures by combining some of their story’s character(s) with interactive Facebook accounts. In addition to this users can benefit from the e-book’s enhanced content (photos, maps, videos).

As well as to readers, the app will also appeal to authors considering similar projects, but who do not want to spend high amounts on programming. Using Frankbooks software, however, they will get the opportunity to participate in the fast-growing market of enhanced e-books at a reasonable price.

“Readers have become used to extra features besides the core text, such as interactivity and social media. Soon they will be a regular part of e-books,” says Frank Habbe, founder of Frankbooks.

The first e-book, Pocket Money, is a novel about a young man who accidentally comes into possession of a bag full of cash. On the run from his pursuers, his journey takes him through Northern Germany

In addition to over 230 photos, maps and links, the app also contains Facebook entries from one of the story’s characters, to which users can post their comments. Pocket Money is available on iTunes – find out more when visiting character Kristina Taschengeld on Facebook.

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AT&T announced on February 07, 2012 that its AT&T U-verse for iPad App, which makes it easy for users to connect their iPad to their TV for an even better viewing experience, is available on the App Store.

Recent studies indicate that the majority of tablet owners use their device simultaneously while watching TV, and with this app users can link their iPad to their choice of any U-verse TV receiver and access several great new features like:

• Extra content and information about the TV show you’re watching, including series overview, episode synopsis, photos, cast and crew information, related TV shows and more.
• A full-featured, intuitive U-verse remote control with channel, guide, DVR, interactive app and on-demand controls, eliminating the need for extra (or lost) remotes throughout the home.
• Advanced search functionality to help you find the content you want.
• Recommendations on what to watch with ratings and reviews.
• Ability to share information about what you are watching with friends on Facebook.

And while you’re on the go, you can:

• Watch hit TV shows and movies over any Wi-Fi connection. Choose from a library of popular content based on your U-verse TV package, including shows and movies from STARZ, ENCORE, TBS, TNT, truTV, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, with more choices added on an ongoing basis.
• Access the U-verse programming guide and DVR scheduling, similar to the functionality available on the U-verse app for iPhone and iPod touch.

You can view a video demo of the app here.

“Today, we are taking our best in class TV experience and taking it to a whole new level by joining two very powerful platforms: your TV and iPad,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility.

“With our new app, AT&T U-verse customers have access to incredible functionality to make the TV experience much richer, from superior search and control functionality, to fresh content that tells you more about what you’re watching, to the ability to share what you’re watching with your friends through social networks. And, when they leave the home, our customers can take the U-verse experience with them.”

Using the U-verse IP platform and in-home U-verse Wi-Fi network, customers can link the app to any U-verse TV receiver in their home. Using a simple one-time set up process for each U-verse receiver, customers just tune to channel 9301 and go through intuitive steps to name their U-verse receivers using a default name like “living room” or “bedroom,” or create a personalized name, to enable the functionality and features.

AT&T U-verse TV was the fastest growing TV service in the country in 2011 and is the only 100 percent Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) service offered by a national service provider. AT&T U-verse TV ranked “Highest in Residential Television Service Satisfaction in the North Central, South and West Regions,” according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Studies(SM).

The AT&T U-verse for iPad App is available for free from the App Store on iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

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Since introducing its iPhone app giving customers the convenience to make payments anytime, anywhere just over two years ago, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS) has received over $50 million in payments via mobile channels — and the number is growing.

In October 2009, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services became the first captive auto finance company to introduce an app for customers with iPhones to enable them to make monthly payments.

That innovation was quickly followed in early 2010 with the launch of a mobile version of mbfs.com, accessible from all smart phone devices and capable of accepting monthly payments on loans and leases. In 2011, the first full year that both mobile channels were available, the company received $38 million in payments.

In mid-2010, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services became one of the first companies in the world to adapt the consumer-oriented Apple iPad to a business application by making the MBFS existing dealer portal, MB Advantage, available on the iPad, thus introducing mobile capability to more than 350 Mercedes-Benz dealerships in the U.S.

“A significant portion of our customer base quickly adopted mobile technology as a preferred method of making payments and communicating with us,” Michael Kanzleiter, Senior Marketing Manager for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, told members of the International Motor Press Association recently at its monthly meeting in midtown  Manhattan.

The company’s mobile payment channels, including the apps for iPhone and iPad and the mobile website, experienced a 127% growth rate in 2011, reflecting customers’ rapid adoption and the growing acceptance of doing business via mobile channels.

In fact, nearly 40% of the total retail portfolio of 511,000 customers is managing their accounts with MBFS online, self-service methods including mbfs.com, the My MBFS app, and the mobile website.

Kanzleiter said Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is enhancing the existing app for the iPhone and iPad, enabling customers to obtain monthly payment estimates on new Mercedes-Benz vehicles, and even request a quote from a local dealer. Customers will select their Mercedes-Benz model, choose a retail or lease product and term, and the app will provide general payment information.  Customers can provide an email address and phone number to request additional information from a local dealer.

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Mobile Strategy Chronology

• MBFS launches iPhone app for customers to manage accounts, October 2009
• MBFS launches smartphone capability to manage accounts, February 2010
• MBFS pilots MB Advantage on iPad to 40 dealerships, May 2010
• MBFS launches iPad rollout to all 356 dealers, October 2010
• MBFS launches customer signature capability on iPad, October 2010
• MBFS has received approximately $54 million as of year-end 2011 in retail lease/loan payments from iPhones and smartphones via a payment channel established October 2009.

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Red Hill Studios announces the release of the Painting with Time iPad app – the first in a series of remarkable time painting apps – that lets you explore how the world around you changes over time. ”The Painting with Time app makes it fun to manipulate time,” says Red Hill Studios Creative Director Bob Hone. “Your fingers literally paint with time – transforming everyday scenes into amazing time composites.”

This free educational app lets you make leaves magically appear on trees, then paint on the incredible colors of fall. Fill up a tidal pool in Monterey with the incoming tide. Display the shades of San Francisco over a day. Each scene reveals a slow natural process that we cannot normally see.

“People cannot perceive the immense amount of slow change taking place all around us – our brains are not wired that way,” notes Bob Hone, originator of the Exploring Time transmedia concept. “Our visual system evolved to see dangers and avoid being eaten – not detect slow moving events like the tide rising, the passing of seasons, people aging, or changes in climate.

Centuries of scientific discovery helped reveal these patterns of change, and new technologies are continuing to reveal the amazing dynamics of our world. The Painting with Time app is a small window into a vast and growing field of timescale explorations from trillionths of seconds to billions of years.”

The Painting with Time app provides a range of time brushes and special time slicers that let you transform photographic sequences in strange and unique new ways. Paint on layers of time to watch a woman age over 60 years. Discover the amazing retreat of a glacier over decades.

Features:

• 14 carefully crafted time sequences of nature, art, and people
• Painting Time manipulation mode
• Slicing Time manipulation mode
• Eight preset brushes and slicing patterns
• “Mix and Merge” capability to combine a variety of time views within composites

“We’re passionate about helping people view the world in a new way – not just with their eyes, but also with their minds and imaginations,” emphasizes Hone. “Static is an illusion – everything is changing all the time and on many timescales – our bodies, our cities, our world. So future titles in the Painting with Time series will separately explore how people, cities, nature, and the world are changing over time.”

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