5 Essential iPhone Apps for Coupon Clippers

Feb 18th, 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple’s flagship phone, the iPhone, is a wonderful device that not only keeps you connected to friends and family through calls but can keep you productive and organised. This is made possible by way of downloading apps from the iTunes App Store. For coupon clippers, there are excellent money saving apps that will help you to save money, and a good deal of them are free. If you are a frugal shopper, you should definitely take advantage of these apps.

Coupon Clipper – Local Coupons and DoubleTake Deals is a great free app that gives you tips on plenty of fantastic deals at stores right in your neighbourhood. It is easy to use and allows you to use a coupon at a store simply by displaying it on your iPhone’s screen so that a cashier can scan it directly from the phone. The app runs on GPS and also shows you the addresses of local stores in your area as well as their distance from your current location.

Coupon Cocktail – Coupon Cocktail is another free app that will help you in saving money. It allows you to sign up for a membership and gives you unlimited access to coupons from the top local businesses in your area. You will receive information on a weekly basis about all new deals, which is convenient and timely, freeing you from ever having to search for deals ever again. → Read More

Apple is Targeting the Wrong Students with iBooks 2

Feb 16th, 2012 Discuss [0]

With the recent launch of iBooks 2 for the iPad, Apple shook up the textbook industry. With the easy-to-use iBooks Author tool, creating highly interactive textbooks for the iPad is now a breeze. These digital textbooks not only feature traditional text and pictures, but they can also show videos, audio, and interactive widgets too. Best part of all, textbooks in the iBookstore cost less than $15 and can be stored on an iPad forever. Apple launched iBooks 2 the day of its announcement and chose to specifically target high school students for its textbooks endeavor. → Read More

Samsung Omnia W vs ZTE Tania – Smartphones Compared

Feb 14th, 2012 Discuss [0]

Samsung has been known primarily for its high end devices. However, with the release of the Omnia W, the Korean giant has set its sights on budget consumers while still providing some of the features associated with its more premium models. This year, ZTE unleashed its own take on the budget smartphone with the Tania. The following is a comparison of the two offerings to see which provides the better value. → Read More

How Anyone with an iPhone Can Make Money with Apps

Feb 7th, 2012 Discuss [0]

There’s an app for everything under the sun. Some are fun, some are silly and some are incredibly useful. They can help you get more organized, lose weight and find great deals. What you may not realize is that there are also apps that can literally put extra cash in your pocket.

Gigwalk

This app makes secret shopping more profitable and easier. It requires filling out a brief registration and allowing the company to track your location. The phone will send you jobs that are near your location, allowing you to make some fast cash without going too far out of our way. Jobs include basic tasks like taking pictures of certain spots or making an alcoholic purchase and confirming if the cashier followed rules by checking your ID. Some of the jobs reward you with up to ten dollars cash while others will pay out a “streetcred” points that can be used to help you net more lucrative jobs.

Field Agent is another app that pays between three and eight dollars per job. The jobs may involve reviewing a company display to ensure that it’s right or reviewing a company’s signs. → Read More

Google Android – the Developers’ Choice

Feb 1st, 2012 Discuss [0]

Research recently released by Ovum has stated that Google’s Android mobile operating system is now the first choice for mobile app developers, taking the lead from their main rival, Apple.

Rising from fifth to second favourite development platform in a year is a great achievement for the search giant, with more developers preferring to develop their apps on the operating system before moving over to support rival systems. Mobile web developers typically don’t throw all their eggs in one basket and make their app for just one system, however Android could see an advantage if their apps receive an earlier release date as well as the ego boost of being deemed the most important platform by the people who make apps for them.

With mobile app sales reaching 1.2 billion in the last week of 2011, with 81 million coming from the UK alone, there is no doubt that the mobile application industry is a huge one, especially with the record sales figures for smartphones and the increase of low cost Android handsets and tablets → Read More

Samsung Is Looking To Expand Their Own Platform With Help From Intel

Jan 20th, 2012 Discuss [0]

In what could be a very smart move, Samsung has chosen to join their Bada mobile operating system with another. The second mobile operating system is called Tizen and is based on Linux, just like Bada. Read on to find out more on this platform shakeup here in this quick article.

Free Is Good, Especially If It Has To Do With Smartphones

The word “free” seems to be taking both the internet and the mobile revolution to higher levels. The Linux platform has become much more popular than in recent years. Now, no less than five mobile operating systems are created with Linux as their foundation. The most popular at the moment is Android, which has been used by Samsung extensively to become one of the most popular smartphone brands in the world. The ride was a quick one to the top, since Nokia took a nose dive in market share. → Read More

Livio Radio a Substitute for Bluetooth Internet Radio Kit for iPod, iPhone

Jan 6th, 2012 Discuss [0]

Users of the iPhone & iPod enjoy listening music on the device and when asked, they don’t want to stop doing so when they enter their vehicles. There are cars which will nonetheless compel you to do so owing to the reason that they lack the input for Aux. This makes it fruitless when you want to connect your iPhone the car’s stereo. The solution to this predicament is finally here thanks to Livio Radio. The company introduced the ‘Bluetooth Car Internet Radio Kit’ specifically meant for the iPod and iPhone users that want to desperately make the desired connection. → Read More

New Technology Developed by Alaska Air Cargo – Mobile Track for Cargo Tracking

Dec 27th, 2011 Discuss [0]

Alaska Air Cargo is a company that consists of both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. It was founded in 1985 and has its headquarters in SeaTac, Washington State. The company has been known for its transportation services, but has technologically redefined its purpose by creating detection technology.

On November 16, 2011, Alaska Air Cargo created the mobile phone application Alaska Mobile Track, which allows its customers to monitor package shipments as they come to Alaska or head elsewhere. Like other cargo tracking applications, Alaska Mobile Track users receive text messages when a package has shipped, or a package shipment’s status has changed.

Alaska Mobile Track, however clever, is only available for mobile phone users whose cell phones call for unlimited texting capabilities. For those who pay unlimited texting fees to their cell phone companies, Alaska Mobile Track is cost-free. There are two ways that customers can use Alaska Mobile Track:

• Send the letters “AWB” and provide an airway bill number (eight digits) to the Alaska Air Cargo headquarters [206-801-0607] to receive detailed information about their package and when it will ship.
• Text “AWBALL” and the eight-digit airway bill number to receive the complete history of the shipped package: when it was first scanned for security, placed on the ship, and sent to the recipient (whether you or someone else). → Read More

Apps Every MBA Student Must Download

Dec 23rd, 2011 Discuss [0]

Anyone with a smart phone or an Apple device knows the benefit of the variety of apps that are available. As an MBA student, the use of certain apps can not only help you in your educational life, but they can help you prepare for your future career as well. Here are eleven apps we think every MBA student should have on their device:

The Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader

This live newswire is available for many models of BlackBerry. Any MBA student worth their salt knows that keeping current with WSJ will give them a leg up in the industry.

Documents to Go

For Android, BlackBerry and iOS, this application allows users to view and edit various types of files: PDF, PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Office documents.

Evernote

Users of Android, BlackBerry and iOS can organize photos, text, spoken information and screenshots with this application. For those that utilize different types of media in their studies or work assignments the app is a great organization tool. → Read More

Apple’s iPad to Rule the Tablet Market Till 2020?

Dec 22nd, 2011 Discuss [0]

Released in April 2010, Apple iPad is creating waves in the market; about a million pieces have already been snapped up and the product has garnered a whopping 70% share of the tablet PC market the world over. The product became such a huge hit that others started to replicate the look and seem of the gizmo, everyone from Motorola to HTC is trying to emulate the style, and Apple has been left grousing about it all. With so many tablets PC’s entering the market one cannot help but wonder if iPad will emerge a winner in the end?

What sets it apart?

What makes the Apple iPad one of the most sought after gizmos are the wide array of applications and features slotted-in. The range of multimedia selections provided are absolutely astounding; watch movies, listen to music, surf the web, play games, chat with friends, and much more. But this is not the greatest thing about the hot selling product; Apple’s iPad is the first type of gizmo in its genre! There were no tablet PC’s around before iPad made a foray into the market; it was certainly the first mini-computer like gadget that people on the go could easily carry around. → Read More

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