ADDING MULTIMEDIA Peterson Birds of North America Wins 2011 Best App Ever Award
SAN ANSELMO, Calif., Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Peterson
Birds of North America, an app for iPhone and iPad, based on
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's (HMH) best-selling Peterson Field Guide to
Birds of North America book and seven other Peterson Field Guides, has
won the coveted 148Apps.com
2011 Best App Ever award for Best Outdoors App. The Peterson app,
developed by Appweavers Inc., was one of ten finalists nominated in the
outdoors category. Peterson bested competing apps from Nike Inc., Vito
Technology Inc., and Occipital to claim the top slot.
Now in its fourth year, the 148Apps.com
Best App Ever Awards celebrate the best of the more than 500,000 apps
available for Apple's mobile devices. This year also included categories
for apps running on the Android operating system. According to 148Apps.com,
the contest received over 1.5 million votes--more than 3 times the number
of votes cast the previous year. 148Apps.com
is one of the oldest and most respected app review websites, having
launched shortly after the Apple iTunes App Store debuted in July 2008.
Source: MarketWatch (press release)