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My Arch Nemesis

Having wasted a morning trying to figure out a very, very odd problem with an iOS app, I felt the need to waste even more time trying to tell the world about it.

You never know, it might help someone :)

Local search driving foot traffic for businesses [Mobile Marketer]

Dan Butcher reports: Almost one-third of smartphone users who search for local businesses via mobile end up visiting or calling the location. Click on the link below to read the full story: http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/research/6767.html

Church streams services onto iPhones [BBC News]

BBC News reports: St Andrew’s Church in Bo’ness, West Lothian, will screen services real-time on iPhones and iPads.  Minister the Reverend Albert Bogle said it was hoped it would open up “a whole new world” for the house-bound. Read the full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_east_and_fife/10302210.stm

Mobile app results added to Google search [AndroidGuys]

Scott Webster of AndroidGuys reports: Google took their search for Mobile another step further today with the integration of app results for the Android and iPhone platforms. Read it in full here: http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/03/mobile-app-results-added-google-search-mobile/

FT iPad app more popular than iPhone app [Media Week]

John Reynolds of Media Week writes: The Financial Times’ iPad app has registered three times more downloads in its first two weeks since launch, than its iPhone app managed, according to the publisher. Follow this link to read the full story: http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/News/MostEmailed/1007753/FT-iPad-app-proves-popular-its-iPhone-app/

Subway launches mobile device loyalty scheme [Marketing Week]

Rosie Baker writes about Subway’s iPhone and java apps for tracking customer rewards: The Subcard will allow customers at its 1,400 stores across the UK and Ireland to collect loyalty points and redeem free products via a 2D barcode on their mobile device. Click here to read the full article: http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/subway-launches-mobile-device-loyalty-scheme/3014085.article

Methodist Church launches app for iPhone [BBC News]

BBC News reports: The Methodist Church has become the first major denomination in Britain to launch its own application for the iPhone and iPod Touch Follow this link to read the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8685019.stm

Sunday Times plans iPhone app as staff told print-only future not viable [Guardian]

Ben Downell of The Guardian reports: The Sunday Times editor, John Witherow, has told staff that the paper will be launching an iPhone application.  He said that a predominantly print-based business was unlikely to be viable in the near future and that the “future was digital”. Click this link to read the full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/may/14/sunday-times-jobs-iphone-app

Applications predicted to cost more for the iPad [BBC News]

Malcolm Barclay discusses how the applications market may change with the release of Apple’s latest device Click here to view the video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8603200.stm.

The rise of the app entrepreneur [BBC News]

BBC Technology correspondent, Mark Gregory, reports: The soaring popularity of smart phones has created a new type of entrepreneur – the “app developer”. Follow this link to read the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8577334.stm

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