Betterment.com, the smart online investing service for anyone seeking better ways to manage their savings, today announced a new suite of products including an iPhone application and an online auto-savings plan. These features make the already easy-to-use service even more accessible, helping anyone from novice investors to active traders grow and preserve their savings with smart investing decisions.
“With the overload of investing information out there, people frequently make bad decisions that lead to underperformance, or choose not to invest at all,” said Jon Stein, CEO and co-founder of Betterment.com. “From my years of experience in the financial services industry, the need for a conservative, straightforward, high-yield investing account was clear. Betterment offers everyone from traditional savers to sophisticated investors a hybrid investment that delivers the financial performance of a diverse, conservative stock and bond portfolio with the ease of use and liquidity of an online banking account. There’s no other product or service quite like it.”
Betterment helps customers invest in the right stock and bond allocation for their individual needs, uses insights from behavioral finance and psychology, and sets intelligent defaults to help people make better investing decisions while protecting them from costly investing mistakes. People can have the confidence knowing that their money is working for them without having to actively manage day-to-day trading.
Smarter Investing On the Go
The new Betterment iPhone app gives users access to their account on the go. Once a user creates a Betterment account through the website, they simply download the free iPhone app from iTunes, which enables:
− Account balance, composition and returns updates in real-time
− Deposits and withdrawals
− Changes to stock and bond allocation
− Access to full account and transaction history
Automatic Savings: Set, Forget and Grow
The new automatic savings plan allows customized, recurring automatic deposits. This further simplifies the Betterment investing process, allowing users to take control of their financial futures and reach their savings goals faster by establishing a long-term savings plan in a matter of seconds.
In addition, the dollar-cost-averaging enabled by the automatic savings plan is a lower-risk and higher-return path to growth, which gives people confidence and peace of mind in periods of high volatility, like today.
Availability
Signing up for Betterment takes just minutes at www.betterment.com. People can download the new Betterment iPhone app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/betterment/id393156562?mt=8.
Sonos, the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today introduced the Sonos Wireless Dock (WD100), an accessory to the award-winning Sonos Multi-Room Music System. With the Sonos Wireless Dock you can now play all of the music from an iPod or iPhone in every room of the house. The Sonos Wireless Dock will be available for $119 beginning by the end of October.
“The Sonos Wireless Dock is the perfect accessory for our music loving customers who own an iPod or iPhone and want to enjoy the music stored on them in any or every room of the home,” said Phil Abram, President, Sonos, Inc. “This new dock reinforces our mission to provide our customers with access to all of the music on the planet, including everything available on an iPod and iPhone in the home.”
The Sonos Wireless Dock accesses all of the music stored or playing on an iPhone or iPod and sends it wirelessly to Sonos ZonePlayers all throughout your home – before converting the music to analog – guaranteeing the best possible audio quality.
The Sonos Wireless Dock is compatible with the following devices: iPod touch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation), iPod classic, iPod nano (3rd, 4th, and 5th generation), iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPhone, and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple performance standards.
By easily downloading the FREE HT-Connect app on Apple iTunes, users can instantly connect to the AcuTouch™ 9500 to enjoy the ultimate massage and wellness experience at their fingertips, with such features as:
· Sixteen+ expertly designed massage programs that are constantly being added to HT-Connect, designed to fit each individual’s specific needs. This includes prescribed massage programs from Human Touch’s Wellness Council experts, including PGA Golfer Tim Clark, former NBA legend Bill Walton, fitness trainers, doctors of Chiropractic, massage therapists, and more.
· Limitless customization options allowing users to tailor their AcuTouch 9500 massage chair wirelessly, based on their own personal wellness needs.
· Instant access to wellness tips and expertise from the Human Touch® Wellness Council, who offer their expertise and advice on how to live better through regular massage, proper relaxation and other wellness practices.
· Quick and easy Espresso Shots that allow the user to point to specific pain points on their body using their wireless device to create a completely customized five-minute massage when in a hurry.
· Much more: built-in foot & calf massager, adjustable massage intensity, preset posture positions that remembers the individual’s settings for future use, dual-lumbar heat, and that’s only the beginning of what AcuTouch 9500/HT-Connect can do.
Eyedip announces a new “All Out” mini-game, 2nd gen device support, and more in a new update for Flight Doodle and Flight Doodle HD in the App Store. To celebrate this wildly addictive, tilt-controlled doodle game and its new free-flying mode, Flight Doodle will be featured as the FreeAppADay Gold App on September 17th!
This high-flying hot-air balloon game is an action-packed thrill ride where players gather tools and power-ups that help them soar skyward while avoiding varied enemies and obstacles. The new “All Out” gameplay mode introduces an entirely new dynamic! In this mode, players no longer have to deal with pesky enemies trying to burst their bubbles. Instead, they must collect a chain of star power-ups to propel them to extreme altitudes. As a mini easter-egg, players access the new mode by inverting the menu screen!
“We love all the feedback we’ve received from our fans! The ‘All Out’ Mode is great fun, and we’ve adjusted the controls, initial difficulty, and improved the global leaderboard support,” says Steven Fleisher, co-founder of Eyedip. Flight Doodle now also supports 2nd Gen devices and includes a bevy of new features such as wind animations and even a Flight Doodle balloon companion on the menu screen.
“We think this update has wildly improved on the original and we’re excited to entice everyone to try it out free tomorrow!” Says Jeremy Adelman, co-founder of Eyedip. “We’re also planning to add even more mini-games and features in the next few weeks.”
Flight Doodle for iPhone (normally $0.99) will be available free on Friday, September 17 from the iTunes App Store at
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flight-doodle/id320633750?mt=8
Flight Doodle HD for the iPad is available for $2.99 from the iTunes App Store at
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flight-doodle-hd/id323891189?mt=8
Flight Doodle Lite for the iPhone is available free from the iTunes App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flight-doodle-lite/id338041192?mt=8
Flight Doodle Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslNQwRI8cg
Incipio® announces Linq™ for the new iPod nano.
Incipio is taking a whole new design path with this wrist-worn carrying solution for the iPod nano. Meet the most rugged carrying solution for iPod nano produced to date, the Linq™. This is for users who already have or aspire for a lifestyle of action. Linq™ provides the user with an all-day, everyday accessory that may be worn effortlessly but always boldly.
The Linq™ design was born from the logical “link” between the idea of the iPod nano existing simultaneously as a timepiece and a media player. Linq™ is your ultimate watch, built to endure a rugged lifestyle. Your once fragile iPod nano is not so fragile anymore as it sits in Incipio’s award winning Next Generation Polymer material securing to the wrist with a nylon and Velcro interchangeable strap. This durable and rugged iPod nano carrying option is a perfect solution for users who want to keep all functions of the nano close at hand (literally) at all times. Now you can wear your 6th generation iPod nano all day, everyday without a hint of it ever being worn (or torn).
“Our entire design team at Incipio is obsessed with watches both old and new. This product was fun and exciting to work on. We can’t wait to carry our iPod nano media players on our wrists” stated President, Andy Fathollahi.
For more information on the Linq, check out the Introduction to the Linq page online at myincipio.com
Zinio, the global leader in digital-publishing technology and services, today introduced a new, interactive release of Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time on its cross-device ZINIO UNITY? platform. Using the Zinio App for the iPad (zinio.com/ipad), the iconic music title’s digital version will allow music enthusiasts to sample and purchase music with a swipe of a finger. The interactive edition will be available on other platforms as well, including Windows, Mac and Linux PCs. While fans read about legends ranging from Bob Dylan and Beyoncé to Bruce Springsteen and Aretha Franklin, they can preview and purchase the Rolling Stone Special Collectors Edition’s song recommendations via iTunes.
“Our 500 Greatest Songs of All Time is the ultimate playlist for any music fan,” stated Rolling Stone Executive Editor Jason Fine. “These are all the songs you need to have on your iPad. The issue also features the stories behind each song, plus photos from the Rolling Stone archive. With Zinio, you can listen to the songs while you read, giving our audience an exciting way to experience the list.”
“Partnering with Wenner Media for Rolling Stone to create an interactively enhanced edition is an exciting demonstration of how published content and technology can create a seamless and multi-sensory experience for engaging consumers,” said Rich Maggiotto, President & CEO, Zinio. “We are laser-focused on working with innovative publishers like Wenner to deploy these types of heightened experiences, globally and cross- platform, to increase user engagement and utility with editorial and advertising.”
To preview this dynamic issue please visit: www.zinio.com/top500songs on your PC, or visit the featured section in Zinio iPad App.
Zinio launched its free App for iPad in the U.S. on April 3rd and overseas on May 28th, respectively, and is available from the App Store on iPad or at itunes.com/appstore, extending the pay-once-read-anywhere reading platform. This approach offers the unique benefit of letting readers pay once for a magazine subscription or single issue, then enjoy that publication across platforms and devices like their iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Windows, Mac and Linux PC, with new mobile platforms coming soon.
Iambic, Inc., a pioneer in the development of mobile productivity software, has released an update to the version of its Agendus personal information manager (PIM) for iPhone and iPod touch users. The new version of Agendus offers significant interface updates designed to help users better manage their time and to-do list each day.
Agendus, an award-winning calendaring and time management solution popular on all major smartphone platforms, integrates a user’s Calendar, Contacts and Task List into one application. Building on its record of helping people juggle both their work and personal lives, Agendus 2.2 has added features designed to make it easier to see what’s most pressing and important on the user’s daily agenda.
Agendus for iPhone now enables users to assign icons to Events and Tasks making it easier to identify them. Also, Agendus offers users the ability to go to today’s events or scheduled tasks by a simple shake of the device when in any Calendar view.
Agendus further provides users with the option to auto-adjust their Day view to the current time, providing only the upcoming scheduled events. Likewise, the List View now auto-adjusts to the current date so scheduled future events are brought to the top of the screen.
This update to Agendus builds on the complete redesign of the app in the recently launched Agendus 2.0, which included an entirely new user interface featuring new graphics, easier navigation throughout the app, improved layout of preferences and an overall visual facelift. This version also introduced new Calendar Views, a Birthday View and Push Notifications for event alerts.
Agendus is available in the iTunes App Store for US$7.99. For more information, visit Iambic’s website is www.iambic.com.
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“The Luna5 encore was designed to outperform anything in the class of highly compact music playback systems, and it accomplishes that with greater elegance and at an affordable price of under $300,” says Anthony Wilkinson, senior vice president, Edifier. “The Luna5 encore delivers exceptional sound and does it with style and grace in its design. It is exactly what it is intended to be: something you not only want to listen to but also want to display.”
The Luna5 encore is a study in design: this one-piece unit is comprised of an acoustically isolated combination base/control panel and a round speaker panel with an elliptical profile. The speaker panel is covered with black grill-cloth and the molded base is available in either glossy piano black or white. The speaker panel of the Luna5 encore cleverly incorporates a 5.75-inch bass driver, two specially housed 2.75-inch midrange drivers and two 1-inch tweeters. Both the midrange drivers and tweeters are arranged in stereo on either side of the panel to maximize stereo separation, and they are powered by two Class-D digital amps – a 30-Watt amp dedicated to the bass driver and a 22-Watt amp for the mids and tweeters. The Luna5 encore’s sensuous esthetic design even extends to its basic operation: pressing the illuminated power button causes the base to glow red, exposing touch-sensitive keys that control power, volume, track advance/FM station scan and input selection functions.
Its 5-driver speaker system incorporates unique vibration and resonance control technologies coupled with low frequency porting and mid-range tuned cavities for smoother, cleaner audio. An aux input allows any MP3 player and MP3-enabled cellular phone to be connected and played. These features and its eye-catching design are why the Luna5 encore was honored in January 2010 with a CES 2010 Innovation Honoree Award.
One of the biggest challenges in compact music playback systems is low-frequency reproduction, and the Edifier system handles this brilliantly. But perhaps most incredibly of all: at $299, the Luna5 encore’s performance and exceptional esthetic design are available at a fraction of the cost of a much larger system.
Appular is proud to announce the release of the HTML5 web app demo of the iPhone game Hand of Greed (App store link), the first of its kind. Appular, an experienced iPhone app marketer and publisher of Brainium Studio’s Hand of Greed, has embraced HTML5 as the future of app discovery and promotion.
(To play the HTML5 web app demo, open Safari on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and navigate to http://appular.com/webapp or http://braniumstudios.con/webapp)
The HTML5 web app conveys the intense, blade strewn gameplay of Hand of Greed, touting identical touch screen controls, fluid animations, and the same dynamic lighting effects as the iPhone version. The web app contains 3 levels from the game, and after playing through them, the player is encouraged to purchase the $0.99 game in the App Store.
“We have already begun working with Admob to incorporate this web app within their ads, and are eager to do the same with Medialets and Apple’s upcoming iAd network as well. Creating rich media ads like this will allow unparalleled opportunities for consumers to try out games without having to install a new app” says Brian Akaka, founder of Appular. “Looking forward, we’re excited to work with developers on using this technology to revolutionize app discovery”.
Appular forsees huge potential for HTML5 to revolutionize the app discovery ecosystem outside of iTunes. Consumers are able to quickly try more apps and experience sophisticated interactivity just using Safari or within their other apps. Developers can utilize HTML5 to offer a dynamic way to increase visibility for their apps and showcase their content.
Hand of Greed HTML 5 web app: http://appular.com/webapp/ or http://braniumstudios.con/webapp/
The Hand of Greed App for iPhone is available for $0.99 from the App Store on iPhone or at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hand-of-greed-dodge-the-blade/id367911355?mt=8
Altec Lansing is providing moms with the most compact form of music listening this Mother’s Day season with the inMotion Compact (iMT320). This docking station is praised for its well balanced sound, ease of portability and no-fuss operating features. Compatible with the latest versions of iPhone and iPods, the inMotion Compact runs on batteries as well as AC power for total performance versatility.
Music-loving moms on-the-go finally have a solution that allows them to relax, kick-up their feet, and listen to their favorite tunes whenever and wherever they want. Altec Lansing has developed the newest member of the inMotion line to provide rich sound, intuitive operation, and portability at a great value. The inMotion Compact offers a unique style unlike any other docking station on the market. About the size of a book, an attached soft, leather-like case folds into a stand adding to the visual appeal for fashionable mothers.
“Music is an important part of people’s lives and convenient, mobile music is something almost everyone expects these days,” said Steve Schlangen, product manager at Altec Lansing. “For the moms who have been embracing iPhones, iPods and the latest in music technology, we’ve provided them with a unique speaker that allows them to play music wherever they are and looks great with a functional, wrap-around cover that doubles as a stand.”
Features:
· Simple button controls – easy to use and self navigate
· Small and portable – ability to throw in purse/bag and listen anyplace at any time via AA batteries or AC power
· Stylish case – protects and doubles as a stand when listening
· “Works with iPhone” certification – Ensures crystal clear sound without annoying GSM buzz
· Input jack – 3.5mm jack for second device connection including computers, CD, DVD and MP3 players
Pricing and Availability
The Altec Lansing inMotion Compact (iMT320) is available now at Best Buy, www.Amazon.com and www.alteclansing.com. MSRP is US $79.95.