Software posts

You know you’ve made it when the US Army knocks at your door to ask for help. And that’s exactly what happened this month when Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Cupertino to discuss using Apple’s solutions in the field. Major General Justice leads the US Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Command. He’s considering dumping some of the Army’s proprietary systems in favour of consumer products, including Apple’s army of mobile solutions. Apple gave its Army visitors a much-coveted tour of its labs and talked about how the military is…

Doing its best to keep it real as Facebook and Twitter grab the Zeitgeist, Digg today introduces its all-new iPhone App. Digg founder and CEO, Kevin Rose, hinted at the new software last year, now we learn it offers a deep user experience including support for browsing popular, upcoming, and recent stories across topics. You also get to Digg and bury stories using the app on your iPhone….

Offering the promise of a promise, Adobe next month will formally introduce its next-generation of creative software products, Adobe Creative Suite 5. The routinely expensive software suite will get its first public demo on Monday, April 12, 2010. What do we know about CS5? …

There’s an iPhone browser break out beginning, with Opera Software submitting its Opera Mini 5 browser/app for the iPhone to the App Store. All that’s left is to wait and see if Apple will approve the Safari-competing browser….

Amid the unending din of posts, tweets and articles about South by Southwest Interactive, one thing became clear: mobile location apps are the next big thing. In one corner was Austin-based Gowalla, fighting on its own home turf. In the other was Foursquare, the NYC-based startup that many associate with the ‘check-in’ craze. But regardless of who wins, unless services like these open up their data, we all lose….

If you are committed geek, using Internet Explorer is a bit like a fashionista wearing something from last year’s line: it simply isn’t done. But with the release of a preview version of the newest version of Internet Explorer, it looks like Microsoft is looking to shake off its venerable browser’s dusty image and start anew….

Apple is inviting developers hoping to offer apps for the iPad on the day it ships (April 3) to submit their software to the iTunes team for approval by March 27. Developers who do get their code into Apple in time have a chance of seeing their app in among the first collection of apps made available for the iPad when that product first begins to reach US customers. Submission by the date doesn’t guarantee Apple will approve apps in time. Source: Distorted Loop…

Skeptics who don’t believe people will use Apple’s iPad to read books may have to rethink their position today, after Amazon showed off a pretty impressive Kindle app for the iPad and other tablet computers. Kindle for tablets is both a reading app and a bookstore, allowing you to instantly purchase books as well providing a fancy-shmancy touch-screen interface for reading them….

[blip.tv ?posts_id=3366836&dest=-1] If you’re trying to freak out the car pool or earnestly seeking out the ultimate remote control, then do take a little time out to check this really rather good iPod touch-controlled muscle car. Dave Phipps did the deed to make this petrolhead’s remote control dream, setting the system up to control his 1969 Pontiac GTO. Enjoy the clip. …

Amazon and Apple may be actively engaged in an eBook war, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon promising a Kindle eBook app for Apple’s iPad. Details of Amazon’s iPad land grab first emerged this morning at the New York Times, which also reports Barnes & Noble to be hatching similar plans – releasing new digital readers and stores for the iPad, in addition to those already offered for the iPhone and iPod touch. …