Our new ‘Weekend In…’ travel guides handpick only the places you MUST go in destinations including Barcelona, Las Vegas, London, Moscow, New York, Rome, and Sao Paolo.

If you are time-poor but want an experience rich weekend, we’ve chosen the creme de la creme for you.

Sections include Where to Stay, Where to Eat, Where to Visit, Where to Go Out, Where to Relax, and Practicalities (all the useful things you’d never think to ask).

‘A Weekend In…’ is the update to our popular Destination Guides app, and include new entries, more images, and a rebranding/redesign.

Below are some images from our Barcelona guide to give you an idea of what to expect.

You can download ‘A Weekend In…’ for free now in iTunes by clicking here.

aside from the fact he is pursuing a class action of $5m for $200, it’s difficult to feel too much sympathy because a. you can turn off in app purchases in the settings AND they are password protected anyway, b. you sign a terms of service agreement when you register for iTunes (nobody reads it but that’s not really the point) and c. if you give a young child a device with full, unfettered, unmonitored and unmetered internet access with direct access to payment then you deserve to be punished.

there may be an argument that apple is trying to get money from customers ‘on the sly’ – by giving them seemingly free apps that require further payment to pay properly – and perhaps worryingly for apple case reports note (from the above article):

The judge said that even if parents had given their children passwords, many parents were misled by Apple’s presentation of these “freemium” games as free and that Apple didn’t adequately inform consumers about the potential costs. Judge Davila has allowed the case to continue.

we’ll see what happens…

We’re pleased to announce that the updated version of iVIP, iVIP 2.1, is now available in iTunes.

There are updates available for all editions of iVIP; Red, Blue, City, and iVIP Black, the ‘Millionaires’ App’.

What’s New in Version 2.1 (as evident in the image above):

- Better, more exciting VIP Treatment and partner offers including priority ticketing, VIP shopping experiences, and a new integrated concierge partner
- Updated, increased, and improved partner database
- Localisation
- Design amendments and improvements

We are currently developing iVIP on other platforms and it will be imminently available on both Android and Windows Mobile.

Don’t forget also, that you can sign up to iVIP online here.

Click here to see iVIP in iTunes.

You can see the original post here.

the iVIP application is now available to license as a customer, client or employee engagement and/or retention tool. available on iOS and imminently Android and Windows, there are a variety of options and solutions to improve and enhance your relationships internally and externally, utilising the nascent appeal of the booming app market.

you can find out more by clicking here.

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at least according to the Sunday Times. ‘Spott’, our app that maps famous film and tv locations the world over, has made it into the top 500 apps in the world. and considering there are over 500,000 apps just in the iTunes store, we’re pretty damn chuffed with it. here’s the entry in full, from the Sunday Times iPad version:

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Spott is available in free and paid for versions on both Android and iOS; here are the links:

Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.syncstudios.spott
iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spott/id441935989?mt=8

Apple has doubled its profits for the fourth quarter of 2011 as record sales of iPads, iPhones and Macs boosted net sales by 73% to $46.3bn (£27.8bn), while its margins grew fatter.

Full article from Brand Republic here:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/go/Digital%20AM/article/1113707/apple-doubles-profits-ipad-iphone-sales-explode/?DCMP=EMC-CONDigitalAM