PollenEight- Venture Capital for Indian Mobile StartUps
Aug 26, 2010 News, iphone development
The California based mobile app development company PurpleTalk Inc. has launched a first of its kind- PollenEight for India only. It is a venture capital initiative for Indian mobile app development industry.
PollenEight was announced at the NASSCOM EmergeOut Conclave on Wednesday. It will help the “aspiring entrepreneurs and engineers” with seed capital finance and help give shape to their business “ideas”.
“Innovation in the mobile space is just starting, and the next big technology breakthrough is likely to be mobile exclusive. For PurpleTalk, this is the right time to actively encourage entrepreneurship in the mobile space. PollenEight will focus on identifying ambitious, talented people and provide them with the support to start their own venture,” said Sridhar Muppidi, CEO of PurpleTalk, Inc.
The “Eight” in PollenEight comprises of idea, team size and composition, potential user base, technological feasibility, level of innovation, profiles and work background of founders, relevance to mobile computing platforms, and revenue / IP potential of the idea. Theses eight fundamental factors will be kept in mind while going for company selection for PollenEight.
India is still at her “pollinating” stage when it comes to smartphone application development. PurpleTalk Inc. with the launching of PollenEight is trying to “bloom” the Indian market.
Check our PollenEight official website for more details.
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BlackBerry Maker RIM Buys Cellmania Inc.
Aug 25, 2010 BlackBerry Development
BlackBerry makers, Research in Motion (RIM) has purchased California based software company Cellmania Inc. This purchase of RIM, will definitely help them to build a stronger app store to compete against iPhone and Android apps.
Cellmania made softwares that allows owners of content to track its use, bill for subscriptions and integrate billing with customer accounts. This could be used by RIM in building app stores, which sell downloadable content.
“Our team has joined RIM’s global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform,” Cellmania said in a statement on its Web site.
No financial details were released. RIM declined to comment, while Cellmania didn’t respond to a request for further comment.
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Windows Phone 7 App Building Tools Coming on Sept. 16
Aug 24, 2010 Windows Mobile
Microsoft said on Monday that on September 16, app building tools for Windows phone 7 are coming. The app building tools were available in beta test form for several months and the final developer tools will be available next month. Microsoft also released a 12-hour training course for developers on this.
Microsoft is also launching its new mobile operating system this Autumn to compete with the success of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems.
The success of Windows Phone 7 will depend on the apps, which is what made iPhone and Android’s success. The type and quality of apps for Windows Phone 7 will depend on the mobile application developers which is why Microsoft is making a big deal about the tools.
Here is the Microsoft blog item detailing the new app building tools coming.
Tags: Windows Mobile 7, windows phone
Google Mobile App Update: Push Notifications for iOS Users
Aug 24, 2010 iphone development
Today it was announced in the Google Mobile blog that from now on the Google Mobile App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad will now support push notifications of calendar events and emails. It will support both Gmail and Google hosted email.
The update is now available in the App Store — allows you to sign into one or several Google accounts and set up Gmail and Google Calendar push events, which work just as you’d expect. This is an important update, because Apple only allowed its own MobileMe and Yahoo accounts to do push for web mail. As of later today, the Google Mobile app will work for new emails/calendar events via Push notifications server to alert iOS users.
So another update to rejoice for Google fanatics, Push Notifications are finally here!
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BlackBerry Paid Apps for Australian Customers is Now LIVE!
Aug 23, 2010 BlackBerry Development, News
RIM has pressed the ‘green’ button. From now, paid BlackBerry apps will be available from its BlackBerry App World for Australian users. They can purchase BlackBerry apps using PayPal and credit cards.
Local users this morning told TheAustralian.co.au they were able to make purchases from the BlackBerry App World Australia online store.
RIM has also confirmed that in addition to various free BlackBerry applications, Australian customers can also purchase a variety of additional mobile applications starting from US 99 cents (automatically converted to local currency).
In addition, QR barcode scanning is also supported, allowing users to scan a QR code associated with an application in order to find the related apps. It will also automatically open the application’s information and download page.
In 13 countries, since April 2009 BlackBerry users have been able to buy applications, while 42 countries had access to the free-only versions.
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In UK BlackBerry Torch 9800 Available from October 1st
Aug 23, 2010 BlackBerry Development, News
BlackBerry Torch 9800 will now be available in the UK market. British online retailer eXpansys has listed the smartphone on their website. BlackBerry Torch 9800 is already available in the US market.
eXpansys is offering OS 6 BlackBerry Torch SIM-free for £570. Its schedule date is from 1st October. But, no network provider in the UK has come up with any announcement, when it should start offering branded models on contract. In the US, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone is available on the AT&T network.
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 comes with a 624 MHz processor, a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, portrait-sliding QWERTY keypad, an optical trackpad and a 5-megopixel camera with auto focus an a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels along with some other striking functions such as image stabilization, scene modes, geo-tagging and zoom.
An estimation that in US, 100,000-150,000 of BlackBerry Torch 9800 were sold during the first weekend of its launch.
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Portuguese Will Pay 70 Euros More for iPhone 4
Aug 20, 2010 iphone development
Portugal is getting her iPhone 4 next week. Mobile provider Optimus has the opportunity sell to iPhone 4 in Portugal from August 27. But, among this good news, Portuguese customers will have to pay 70 Euros more to get an iPhone 4.
Untill now, it was bad in New Zealand, where the Kiwis has to pay NZ$1299 (about US$918) for a 32GB iPhone 4. But at 769.90 euros, a 32 GB iPhone 4 costs nearly NZ$100 (US$71) more in Portugal than in New Zealand, where mobile handset prices are usually among the highest in the world. The 16 GB iPhone 4 will cost at 679.90 euros in Portugal.
Optimus hasn’t offered any definite reasons for raising the price by 70 Euros and we wonder how Apple would like to take this issue.
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Foxconn Will Hire More People in China to Meet the Production Demand of Biggies
Aug 20, 2010 iphone development
Foxconn, the Taiwan based manufacturer of electronics goods and also the maker of the Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad, has declared its plans to hire more 400,000 workers over the next 1 year.
The management has aso announced that it would enable the company to cut employees’ overtime maintaining the production line.
Foxconn is a part of Hon Hai Precision, the largest maker of consumer electronics in the world. Moreover it is one of the biggest employers in China.
The experts think that the ever increasing demand for Apple’s devices have motivated the decision. However other sources think that the work pressure and treatment to its workers have led to the suicides of 13 Chinese employees, earlier this year, at the Foxconn factories in China. The rise of such cases have raised a concern over the work pressure. It was revealed that the workers get compelled to work overtime to earn money and at the same time the high production demand.
However, the Foxconn management has always denied that the suicides were work-related and that the company mistreats its workers. But it has admitted that the people at Foxconn have to do more overtime than the maximum limit permitted by Chinese law.
It has also argued that many of the major manufacturers follow the same thing.
The suicidal cases have threatened to tarnish the image of top the global brands, like Apple, Dell and Nokia, for which Foxconn manufactures laptops and Smartphones.
Early this year, the company has announced wage increases and the plans to open their production centers in China’s inner provinces so that the people, many of whom come from those provinces, can stay closer to their families. However the new hiring will make the count of the Foxconn’s workforce in China as huge as 1.3 million.
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110,000 pre-orders in 9 Hours in South Korea!!
Aug 20, 2010 iphone development
iPhone 4 is due to launch on Sepetember in South Korea, but yesterday KT’s servers were shut down due to much congestion. About 110,000 pre-orders went through in just 9 hours! They were needlessly to say overwhelmed by the response. This could mark a record for one-day sales in the country and still online pre orders are due to last for another week.
The iPhone 3GS was a success in Korea, which has traditionally been resistant to foreing brands. Over 850,000 Apple devices have shipped since the original November. This is great concern for the home based company Samsung. However, Samsung siad that it had already sold 800,000 Galaxy S phones in its native territory in less than two months. To help spur sales, Samsung has just launched a white version of the Galaxy S in Korea through KT’s main rival, SK Telecom. The large Super AMOLED screen, fast processor and use of Android have all helped spur sales.
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Brides, Priest and An iPad!
Aug 19, 2010 News, iPad Development
Really, it is astonished to see how Apple’s iPad play such a big role in a person’s life that you can almost say they are married to his iPad…and more astonishment, he can get married by his iPad!
Aaron and Katie, the groom and the bride…their wedding got fecilitated by an iPad! as it made its rounds to the priest and then the bride and groom. Not only did bride Katie read her vows to husband Aaron from the iPad, she composed them on it as well.
Aaron and Katie’s wedding was held outdoor, a shade was provided to help reading from the iPad easier as iPad and sunlight does not make a good ‘couple’ for readability. I think this wedding certainly qualify for off-beat nuptials. What do say folks?
Image Courtesy: Tuaw.com
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