How Many Millions Did Amazon Lose on Two Days of
99-Cent Lady Gaga Sales

post from Daring Fireball on 28 May 2011 02:04:36 PM. © Daring Fireball

Glenn Peoples, reporting for Billboard:

Industry sources told Billboard.biz on Friday that Amazon soldsome 440,000 downloads of the album - nearly all of which were the99-cent version (a more expensive deluxe version is alsoavailable).
So how much is Amazon losing? About $3.2 million over the two daysthe promotion ran, according to Billboard’s estimate. [?]
But is a loss really a loss? The important aspect of this 99-centpromotion is the value of the increased traffic and awareness.

Indeed, I think it’s hard to imagine that Amazon could have drawn as much attention to their music store by spending $3 million in any other way.

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ORION Microsystems Releases iQuakeMini 2.0 -
Special Intro price

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Montreal based ORION Microsystems has released iQuakeMini 2.0 for iOS devices. iQuakeMini displays graphic heatmaps of earthquakes as they happen around the globe. Quakes are represented by multicolored spots and areas on different types of Maps. Users have the option to select up to three areas on the globe, and to receive alarm notifications on the iPhone, iPad or wifi iPod, when an earthquake occurs in these areas. Day and Night settings allow filtering of information during those hours.

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Lets Give It Another Year

post from Daring Fireball on 28 May 2011 11:04:40 AM. © Daring Fireball

Ed Bott, back in July 2008 on Apple’s then-use of Windows CE devices for point-of-sale in Apple retail stores:

Without resorting to snark, I think this illustrates thefundamental difference between Apple, a seller of luxury consumerproducts, and Microsoft, a developer of business and consumerplatforms.
Yes, I know that the current CW is that the iPhone is the newplatform, and that might be true. But let?s come back in a yearor two and see just how successful the platform really is.

Now, of course, Apple not only uses iPod Touches for retail point-of-sale, but they distribute dongles from Square that let everyone do so too. Imagine if Apple made consumer and business platforms.

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Beach-Rak Medicine LLC debuts its First App of
the MD Series

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Beach-Rak Medicine LLC today releases Master Diagnostician Series: Approach to Anemia in the Adult Patient 1.0 for iOS. The first release of the Master Diagnostician Series: Approach to Anemia in the Adult Patient, is a educational tool for differentiating the many causes of anemia and its management from a hematologist's point-of-view. It includes an algorithm to help discriminate between subtle nuances of the many anemia etiologies.

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The Matrix Powers a 70 iPad Video Wall at the NRA
Show 2011

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Hospitality Social showed off The Matrix at the National Restaurant Association Show by creating a 70 iPad video wall using the app. It works on as many iPads as you have and it allows you to share the animations created with your friends' iPads via email, wifi, or bluetooth. This is not simple video splitting but live editable animation running without any cables or external processing. Just create an animation right within the app and send it out to any other iPads also running The Matrix.

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Live Contacts - Fast Dial with a Video Button is
Now on the AppStore

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Independent developer Askar Khangildin has announced the release of Live Contacts 1.1, his new one-touch dialing app for iPhone. Create fast-dial buttons with a video included. Live Contacts allows you to create fast-dial buttons for calling your friends, relatives and others you call frequently. Just pick an existing video or make a new one. Link it to a contact from your contact list, and dial. It just takes one tap to add a new contact to the fast-dial button.

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New App is Saving Lives and Driving the Way
Doctors Practice Medicine

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Abe Balsamo & Co. today announces Arrhythmias 1.4, an update to their proprietary medical app for iOS devices. Arrhythmias helps to diagnose and treat very complicated medical problems, allowing medical practitioners to make quick, informed, peer-reviewed decisions that are in line with the standards of care. Listed in the Top 100 Medical App, all information within Arrhythmias is cited with links to original and compiled research.

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Facepuncher Worldwide debuts CastleAbra and a
Kickstarter campaign

Facepuncher Worldwide today announces CastleAbra, their new funny, epic and beautiful game debuts as a Kickstarter project. CastleAbra will be a traditional first person, point and click exploration game in the style of such classics as Shadowgate and Myst. A magical tale that centers on the heartache of unrequited love. But promises to set itself apart with a comedic style that ranges from subtle and sophisticated to zany and broad. To be released on Mac, PC and handheld devices.

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Sparkling Apps Launches Spell Well: Universal
Educational App

The first educational title from Sparkling Apps is Spell Well, a universal app that works on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It teaches first grade level spelling to children using wonderful high quality cheerful graphics of a frog trying to make his garden grow. The children are inspired to add more and more through spelling correctly. It teaches a vocabulary of over 500 words.

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iStoryTime Offers Three Free TOON Books on iPhone
and iPad

zuuka, the world's largest publisher of mobile children's book applications through its iStoryTime label, has announced that the TOON Books are now available as a free download for iPhone and iPad. Available in the Education category, TOON Books are the first high-quality comics designed for children ages four and up and include Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons, Jack and the Box and Little Mouse Gets Ready.

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