Archive for the ‘News’ Category
SpotCrime iPhone Application gets TechCrunched
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Yair FlickerThe iPhone application we recently developed for SpotCrime just got written up in a TechCrunch article at http://tinyurl.com/5hnx38.
The iPhone application itself is available at spotcrime.com/iphone.php.
The iPhone application has been a success so far and is being used by thousands of iPhone users every day. It is currently the seventh most popular travel application in the Apple iPhone Travel Webapps directory.
Developing this application was a fun project for us because we were able to learn the “ins and outs” of the custom programming functions available to iPhone web applications. Some neat features of the webapp:
- Rotating your phone will cause the map to go full-screen
- User-friendly buttons for navigating the map: the buttons are round and somewhat transparent, making the most of the small screen
- Easily navigable list of cities for which crimes are reported
For more information and more images, see our portfolio entry for the SpotCrime iPhone webapp.
Searchles TV Gets Cease & Desist Letter (and good press too)!
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 by Yair FlickerLess than a week after Searchles TV was released, Sony’s Grouper has sent Searchles a Cease & Desist letter. Grouper - a video hosting site - asserts that Searchles has violated the Federal Lanham Act and that Searchles’ video player “effectively stripped away Grouper’s extensive copyright protection system.”
Interestingly enough, Grouper itself is being sued for copyright infringement.
But the most exciting part of the story is all the press that Searchles TV received as a result of Grouper’s cease and desist letter! Check out these links: