Nike today updated their iOS Nike+app with a GPS enabled version. The update allows you to track your runs with GPS rather than manually using Nike+ sensors. It also give motivational encouragement while you run and when you finish from Nike's top celebrity athletes.
The Nike+ GPS App is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch (2nd, 3rd and 4th generations) running iOS 4.0 or later. Video below:
Description The Nike+ GPS app helps you get the most out of every run by tracking where you go and motivating you to take it further.
- Download it on the go and start running anywhere. With this app in hand, track every indoor and outdoor workout easily, without a sensor.
- Record your pace, distance and run route using the iPhone's GPS and accelerometer technology so you can focus on the road ahead, and relive your run later.
- Anytime you're up for a challenge, push farther, faster, or longer to better reach your goals. Then celebrate your victories with fun, motivational messages from Nike's top athletes.
- As you run, get voice feedback on how you're doing or tap the map to see where you are. Then activate your personalized PowerSong for an extra boost.
- Quickly send each run to Nikeplus.com where you can brag to friends, join challenges, set goals and connect with the rest of the Nike+ community.
- The Nike+ GPS app was designed for the iPhone, but it's also compatible with the iPod touch (without the mapping capabilities). Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
- COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: The Nike+ GPS App is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch (2nd, 3rd and 4th generations) running iOS 4.0 or later.
Apple has set up a little history lesson/ timeline in their PR section of all of the iPods and iTunes versions they’ve put out. They even include hi-definition imagery. Yeah we saw this a week ago but today iz a slow newzday so here you go…
Our tips@9to5mac.com account has been blowing up this morning with people letting us know that their iPod touches are shipping. It appears we aren’t the only one getting word.
An interesting note on the Google ads leak this weekend. Apple is spending nearly a million dollars per month on its rival’s (phoneOS+) advertising platform to promote its products. Not nearly as much as others but still a significant amount.
AT&T Mobility, for instance, spent over $8 million.
One thing Apple can tell its prospective clients: Their spending probably won’t be leaked to the press.
Computerworld: There’s so much hysterical coverage of the great Apple versus Android war it sure is easy to get confused by all the claims and counter-claims: is the iOS really six times more popular for Web browsing than Android, or is it really only twice as popular? And is Apple now selling 6 million iOS devices each month?
I just threw my iPhone 4 away because this thing looks so excellent. Think Zune+Kin and then add AT&T as the launch network provider. I only wish they could have squared the edges a little more and made a less beautiful homescreen.
In all seriousness, Microsoft is going to spend boatloads of money on Windows Phone 7 so expect ads like this from now until Christmas. The one area where this OS will be able to compete is in gaming with its XBox Live connection. We’ll see if that’s enough to bring people over.
Today only, Dell Home offers the Samsung SyncMaster 24″ 1080p Widecreen LCD Monitor, model no. 2494LW, for $159.99. With free shipping, that’s tied with our mention from last week as the lowest total price we’ve ever seen for this monitor. (It’s a current price low by $42.) Sales tax is added where applicable. It features a 1920×1080 (1080p) resolution, 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 300 cd/m² brightness, 5ms response time, both DVI and VGA inputs, and more.
We wonder if these applications will be more deeply integrated with MultiTouch? We hear that iDVD may gain support for the creation of iTunes LP and iTunes Extras packages, giving consumers a way to share detailed digital albums featuring all manner of multimedia assets. This software was briefly discussed in December last year.
Eminem’s producers, FBT Productions has prevailed in a case against Apple and Universal over Eminem digital royalties, and the victory could have a huge effect on digital music sales.
The San Francisco Court of Appeals last week rejected a previous decision that iTunes sales and ringtone royalties should be counted in the same way as CD sales, but should instead be accounted for as masters licensed for re-use — a use for which a 50 percent share of net receipts received by Universal and Apple should be paid.
This follows the decision by a lower court last year which argued that digital sales should count in the same was as CD sales.
One of the world’s biggest-selling artists, Eminem’s people are demanding half the net receipts Universal gets from digital music and ringtone sales, rather than standard royalties. That’s significant cash, so no wonder then that Universal intends to fight this case tooth and claw.
"The agreements unambiguously provide that notwithstanding the records sold provision, Aftermath owed FBT a 50 percent royalty under the masters licensed provision," the three-judge panel said in its ruling. "Because the agreements were unambiguous and were not reasonably susceptible to Aftermath's interpretation, the district court erred in denying FBT" its pretrial ruling.
"In the meantime, it should be noted that this ruling sets no legal precedent as it only concerns the language of one specific recording agreement," a Universal Music Group spokesman said in response.
High street electronics retailer, PC World has launched its own cloud-based music service for Apple device owners, iPad Media Streaming, beating Apple’s own rumored music locker service aside in one fell swoop.
In partnership with Livedrive, the service costs £39.99 per year and lets users stream media to their iPad. Users get 100GB of online music, video and image storing space from which they can stream their content.
Additionally you can even stream music, videos and photos from multiple PCs and Macs to your iPad over your home network, so you can enjoy your media from any computer in any room in your home.
After purchasing the software and service, all customers will have to do is register and install the software on their PC or Mac following the simple on-screen prompts and download the Media Stream app onto their iPad. Their PC or Mac will automatically scan for files to back up and they can then choose what they what to store online.
Apple’s iPad has broken into yet another enterprise sector, this time the insurance industry with internationally-known insurer, Lloyds, working with brokers to test use of the Apple device in its underwriting room.
The trial began this month and will see iPads used instead of the more traditional underwriting slips. Brokers, Marsh, Cooper Gay and RK Harrison Group are testing the Apple devices.
Martin South, CEO of Marsh UK, said: "We are committed to ending the inefficient practices that remain in the London insurance market.”
Toby Esser, group CEO, Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford, said: “We firmly supports this exciting iPad pilot, as we believe utilising portable technology will be a vital element in driving the future success of Lloyd's as a competitive place to do business."
iPads will be used to carry documentation relevant to insurance underwriting, the trial is expected to extend until Christmas with more brokers joining the scheme over time.
