UK-based online wine retailer Naked Wines has launched an iPhone app, with videos, tasting notes, shareable deals and the ability to chat to the actual winemakers: so a social app around wine, rather than a pure e-commerce app. It includes a reward chart for parents to use.
IOS education app Froobles Maths has been ported to Android, aimed at children up to the age of seven who are learning to add, subtract, divide and multiply. It includes 60 levels with more free updates planned, although for now its in-app purchases don't appear to figure. Rovio has taken its latest Angry Birds game to another device: RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. As on Windows Phone, they can be viewed in the style of the famous opening title sequence. Microsoft has ported its Windows Phone social app to iPad, serving up Facebook and Twitter updates with a Star Wars skin. An iOS version will follow in the future, according to Google.
Google's long-rumoured cloud storage service has finally been unveiled, complete with an Android app to access photos, documents, videos and other files stored on Google Drive, while also uploading from the device.
