€conomia – an actual App from from the European Central Bank (busy at all, lads?)
Fun for the whole euro family! Raise and lower interest rates! Keep inflation below 2%! Avoid the deflationary spiral!
Play it online here.
Angry Bonds: iPhone Game Lets You Run Europe’s Central Bank (npr)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAhP-yLJJ9s
It’s WWDC week in San Francisco and German techie funster Simon Pierro has been trying out some upcoming iPad Apps.
Apple Snips the Cord on iTunes, Reveals iCloud Strategy (Wired WWDC liveblog)
A cunning new promotional campaign from Marlboro, combining two of the most potently addictive things known to man: nicotine and the iPhone.
Using Bump technology, social smokers are able to bum virtual cigarettes from hardcore smokers and exchange them for real ones with an electronic coupon. This is supposed to curb the (apparent) problem of occasional smokers having to go out and buy an actual whole pack of cigarettes and power smokers who might actually have to lose a single cigarette from their pack.
And with that, the world is a (cough) better place.
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The Slice HD App from Switchgames involves moving a variety of sharp objects out of the way to press a red button. It’s fairly gory. We like it.
SliceHD: You will hurt your fingers on your iPad (Ars Technica)
