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iOS 4.0 in enterprise and business – iPhone iPad Business Meetup

iOS 4.0 (iPhone 4.0) is announced. iPhone iPad Business meetup will invite a group of experts to share their view of iOS.

Sponsor: PayPal

Agenda:
6PM Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Speakers and demo.

Moderator:
Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman is Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon West,
and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), which
focuses on the evaluation and adoption of open source software, as well as its use
in mobile devices. In 2000, Tony became VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by HP in 2001),
responsible for its West Coast Labs, where he led the creation of the award-winning open
source Total-e-Mobile toolkit, which allowed mobile devices to connect to web applications.

Tony is best known as the Founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE). Before starting IDE, Tony was a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tony has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from UC Berkeley.

Mike Fyall, Admob
As Manager of Product Marketing at AdMob, Mike Fyall is responsible for the company’s product marketing for next generation platforms, including iPhone and Android. He also leads the creation of the monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics Report, which analyzes the data in AdMob’s network of more than 23,000 mobile sites and applications worldwide to provide insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem. Prior to joining AdMob, Mike worked at Nielsen Mobile as an account manager handling the company’s relationship with a major national operator.

Kent Griffin Sr. Product Manager, PayPal
Kent Griffin is a Sr. Product Manager at PayPal and manages the mobile SDK products. His goal is to make it easy for you to integrate PayPal into your mobile apps. He has been with PayPal for over 5 years and is a founding member of the mobile team. Prior to joining PayPal, he helped developed search solutions for other financial service providers. Kent holds both a BS and MS degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.

Tejas Bhandarkar, Product Manager, Cisco (Webex)

Michael Aday, Senior Director, Beyondsoft
Michael Aday has a long history in the mobile space starting in 1998 with his work on the deployment of Exchange infrastructures supporting the first Microsoft Activesync devices for mobile email. Having seen early the transformative effects of mobile email and applications on a smartphone, he was an immediate convert. Later in his Microsoft career he was responsible for market/competitive intelligence on the mobile platforms as well as helping to develop the intellectual property strategy for mobile devices. Michael left Microsoft in 2010 and is currently Senior Director for Business Development for Beyondsoft. In this role he is part of the team helping the company develop a broad set of services and capabilities around the mobile space.

More information regarding WWDC (from CNET)
• This year’s WWDC has 5,200 attendees from 57 countries.
• Apple has sold 2 million iPads in 59 days, and the device will be in 19 countries by the end of July
• To date, Apple has sold 100 million iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads combined.
• There are now 8,500 iPad-specific apps, plus 200,000 iPhone apps.
• The app store now sits at 225,000 apps.
• Apple gets 15,000 apps submitted every week, in 30 different languages. Of those, 95 percent are approved within seven days.
• Users of the iBooks app have downloaded 5 million books in 65 days
• Apple has paid $1 billion to developers (from their 70 percent cut of sales)

June 19, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | iPhone Developers | , | Leave a Comment

Mobile App In Business: Stores, Visibility, and Discovery – SVCWireless

Source: svcwireless.org

The mobile revolution is here and now.  With iPhone 4.0 and iPad, Apple Inc, the one time moribund and diminutive competitor to the Wintel alliance, owes the phenomenal success to its ubiquitous AppStore that hosts close to a quarter million mobile apps with billions of download to date.  With the iPad/GPad, Google/Apple TV, Chrome OS, mobile apps are also expanding into new territories, which app developers had never experienced before.

With the deluge of mobile apps at ever increasing app stores from handset manufacturers and carriers in addition to Apple AppStore and Google Android Market, app developers and publishers now face a new set of challenges: how to ensure their apps are published at the best channels/stores, with the optimal visibility that can be hoped for? And how can smartphone users discover the right apps that suit their needs?

To explore the answers to these questions, SVCWireless Mobile Application SIG is pleased to present you the upcoming event on May 27th, 2010:

Mobile App in Business: Stores, Visibility and Discovery

A panel of mobile industry leaders and veterans will share with you:

-  Different App Stores

-  Marketing channels to ensure app visibility

-  App Discovery/Analytics Tools

-  Alternative devices (TV, Tablet, PCs).

This is an informative and stimulating event regardless whether you are a developer/publisher serious about getting your mobile app off the ground or a casual observer wanting to get exposure to mobile app landscape.  We at SVCWireless Mobile Application SIG cordially invite you to join us at this exciting event.

Date and Time:           6:30pm – 9:00pm                                 Thursday May 27, 2010

Venue:                         Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP,

2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA

Agenda:                                              6:30pm to 7:00pm                   Registration and networking

7:00pm to 7:30pm                   Keynote

7:30pm to 8:30pm                   Panel and Q&A

8:30pm to 9:00pm                   Open Discussion and Networking

Registration Link:

https://www.123signup.com/register?id=msxnm

Admission:

Regular Member: Free

Associate Member/Non-Member: $10

Student: $5

Note: Snack and drinks will be provided. Due to the limited capacity, we highly recommend participants to register as early as possible.

Hosting Organization:

Mobile SIG

SVCWireless 2010 Program Team

Silicon Valley China Wireless Technology Association

Contacts:

Wei WU, wei.wu@svcwireless.org

David CAO, david.cao@svcwireless.org

David XU, david.xu@svcwireless.org

Tianbo LI, tianbo.li@svcwireless.org

Speaker Bios:

Greg L. Pickrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw LLP

Mr. Pickrell is a partner in the Emerging Growth & Technology practice group in Pillsbury’s Palo Alto office. Mr. Pickrell has been a corporate and securities lawyer for over 25 years, with a focus on the representation of high-technology companies. His clients have reflected the growth of Silicon Valley and range from typical startups to the Fortune 500/Global 100 companies. He has broad experience advising companies in a wide range of technologies, including computer hardware, software, Internet, semiconductors, telecommunications and cleantech. He has a wealth of experience in transactions involving Asia, particularly China and Japan.

Mr. Pickrell started his legal career in Silicon Valley with the firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, which he left to found Coudert Brothers’ first Silicon Valley office. He also served as managing partner of that firm’s Tokyo office. He was a cofounder of the firm’s Shanghai Office and China Practice. Mr. Pickrell frequently speaks and writes on his various areas of practice including venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions and international transactions.

Sean Galligan, VP of Business Development, Flurry

Sean is responsible for developing and managing Flurry’s distribution and partnership strategy with publishers, developers, operators, device manufacturers, and technology service providers.  Flurry provides mobile application analytics and marketing solutions to publishers and advertisers across four platforms: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Java.  As VP of Business Development for Flurry, Sean manages the team that works with Flurry’s 30,000+ developers and publishers.  Sean has 15 years of experience with major operators and start-ups in the telecommunications industry, serving in various management roles in business development, marketing and sales.  At Sprint, he was part of the team that launched the company’s e-Business and Mobile Computing business units and led the sales and channel marketing organizations for those businesses in the eastern region.  Sean holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.

Vishal Gurbuxani, Co-Founder, Mobclix

Vishal is Co-founder at Mobclix (www.mobclix.com), the industry’s largest targeted mobile ad exchange — the first open marketplace for mobile developers, advertisers, ad networks and agencies. Mr. Gurbuxani was a Manager for the Accenture Technology Labs Group, which is a global team of 150 researchers and developers focused on laying out the go-to market strategy and technical vision for the 180,000 Employees at Accenture.  Mr. Gurbuxani focused on numerous projects within Enterprise Analytics and Insight, which included unifying marketing spend and advertising of products and services for the numerous Fortune 500 Clients. Most notably Mr. Gurbuxani managed and delivered the Vongo Platform for Starz Entertainment, which is a leading video delivery platform for user generated content as well as licensed and secure content.  Mr. Gurbuxani also managed and delivered a remote monitoring and diagnostic platform for Solar Turbines, which is estimated to bring in record numbers of dollars for Solar Turbines.  Mr. Gurbuxani has led global teams within India, Manila, and Europe to deliver services and solutions to drive business value and monetization for Accenture’s Fortune 500 clients.

Mr. Gurbuxani has also authored numerous patents for large scale device management and personalization. Many of the key insights that Mr. Gurbuxani has learned through driving business value through technical execution, have been cultivated for the Mobclix mobile platform.

Mr. Gurbuxani graduated with Honors from Santa Clara University with both an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering.

Duc Haba, CTO, Motally inc.

Duc Haba has successfully founded and co-founded four technology companies. His illustrious technology career began at Xerox Research in Palo Alto (PARC) where he was a recognized leader in developing expert systems (6 patents filed). At Oracle, he programmed the first Oracle website and led a team of over 100 people to develop the Oracle Store. Duc was a founding member of Viant Inc., eCoupons.com, and GreenTomato Software. He loves to program mobile applications, heuristic learning systems and expert systems, and is an avid morning swimmer.

Anne-Louise Kardas, Strategic Business Development Manager, Sprint

Anne-Louise has been working with Sprint for the past 8 years, in various roles in business sales and most recently business development. She represents the “eyes and ears” of Sprint’s Product and Technology organizations in Silicon Valley to identify potential partnership opportunities that can enhance Sprint services. She works closely with the VC community, startups and developer groups in the Bay Area. Prior to Sprint, she worked for 5 years at Nortel Networks in their Enterprise and Professional Mobile Radio division. Anne-Louise graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris and Pantheon-Assas University in Paris and spent a year in Mannheim University, Germany.

Bruce Jones, Sr. Developer Evangelist, GetJar, Inc.

GetJar is the largest independent app store and the best place for bringing a cross platform app to market.  Bruce comes to GetJar after being the App Development Manager at EventRadar, Chief Gecko at Savage Geckos, a futurist at Ford Motor Company and a bedouin C programmer in the deserts of Saudi Arabia.   Bruce has an MBA from the University of Chicago

May 24, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | Mobile event | , | Leave a Comment

Android Top Gun Training Camp Instructor List

From Android Top Gun Training Camp

Marko Gargenta, Marakana

Marko Gargenta has been programming in Java even before it was named Java. His background is in very large enterprise web application development but he’s also had a fair-share of UI experience having rewritten the entire AWT into lightweight components before Java Swing ever came out. He’s a big believer in agile development processes, being a certified ScrumMaster himself as well as contributor to eXtreme Programming methodology.

Marko is a professional consultant and instructor. He’s taught teams of organizations such as Sony-Ericsson, Ericsson Canada, MetroPCS, Experian, DoJ, DoD, and many others. He’s published a PHP/MySQL by Example book with Prentice Hall (world’s largest tech publisher) as well as created many of Marakana’s courseware, including the Android series.

Georgi Dagnall, CEO at Geogad, Inc

Geogad is an Internet travel content platform that distributes audio- and video-based self-guided tours of popular tourist destinations. The tours are available over the web, over the mobile web to browsers on feature phones, and over Google Android-powered smartphones via native apps. During her time at Geogad, Dr. Dagnall has become proficient in audio and video content delivery over multiple channels and mobile devices. She hosts the Informal Android Developer Meetup in Silicon Valley and coordinated and led the first Android-related developer-led competition in Silicon Valley. Her wide background in computer systems and languages is includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, J2EE, PostgreSQL, C, and C++  among others. Her prior employment covered both R&D and technical marketing in the cable TV optical systems division of Harmonic, Inc. She received her doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology while researching the growth of InAsP strained quantum well lasers.

Jian Zhang, Chief Android Architect of ExtendLogic, Founder and CTO, Xeeku LLC

Jian is one of very few earlier developers starting Android development from the very beginning in 2007. He has strong passion in Android technologies, and had been working and managing types of Android Apps.  Currently, he has several Android apps in Android Market which were led developed by Jian under name Xeeku.

Besides helping ExtendLogic defines its Android enterprise solutions, Jian also has been working as CTO for Xeehu which Jian founded 3 years ago. Xeeku’s mission is to create an unified access portal for personal information consumption and capture.

Jian participated in Google’s Android Developers Challenge both Phase I and II, and was #6 and #12 in the Life Style and Social categories. Jian also participated in Android Hachathon.

Nelson To, the founder of Apofa

Nelson has been working Android since 1.0. I have published 12 android application on Android market myself under Apofa. www.apofa.com.  He also get involved with different android projects. Including Stanford University Android Research project. (which was working on M3, M5 android level), AOL AIM on Android and many others.

April 9, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | Uncategorized | , , | Leave a Comment

Android Top Gun Development Training Camp open for registration

Android Top Gun Development Training Camp is a full weekend (Two days) training program designed for new Android developers to jump start their Android development skills at one weekend. A pre-session will be arranged for complete newbies to get ready. A post-session will also be schedule for developers to learn about app in business. For course structure visit here

Hosted by ExtendLogic

Schedule

Silicon Valley

Main training: April 17, 18

Pre-session: April 12

Post session: TBD

Pre-requisition

  • Java
  • Eclipse
  • Android SDK 2.x

We will host a pre-session for developers who are not familiar with Android SDK.

Earlier bird registration (Before April 9th) : $250

Registration

Pre-registration

Partners:

Geogad

Marakana

About  

Silicon Valley-based ExtendLogic (EL) is the leading provider of Enterpirse IT solutions that focusing mobile end to end solutiosn from Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, to mobile backend platforms.  ExtendLogic leverages the global technical talent pool in conjunction with Silicon Valley management to provide.

exceptional value in a timely manner with high quality. With headquarters in Cupertino, branch offices in Atlanta, Singapore, China, and India. EL specializes in clients ranging from start-ups to SMB entities in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.Having been a pioneer since 2005, the company is rapidly expanding its core R&D centers and has built strong partnerships with top IT service providers around the world.

March 28, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | Android Developers | , , , | Leave a Comment

Seesmic app sees major update, now handles multiple Twitter accounts

 For more information:http://www.androidcentral.com

We love Twitter clients. That’s no secret around here. And the free Seesmic Twitter client for Android just got an update. It’s a biggie, and likely enough to return it to my regular Twitter rotation.

Seesmic QR codeFirst up (and foremost for me) is the ability to access multiple Twitter accounts. (Note to any developer working on a Twitter app: That really is a necessity. I don’t care what normal people tell you.)

You also can send a tweet to one or several accounts at once. Just like with the desktop client. That’s another biggie for those of us with personal and work accounts. Oh. Found it.

Other additions to the latest version of Seesmic include:

February 5, 2010 Posted by henryextendlogic | Android Developers | , | Leave a Comment

Android at Mobile World Congress

I’m happy to announce that we’ll be hosting a very special Android Developer Lab at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Wednesday, February 17th as part of the inaugural App Planet event.

There will be technical presentations throughout the day and a developer lounge where you can talk to Android team members and meet others in the growing Android developer community.

For more information:http://android-developers.blogspot.com

February 5, 2010 Posted by henryextendlogic | Android Developers | | Leave a Comment

Android vs iPhone: Slug It Out

This was a battle in the making and now it’s here. Go head to head with iPhone users on your Android device to see who is the best.

Ok, it’s just a game called Home-run Battle 3D. With the growing popularity of Android there are now more and more company that will make games and apps for both platforms. In the case of this game you can connect online to play against either your friends Android or iPhone. Give it a try and see who can hit the most home-runs.

For more information,Please click here:http://androidcommunity.com/android-vs-iphone-slug-it-out-20100204/

February 5, 2010 Posted by henryextendlogic | Android Developers, iPhone Developers | | Leave a Comment

Apple released iPhone OS 3.1.3

Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.3 for all iPhone and iPod touch models, addressing several specific bugs as well as offering fixes for a handful of security issues.

This update for the iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

- Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS
- Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances
- Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard

http://www.macrumors.com

February 2, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | Apple News, iPhone Developers | , , | Leave a Comment

Google Chrome 4 Natively Supports Greasemonkey Scripts

http://www.ghacks.net The biggest feature in Google Chrome 4 was without doubt the built in extension engine that allowed Chrome users to easily install and use extensions. What the developers forgot to mention in the release announcement was that Greasemonkey userscript support was also added to the web browser.

Userscripts are small scripts that change elements on the website. They can remove elements, e.g. backgrounds or advertisement and add new features like links or information to those pages.

Google Chrome did support userscripts in earlier version but the new implementation in Google Chrome 4 makes it much easier to install and work with those scripts.

Userscripts can be installed directly from within the web browser. All it takes is one click on the install button over at the Userscripts repository to display the installation overlay that is also displayed when installing Google Chrome extensions.

Installed userscripts are listed in the extensions manager from where they can be uninstalled or disabled. Userscripts are actually converted into extensions on the fly in the web browser which is the reason they are listed in the extensions manager.

The developers should consider adding a filter to the manager for a better overview especially for users with dozens of userscripts and extensions installed.

For more detail, read http://www.ghacks.net

February 2, 2010 Posted by henryextendlogic | Google Chrome | | Leave a Comment

Global cell phone sales on the rise – CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/ Sales of cell phones around the world rebounded in the fourth quarter, indicating that the recession may be over for the beleaguered mobile handset market, according to figures compiled by market research firms.

Global handset shipments were up 10 percent to 324.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to 293.8 million phones during the same quarter a year ago, said Strategy Analytics. This is the first quarter of growth the industry has seen since the third quarter in 2008.

Other research groups have also observed similar trends. ABI Research said it saw mobile handset shipments in the fourth quarter of 2009 grow about 15 percent compared to the third quarter of 2009. But stiff competition is squeezing the average sale price of devices, which fell 2 percent to $117.55 during the fourth quarter, ABI Research said.

Nokia and Samsung Electronics each increased market share during the quarter. Nokia’s market share jumped to 37.7 percent of the market. And Samsung increased its market share to 20.5 percent. Nokia and Samsung weren’t the only ones seeing strong growth. Other handset makers saw shipments increase. LG Electronics even broke fourth-quarter shipment records. Apple, which makes the popular iPhone, nearly doubled shipments of its smartphone compared to last year. In the fourth quarter, Apple shipped about 8.7 million iPhones compared with about 4.4 million shipments a year earlier.

For full article, visit: http://news.cnet.com/

February 1, 2010 Posted by davidcao01 | Uncategorized | , , , | Leave a Comment

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