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The grapes of app: Wine demystified on the iPhone

Skip Navigation The app includes the first-ever taste profiling feature that gives users the chance to discover which wine style best suits their palates A new app for the iPhone, designed to demystify the often complex ins and outs of wine tasting, has been developed. Pocket Wine, the Irish-developed app, has been created to help users navigate the wine universe with ease and offers them unique wine definitions

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Droid Pro Available @ Verizon Wireless

Right on schedule, Verizon Wireless has added the Motorola Droid Pro Messenger-class smartphone to its considerable Android phone lineup.

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Samsung Focus, LG Quantum & HTC HD7 Windows Phones $49 @ Amazon (Best Price)

If you missed out on Amazon’s $0.01 smartphone sale this weekend, fear not; you can still get your hands on a Windows Phone 7 handset for far less than the direct T-Mobile and AT&T prices. Amazon.com now has three of the four currently-available Windows Phones ( Samsung Focus , LG Quantum and HTC HD7 ) in stock and on sale for $49 with a new two-year service agreement with free two-day shipping and no mail-in rebates.  This is a due-at-checkout price.

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Fashion brands make iPhone covers stylish for Christmas

The pink and white Juicy Couture iPhone 4 cover (left) and the blue and black Animal iPhone 3GS cover Juicy Couture and Animal have released fashionable iPhone covers, fit for filling stockings this Christmas. Juicy Couture These covers mark the first foray Juicy Couture has made into the mobile accessory market

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OnLive cloud games system to shake up gaming market

Skip Navigation The system will include a small OnLine MicroConsole TV Adapter and an OnLive Wireless Controller OnLive, an on-demand cloud gaming system aimed at challenging the traditional games console market, has opened for pre-orders in the US. The OnLive game system gives gamers access to instant-play newly released video games on TVs, PCs or Macs.

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Find Windows Phone 7 Apps on Bing

Microsoft has just unveiled a new feature in Bing that will help Windows Phone 7 users find new apps for their smartphones.  The new feature, a part of Bing Visual Search, shows users in the United States and UK Windows Phone 7 apps sorted by top rated, newest free, newest paid and most downloaded.  You can also view all Windows Phone apps, which number 2383 as of this posting. To get the full benefits of the new search tool, you’ll need the Zune software installed on your PC (if it isn’t already).

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LG Quantum @ AT&T Officially, Amazon for a Cent ‘til Midnight

Although it’s been up for order for some days via third-parties, the LG Quantum Windows Phone is now officially on the shelves of AT&T Mobility stores. The LG Quantum is the fourth Windows Phone 7 powered smartphone available in the US, and the second with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.  It also has the smallest touchscreen of any of the first crop of Windows Phones at 3.5-inches.

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Netflix: Android Streaming Coming “Early” 2011

As we told you last month , Netflix has been hiring developers for Android in an effort to bring their streaming video service to Google’s mobile platform. At the time we speculated that a Netflix app would hit the Android Marketplace in early 2011

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Fake iPhone jail-breaking tool packed with malware

[from ZDNet by Ryan Naraine]Malicious hackers are preying on iPhone users who want to jail-break their devices, exploiting the increased interest around jail-breaking tools to launch malware attacks. According to Kaspersky Lab’s Costin Raiu (see disclosure), a rumored jail-breaking utility for iPhone 4 comes with a nasty surprise: Cybercriminals have definitely been riding the buzz read more »