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28th

Appcelerator Wins Best Cloud Based Technology

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February 28, 2012 – 

Appcelerator wins best cloud based technology at Global Mobile Awards 2012. Continue Reading »

Feb
28th

RSA Collaborates with Mobile Technology Partners to Help Assure Trust for Mobile Business

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February 28, 2012 – 

Leading-edge mobile technology providers and developers are collaborating with RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) to build additional layers of security and access control into next-generation mobile solutions by integrating RSA mobile authentication technology into their products. RSA mobile authentication technology is designed to enable innovative mobile use cases that incorporate strong security without sacrificing usability.

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Feb
28th

Q&A: Payvment CEO Christian Taylor on f-commerce

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February 28, 2012 – 

Major brands like Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and Banana Republic have shut down their Facebook stores in recent months after the predicted boom in socially driven sales failed to materialise.

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Feb
28th

Payvment Launches New “Social IQ” Technology to Turbo-Charge Facebook Commerce

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February 27, 2012 – 

Payvment, the number one Facebook ecommerce platform, today introduced Payvment Social IQ, a “Social Marketing Expert-in-a-Box” that guides sellers towards the optimal social media activities to boost sales and engagement in their Facebook stores. Based on analysis of over two years of data from thousands of successful sellers, Payvment Social IQ technology delivers a daily set of customized actions to help sellers who are new to social commerce drive rapid fan base growth, traffic, and sales. Continue Reading »

Feb
28th

InvenSense Showcases the Latest in Motion Interface Technology for Mobile Products at MWC 2012

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February 22, 2012 – 

InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionTracking™ devices for consumer electronics, is showcasing its latest integrated 6-axis and 9-axis MotionTracking technologies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 27th – March 1st, located in App Planet (Hall 7) 7F24. Motion interfaces have rapidly become a key function in many consumer and mobile electronic devices, such as, smartphones, tablets, gaming, smart TV and many other devices. It provides for a more intuitive way of interacting with your electronic devices, by tracking motion in free space to control or provide input to a variety of mobile applications. Continue Reading »

Feb
28th

Roth Capital Starts InvenSense (INVN) at Buy

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February 22, 2012 – 

Roth Capital initiates coverage on InvenSense (NYSE: INVN) with a Buy. PT $21.00. Continue Reading »

Feb
28th

InvenSense Launches MotionApps 5.0 Software for High Performance Location Based Services, Gesture Recognition, and Imaging Applications

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February 27, 2012 – 

InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), the leading provider of MotionTracking™ devices for consumer electronics, today announced the release of the MotionApps™ 5.0 software platform. This update addresses the high degree of accuracy required to support new Motion Interface applications for mobile devices such as, navigation, gestures, augmented reality, and health and fitness monitoring. The new MotionApps 5.0 software platform, in combination with the InvenSense MPU-6050 or MPU-9050 integrated MotionTracking™ devices and third party pressure sensors, will provide complete 10-axis MotionFusion data. MotionApps 5.0 will also provide proprietary and patent pending functions for in-use motion bias correction, maintaining the accelerometer bias calibration to less than 30mg (typical) over the life of the device. The in-use calibration also brings a large cost savings to mobile device manufacturers by eliminating the need to perform sensor calibrations on the factory line. This release also features performance enhancements running on the embedded Digital Motion Processor (DMP) for ultra-low power system operation that includes interrupt-based gesture recognition, built-in pedometer, and sensor fusion, without intervention from the mobile device application processor. MotionApps 5.0 also supports high precision timestamps to accurately align sensor and image data, resulting in improved image stabilization and processing required for today’s high resolution image captures. Continue Reading »