We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of another killer app – the SEEK Jobs app.

The app, developed by Outware Mobile and Seek was released last week and has taken the App Store charts by storm.

SEEK – Jobs is currently #1 in the Lifestyle section of the App Store, featured in New and Noteworthy, and #4 free app overall! User reviews have been very positive too, with a current average of 4.5 stars.

The easy to use, intuitive app has some cool features:

• Search and apply for jobs
• Swipe easily from job to job
• Shortlist jobs and favourite searches to personalise your experience and have access to them from all devices and desktop
• Never miss a new job, the app shows you what’s new since your last search

It’s available free for iPhone and iPod in the iTunes app store now.

We have been working extremely hard developing this app and it is gratifying to see it already receiving rave reviews before the season even starts.

Some of the great features of the app are:

• Live match radio from a range of stations
• Watch match highlights & press conference videos
• Live scores, stats and player positions
• Live official AFL game expert commentary
• Detailed match previews and match summaries prepared by the AFL’s official journalists
• Player profiles, ladder, game start reminders
• Subscribers get live video of all matches and full replays

Did we mention that it is free?

The universal iPad version of the app is in its final stages and is looking amazing, it will be out in the app store very soon.

Download the AFL Live Official app from the app store.

Outware developed Shop Ethical 2012! and Snap Send Solve apps were both featured in the segment’s top 5.

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Shop Ethical! 2012, this year’s version of the popular Shop Ethical! app, has been released today in the iTunes App Store, and Android Market, and it is currently featured on the iTunes app store front page as ‘New and Noteworthy’.

Shop Ethical! is the app that gives the low-down on the environmental and social record of companies behind common brands you buy in Australian supermarkets, and this year’s update contains the most up to date data from the Ethical Consumer Guide, including two new categories Meat and Toys, and many other additional features:

• Additional Important Issues added
• Animal Ingredients information by product type
• Improved Company assessment display
• Improved Industry Alert display

The completely redesigned app features a refined new look, and a new feature that allows for updated data to be downloaded over the air without requiring an app update.

Last year’s app was featured in both the What’s Hot and New & Noteworthy sections of iTunes, as well as being written up by The Age, Macworld and Lifehacker.  It was also awarded an iTunes Rewind 2011 award as one of their favourite apps of 2011.

Shop Ethical! 2012 for iPhone is available now in the iTunes store here, and for Android devices in the Android Market here.

Outware developed Shop Ethical! 2011, OMG I can Eat That? and Margaret Fulton Favourites apps have been featured in the Epicure section of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

As part of the list of their favourite food apps, Epicure polled food lovers and food writers:  the result is a collection of information-based food apps that are well developed and easy to navigate; two key development goals for all the apps that we develop.

All three apps are currently available in the App Store, and Shop Ethical! 2012 is coming soon for iPhone and Android.

You can read the article here.

The Memory-Prediction Framework (MPF) has been widely applied to unsupervised learning problems, for both classification and prediction. However, so far there has been no attempt to incorporate MPF/HTM in reinforcement learning or other adaptive systems.

This research proposes some simple and biologically-plausible enhancements to the Memory-Prediction Framework. These cause it to explore and interact with an external world, while trying to maximize a continuous, time-varying reward function. Among other demonstrations, they show that a 2-node hierarchy can learn to successfully play “rocks, paper, scissors” against a predictable opponent.

As well as AI research and leading the Outware team building amazing apps, Gideon is also passionately pursuing his investigations into making the best tasting ‘affogato’ iced coffee known to man.

Outware is pleased to announce that MSO Learn, the app for iPhone and iPad developed for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has been nominated as a finalist for an AIMIA Award for Best Application on a Tablet or Mobile.

If you haven’t already seen MSO Learn download it free from the App Store. MSO Learn for iPhone and iPad is designed to teach children and adults alike about the inner workings of the MSO and its musicians.

The AIMIA Awards are given for the best Digital Content created in Australia, and winners will be announced in Sydney on March 16, 2012. The Awards are comprised of 26 categories across all genres and digital platforms, and are the longest running and most prestigious in Australia’s Digital Industry.

Wish us luck!

The growing use of the app by citizens as an easy way to help solve councils issues, as well as featuring in the New & Noteworthy and What’s Hot sections of iTunes, has led to a lot of press, as well as positive feedback from councils.

Snap Send Solve is now featured on many council websites as an official channel for reporting issues. Councils around Australia using Snap Send Solve include:

You can download free Snap Send Solve for free from the iPhone App store or Android Market.

The app allows anyone to report people they see littering from or near motor vehicles in 6 simple steps.

Outware Mobile assisted the EPA in designing and developing the app and integrating it so that reports from the app go directly into EPA’s records management system which is used to generate fines.