Hong Kong, Asia – Humble Gaming Limited independently releases An Art Of War 1.0 (previously sold as Attack and Destroy via a publisher) on the App Store ($1.99, included iPhone and iPad). A unique combination of turn based strategy, line drawing and top down shooter promises an explosive and thrilling experience for everyone.

A 3-person team, from a choice of 4 different specialists (namely, Strong Grunts, Eagle Eye Snipers, Fast Scouts, and Intelligent Engineers) is chosen for each battle. On each turn players make selections of specific tactics for each soldier be it to attack and engage the enemy or defend against incoming multiple sorties. Then watch them play out versus the opposition. The key is being able to predict the next move of your opponent, be it by opting to utilize the Artificial Intelligence or immerse someone you know well through P2P.

As Sun Tsu (600BC) said in the highly respected book, The Art of War “Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.”

Some of the other features include:
* A total of 9 levels within 3 Chapters, 3 different difficulty levels
* After Completion of the Mission Mode, there are special missions available in the challenge mode that will unlock after you have completed all the Chapters
* Open Feint Leader Boards. Shared across iPad and iPhone platforms
* Bluetooth Player Vs Player! Challenge family and friends. iPad vs. iPhone available too
* Multi Player on single Ipad device available too, with each player taking turns

An Art Of War is a Universal Application, offering value at $1.99, being targeted to all those who love a multi strategy top down shooting game with rich graphics and different terrains. Designed for multi player interactivity, HG plans to provide multiple updates in coming weeks.

Communications Director for Humble Gaming, Prakash Bharwani says “Inspired by Sun Tsu (600 BC) beliefs of the Art of war where he claims Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Our plan was to create a cross genre game that brought familiarity to new gamers and nostalgia for those that are more experienced. The game tests your strategy skills under time pressure situations in various combat scenarios. As a universal application, users get true value as the iPad also allows us to take our graphics to higher levels”.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Universal Application
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
* 65.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
An Art Of War 1.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Asian based Humble Gaming Limited (HG) offers over a dozen entertaining iPhone and iPod games developed by an international team of experienced game developers. HG has now recently expanded its library to include Productivity Application(s) as well. The HG team prides itself on its ability to combine original content with popular game playing genres and useful applications, whilst continuing to offer value for money. Whether it’s a line drawing, time management or strategy based games or even a Productivity Application, you are sure to be impressed with the attention to detail and impressive graphics. HG team creates the highest level of graphics possible on handsets, and uses its vast development experience to make useful and fun applications. All Material and Software Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Humble Gaming Limited / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Dublin, OH – FourthFrame Technologies has announced a new iPad app for managing action items: SG Action Log. SG Action Log expands the Simple Genius Apps suite to the ubiquitous domain of action item management. With a design based on the popular app SG Project (formerly Project Pad), SG Action Log is likely to be met with a warm welcome from business managers who leverage action item management as a tool for success.

Action Item Management has come to iPad. “This is such a common activity in business that we were surprised at the lack of support for it on the iPad,” said Ty Jacobs of FourthFrame Technologies, designer of SG Action Log. “We are confident that Project Managers will embrace this new app but it doesn’t stop there – action item management is a simple but powerful discipline for any team manager and leads to success.”

SG Action Log helps managers maintain a list of actions with due dates, specific owners, a priority, and a history of notes. This ensures that tasks don’t fall through the cracks and that action owners are held accountable for achieving stated goals on time. “Not rocket science,” says Jacobs, “but experienced managers know the power of this discipline”. FourthFrame saw a perfect fit for action item management within the Simple Genius Apps suite, which is designed to bring mobility and simplicity to management activities. SG Action Log has a look-and-feel similar to FourthFrame’s popular SG Project app, lessening the learning curve for users of the suite.

FourthFrame is also committed to growing the Simple Genius Apps suite, so this second member is just one step down that road. And their approach of continual refinement based on customer feedback from real-world usage should ensure the future of Simple Genius Apps as a popular set of tools for real business on the iPad.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 2.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
SG Action Log 1.0 is $9.99 (USD) and available now worldwide exclusively on the App Store in the Business category.

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FourthFrame Technologies is a privately held company, located in Dublin Ohio, and founded in 2003 by veteran software developers to supply software talent on a contract and consulting basis and to develop exciting software products on cutting-edge platforms including mobile platforms such as iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Simple Genius Apps, SG Action Log, and SG Project are Copyright (C) 2010 FourthFrame Technologies. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod touch, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

Hong Kong – Humble Gaming Limited today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Live Notes 1.0, their first Productivity Application for Apple’s revolutionary iPad device. Addressing the needs of business professionals, office support staff, students, academics and all who wish to have Note Taking and Recording functionality made easier with a dynamic UI.

Live Notes (priced at $5.99 USD) is a fully functional powerful tool that promises to enhance the life of anyone that uses it. The Current Version 1.0 has been specifically built for the iPad and is packed with features that are relevant and improve productivity for business professionals, students, academics and the market at large. Some notable features include:

* Writing notes during audio recordings, then tapping those notes to hear what was said at the time
* Inserting flags during or after recordings to remember key moments
* Use of iPad keyboard or fingers to write
* Choosing your font or color and even drawing shapes

“Live Notes is an essential tool for anyone that takes notes,” said Prakash Bharwani, Director of Communications for Humble Gaming Limited. “It’s a practical application with a UI that is simple and crisp, users will find it as a necessity and will not leave their home without it on their iPad.”

Live Notes offers a depth of functionality and that users will find relevant and resourceful in their daily lives. In fact, Humble Gaming in joint cooperation with the very talented Gustavo Ambrozio, based in Brazil, has carefully balanced the practical needs of end users with a useful easy to use UI with the goal to offer the right balance to a diverse group of users.

“Live Notes was built from the start with the end user in mind. We tried to balance functionality, ease of use and a nice design to make the app not only useful, but a pleasure to use as well” said Gustavo.

In order to provide maximum value to customers Humble Gaming is already preparing version 1.1 with even more features due to be released very soon, and has committed to enhance the application by adding more features and updates on a regular basis.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 3.1 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Live Notes 1.0 is $5.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category.

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Asian based Humble Gaming Limited (HG) offers over a dozen entertaining iPhone and iPod games developed by an international team of experienced game developers. HG has now expanded its library to include Productivity Application(s) as well. The HG team prides itself on its ability to combine original content with popular game playing genres and useful applications, whilst continuing to offer value for money. Whether it’s a line drawing, time management or strategy based games or even a Productivity Application, you are sure to be impressed with the attention to detail and impressive graphics. HG team creates the highest level of graphics possible on handsets, and uses its vast development experience to make useful and fun applications. Copyright (C) 2010 Humble Gaming Limited (HG). All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Codename: Granati

Home Planet: Leende

Favorite Color: Green

Likes: Being a Canon Cadet, Grenades and Sunshine

Dislikes: Evil Monkeys, Cages and Bad Jokes

When Rocketboy and Pop arrive on Leende they learn of a fellow named Granati who really loves to have a blast. After searching high and low for him they finally track him down in the dusty desert. When they free him from the confines of his cage they soon realize he lives up to his reputation and then some. Granati is a welcome addition to the crew and they head off to their next adventure hot on the trail of Gordo.

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Ludwigsburg, Germany – Vemedio today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Jubilee 1.1, an iPad application that manages the birthday of contacts in the system-wide address book. Jubilee displays birthdays on a convenient calendar pinning the picture of the contact onto the birthday date. With a tap on the picture the user can send lovely designed birthday cards to friends and family. Jubilee comes with 12 included greeting cards created by various high-class artists. To add more cards constantly Vemedio is teaming up with great artists all over the world who create cards each in a very unique style.

“I am very happy that we found high-class artists like Fernando Albuquerque and A Good Company(TM) to work with us.”, says Martin Hering, founder of Vemedio, “Our users will be very happy with the new designs.”

Using the new card package chooser the user can download additional cards as they become available and purchase high-quality card artwork via In App Purchase for $0.99 each. Jubilee has a built-in Push Notification Service free of charge that sends out notifications to the user when a contact has a birthday.

Supported Languages:
* US English, French, German, Italian and Japanese

Device Requirements:
* Email account and an internet connection
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.2 or later
* 9.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Jubilee 1.1 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Lifestyle category.

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Vemedio was founded in March 2008 as the successor of CocoaMade, formally known for its video converting tool “XRay Video”. The company is owned by Martin Hering, who has been the developer of leading media applications at equinux AG for three years. Vemedio also develops Snowtape, a popular radio listening and recording application for Mac and iPhone. Copyright (C) 2010 Vemedio. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

New York, NY – White Shoe Media, Inc. today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Subrats 1.0.1 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Download Subrats to guide the subway’s toughest, yet least appreciated inhabitants, to garbage on the other side of highly dangerous train tracks. Watch out for speedy passenger trains, puddles, poison blackouts, and the vicious vacuum train.

Keep an eye on the garbage and money trains to see what they might drop. Prove that you can survive living on the edge under trains made from tons of steel, or use your reflexes to pull the emergency brake to stop the action. And be sure to enjoy the different subway tunes, strange sounds, and the comments of daily commuters, tourists, and “true” subway riders. Subrats is a lightning fast, funny, and highly addictive real-time action game for all ages from White Shoe Media. Don’t blame us if you miss your stop!

Subrats features:
* Engaging non-stop gameplay
* Rats, trains, special items, and more
* Sophisticated, yet simple controls
* Creative and detailed graphics
* Realistic lighting effects
* Attention-grabbing sounds
* Hilarious voiceovers
* Multiple soundtracks
* OpenFeint leaderboard and achievements
* Brag e-mails (to your friends)
* Never-ending fun

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 15.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Subrats 1.0.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Visit Subrats online for game tips and upcoming contests, or stay tuned on Facebook and Twitter. Join us on OpenFeint and try to conquer every one of the Subrats achievements, or take the top position in the leaderboard. And email us with questions, comments, or suggestions.

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Athens, Greece – DoubleIP S.A., the developers of DoubleSMS, has launched a remarkable new product for iPhone. The application enables users to check the current mobile operator of their contacts and provides a simple one step mechanism to mark this info on their address book. Mobile Number Portability allows anyone to change mobile operator by keeping his existing number. Users having free calls/text towards mobile numbers of the same operator, feel uncertain about their costs when placing a call or sending a text. DoubleCheck removes this uncertainty by providing the mobile operator of the person called on the iPhone screen. DoubleCheck, helps users reduce their communication costs while at the same time exploit the usage of their free call/text plans.

With support for all mobile operators in more than 200 countries, virtually anyone can benefit from this application, regardless of where they are located.

Using DoubleCheck, iPhone users are no longer in doubt about where they place a call or send a message. They check the mobile operator of their contacts, they mark it on their address book and then with just a glance on their iPhone screen they know if the number they are calling belongs to their free plan or not.

The application will additionally help users cleanup their address book from numbers that are no longer valid. The application has been designed for extra ease of use. With one click the mobile network operator information is marked on the iPhone’s address book.

DoubleCheck features:
* Identify the mobile operator of a contact in your address book
* Identify invalid numbers in your address book
* Mark the retrieved information in your address book with just a touch
* Retrieved information is always available when you make a call or text your contacts
* Identify the mobile operator of a mobile number not in your address book
* Add the unknown number and the retrieved information to an existing contact or create a new one in your address book
* All operators in 202 countries are supported

To help get users started, DoubleIP developers are giving ten free checks to everyone who downloads and installs DoubleCheck. Additional checks can be purchased at amazing rates directly through the app. More information can be found on DoubleIP online or on iTunes.

Starting August 9th 2010, DoubleIP developers will start giving daily FREE checks through DoubleCheck Facebook page. Be part of the DoubleCheck Facebook fan page, by just hitting the link provided below and participate on the draws, events and happenings of this product.

Device Requirements:
* 3G iPhone and iPod touch, iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 0.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
DoubleCheck 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Located in Athens, Greece, DoubleIP S.A. was founded in 2009 by a group of people with extensive knowledge in information and telecommunications systems, as well as know-how in mobile marketing. The company focuses on Mobile Marketing Campaigns utilizing various communication channels, as well as Proximity Marketing utilizing Bluetooth and Touch Screen technologies. Mobile Applications for iPhone, Android, Java, Blackberry and Vodafone 360. Value added services for consumers and business customers, including Mobile Operators. All Material and Software (C) 2010 DoubleIP S.A. / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, the iPod logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Parker, Colorado – The Pragmatic Studio is offering their popular “iPhone/iPad Programming” course in Santa Clara, CA on August 17-20 and Chicago, IL on October 25-28, 2010. In this 4-day, hands-on training course you’ll learn how to create iPhone and iPad apps like the pros with guided instruction from two renowned developers and authors: Matt Drance and Daniel Steinberg. You’ll come away from this course ready to create your own iPhone/iPad app from scratch, or improve your existing apps.

* Learn how to use the major tools and APIs in iPhone SDK 4 (the latest version), and how they all fit together to build iPhone/iPad apps like the pros.

* Get hands-on coding experience and answers to your questions so you can start creating your own iPhone/iPad apps with confidence.

* Save time and frustration by focusing exclusively on iPhone/iPad development for four days with expert guidance.

Attending this course is a great way to quickly get up to speed on the latest iPhone SDK and get your questions answered. Topics include:

* Intro to Objective-C
* Xcode and Interface Builder
* Cocoa Touch APIs and Design Patterns
* View Controllers
* Navigation and Tab Bar Controllers
* Table Views
* Keyboard Input
* Gesture Recognizers
* Animation
* Core Data
* Custom Graphics
* Performance and Debugging
* Practical tips, tricks, and techniques used by the experts

Students who have attended this course have said:

“It was totally awesome! I learned more in these four days than in six months of muddling around on my own.”

“Exceptionally awesome. Highly recommended! Great instructors. The instructors made it worth every dollar.”

“This is by far the best training I’ve had. The instructors are not only very knowledgeable, but communicate the content really well.”

“The trainers go through so many details and show you every aspect of the SDK and over the 4 days you write tons of really cool iPhone apps and you come out of the training as an iPhone developer.”

“Highly recommended for anyone needing practical, effective guidance on getting into iPhone development.”

iPhone/iPad development is a popular topic, and these courses tend to sell out fairly quickly. Reserve your seat soon and save $300 on early registration!

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The Pragmatic Studio offers public and private developer training taught by renowned authors and experts. Since 2005, we’ve put on over 50 public courses and helped over 2,000 developers learn iPhone, Objective-C, Cocoa, Ruby, and Rails. By attending a Studio you’ll get the most up to date training around. Copyright 2010 The Pragmatic Programmers. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and Xcode are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Donetsk, Ukraine – Pabusily Co Ltd has released Crane Driver 1.0, their unique game simulator for iPhone and iPod touch devices. In Crane Driver, players operate a crane and must relocate load consisting of several objects from one platform to another, while the load position must stay relative to each of its parts.

* Mission – game mode where a player is able to choose levels
* Campaign – complete several tasks in various locations
* Railway – relocate load from one train to another using a crane with magnet;
* Sea port – relocate load from one ship to another using bridge crane with a spreader plow;
* Supermarket – relocate a pile of objects from one place to another using a stacker;
* Building yard – discharge a truck with the help of tower crane with a hook.

Crane control differs depending on the location:
Right, left, up and down movements are possible if there are vertical and horizontal axes. Pressing the button makes lifting body automatically grip the load and lift it up (or put it down and return upward).

High scores – different ratings are formed on the basis of load quantity and execution speed. Screen move and lifting body offsetting differ, so a player is able to choose strategy of work of his crane driver.

Supported Languages:
* US English, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later
* 3.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Crane Driver 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Pabusily Co Ltd is a leader in ready-made products and services production in the field of Informational Technologies and Advertising Business. Our company specializes in elaboration of products for multilingual audience of the world market, where among our target audience we see every single person, who uses a computer in his work. We offer a whole range of ready-made solutions, helping your business to be more effective: virtual offices and exhibitions, professinal video surveillance, business-catalogues and business-communities, creative solutions in the field of Web-design and Informatonal Art. Pabusily Co Ltd works with the end users of our produce. Copyright (C) 2010 Pabusily Co Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Bangalore, India – Poscitech, a mobile healthcare start-up, today is pleased to announce the worldwide launch of Fitaide Pro 1.0, a fitness application for iPhone or iPod touch devices. Fitaide Pro uses patent-pending technology and innovative features to help users find motivation, training and support in achieving their fitness goals.

“It’s well established that lack of motivation is the primary barrier to fitness, even amongst those who are convinced of the need to improve”, says Siva Raj, CEO Poscitech. “I used to train with a friend who was at my door 6 am each morning and that really helped when my motivation was flagging. So we built this feature in Fitaide Pro where you can exercise virtually with your friends, set a common goal, follow progress and even share on FB and Twitter.”

Seeing early results is another big motivator and Fitaide Pro’s cutting-edge technology creates a personalized cardio or interval training plan and uses the in-built 3D motion sensor to track users and cues them to change pace – ensuring they get to their goal. The app also captures improvement in users’ fitness levels by estimating their VO2Max, gold standard measure of fitness.

Other motivational features include being able to train for an event (like a 5k run or Marathon) and promote a charitable cause – while keeping friends and supporters informed. An intuitive user interface, rich graphical displays and 3D Motion Sensor technology that automatically tracks calories, steps, distance, speed or pace, make this a must-have application for users at any level of fitness.

Device requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* Tested for iOS 4.0
* 8.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Fitaide Pro 1.0 is priced at $4.99 in the US or equivalent in other markets and is available exclusively through the App Store in the Healthcare & Fitness category.

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Poscitech is a Bangalore based start-up founded by Siva Raj in Sep ’09 with the aim of creating compelling mobile sensor based health and fitness applications. Siva’s own personal struggle with staying fit, his experience in developing products for a global healthcare organisation and his passion for mobile technology resulted in its creation. Copyright (C) 2010 Poscitech. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.