Online gift register service MyRegistry.com is out with its own iPhone app complicatedly called “MyRegistry.com Universal Wishlist with Barcode Scanner” iPhone app. That barcode scanning part is especially poise as it allows users to add any item to their gift registries or wishlists “with a single zap of their iPhones.” In other words, to add an item to your lean, all you need to do is centering a photo and the diligence volition recognize the product.

The idea is that the iPhone app serves as an extension of MyRegistry.com’s stream services, allowing users to manipulation the overhaul while on the go.

In a nutshell, users of MyRegistry.com’s iPhone app are able to:

Scan any barcode to easily cash register for itemsCompare prices before adding new registry itemsManage their own register items and view guest purchasesSend eCardsGive and receive immediate payment giftsView any penis’s register and purchase gifts for others

MyRegistry.com Universal Wishlist with Barcode Scanner costs two bucks and you can snap it by clicking on the link below.

MyRegistry.com Universal Wishlist with Barcode Scanner ($1.99) [iTunes link]

Let’s make no mistake: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) spent $1.2 one thousand million to bargain Palm because it wants to push webOS at scale, according to financial statement from HP executives.

“WebOS is the topper-in-class mobile operating system,” said Brian Humphries, HP’s elder VP of strategy and corporate exploitation, in a conference call option. “Our intent is to double down feather on webOS.”

This is great news for webOS owners and fans because this agency your Pre is not staring down feather an evolutionary dead-end. HP will likely invest hundreds of billions into the development side, so looking for software system updates to continue at a solidness stride once this deal closes (expected to happen by late summer). According to TechCrunch, Humphries also said:

“We think it’s one of the best operating systems out there today. We see nothing in exploitation in the next 3 to 5 days that comes finale,” Humphries said. “We want to take HP’s financial potency and manipulation it to take webOS to the next level.”

HP already licenses Windows Mobile for its iPaq batting order of endeavor-focused handsets, but these devices oasis’t found a huge marketplace. This trade volition give the large electronic computer manufacturer an operating organization to call its own, which should allow it to deliver a tighter end-to-end experience. HP also mentioned that it could bring webOS to a variety of devices including smartphones, netbooks and I would love to see a big, beautiful pill with webOS.

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) also both control the computer hardware and software system on its devices, which could be seen as a major subscriber to each company’s achiever. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is licensing its Windows Phone 7 OS to all comers but it has placed tighter hardware and UI restrictions in order to deliver a more consistent experience across a variety of devices.

Of course of action, Android and Symbian lay on the other side of the spectrum because these two chopine ar surface source and ar trying to capitalize on the instauration this tin lead to. Devices using MotoBlur and Sense UI are still Android at the core but these can offer a fundamentally different experiences and this can please computer hardware makers by allowing shipway to stand out from the pack. It volition be interesting to watch this philosophical battle swordplay out in the market office.

[Via TechCrunch]

Remember how that fourth-multiplication iPhone leaked earlier this workweek? Well, it looks like the police ar going to get involved to see if there were any laws broken.

This is the supposed floor: An Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) baseband applied scientist was testing a paradigm next-gen iPhone out in the wilderness and then he had some delicious German beer and left the highly-coveted handset in a prevention. Some scumbag found it, supposedly tried to return it to Apple but was rebuffed. So, he of course of action sells it to Gizmodo for at least $5,000 and that web site received a boatload of dealings.

You tin argue about the moral philosophy of this but the Silicon Valley police ar going to investigate if there were any laws broken because Apple considered the device stolen. Apple has reportedly spoken with the police force about this investigating and the Santa Clara County’s information processing system law-breaking sectionalisation is trying to kind this out. Of short letter is Golden State penal code 485:

One who finds lost property under lot which give him cognition of or means of inquiry as to the true proprietor, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another human not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the proprietor and to restore the prop to him, is guilty of larceny.

There’s some gray areas with what is “reasonable and just efforts,” as the person who sold the handset said he tried to running down feather the proprietor. Of course of action, that floor could be complete bullshit to cover up for some hardcore corporate espionage. As for Giz, there’s also some concern that it could face charges for buying and possessing stolen property. In a needlessly cheeky response to Apple, the publishing made it clear that it didn’t know the handset was stolen when it purchased it.

Nothing beat generation a goodness crime play folks, so we’ll hold our eyes on this one.

[Via CNET]

The iPad is a great gimmick for casually surfboarding the vane and potentially acquiring some work done while suspension out at a cafe or on the couch. But, the matter about the iPad is that it currently is only available in wireless local area network-only trim. That means you’ll either rich person to bounds yourself to your living way, or frequent caffein-selling establishments with WiFi service. That is, unless you have a Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) MiFi or Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot. In that lawsuit, you tin go nearly anywhere in the US and always have a radio internet joining handy. If you’re in a Sprint 4G market, you’ll even get 4G information speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. So, it makes sense that Sprint is push their Overdrive onto iPad customers. To that end, the aircraft carrier has just announced they’ll be gift away their new iPad lawsuit for free at participating C. H. Best Buy stores.

The Sprint iPad lawsuit features a little pocket that you tin manipulation to hold your Sprint Overdrive. That means, you never lose running of the hockey puck-sized wireless modem, and you’ll always be sure to rich person an internet joining for your WiFi-only iPad. The troupe is giving away 10,000 of these cases at select C. H. Best Buy stores (likely those in 4G markets) while supplies shoemaker’s last. The promotion started on Apr 17, so you’d do wellspring to smash up your local Best Buy to grab a lawsuit before they run out!

For consultation, Sprint has 4G up and run in 28 US cities, including as battle of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Charles Frederick Worth, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., San Antonio and Seattle. In 2010, Sprint plans to rich person more markets advent online with 4G, including Hub of the Universe, Cincinnati, Grover Cleveland, Denver, Kansa City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and St. Joe Louis. For more info on Sprint 4G markets, hit up this website.

More information on the Sprint iPad case and the Overdrive here.

Avenir Telecom, one of the UK’s leadership distributors in mobile telecoms, has announced the availability of an scoop series of accessories for the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad, from basketball team major manufacturers:

Dexim Including audio frequency and video recording adapters, battery face pack and might cables, in-cable car chargers, carbon copy fibre and Si sleeves, blind protectors and headsets. There’s even an innovative wireless local area network-enabled digital video camera that turns the iPad into a live video recording sister monitor or security measures photographic camera organization, which was a finalist at the CTIA Emerging Technology Awards 2010.

iSkin A stove of superintendent-rowdy and stylish tribute products from the Toronto-based company who were a hit at this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and who rich person earned five star, Editor’s Choice and C. H. Best Of Show awards from MacWorld.

Bling My Thing Fashion accessories from Japanese designer Ayano Kimura using Swarovski crystals. This follows Bling My Thing’s ranges for the iPod and iPhone which rich person been featured in Elle, Tatler and Cosmopolitan.

Speck A series of high-end protection and case products including the PixelShield carry sleeve with reinforced screen tribute, the PixelSleeve Plus reinforced carry case and the ShieldView blind film pack.

BeeWi Avenir unveiled a set of basketball team new Bluetooth-enabled mobile accessories at Mobile River World United States Congress in February, all of which ar now transportation to retail, including a radio keyboard and a transceiver which, when used as a brace, can wirelessly connect any gimmick to an iPad, from a TV to existing hi-fi speakers.

Cool! I’m loving the Dexim Wi-Fi digital video recording camera as a concept, and also the BeeWi wireless transceiver – both leveraging video as a medium, and if they tin shuffle the iPad do tricks then so much the better! Once these products get retail bearing I’ll update the billet and let you know where you tin get ‘em!

To help its (electric potential) customers, Glu is giving a tax twenty-four hours break with a sale for iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phone owners. Here’s what they whirl:

iPhone:

TRANSFORMERS G1: Awakening – now available for $0.99How to Train Your Dragon – $0.99

Android:

Build-a-draw – $1.99Diner Dash 2 – $1.99Family Guy: Uncensored – $1.99

For iPhone games – simply click on the claim above. Android smartphone users, on the other helping hand, volition have to hunt for every single title in the Android Market.

Bear in mind, these are all limited meter offers, so you better haste.

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RipCode is butting its drumhead in Steve Jobs’ war on Flash, as the transcoding company is helping content providers bring Flash videos to the iPad.

The troupe said it volition employment with web sites to create a transcoding layer that tin enable users to view Flash videos on their iPads. They’re betting that many video recording sites ar not quite ready to switching fully to another engineering like HTML5 and RipCode said its product is essentially a video recording-dealing layer in the cloud. This means it won’t involve long consignment or buffer times for the oddment drug user. Because it’s done in the backrest oddment, companies won’t have to vexation about upsetting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s new terms of service for iPhone 4.0.

“The ‘Flash on iPad’ dilemma is really just the latest in a long job of speeding bumps on the road towards ‘any-content, any-time, any-situation, any-gimmick’ that we all desire,” said RipCode CEO Brendon Mills, in a prepared financial statement. “Fortunately, our technology removes this roadblock in a means that is attractive to subject hosters, a key gimmick manufacturer, a keystone video recording player supplier, and the end user alike.”

It’s poise beans but I’m wondering if the lack of Flash is just making publishers adapt to the somewhat-inevitable HTML5 future tense. Netflix, The New House of York Times and other heavy hitters rich person already adopted to reaching the highly-coveted iPhone OS demographic. Well, regardless, RipCode’s solution is an interesting device in the storey.

[Via RipCode]

There’s no functionary tidings from Apple, but that’s not surprising. If story repeats itself, just as it looks like it is right this moment, then there North Korean won’t be any functionary tidings about the outcome in doubtfulness until about a week ahead of the actual announcement. Apple plays it close to the vest — nonentity new there. According to Modmyi, who was excavation through the record books at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco, Apple has indeed reserved June 22nd for their own benefit. That outcome location should sound familiar: it’s the same situation they’ve announced the previous generations of iPhone.

The only strange role of the whole thing thing, is the fact that June 22nd is a little late in the biz for Apple. June 9th was the mean solar day Apple announced the iPhone 3G, and June 8th the mean solar day the iPhone 3GS came into the light. So, wherefore ar they scheduling this outcome so late in the month? That’s anyone’s shot. Maybe they’ve put the request in for the 22nd, but outcome planners on both sides of the board know that June 8th or 9th (or somewhere close to that) volition actually be used.

[via SlashGear]

A company called Digital Group Audio (DGA) has announced that its Livespeakr compact speaker is the “first base and only portable speaker system to prove compatible with the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Nexus One, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, Palm Pre Plus and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) DROID smartphones.”

Now wait a consequence? I’m not sure what this agency? It comes with a 3.5mm audio jack or what? Virtually every speaker on the market deeds with the phones mentioned above. But there’s the pinch, as you’re about to discovery out.

Livespeakr features a rocker that rotates the phones mentioned above summation an iPhone or iPod Touch into both portrait and landscape modes, making it apotheosis for listening to music, utilizing internet wireless applications, watching YouTube videos, checking email, surfing the web, and so on.

So it’s a speaker-equipped stand, actually. That makes sense.

And since it can rotate the devices mentioned, it can also be used for acting movement-based games such as racing games.

Finally, in price of the battery mental ability, Livespeakr offers more than 16 hours of non-stop amusement.