Alexandria, Virginia - December, 23rd, 2011 - Vito Technology, awarded developer of Star Walk and Solar Walk, is happy to announce the release of Geo Walk 2.4 - 3D World Fact Book. With this update, the app opens an In-App purchase store with high quality content from the famous illustrated reference book publisher Dorling Kindersley. Handpicked articles on various topics (Animals and Plants, History, People and Inventions) are placed on an interactive globe model with respect to their location with an image and a short piece of information making most wonderful things of the world easy and fun to discover. Geo Walk is on sale 70% off regular price through Dec 30th.

The latest addition includes Search, which indexes all items in alphabetical order and greatly improves the usability of Geo Walk app. Other novelties of the app are the enhanced interface and links to Wikipedia . Every item has a corresponding quiz question, so after you are done exploring you can enjoy self check game. Altogether this brings Geo Walk closer to an ultimate interactive book of interesting facts.

Alexandria, Virginia - December, 19th, 2011 - Vito Technology today is pleased to announce two updates of their award-winning Education apps for iOS: Star Walk - 5 Stars Astronomy Guide 5.6 and Solar Walk - 3D Solar System Modes. Star Walk 5.6 and Solar Walk 1.9.1 are being released in conjunction with upcoming holidays, and Vito Technology is launching giveaways, contests, and special sale pricing for all their apps on December 21st-30th.

The update brings holiday fun to the education applications. Children and adults of all age will enjoy seeing Santa flying across the sky on December 24th, and another surprise is waiting for those who are enjoying the apps: after 15 seconds of idle the screen is slowly covered with beautiful frost lines. During the season there is a great chance you will get Star Walk for free, as it is being given away at Starbucks and in giveaways all over the iOS dedicated blogs. Vito Technology is at the same time giving away an iPad 2 on their Twitter account!

Alexandria, Virginia - Vito Technology today announces Star Walk - 5 Stars Astronomy Guide 5.5 for iOS, an update to their award-winning Education app that allows users to easily locate and identify 20,000+ objects in the night sky. The 360-degree, touch control star map displays constellations, stars, planets, satellites, and galaxies currently overhead from anywhere on Earth. Released in conjunction with Thanksgiving celebrations, the company plans giveaways, contests and special sale pricing on Nov. 25 - 28.

The update, employing new technology introduced in iOS 5, consists of a new interface for communication between Star Walk users and stargazers all over the world. When a Star Walk user agrees to share their approximate location with other Star Walk users and logs in to their Twitter account, they can post a message that will appear on a spinnable globe model along with hundreds of other tweets, thus creating a new stargazing community. This feature is integrated with native iOS 5 Twitter support and is only available to iOS 5 users.

Alexandria, Virginia - Vito Technology today is pleased to announce Solar Walk - 3D Solar System 1.9 for iOS, an update to their award-winning Education app that allows users to play with an interactive model of the Solar System and the Milky Way galaxy. The 360-degree, touch control 3D model displays planets, natural and artificial satellites, the closest stars, and the Milky Way galaxy. The app's database is self-contained and no Internet connection is required. Highly praised and featured by Apple in Best Apps 2010, this update adds voice-over to educational movie collection, multilingual subtitles, new high resolution textures to planets, including stunningly beautiful texture of Mercury, clouds over Venus and Uranus rings.

Vito Technology is devoted to making quality educational apps and this update is yet another step in this direction. With the latest voice-over addition everyone including children under school age can enjoy educational space travels with Solar Walk. The app reproduces astrophysical laws on screen and in the simplest way explains the most fascinating natural phenomena such as Solar eclipse, tides, Moon phases, seasonal change, zodiac cycle and more.

Alexandria, Virginia - October 18th, 2011 - To celebrate the Halloween season Vito Technology, the developer of famous educational iOS apps Star Walk, Solar Walk and Geo Walk is launching a challenge for creative kids and their parents. Participants are to submit photos of their Halloween costumes, carved pumpkins or/and Halloween themed drawings for a chance to win one of three $50 iTunes gift cards and a pack of magical educational apps.

Photo submission can be made for three categories: Best Halloween Costume, Best Drawing, Best Pumpkin Carving. Players can submit their photos on official contest page and encourage their friends and family to support them by voting. Each player can submit up to 3 photos to any category they like and are not limited to one category.

The deadline for submissions is October 28th; the winner in each category will be determined by the highest number of votes on October 31st and will be awarded with a $50 iTunes gift card and a pack of Vito's educational apps Star Walk, Solar Walk and Geo Walk free of charge.

Alexandria, Virginia - September 8th, 2011 - as a part of Special Back to School celebration,Vito Technology Inc. has announced the release of Geo Walk 2.3, an illustrative 3D World Fact Book for iOS. The globe-based app with info cards contains data about plants, animals, places and people. With no Internet connection required users can read facts about wonders of the world and memorize the info with the help of multiple choice quizzes.

One can learn more about Blue Whale, the largest animal on the Earth, or a prehistoric monument Stonehenge. The update brings about 100 of new cards from different corners of the world. Geo Walk now has an additional news feature that makes one tuned in with what happens on Earth. Several times a week the app brings to light new most valuable events about the Earth and its’ environment.

Geo Walk also has wide range of sharing opportunities. For example, you could find out that you and Leonardo da Vinci were born on the same day. Why not to share it with readers on Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. The update also brings more than 300 of new quizzes that can help you memorize new facts. You will definitely know the fastest bird in the world and the largest land invertebrate.

Current update brings some new details in design. The most noticeable one is new Geo Walk icon. Another one is a control panel that brings new user experience by making it easier to share pictures or add them to Favourites or switch between the info and picture mode.

Alexandria, Virginia, 31st of August, 2011 - Vito Technology is glad to announce a major update of Solar Walk app - a 3D Solar System model for iOS. The Solar System model presented in the app is fully functional and spinnable, 10 planets (including a dwarf planet Pluto), 20 moons of the planets, 10 satellites orbiting the Earth, about a hundred of the biggest stars, and hundreds of named places on the Moon, Mars, Earth and Venus (zoom in to see that). The Time Machine feature lets speed up the time back or forward thus moving planets and satellites according to the real trajectories. This update features 3D TV support, external TV Support, 3D models of 10 main satellites, 3 new educational movies and detailed Earth texture.

Solar Walk is the first app in the AppStore supporting the 3D TV. One can use the advantage of the hi-tech novelties to explore the Solar System listen to the ambient music and become a part of the Universe. The Managing Director of Vito Technology emphasizes: “Vito Technology is the first in the AppStore presenting the app with 3D TV support. 3D TVs are becoming more and more popular among people but there are not many films or content that they can watch using 3D function of the 3D TVs. With Solar Walk app they can enjoy flying among the planets of Solar System, man-made Satellites, even see our Solar System as a minor particle of the Galaxy.”

The NEW version presents 3D models of the most well-known man-made satellites: Daichi, ISS, Hubble, Suzaku, Envisat, Aqua, ERBS, CORONAS-Photon, SEASAT, UARS. The most breathtaking impressions one can get by zooming in to one of the satellites, fast forwarding the Time Machine to ride around the Earth on the satellite (see our latest youtube video).

The collection of new educational movies has been enlarged with three new movies describing the tidal phenomena, major circle of latitude and zodiacal constellations. All in all, Solar Walk app includes seven movies that vividly explain most interesting phenomena and notions that make us understand the world around us better.

Vito Technology and European Space Agency have signed a partnership agreement for mutual cooperation that will bring quality content to astronomy apps developed by Vito Technology. The first result of this partnership is the Spectrum Bar feature in Star Walk 5.4. Stargazers can slide their finger up or down the Spectrum Bar to change the wavelength and move along the spectrum. Each wavelength is represented by a different color on the star map. Currently, Star Walk 5.4 is the only stargazing guide that shows the sky in this way.

Once the current location has been entered manually or automatically, the app computes a planetarium dome view of the night sky above. Users can easily drag the display as they turn, viewing the entire sky. Tapping once on any point of light selects that object, and double tapping zooms in. A convenient info button brings up complete information regarding the selected object. Star Walk has 110 Messier objects, 88 Constellations, 9110 Stars, 32 Meteor Showers, more than 8,000 Artificial Satellites, and all the Planets of the Solar System in its database.

The update comes with an extensive database of currently functioning artificial Earth satellites with their exact positions over the ground, which means that anyone can point their TV dish or a satellite phone in the correct direction for better reception. The release is accompanied by Star Walk Month of Astronomy.

Altogether there are about 24,500 man made objects on the orbit of the Earth. 8000 of them are functioning satellites, all of which are available in Star Walk database. The list of satellites is broken down into categories: Special-Interest, Weather & Earth Resources, Communications, Navigation, Scientific, etc. Not only can you spot the ISS flying over your head, you can also locate any satellite, be it a military or a low-earth-orbit satellite used by most popular satellite phones.

This update is dedicated to the becoming-a-tradition Star Walk Month of Astronomy. For one month starting July 13th Star Walk team will be sharing the most interesting space discoveries and running a series of educational contests about the Universe. Please see Vito Technology website for details.

We are happy to introduce Solar Walk 1.7, a major update to the 3D Solar System model application. Take your seat in Solar Walk spaceship that will take you on a grand tour around our cosmic backyard. The new features like search, explanatory movies, Twitter and Facebook sharing added in this version will make your flight both adventurous and comfortable.

In-flight entertainment includes an explanatory movie collection about essential phenomena of the Earth and two modes for observing the Solar system during your lengthy flight. On your demand educational movies will explain what changes day to night and summer to autumn, when a Solar eclipse happens and why the Moon looks different every night.

Also you can choose a mode for observing the Solar system: Orrery or True-to-scale. While Orrery is just a model of the Solar system that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, True-to-scale view will show you absolute proportions and distances between planets in the Solar system.

Search feature will make it easy to fly from one planet of the Solar system to another. Capture beautiful views of the Universe and share it with friends via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. Show them what you see out of your window!

We dedicate a new version of astronomy guide Star Walk to the 50th anniversary of the human spaceflight. Augmented Reality is now available for iPad 2 and lets you just point-and-display the sky in real time to explore the wonders of stargazing. Version 5.2 also features a calendar of celestial events, true-to-life sky view, extended search mode, and more

Star Walk is becoming more universal and irreplaceable with each update. The calendar of celestial events will help you plan your stargazing and won’t let you miss an astronomy event of a life time. You can choose an event, make a bookmark, share it through social networks and create a memorable stargazing event using just one app.

In addition Star Walk’s search mode is now more intuitive and convenient, skies are natural and deep, Sun eclipse’s bug is fixed, and control buttons were redesigned to create smoother view, so that interface enhanced with new features would not look overloaded.

12th of April has been celebrated around the world for years as Yuri’s Night. Currently the United Nations is considering to declare 12th of April the “International Day of the Human Space Mission” in honor of Yuri Gagarin’s flight.Let's celebrate together this wonderful date that made the whole humanity one step closer to the stars and the dream of exploring the outer space.

The version 2.1 now has Spanish localization and major bug fix.

With this update the app presents a globe in a cozy setting of adventurer's desk. The users can spin the globe and pictures of the most interesting creatures, plants, landmarks and personalities will appear once they hover over a specific region. Categories can also be filtered out and browsed through in a flashcard-like mode. Once you tap a picture you get a short blurb or information about the selected object.

Another improvement is a highly requested feature of quizzes aimed at memorizing facts in a game-like manner. Developers say they were surprized that after a half hour of playing they have memorized enough for a quick spin on a TV game show.

Geo Walk is an app that brings the family together to explore facts about the fascinating world around us. It suits both adults and children curious about far away places, great people, and the most amazing living creatures and plants. Geo Walk can become a convenient companion for inveterate travelers who are always on the go, it is a perfect time-killer on the long trips.

The reason is connected with the WM platformÕs limitations. ÒAll our Windows Mobile items have become outdated. Besides there is no further perspective for the development and improvement of our products.Ó - says Victor Toporkov, Vito Technology CEO.

ItÕs been two years since Vito released the last update for their Windows Mobile products and now they plan to stop any support for their WM apps. They are informing all their partners about their decision and asking them to disable Vito Technology software on their online stores.

At the moment, Vito Technology development team mostly focuses on educational software for iOS and Mac OS. They are currently working on Star Walk and Solar Walk, apps for exploration of space and Solar system. There are also plans to release an update for Geo Walk, a 3D world fact book full of interesting facts with illustrations. Besides, some new apps for iPhone and iPad by Vito Technology are in the pipeline.

The greatest and most expressive feature of this update is the availability to explore the whole Milky Way Galaxy and find the place of the Solar System there. The users can zoom in and zoom out to turn the Solar System and the galaxy in any direction.

The next features are devoted to those who are interested in discovering our planet. The Solar Walk developers have chosen the most interesting satellites of the Earth, and now users can find them and follow their trajectories in real time. New updated version also shows your current location and names of the biggest cities on the globe.

The version 1.6. brings us closer to the Moon, Mars, and Venus where we can find named points of interests on surfaces. You can catch some oneÕs imagination naming craters of Mars or Venus, or just study astronomy with your kids. For example, have you ever heard about Mars crater named for Greek goddess Athena Tessera?

The educational part of new updated version is presented with the first movie about all planets in the Solar System (includes even small Pluto!), that compares their sizes.

Star Walk Christmas Edition brings the holiday spirit to your stargazing parties! Have fun chasing Santa in the night sky - Star Walk will show you exactly where he is on Christmas Eve! Here is what Star Walk team has in store for you this Christmas:

The concept behind iPod touch augmented reality is very simple - when you know your location and have the gyro to detect movements, all you need to replace the compass is to tell your iPod where the Sun is. Simply point the built-in iPod camera towards any sky object, for instance the Sun (or the Moon) and swipe the app generated sky to match the real one, and voilaÉ you have a fully functioning software compass which has even more precision than the one in an iPhone or iPad.

Use Gyrocompass 3D to find out where North is, to guide you through a map to any destination. Compass is essential to determine your orientation and will help you find your way how our ancestors did it in the old days: guided by stars and constellations of the night sky.

ATTENTION: This app requires iPhone 4 or 4th generation iPod Touch.