Bank of America still not ready for iPhone
Macworld —
Posted on by Matt Hamblen , Computerworld Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld . For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center . Despite Apple’s determination to make the iPhone enterprise-ready, there are still some holdouts. Bank of America runs a mobile banking application on the iPhone smartphone, but the bank does not allow its many employees to use it at work, a bank official said at the Go Mobile 2009 in San Francisco. Their biggest concern is that the bank can’t centrally manage the iPhone as easily as it can BlackBerry devices from Research in Motion, said Jamie Young, vice ...
Trend: Company-specific apps and ads
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App StoreImagine this scenario: you're watching the latest episode of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel when an ad for Nationwide Insurance appears. Are they trying to sell you insurance? Of course, but they're also touting their new Nationwide Mobile (click opens iTunes) iPhone app, which Nationwide policyholders can use to report accidents, start claims, and find local agents or repair shops. Later, you're watching NBA playoff action and you see an ad for E*TRADE that catches your attention. It's not that you want to lose more money in the stock market, but you're fascinated ...
Dunkin' Run lets you live in the future, Dunkin' Donuts style
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone, App StoreEver wanted to order a bunch of coffee and doughnuts along with your friends online, and then go and pick them up in the store? There is, in fact, an app for that. Dunkin' Donuts has released Dunkin' Run (iTunes link), an app that not only connects you and your friends together (through a strange love of pastries and java), but will allow you to set up an order and then go straight to the store and pick it up. Sound unnecessary and lame? Maybe -- though it is free, even if it's adware as adware can possibly get. And apparently the ...
Corporate Branding Races to iPhone Apps: Winners and Losers
iSmashPhone —
iPhone apps, probably the most popular thing to be used since the color TV. We have seen companies of all sizes put together some really cool concepts for iPhone apps, but are they meeting the very high expectations from users? Regardless of the cost, even if it is free, we expect these applications to run fast and without a ...

