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Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions This Sunday, your phone can help you gamble. It can also let you become a carjacker for one brief moment, and bring you closer to the lovely Ben Gibbard. To the Store.
Are you still bummed that the iPhone still hasn’t officially launched on Three? Are you sick of not being able to download hundreds of cheap applications that turn your phone into a torch or make photos of women jiggle around? Well, now you can rest easy – as Luke over at Decoder has discovered, Three has actually launched an App store of their very own.
Beejive’s already quite usable Beejive IM iPhone app just got an update to 2.0, adding file transfer and voice messages to its multitude of IM connectivity.
Vodafone are pushing music over their network like it’s going out of fashion. On top of the MusicStation service, they’re now offering an application that will let you scrobble your music using your Last.fm account. At the moment it’s limited to a number of Nokia handsets (N95, N96, N78 and 6210), and you need to download a special app from Last.fm’s website, but Voda are promising more handset compatibility is on the way. Even cooler – if you’re a millionaire in Germany – is that you can purchase tracks from Vodafone’s online store directly from the app, which is great if you stumple across a song you really enjoy. At the moment that’s Germany only, but have no doubt that we’ll see it in Australia before to long.
[Last.fm]
Pictures are convincing, but a video, as it goes, seals the deal: Blackberry apps appear to be running on WinMo. But how? And more importantly, why?
Today, the media streaming service Orb announced their official iPhone application, OrbLive 2.0, allowing you to stream your media files across multiple devices via 3G, EDGE or Wi-Fi. The last incarnation of OrbLive was launched before the App Store was introduced; thus requiring a jailbroken iPhone. The official application allows for a more intuitive and streamlined experience instead of the traditional browser interface. It’ll save you time from syncing all of those files that you claim don’t exist buried in the dim recesses of your hard drive, giving you just a lil’ more “special time.” Eh, let’s try not to forget special time doesn’t mean it’s “share-with-everyone-around-me” time, shall we? Not unless it involves physical interaction. [MarketWatch]
Now this could be the killer feature TiVo has been looking for in Australia: they’ve just announced that they are opening the TiVo up to developers who want to write games or broadband applications for the DVR.
For anyone who happens to be in Melbourne over the next few days for the iDEF festival this week, TiVo are planning on sharing their roadmap and revenue model for budding developers during breakout sessions at the eGames expo section of the festival. If you are interested in developing for TiVo, you’ll need to know a spot of Java programming, but you clever developer types shouldn’t have a problem with that.
Now the real question is: Who wants to be the first to write a Gizmodo AU app for TiVo users?
Always a microcosm of the greater world, the App Store this week focused on two things us Americans have been thinking about a lot recently–the upcoming election, and tossing back a few this Labour Day weekend. And with this week’s apps, there’s no reason for your iPhone to be left out.
The Android Dev Blog today released some shots and details on the Android Market–the Android version of the iPhone’s App Store. Stressing that it’s a “market” (free, open, etc) rather than a “store,” the Google folks have decided to not require an approval process for devs to have their applications listed, unlike Apple’s mysterious black box of approval that even the developers still don’t fully understand. Which is great news for Android devs, but could be quite a handful for Google.
DSTwitter brings Twitter Shitters the ability to broadcast their current activity to the world via their DS. Is this something you couldn’t do before with your mobile phones? Of course not. But if you can read Spanish and can run homebrew apps on your DS, grab DSTwitter and start broadcasting the consistency of your turds to everyone in the world. We have. [Mashable via PMP Today via Pocket Gamer via Kotaku]
