Lucky Birds takes off on iPhone!

Articul Media LLC today announced the release of Lucky Birds, a new arcade, action and puzzle game to the Apple App Store.  Lucky Birds is currently compatible with the iPhone3, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S with iOS 4.3 or later.

Lucky Birds for iOS features three characters; Sneaky Sparrow, Dull Pigeon and Big Crow, whose goal is to safety get home before night falls.  Lucky Birds love to land on telephone wires but must be very careful not to fall to the ground or be caught out after dusk.

Gameplay consists of flying the Lucky Birds to their homes by launching the birds off of the telephone wires.  Uses must change the bird’s trajectory to correctly aim and reach the home targets for the feathered characters.  Along the way, the birds can collect bonuses, keys, teleport, open doors and much more.

The three types of Lucky Birds differ in weight and personalities, a grumpy bird may refuse to sit next to its friends and birds in a hurry may be set to a timer.  As the levels rise in difficulty, there are three different types of wires that the Lucky Birds can land on - regular, worn-out, and hot.  Regular wires can be used any number of times, however, the worn-out wires can only be landed on three times or it will break and one should never land on a hot wire or you will get burned.

Lucky Birds is currently available for iPhone in the App Store for $.99 at http://bit.ly/LuckyBirdsAppStore.  

Technical Details
Release Date – February 5, 2012
Platform – iPhone
Genre - Action, Arcade, Puzzle
Developer - Articul Play Dev Studio
Publisher - Articul Media LLC
ESRB – E? or E 9+
Levels – Three with 30 levels each - levels four, five, and six coming soon.
Languages – English, Russian, Spanish, French, German - second release: Italian, Chinese

For screen shots, video demos, and more information on Lucky Birds, please visit www.luckybirds.com or www.facebook.com/luckybirdsgame. 

Mynt in Print @PRDaily - 23 Smartphone Apps Perfect for PR Pros

Honored to be published in PR Daily today for 23 smartphone apps perfect for PR pros… to view the article in its entirety, please visit http://bit.ly/ztTih7 

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There are more than 1 million applications available for smartphones and tablets. Among the first applications that everyone probably downloaded was Facebook, Angry Birds, or Pandora. 

With more business-oriented applications become available, I was curious to know which apps my fellow PR professionals use on a daily basis and can’t live without. So, I reached to colleagues and sent a query through Help A Reporter Out (HARO). 

The most common answers were apps that many of you are probably already using—Facebook, Twitter, TweetDeck, HootSuite, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Mashable, Google, and Yelp—so I wanted to focus on the applications that fell outside of this group, some of which were new to me and I have since begun to use. Most of these applications are multi-platform with Android and iPhone, I have listed which are iPad only. 

Click here to view the list!!

DeviceLock Receives Two U.S. Patents for Local Sync Control Technology

DeviceLock today announced that it has been granted two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its local synchronization filtering technology. The patented technology allows businesses to control the transfer of data between endpoint computers and locally connected mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, including Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices.

 An integral part of the DeviceLock software suite since 2007, this patented technology allows security administrators to centrally manage which types of data users can synchronize between corporate PCs and their mobile devices. Protected by US patents US7,899,779 and US7,899,782, DeviceLock’s local sync control technology significantly increases the level of corporate endpoint protection against data leaks. These can be caused by employees connecting personal smartphones or tablets to their office computers through a local interface and by mistake or negligence copying sensitive corporate information to their mobile device.

DeviceLock can recognize and filter numerous data object types for iTunes, ActiveSync, WMDC and HotSync protocols, letting administrators selectively allow or block synchronization of files, emails, email attachments, accounts, contacts, tasks, notes, calendar items, bookmarks, and various media types.

To view the release in its entirety, please visit http://mwne.ws/iIeg6w