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]

Winscape just announced a great undertaking today, which, though the mobile component is only secondary coil, is very, very sang-froid. Basically, with this organization, you install 2 46″ HD monitors tail end some windowpane frames in your habitation that exhibit an image (up to 4096 x 4096) or a video (up to 1920 x 1080, including sound). With the aid of electronic computer software, an infrared detector and a Wii remote control, the effigy adjusts as you move, creating the illusion of linear perspective. The icing on the bar is an iPhone app which allows you to variety the effigy or video recording at the drop curtain of a hat. Feel like glancing out your window into outer quad? Done. Want to go for a power train ride? It’s just a click away. Need some soothing medusa? You got it.

What bogs down feather the perspective magic is the fact that the infrared frequency detector is a hefty necklace, so you really have to leg the experience. Personally, I’d like to see if the iPhone app could detect accelerometer movements and adjust the effigy based on information streamed in via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, maybe even skip the Wii remote altogether. Alternatively, there are projects which plug an infrared receiver into the iPhone, which could at least avoid the necessary for a bulky, usage-made peripheral. Even without the perspective legerdemain, this is pretty freakin’ sweetness.

Though this is all the dearie undertaking of an ambitious applied scientist, a outfit should be available to purchase sometime this summertime in the neighbourhood of $2500 to $3000 so you could do it in your own home. There ar plenty of tips and videos at Winscape’s home varlet if you’ve got the cojones to try this all out yourself. Be sure to nab the Winscape Remote app for iPhone whenever you’re all done.

Motorola is sending out a much-needed microcode update to the CLIQ, addressing many issues. To what extent, we’re not sure, but this MotorBlur gimmick needed some kind of updating. Unfortunately it’s not the Android 2.1 update everyone has been hoping for.

T-Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: DT)’s first base Motorola (NYSE: MOT test) Android gimmick whitethorn not be the best phone you tin get on the land’s 4th largest aircraft carrier, but it’s still a nice device. If you can get over the limping of MotoBlur, that is. The new update is said to address quite a few issues that have been bugging owners of the device since the start. The update includes bettor battery life, improved touching screen sensitivity, faster GPS, bettor audio frequency quality for calls, and more. So far, we oasis’t heard from anyone who has received the update yet, nor do we know if the update addresses the issues completely. It’s not clear if the device will motivation another update for all issues to be ironed out, but anything is better than nothing!

Right now, if I were to base on balls into a T-Mobile computer storage and was looking to buy an Android device, it would be a pretty tough call option whether to pick the CLIQ, or the MyTouch 3G. The CLIQ has a keyboard, and a directional lodgings that is placed on the left, which appeals to me for using emulators, like NESoid. On the other helping hand, the MyTouch 3G looks nicer to me boilersuit in my ruling, and has a much wider dev pedestal, with many different ROMs available to it I could hack my way through. And, you know, no MotoBlur on the MT3G is a big summation.

With news of this update advent down the pipes, it would shuffle the determination that much harder. But I think I’ll spliff with my Nexus One.

A full leaning of the update is below:

Relocated “End Call”Improved Text MessagingImproved Battery LifeImproved Touch Screen SensitivityImproved Audio Quality for CallsImproved MOTOBLUR Seth-Up ScreenBetter Audio RoutingImproved Caller NotificationFaster GPSSupport For Additional Windows Media Formats CompatibleBluetooth ImprovementsSIM Card ManagementAdditional StabilityThe Latest Versions of Google (NSDQ: GOOG)Updated Quickoffice

Glad to see Motorola has their users’ backs, and push out updates to improve their user experience. For anyone who has the Cliq, and has received the update, how’s it treating you? Let us know if the comments below!

[Via: AndroidGuys]

A troupe called Cogniflame is connection the iPhone gambling scene with a steel new title called StarHunt. Just as the name says, the goal is to collect all the stars in a large house. I know, it sounds super dolt and only kids could discovery that interesting, but that’s actually not the case. At least I like it.

The biz takes berth in a large pre-rendered 3D theater, which looks awesome with tons of little details. Your goal is to explore the heck out of that theater and discovery stars (200 per game) in every room. To succeed, you’ll motivation to surface cupboards and drawers, looking arse furniture and through bookshelves, and exterior amongst rocks and bushes.

You tin think of it as a meaningless (your only goal is to collect the friggin’ stars) distributor point-and-click dangerous undertaking biz, made up of over a thousand detailed still-frames.

Finally, as you advancement and become an expert in discovering stars, you may wish to share your achievements. You tin do that thanks to the OpenFeint integration, which allows sharing on Facebook and Twitter.

StarHunt ($1.99) [iTunes link]

Good news for those of you living in constant fear of your significant other’s potentially volatile menstrual cycles – you now rich person a acquaintance in the new PMS-tracking  PMSBuddy iPhone app. Just as the name implies, the PMSBuddy is an iPhone app that keeps running of when your lady friend’s “Aunt Flo” comes into town, so that you know when to be on your topper behavior.

premenstrual syndrome, shortstop for premenstrual syndrome, isn’t a trouble for everyone. But, if your girl/fiance/wife/etc. is sensitive sufficiency to the hormonal swings associated with Mother Nature’s giving, you’ll probably know all too well how dangerous it tin be to forget your manners during those “special” multiplication of the calendar month. PMSBuddy can track multiple menstrual cycles to net ball you know when the women in your sprightliness are nearing there “stop.” And, to add to the PMSBuddy app’s somewhat insensitive nature, the  slightly offense “premenstrual syndrome Meter” displays word of advice levels ranging from green to red.

If you’re more the case to worry about getting premenstrual syndrome personally, you can use PMSBuddy to running your own cycles. The makers of the app ar also preparation a Fertility Buddy to help women hold track of ovulation cycles in ace handy iPhone app.

There are already century,000 users signed up with PMSBuddy across the Facebook app, website and iPhone app. A future tense edition of the app volition integrate pushing notifications to alarum you to looming premenstrual syndrome cycles, as wellspring as a GPS-enabled bloom shop locater for those of you that net ball a wrong tidings or two elusion out in that oh-so-critical workweek of the month.

Now, as much as we tin see a manipulation for an iPhone app like this, we rich person to curiosity how offense it is to women that deal with PMS on a monthly fundament. What say you? Is the app useful, funny, or just in bad tasting?

PMSBuddy ($0.99) [iTunes link]

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If you’ve used ultrasn0w or PwnageTool, you’ve already acquainted yourself with the Dev Team’s work. This latest release of redsn0w differs from PwnageTool in that it doesn’t touching the baseband firmware (the computer code that controls how your cellular modem connects to radio networks) and doesn’t even need iTunes to do its thing.

Rather than creating a custom .ipsw restore filing cabinet that is used to restore and break your iPhone, redsn0w breaks into your iPhone like a ninja and hacks out all of Apple’s microcode tribute technologies. iTunes never comes into play. All you motive to do is connect the iPhone to your computer, fire up the redsn0w usefulness, and you’ll be goodness to go in a substance of proceedings.

redsn0w blasts blackra1n out of the water by oblation features like automatic Cydia installation, usance logos, afc2 and the IPCC tethering hack. The new redsn0w utility’s IPCC tethering hack is itself enough intellect to tally redsn0w, even if you’re already jailbroken.

To hammer home just how easy it is to use redsn0w, we’re not even going away to place a redsn0w “How to” templet/tutorial. Download and read up on redsn0w here. Done.

redsn0w 0.9.2

The Juniper Research reputation found that enterprise applications will account for the bulk of revenues over the next basketball team years, with businesses increasingly quest to capitalise on the power of Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers to offer scalable, flexible information repositing solutions allied to gimmick doubter, synchronised billet services. However, consumer-oriented apps will comprise an ever-larger proportion of total revenues, derived both from time-based subscriptions to services such as mobile online gambling and advertising from cloud-based social networks.

However, the mobile swarm applications & services report warned that many endeavor customers distillery remained wary of entrusting their personal information to remote third base-parties, and that recent high gear-visibility information losings amongst corporate mobile users in the USA would only exacerbate these concerns. According to reputation generator Dr House of Windsor Holden, “Not only is it imperative for cloud providers to ensure that access to and storage of client information is secure, but that the procedures that they put option in place in this gaze – including data backing strategies – ar transparent to the customer.”

Other findings from the Juniper reputation include:

* While the attack of a swarm-based ecosystem whitethorn further erode the potency of the mobile hustler/customer human relationship, cloud offers operators the chance to develop new gross streams as Infrastructure as a Robert William Service (IaaS) and PaaS providers * Lack of network mental ability may continue to be a restraint on the growth of network-based services even after LTE and WiMAX networks are deployed

Juniper Research assesses the current and future condition of mobile cloud based on interviews, case studies and psychoanalysis from representatives of some of the leadership organisations in this bleeding margin industry.

The Mobile River Cloud whitepaper and further details of the survey ‘Mobile Cloud Applications & Services: Monetising Enterprise & Consumer Markets 2009-2014’ can be freely downloaded from www.juniperresearch.com.

What gives? Are Americans really that much more receptive to controversy and explosive (literally) ads? Yes, we ar.

However, Juniper’s reputation also identified some market constraints. For instance, due to seclusion issues, some users could be reluctant to part their mobile number to participate in voucher schemes due to the peril of spam and juke coupons.

Further findings include:

ARPU from NFC coupons and smarting posters will exceed ARPU from NFC payment minutes North United States of America and horse opera Europe to be major regions for mobile voucher usance in 2014

Additional inside information on Juniper’s report titled “Mobile River Coupons &ere; NFC Smart Posters: Strategies, Applications & Forecasts 2009-2014″ are available from their website.

I had no clue TeliaSonera is a majority owner of Yoigo, my favorite Spanish people operator which I (and the repose of the IntoMobile crew) manipulation when attending the Mobile World United States Congress in Barcelona… You learn something every solar day.

Anyway, the Swedish flattop said it would keep its stake in Yoigo for now, and will effort to shuffling it profitable by late next year.

TeliaSonera has been also exploring options to sell the deprivation-devising Yoigo, but decided to marijuana cigarette with it as now is not the time to sell.

For the track record, Yoigo and virtual mobile operators (MVNOs) wealthy person been wooing recession-smasher customers with flat pace cheap per-minute deals.