[読んだ] Boston to launch complaint-filing iPhone app | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews アプリを使って苦情受付け

The city of Boston is set to launch an official iPhone application for residents to file complaints about "neighborhood nuisances--nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights," according to The Boston Globe.

Called Citizen Connect, the app will let Bostonians send pictures and tips right to City Hall.

ボストン市議会に直接、苦情・相談を送れるアプリが登場するようです。
おもしろい発想ですね。

[読んだ] Sirius iPhone App Hits 1M Downloads - 2009-07-06 10:00:26 EDT | TWICE

NEW YORK - Sirius XM declared its new iPhone application a hit, announcing the app has been downloaded more than one million times from the iTunes App Store within its first two weeks on the market.

The Sirius XM app is currently ranked the seventh most popular free entry on the App Store. The leading free app is iHandgun which essentially turns the iPhone into a toy gun. Other leading free apps are mainly game titles.

App Storeでトップ10に入るということは100万回以上ダウンロードされたってことなんですね。
すごいなぁ。

[読んだ] Wikipedia mobile launches for iPhone, Palm Pre, Android and Kindle

wikipedia mobile

Wikipedia’s mobile site has been officially launched and running on a new server (in Ruby!).

Currently the site supports four mobile platforms: iPhone, Kindle, Android, and Palm Pre. Only the English and German versions are up, but support for more languages is said to be coming.

日本語版の早い対応が望まれますね。

iPod touchにカメラが付く日は近い? [読んだ]Prepare Yourself For iPod Video - washingtonpost.com

That's exactly what we're hearing is going to happen. One of our sources in Asia say that Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type that they include in the iPhone. These are inexpensive cameras, in the $10 range. And the size of the order, our source says, means they can only be used for one thing - the iPods.

この文章からはiPod touch以外のiPodラインナップにもカメラ機能がつくかも?って話ですね。
楽しみです(^^

[気になるアプリ] 早わかり歴代大統領アプリ「Presidents of the United States」 今なら無料

FREE FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME !!!

4th OF JULY SPECIAL !!!


Need to know something about the Presidents? This app can tell you!

With Presidents of the United States you can learn about all the Presidents! Your favorite Presidents, famous Presidents, and even the Presidents that aren't very well know!

Presidents of the United States lists all the Presidents of the United States in a nice chronological order from George Washington all the way up to Barack Obama!

For each President there is their:

- Years in Office
- Political Party
- Vice Presidents
- Year Born
- Year Died
- Occupation
- Religion
- Spouse / Wife
- Children
- Education
- Nicknames
- Biography from the whitehouse.gov
- Cabinet and Cabinet-Level

There is also a section called the Executive Branch which includes:
- The Current President,
- The Current Vice President,
- The Line of Succession,
- The Electoral College which displays the states worth in the electoral college, a map, and a description of what the electoral college is,
- About The President: explains what the President does,
- About The Vice President: explains what the Vice President does,
- About The Cabinet: explains what each department does,
- The Presidents Salary: showing Presidents' salary and expenses past and present.

What's new

- Each President's Cabinet and Cabinet-Level are added showing all the members in their Cabinet and Cabinet-Level,
- New background making it easier to read,
- Added new section The Executive Branch which includes:
- The Current Presidents,
- The Current Vice President,
- The Line of Succession,
- The Electoral College which displays the states worth in the electoral college, a map, and a description of what the electoral college is,
- About The President: explains what the President does,
- About The Vice President: explains what the Vice President does,
- About The Cabinet: explains what each department does,
- The Presidents Salary: showing Presidents' salary past and present,
- The Biographies background under the text is now changed.
- Added Democrat and Republican icon for each President.

日本の歴代総理大臣版も出てほしいですね。

テレビを見てる時は「balloo!」を起動して倍たのしむ!

balloo!は2ch実況掲示板などを手軽に閲覧するためのアプリケーションです。
iPhone/iPod touch版では地上テレビの実況などを楽しむことができます。

このアプリ、むちゃくちゃ楽しいですね。

実況掲示板の書込みが淡々と流れていくだけなんですけど、テレビと一緒に起動してると面白いんですよコレが。

シンプルで見やすいインターフェースも高ポイント。

テレビを観る時には欠かせないアプリになってます。

 

Balloo!

[読んだ] The App Boom Hits Publishing - 7/6/2009 - Publishers Weekly

The mobile marketplace also holds serious implications for the emerging market for dedicated readers. How will book apps for smartphones affect the future of dedicated reading devices like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader? Would you spend $400 on a device that limits you to reading? Or spend the same amount—or less—on a device that can enable you to read books, browse the Web without restriction, make phone calls, watch video and listen to music? “Over time, a lot more electronic reading will be done on multipurpose devices,” Shatz says. “But I'm not really sure that the notion of application versus book or even smartphone versus dedicated reading device is really going to be a critical distinction.” In other words—this market is still too young to proclaim winners or losers.

電子書籍への需要が高まるなかで、出版社もまだ模索が続いてるようですね。
デバイスとしてはiPhone/iPod touchが一歩抜きん出ているとはいえ、App Storeの使い勝手の悪さは出版社にも悩みのタネみたいです。