Los Angeles, California – App Popular, LLC recently added a new US Promo Codes Stream section inside version 1.2 of App Popular, a free iPhone and iPod touch application available exclusively from the Apple iTunes App Store. This new feature lets users access a “stream” of promotional codes coming in from developers offering free access to use their paid iPhone applications.

Cupertino, California – Broken Thumbs Apps has announced that Emily’s Girl Talk, a collection of four unique charming story-telling games, has been featured by Apple as “New and Noteworthy” in the US App Store. Emily’s Girl Talk features the classic M.A.S.H. (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) and the hilariously unpredictable Lemon, as well as other fortune-telling games for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

New York, New York – Art Beat Inc today is pleased to announce NYArtBeat 1.0, their new cultural event finder app for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The new NYArtBeat application enables users to easily discover the art & design events happening around them as they move through New York City. No need to plan museum & gallery visits from home anymore: the app leverages the huge database of 1000 cultural venues in the city, tracked by NY Art Beat, to give instant access to more than 600 art and design events.

Helsingborg, Sweden – From the makers of the Penumbra series comes a brand new survival horror game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Today Frictional Games is happy to announce the release of the game’s web site and a first look at actual in-game footage, in the form of a horrifying teaser.

Irvine, California – StuckPixel, Inc. proudly announces its new app for iPhone/iPod Touch – “The Button – A Social experiment”. This app is designed for people who simply can’t resist pressing every button they come across and as many times as possible. Pushing the button now becomes not only a highly entertaining occupation but an issue of global importance!

San Francisco – Postbox(TM), Inc. today is pleased to announce Postbox 1.1.1, an update to its flagship email product that provides enhanced support for Mac OS X applications and technologies. Postbox now integrates with the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal and extends search to work with Spotlight, making the entire workflow more efficient and intuitive. Postbox gives users powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize work life, and simply get stuff done. After being named to the industry-leading TechCrunch50 in September 2008, Postbox has continued developing and adding key features to create a powerful and unique email experience.

Dallas, Texas – Big in Japan, a Dallas-based idea factory for mobile applications, announced today that it will release a native version of ShopSavvy for the Apple iPad. The iPad version of ShopSavvy will retain all the features the application’s millions of users have grown to love, while incorporating new functionality to enhance the shopping experience.

Sofia, Bulgaria – Cramzy today is very proud to announce the release of Experimenter 1.0 for iPhone and iPod devices. Experimenter features 14 home science experiments which everyone can easily perform at home! Yes, at home. You will not need special equipment or ingredients, but mostly stuff you can buy from the local supermarket.

The title “Experimenter” stands for those who decide to try the experiments and have fun themselves. The footage you will see teaches you step-by-step how to perform physics and chemistry experiments.

Atlanta, Georgia – SimpleLeap Software is donating 100% of the sales from their popular Mac study app, Cram for Mac on January 20, 2010 to the American Red Cross for the Haiti earthquake relief. As a bonus, SimpleLeap Software will give the first 25 people that purchase Cram for Mac on January 20th the pairing study app Cram for iPhone free.

Sindelfingen, Germany – Tagcrumbs, the Internet platform for sharing your favorite places, is now offering a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The application can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store in seven countries, including the US, UK and Germany. The launch of the iPhone application is a response to the increasing popularity of location-based services offered by US startups such as Foursquare and Gowalla. However, Tagcrumbs is not a game with “check-ins”, but rather an application for travelers and place experts to create and present locations of their field of interest.

GameFly announced the release of an updated GameCenter 1.1. The updated app, now available on the App Store, includes more video game screenshots, hi-res videos for most of the 5,000 titles included in the app, expanded news coverage from Shacknews.com, and performance enhancements designed to increase usability for iPhone™ and iPod® touch users.

“We are continuing to enhance GameCenter through the user feedback mechanism which has been instrumental in helping us craft a bigger, better and more informative product”

Madrid, Spain – LateNiteSoft today is proud to announce the release of Sketches 2 through Apple’s App Store. The new product, a major improvement over their popular Sketches application, sports an innovative UI and a host of new and advanced features, while keeping the ease of use of the classic application. Sketches 2 is available for iPhone OS 3.x devices at the special introductory price of $1.99 / 1.59 Euro.

iPhone fitness application developer Abvio announced Runmeter 2.0, the most comprehensive running application for the iPhone 3G/3GS. Runmeter turns your phone into a powerful GPS stopwatch, giving runners feedback to run faster and increase endurance. Runmeter 2.0 is the first iPhone application to offer built-in Twitter text-to-speech, so runners can hear Twitter replies from their coaches, friends and family during training.

“Runmeter 2.0 is the first running app that you can control and use while your iPhone is sleeping and secure in your pocket or armband”

Big in Japan announced that ShopSavvy 1.1 for iPhone is now available for free download at Apple’s iTunes Store. The new and improved version of ShopSavvy –- already one of the most downloaded barcode-scanning apps for the iPhone — features a number of enhancements based on feedback from iPhone users.

San Francisco, California – Ranking as one of the most popular apps on Android phones since its launch in September 2008, ShopSavvy became available on the iPhone on November 17, 2009. In less than a month, hundreds of thousands of iPhone users have downloaded the application, joining millions of ShopSavvy users on Android phones such as the Hero and Droid. More than 1 million ShopSavvy users scanned more than 18 million products on Black Friday weekend alone (Nov. 27-29).