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BERKELEY, CA–(Marketwire – January 27, 2011) – TableTopics Inc., the creators of conversation starter sets that help people make the most of the conversations they have every day, is proud to announce its first app, TableTopics Mobile, is available on the App Store iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

“We’re always looking for ways to make it fun and easy for people to have great conversations,” said Cristy Clarke, founder of TableTopics. “Our existing line  starters focus on opportunities for conversations at home with family and friends. We started thinking about all of the other places people socialize, whether it’s out for an evening with friends, on a first date or even on an airplane. While our products are really beautiful and perfect for use at home, we wanted to come up with a way to make some editions more portable. Creating an app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad was the perfect solution.”

Features of the TableTopics Mobile App include:

- Two pre-loaded question sets — STARTER SET and HAPPY HOUR.
- Additional question sets available through In App Purchase — FIRST DATE, IN FLIGHT, GO GREEN and GOURMET.
- The ability to “favorite” answers and even create your own conversation starter questions to use with your friends.
- CHANCE – ALL PLAY feature allows users to play all question sets at the same time by picking one question from each set at random (iPad version only).

TableTopics teamed up with the creative minds at Aloompa to develop the app. “We’re big TableTopics fans here at Aloompa,” said Kurt Nelson. “We jumped at the chance to work with them on the project. The combination of great content and innovative design make these apps really special.”

The TableTopics Mobile App is available for $2.99 (iPhone and iPod touch) or $3.99 (iPad) from the App Store on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, on the Apple Apps store: 
iPhone and iPod Touch: http://bit.ly/ttiphoneapp 
iPad: http://bit.ly/ttipadapp

Additional question sets are available for $1.99 (iPhone and iPod touch) or $2.99 (iPad) through In App Purchase.

Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment are excited to announce that the iPhone app they designed with Nashville-based design and innovation company Aloompa has been named a finalist in the “Best Touring App” category by Billboard’s Music App Summit. Winners will be announced on October 5th. The app, which includes the performers lineup, radio streaming of current and past Bonnaroo favorites, road trip suggestions, a GPS-enabled map of the festival grounds, food and vendor information, personalized scheduling as well as photo sharing, was first created for the 2009 event.

About the announcement, A.C. Entertainment’s Jeff Cuellar said: “It was our goal to create a an app that was not only useful during the festival, but also had features that would give it life before and after. The mobile space is so important these days and we are really pleased that we created something that our fans want and continue to use.”

BNA/NASHVILLE artist KENNY CHESNEY has released an iPHONE app for fans, which is available now at the iTUNES store for free.

CHESNEY said: “It’s a good way to put your songs and tour directly in your fans’ hands. With the iPHONE’s capability, it’s a great opportunity to let your fans get in there and really experience the music… and the shows… and well, all of it. So, I decided rather than be first, I’d take some time and create something that gives the fans the most comprehensive application we could create. And I wanted it to be free for them, just to say thanks for being part of all of this!”

The app was created by NASHVILLE-based design firm ALOOMPA’s owners DREW BURCHFIELD, KURT NELSON and TYLER SEYMOUR. It has a NO SHOES RADIO component so fans can have CHESNEY’s personal mix of live cuts, song demos, and favorite records on their phones. It also includes tour dates, the ability to buy tickets, news, a music store, photo and video galleries and the capability to send a TWITTER tweet without leaving the app.