Mobile Month 2011 Calendar
The Mobile Month 2011 Calendar is now available at GreenHorn Connect.
If you want to add an event of your own, just create a new event on the GreenHorn calendar and include the tag ‘mobile’.
This post was written by Matt Fellows and originally appeared at BostInnovation on March 19; republished by permission.
Boston continued to define itself as a technology hub when it was announced by Mayor Menino on Tuesday that the city of Boston was awarded top honors twice from the Public Institute of Technology (PIT). Recognized were Boston’s iPhone app, Citizens Connect, and GIS (geospatial information system) Data Hub.
The PIT is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. focused on promoting and perfecting the use of technology in local government. Backed by federal, governmental, and industrial organizations, the PIT makes it their business to learn the newest technology solutions and share these with the local governments of the nation.
The PIT also recognizes local governments for technological achievements in government affairs, and as a Bostonian I’m proud to report that Boston took gold in the Web and E-Government category, as well as the award in GIS. Read more…
Mobile-Enabled Digital Photo Frame Dropping Soon
This post originally appeared at BostInnovation on March 16; republished by permission.
If your grandmother is anything like mine, she’s probably still watching the same photos you loaded into the digital photo frame you gave her as a gift four years ago.
Last week, I got a chance to sit down with Matthew Growney, the CEO of Concord-based Isabella Products, to talk about Isabella’s first mobile-enabled gadget: The Vizit
What’s more, I got to play with a prototype version!
The Vizit is going to be released on March 23 at next week’s CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, Nev. Essentially, it’s what digital photo frames should have been when they Read more…
How Hello Vino Solves Your Drinking Problem
This post was written by Jonathan Kardos and originally appeared at BostInnovation on March 11, 2010; republished by permission.
I’m sick of living a lie.
I’m sick of pretending to know which wines to pick. In fact, I’m also sick of butchering French pronunciations. Ka-berr-NAY SOH-vi-YON anyone?
If you’re anything like me, you love a good wine but you’re definitely not a snob. And you don’t have the time or patience to acquire all the knowledge necessary to navigate wine racks or read wine lists with complete confidence.
Wine novices of the world, there’s an iPhone app to solve your worries.
Co-founder Jim McNamee of Massachusetts-based Hello Vino says the app is designed to help the “average wine consumer who might have trouble making Read more…
This post was written by Erin Kutz and originally appeared at Xconomy on March 12; republished by permission.
So the iPhone may be the prettiest, the Blackberry may boast the biggest smartphone market share, and the Windows Mobile platform is, um, around, but it’s Android that’s best for developing apps. Or at least it was the Android developers who best defended their platform at the smartphone smackdown during our Mobile Madness event on Tuesday.
The event was a big success, featuring a look at the future of the mobile industry both locally and globally, a panel of executives dishing on what we can look forward to in the next year, and keynote speakers touching on voice recognition, data storage, and Windows’ share in the smartphone world. More than 200 people crammed into Microsoft’s New England Research & Development Center for the forum. (Check out our slide show here.)
I think the purpose of the smackdown was best summed up in the words of referee John Landry, founder and managing director of Lead Dog Ventures: “The objective here is really to dump on the other platforms.”
To achieve that, we invited developers and others passionate about app creation to step up and represent the iPhone, Google’s Android, BlackBerry, and Windows. The audience decided by a raising of hands that the Android guys did the best job representing their platform. The congratulations goes to Read more…
Mobile Madness Takeaways: Boston’s 4G Network is Coming
This post was written by Jennie White and was originally published at BostInnovation on March 10; republished by permission.
Guess what Boston? We’re in line to be one of the first cities with 4G-network coverage for mobile devices.
On Tuesday, March 9, Xconomy held a forum called Mobile Madness-The New Future of Computing. I got the chance to sit in on the Executive Panel: New Gadgets, New Infrastructure, New Business Models. The panel included Walt Doyle, CEO of uLocate; Steve Krom, VP/GM of New England AT&T; Greg Raiz, CEO of Raizlabs; and Dan Olschwang, CEO of Jumptap.
The panel kicked off with an in-depth discussion of mobile networks, specifically, conversation about the how the technology powering your cell phone signal is improving. With 4G networks, we’ll get more wi-fi integration, bandwidth and speed. What does this mean for your cell phone? Faster application downloads and fewer calls dropped.
Faster downloads mean more applications.
In February of this year, TechCrunch reported 150,00 apps in Apple’s app store; there are thousands of other apps for the Palm, Android and Blackberry platforms. Greg Raiz of Raizlabs made a good point; in comparison to the number of websites that provide services like apps, there aren’t that many mobile applications yet. He predicts that, similar to when everyone had to have a business card or a website, soon everyone is going to need a Read more…
Mobile Monday Faces Off: U.K. vs. U.S.
This post was written by Jennie White and originally appeared at BostInnovation on March 9; republished by permission.
We’re obsessed with all kinds of things here at BostInnovation; robots, Twitter, YouTube videos, augmented reality, foosball, and especially our cell phones. We’re an office full of mobile users, texting, photo uploading, and gaming, and we’ve taken our mobile activity to a whole new level this month because it’s Mass Mobile Month.
On Monday March 8, the BostInnovation team attended Mobile Monday Boston, a quarterly event that allows companies specializing in mobile products and technology to present their products to a huge local audience.
Organizers Matt Gross and Kate Imbach put on an impressive event last night or should I say “battle?” That’s right the lines were drawn between the U.K. and the U.S. to see who had the coolest mobile companies. It can’t really get much geekier then that, can it?
In case you missed the event, here is quick a recap of the companies who presented and a look at what they do: Read more…
