The CEO Game

Apple Lunched today its new flag product – The iPad a tablet pc which will cost starting from 499$.

Apple had to put an end to the rumors and speculations when it announced its new tablet PC. During an event that took place in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs had announced the release of the new product- the iPad.

iPad- Apple's new tablet PC

The new product, which is mainly focused around network services, includes a 10 inch screen and it’s based on the iPhone operation system iPhoneOS. The iPad is 1.25 cm thick and weights 700 grams. The iPad works on Apple’s CPU the A4 with approximately 1 GHz CPU power. The iPad also has a Bluetooth capability and apple had declared that it can last as long as 10 hours on its batteries. The iPad screen is of course a multi touch screen.

Job has declared that the iPad is a part of a new generation of products between the Laptops and Smartphones. What about notebooks? Jobs said that notebooks are nothing but weak and cheap laptops.

Apples had declared that the iPad will support all the iPhone and iPod applications as well as having original application of its own. One of the major goals of the iPad is to act as an electronic reader (similar to Amazon Kindle). In the event itself Jobs announce that Apple had already signed deals with 5 of the world’s largest book publishers.

Also during that event Jobs had announced that Apple had sold its 250 million iPod few weeks ago and had more than 250 million visitors, in its 284 stores, in the last quarter.

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Since the invention of the iPhone, the smartphone trend has exhibited continuously exponential growth. Many new developments have created a new market to explore.

A lot of iPhone buyers use only a small and trivial part of its functionality, not realizing the full potential of their mobile friend.

iPhone Applications, the hottest trend of the mobile world, let everyone (with Mac and technical approach) to develop their mobile dream, from every corner of the world. The talented ones can also make money out of it.

But this article is not about just any iPhone apps. It is about those applications that may save you time and money!

Here are 5 tips for managing money with your iPhone:

• Convert Currencies
  Check the up-to-date exchange rate of any desired currency, and get a close look at your stocks.

  Applications such as Currency Converter Pro enable you to check 220 exchange rates, including silver and gold, and to convert between them.

• Manage your budget
  In order to stay on top of your budget planning and implementation, you may need a tool to help you plan and act appropriately.
  

  iPhone - Budget Application

  Budget is an application for managing your personal budget. It enables you to receive some basic information, such as graphs of your expenses, reminders relevant to your plans (such as when you need to pay your monthly rent), retrieved data and sets the time period for you budget plan.
  You may synchronize the data over several iPhones, for more than one person managing their households (husband and wife, partners etc.).

  Another budget management application is Day Bank, which allows you to synchronize the iPhone application with software on your computer.

• Save SMS and phone calls
  The fact that you’re with your mobile phone doesn’t necessarily means that you need to make your phone calls through the device.
  Fring is an application that combines all your contacts in the instant massages networks (Google Talk, ICQ, MSN messanger etc.), allowing you to chat with them and even have a voice conversation (VOIP) through Wifi.
  Fring users can speak free with one another. Skype is also enabled by the SkypeOUT rates.
• Keep updated in the stock market
  Keeping track of stocks is something you can do with the application Stocks, which comes with the iPhone. You can get information about stocks and receive relevant updates, including detailed graphs and a list of securities.

  Stock information for experts is provided with the application Bloomberg, built by the financial information agency, Bloomberg. The

  

  iPhone - Bloomberg application

  application is far more detailed than ‘Stocks’ and allows you to keep updated with the world’s markets, complete with news and estimations.

• Tip calculator
  Have you ever wondered how much money you should leave for the waiter? Tipulator, an iPhone application that easily calculates the tip everyone in the table need to pay, does it for you. You simply enter the amount to pay, the tip percentage desire and the number of people dinning.

This is only a few of the enormous pool of iPhone applications that can save you time and money.

I believe that in the future the mobile revolution will manage our wallet very, very closely. Smartphones are already helping us manage our budget and advise us for smart saving. Of course, until the CEO Game becomes an iPhone app, in order to play what will surely be the most fun and realistic business simulation ever, you’re going to have to sit down at a computer. It’ll be worth it, we promise.

Nimrod.

The CEO Game.