Monthly Archives November 2011
Appcelerator Survey Finds WP7 Third Most Popular Smartphone Option for Developers
While Android and iOS continue to control the top of the smartphone market, we keep wondering when an ascendant third-place challenger will appear. New data from Nielsen helps explain why placing a strong third may be tough. Nielsen says in the U.S., Android and iOS account for 71 percent of all smartphones in use, which leaves little room for competitors. But among smartphone users who downloaded an app in the last 30 days, the competition is even more lopsided: 83 percent used either an iPhone or Android. Continue Reading »
Appcelerator Speeds Up Mobile App Development
The majority of the apps that run on the iPhone and iPad were created using Objective-C, an antiquated programming language that is considered by many to be harder to learn, and less powerful than modern languages such as JavaScript, Python and Ruby. Many developers are turning to programs like Appcelerator Titanium, which converts apps written in web languages into mobile apps that work across platforms such as iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. Continue Reading »
Payvment Crowdsources Black Friday Deals Across Its 100,000+ Sellers on Facebook
Payvment, the number one Facebook e-commerce platform, will launch a special Black Friday deals section of its Shopping Mall on Facebook that will allow shoppers to search for, discover and get holiday deals from its thousands of boutique sellers. Without ever leaving Facebook, shoppers can visit the Payvment Shopping Mall to get up to 80 percent off of items ranging from jewelry to skateboards to electronics. Continue Reading »
Jeff Haynie of Appcelerator: It’s About People and Relationships
If you want to get in front of your customers and prospects today, you’ve got to be where they are, which is on their mobile device. And Jeff Haynie believes that to build a great company, it’s about people and relationships. “People aren’t just employees, they are partners, investors and the whole ecosystem that it takes to build a successful, fast-growing company.” Continue Reading »
VeriSilicon Licenses a Wide Range of ARM Technology for Advanced Consumer and Embedded Applications
ARM and VeriSilicon Holdings Co. Ltd., a world class IC design foundry and custom silicon solution provider, today announced that VeriSilicon has licensed a wide range of ARM(R) Intellectual Property (IP). This includes selected cores from the high performance, energy-efficient ARM Cortex(TM) processor and ARM Mali(TM) Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) families, and ARM Artisan(R) Physical IP. Access to this broad range of ARM IP will enable VeriSilicon to provide its highly differentiated, platform-based system-on-chip (SoC) design and turn-key services. In particular VeriSilicon’s ‘specification to chip’ (‘spec to chip’) services will support customers in key markets, such as mobile computing, smart-TVs, cloud computing and the ‘Internet of things’. Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Ben Yu – Power Player VC recognition
The first annual Power Player West competition has begun! Nominate your favorite west coast champions of Internet and mobile entrepreneurs, and check out the list of players that have already been nominated. Continue Reading »
Ooyala Helps Everyone Be Video Minded With VideoMind Video Index
That might be the most number of uses of the word video in a title by me, ever. The VideoMind Video Index is a quarterly report that will offer everyone an insight into what’s going on in the world of video and, I quote, “an industry resource that offers unique insights into the world of online video and personalized digital media, along with analysis, interviews, research, infographics and coverage of industry trends.” Continue Reading »
