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Brainshark Announces the Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad

App Enhances the Experience of Viewing Brainshark Presentations on Mobile, with Features Designed for Easy Navigation and Convenient Access to Presentation Details

Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile video presentations, today announced the immediate availability of the Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad, downloadable for free from Apple’s App Store. With this new application, iPhone and iPad users can take advantage of advanced features – designed to enable easy navigation and convenient access to important information – when they view Brainshark presentations from their mobile devices.

Brainshark lets users add their voice – along with music, video clips, attachments and more – to PowerPoint decks and other documents to create trackable, online video presentations. Brainshark presentations are already accessible on leading mobile platforms, including the iPhone and iPad, BlackBerry, Android-based phones and Palm Pre, with one Brainshark presentation viewed every 2.5 seconds in locations all over the world.

As iPhones and iPads continue to skyrocket in popularity – with Apple reporting 16.24 million iPhones and 7.33 million iPads sold in its most recent fiscal quarter – the Brainshark App provides an enhanced mobile viewing experience for users of these devices. It’s now even easier for iPhone and iPad users to interact with online video presentations created by Brainshark enterprise customers or users of the free myBrainshark.com site.

“Being ‘reachable by cell phone’ while out of the office is no longer enough. Today’s information workers need to remain connected, productive and in-the-know at all times,” said Ira Weinstein, senior analyst and partner, Wainhouse Research. “The new Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad brings the power of the Brainshark platform, and more importantly, access to their company’s library of on-demand rich media presentations, to iOS users around the world without sacrificing manageability or the user experience.”

After installing the free app, users can take advantage of capabilities designed to optimize viewing, sharing, learning from and accessing mobile presentations:

Enhanced Viewing – Brainshark App users can:

• Use the table of contents – containing thumbnails, titles and the duration of each slide – to easily and efficiently navigate presentations. By clicking on different areas, users can skip directly to the portions of greatest interest.
• Access presentation attributes, including the description, length, author information and more.
• Download any attachments associated with a presentation onto their mobile device.

Instant Sharing – Viewers can:

• Click to share links to presentations via e-mail.
• Post links to presentations on social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Delicious.

On-the-go Learning – Users have:

• Instant access to a searchable and growing library of free eLearning content, created by the myBrainshark community of subject matter experts.
• The ability to browse more than 1,000 titles on a diverse set of topics relevant to businesspeople.

Easy Content Accessibility – Users can:

• See a history of their recently viewed presentations for quick and easy access to this content.
• Instantly access personal and company content. When Brainshark enterprise customers and myBrainshark users download the app, they have the ability to log into their Brainshark account and access their own content at their convenience.

“iPhones and iPads are increasingly popular vehicles for consuming business content, and we’re pleased to provide the Brainshark App to address this segment,” said Brainshark CEO Joe Gustafson. “Brainshark is committed to enabling users to access content anytime, anywhere and from any device, and this app illustrates our dedication to continually improving and simplifying the user experience.”

To download the Brainshark App for the iPhone and iPad, please visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainshark/id412495352?mt=8.

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US soldier develops Taliban-tracking iPhone application

An US soldier has contributed 26,000 dollars from his own pocket to develop an iPhone application that tracks down the Taliban.

The New York Post quoted Captain Jonathan J. Springer, an US fire support officer stationed in Afghanistan, as saying that most soldiers use smartphones and the application has been designed specifically for them.

“Since day one, I always believed that smartphones could be utilized by the US military for combat purposes. Basically, the issue was the fact that these smartphones were being untapped by the army and I was motivated and determined to change that, even if it cost me my own money out of pocket to do so,” Springer said.

Tactical Nav, which is expected to be available through Apple’s App Store next month, assists soldiers in mapping, plotting and photographing waypoints on a battleground and conveying coordinates to supporting units.

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