Schmap, offers iPhone consumers new rotating city guides, local search and maps. These new map-services on the web allow you to feel a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest.

Directing your iPhone Safari browser to www.schmap.com takes you to your Schmap homepage, where you can choose to browse through "City Guides" broken down by categories (restaurants, shopping, etc.) or search for local businesses in your area.

Schmaps gives you a unique opportunity to browse through their "City Guides." With the iPhone in portrait orientation, Schmaps presents a list of local businesses. But, turn the iPhone into the landscape (horizontal) orientation and Schmap will rotate the screen and list the businesses next to a map showing the location of each business.

Schmap's local search function is currently unavailable as the service is still in beta development. To see how it works, visit the site with your iPhone and enter access code 724627.

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides also lets end users publish their own ‘schmaps’ (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, displaying maps with content and event schedules for travel, sports, concert tours and more on a fast-growing network of websites and blogs. Founded in 2004, Schmap is privately owned and based in Carrboro, North Carolina.

References:

http://www.schmap.com/iphone/

GTA IV was released April 29 and global sales totaled more than $500 million in the first week alone. The first day the latest addition to the hit Rockstar Games series hit retail store shelves, sales were $310 million. More than six million copies have been sold.

The only question is, which console is the game being played on? GTA IV was developed by Rockstar North on two platforms -- the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. Both manufacturers are reporting higher console sales as a result.

According to news reports that claim to have the inside scoop on Microsoft's sales data, Redmond is the big winner. Reportedly Xbox 360 console sales jumped 54 percent. Other reports estimate more than 60 percent of GTA IV games went to Xboxers, leaving less than 40 percent for PlayStation 3 gamers.

References:

http://www.gamerankings.com/

http://www.biline.ca/xbox_list.htm#g

Why should IT get a seat on board?
Easy question. Just to know and measure internal customer satisfaction rates, cites research sponsored by Hornbill Systems and Service Desk Instituterecent research jointly commissioned by the Service Desk Institute and Hornbill Systems, a leading supplier of enterprise service management software.

The research shows that the increased profile of IT within the business has been reflected in the new role of the service desk.

Why did that become so actual and important? Because nothing works without technology, there is no business that might be succeeded without technological support. Nowadays 65% of businesses have IT representation at board level, compared to 58% five years ago, because service desk data and workflow systems are also enabling organisations to work smarter with improved processes and adoption of best practice.

According to Patrick Bolger, Chief Marketing Officer of Hornbill Systems; “In the last five years we have seen IT change from being an outside function to one that is core to the business. Users throughout organisations are dependent on IT to work, which in turn has increased visibility of systems, problems and the IT teams.

“This dependency has raised the profile and growth of IT as a business function, with a real human interface. At the recent 2008 Service Desk and IT Show we talked with many visitors who have recognised the importance of integrated service desk solutions. They were looking for systems and tools that could help meet their business requirements, provide a much improved, effective service and also enhance the working environment and job satisfaction for their IT staff.”

References:
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=38746&hilite=

New product - the Event Planner Kit is lounched by Bizymoms.com. Everyone there believes in three core traits of success; determination, motivation and an idea. So mammy orginizes and things gonna be allright.

“The Event Planner home Biz Kit is for those who simply enjoy planning events,” -explains Jamie, Director of Customer Relations- Bizymoms Career Kits. It makes for a great home business for those who are good at organizing, planning, scheduling, communicating, and dealing with people.

Following are some of the exciting features included with the career kit and interactive website:

· Client Reviews

· Photo Portfolio

· Personal Blog

· Upload brochures and other documents for client use

· Easy to use management features

· Link This and Tell-a-Friend features to encourage word of mouth marketing

All these features including the contents of the career kit will ensure home business success as an event planner. Get your new business started with the event planner kit and start planning the next great occasion whether it’s a Children’s party, a wedding, an upcoming anniversary or a corporate event. Make every event a success and a memorable one.

The main question is: Do you really need that kind organizer?

The founders of Minnesota-based company CodeMorphic, Bill Heyman and Damon Allison has developed RetroPhone for those iPhone consumer, who would like to have rotary dialer phones.

They're also announcing Aloha, a photo-annotating program inspired in part by Comic Life. Both apps will be among the flood of iPhone programs hitting Apple's App Store in a few weeks.

Co-founders, Bill Heyman and Damon Allison, are experienced software developers and consultants, who have worked for the big names in software development: IBM, Microsoft, and Accenture, as well as many clients who have needed deep and sharp skills to solve their software requirements.

The mission of CodeMorphic is to seek the first name in native iPhone software development.

References:

http://yourtech.typepad.com/main/2008/05/want-a-rotary-i.html