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Livestream, the leading live Internet video platform, today announced the immediate availability of its free service for streaming live to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Using Livestream Procaster, users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop. Livestream producers can start streaming live to the addressable iPhone and iPod Touch audience over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.

Livestream is the first to offer a turn-key streaming service that uses the new H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality included in the native QuickTime player that Apple has pre-installed on the iPhone. This means that Livestream producers do not need to obtain iPhone App Store approval to launch their own iPhone live streaming channel, nor do their viewers need to install any application. Streams are viewed using the iPhone’s Safari browser.

Livestream has also provided a simple Representational State Transfer (REST) API for developers to integrate live streaming into their own iPhone websites or their own iPhone applications. Livestream Procaster includes a free streaming encoder, which means that no third party application or license needs to be purchased in order to stream live to the iPhone using Livestream.

“A key breakthrough is that the service doesn’t require any proprietary player or application to be installed on the iPhone. Producers are free to integrate the iPhone live stream with their own website, iPhone portal or iPhone application using the API provided” explained Livestream CEO and co-founder Max Haot.

Streaming live to the iPhone requires less than five minutes to install. Producers simply download and install Livestream Procaster for the PC or Mac from www.livestream.com/procaster, connect their video camera or webcam, select iPhone 3G Quality, and press Go Live. User can view the live streams on their iPhone or iPod Touch by pointing their Safari browser to the channel they want to view at iphone.livestream.com.

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, has launched free software  for iPhones available at Apples online App Store.

“Everybody recognizes with the growth of mobile tools globally that this ishow people access information,” foundation spokesman Jay Walsh told AFP on Wednesday.

“Our mission is to spread free knowledge; we want to do everything we can to meet and embrace that audience.”

“Our intention is to house the source code and continue to update the application through Apple channels with subsequent releases,” Walsh said.

“Then, obviously, take it to other platforms like Palm and Android. We want to take the same tool and make it work in other spaces.”

Wikipedia can be reached using Web browsers in iPhones and other Internet-linked mobile devices, but the pages are scaled-down versions of what is accessible using desktop computers. However, users can use  iphones to edit entries and upload pictures or other digital content to the website.

The Wikipedia application for iPhones is an open-source, first version that the foundation hopes to incrementally upgrade with input from software savants worldwide, according to Walsh.

“In a perfect world you would be able to do everything on a mobile you could do on a personal computer,” Walsh said of using Wikipedia on smart phones.

“It is a platform we are going to build on. The sky is the limit; we can do whatever we want.”

Download the Wikipedia on you iPhone from here

With Moviefone’s free application for iPhone and iPod Touch. You can search for films, find theaters closest to you and store them for easy reference, watch high quality trailers and even invite your friends to the movies. In addtion, you can get movie showtimes, tickets and trailers on the go. All in one place.

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Okimok is a free social network platform that allows users to instantly share their photos with friends by using a superdeluxe slideshow.

A photo says more than a thousand words, but a photo stream tells you a whole story. This is why okimok is a web platform with a photo stream and not a single page view per photo. Okimok claims to be dedicated and simple and that is exactly what we found it to be.
The platform is based on the idea that people would like to see what is going on anywhere, anytime. They want to share these little photo moments with their audience, while being part of another’s audience as well.

Three types of photo streams are available on the platform. First, there is your solo stream displaying the last 15pictures that you made. Next, a combo stream showing the last 30 pictures of the users that you are following. And on the homepage, there is a world stream that shows all pictures made by the entire okimok community.

The app can be found in the Apple App Store and is for free. -download Okimok-

After installing and opening the app, the first thing you do is create a new account. The developers have well thought over the sign up process since you can do everything from the iPhone application itself. After signing up, the main screen appears. The application is nice and simple. Three buttons do the work, “take photo”, “pick photo” and “go okimok.com”.

The first two buttons let you upload a picture, either by taking a new one or picking one from the camera roll. Next, a preview screen is shown with the possibility to add a title that is displayed in the slideshow. The time to

upload a picture is surprisingly short, but that is also due to the fact that the photos are downsized before they get uploaded. The original photos that you upload are stored on your camera roll as well.
The “go okimok.com” button appears to open a safari browser with your combo stream in it. In our opinion it is not very neat to open the safari browser, but the developers of okimok assure that in an upcoming version the iPhone application will be extended to show photo streams inside the app.

The web platform has a lovely design. After signing in, you are brought to your combo stream. In your overview you can see who is following you and who you are following. Like Twitter, only for photos instead of text.It is also possible to change user settings on the web platform. There’s also a Twitter link in the settings menu. When entering your Twitter account details, an update is sent to your Twitter stream everytimeyou upload a new picture. The update consists of a link to your solo stream and not to a specific photo.

Trend Smart Surfing is the first secure browser to provide enhanced Web threat protection for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.  Smart Surfing is designed to block access to harmful websites.  If you attempt to access a bad or malicious URL, a notification will appear in the browser.

Trend Smart Sufing is powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network using advanced “in the cloud” Web Reputation technology to protect users from Web pages with malicious intent.

This free security software is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch devices iPhone software v2.1 or higher and can be downloaded for free from here

Skype is a VoIP software application that allows people to make free phone calls to other Skype users over the Internet. Now you can make free calls to other Skype users with your iPhone.

Skype for iPhone delivers a true Skype experience: make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost calls to landlines and mobile phones – and participate in conference calls – from any WiFi zone. You can IM to your heart’s content, and participate in group chats too, whenever you have network connectivity, whether it’s WiFi, 3G, EDGE or GPRS. Skype’s VoIP app for iPhone looks more like your traditional iPhone app than it does Skype 4.0 for Windows

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Joost is a new way to watch videos – TV shows, music videos, movies and more – over the Internet.

Now, with the Joost App for the iPhone and iPod touch you have more of 46,000 vídeos -millions of hours of top TV shows, music videos and music at your fingertips.

Some Joost features:

• Browse by category, like anime, comedy, drama or sci-fi
• Check out the “Most Popular” videos to see what people are watching
• Find out what our team likes in “Our Favorites”
• Or Search for a specific title or video name

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The Spotify application is coming to the iPhone. It’ll let you listen to Spotify from your iPhone.

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Searchme is the first search engine designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Search Me is a search engine that offers spectacular results visually in 3 dimensions, similar to the Aero 3D.

The results will show screenshots of the websites in an attractive 3D design. Additionally, the search engine also offer results in traditional text.

Searchme lets you see web pages without having to click through. This makes searching the web considerably faster. Results are presented in a stack of pages that you can flip through or expand with your finger, so you no longer have to wait for them to load into your browser. Once you find what you’re looking for, just double tap the screen to open the page.

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Rogue (download) for iPhone is a free port of the PC classic dungeon crawler, Rogue. The original Rogue’s development started in 1980, and inspired an entire genre of games called “roguelikes”, which persist to this day in the likes of Shiren the Wanderer and the Mystery Dungeon series.