Tag Archive | "android"
April 18, 2012 by
Lisa Whelan |
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The team at GoogleTV is hosting a hackathon this weekend at the Google Mountain View campus in conjunction with the Silicon Valley Android Developer Meetup. I’ll be there to help teams create their elevator pitches between 7-10pm on Friday night. And, the festivities will span throughout the weekend. Winners of the hackathon will be selected [...]
October 5, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Mobile,
Monetization,
Social Media
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I recently sat down with Henry Vogel, the President and CEO of Apptera to talk about their new Android app, Poptuit. Poptuit is a multi-faceted consumer-focused app that brings together your favorite people and merchants together with your phone’s dialer, SMS messenger, email client, camera, maps, social apps and more into one easy to use [...]
September 1, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
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Its been a huge couple of weeks in mobile… It started with Google‘s acquisition of Motorola Mobility on August 15th (its largest to date). That was followed by HP‘s announcement on August 18th that it is canceling its Palm line of WebOS-based hardware. The big news continued into week with Steve Jobs’s resignation as CEO [...]
February 24, 2011 by
Lisa Whelan |
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I spent last week in Barcelona for the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress. Here are some of the highlights…
October 15, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
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I recently stumbled across a visual map of the web 2.0 landscape, created by John Battelle and team, called Points of Control. (Note: If you’re interested in social media and you’re not familiar with John Battelle, check him out… He’s the Program Chair of the Web 2.0 Summit, and his nearly 40,000 followers on Twitter [...]
March 30, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Mobile,
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Today, European-based mobile analytics company, Distimo, launched a new, free analytics tool called Distimo Monitor, which allows developers to track the performance of their application across several app stores and compare that performance to their competition. Prior to this new product release, Distimo already provided both free and customized reports on the mobile application ecosystem [...]
February 4, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Mobile,
Research
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Today, I read a fascinating report today from Mobile search engine, Taptu, which outlines trends in the “Mobile Touch Web” (i.e. content that can be run on “any touch screen device equipped with a Webkit- based mobile browser.”) Taptu “analyzed, categorized and measured more than 100 million sites on the mobile touch Web and classified [...]
January 7, 2010 by
Lisa Whelan |
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Yesterday, I attended the AT&T Developer Summit at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. It was one of the best mobile developer events I’ve attended in recent memory, not the least because AT&T shared some of it’s best announcements with mobile developers first…
December 15, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
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I recently swapped my Nokia E71 out for an unlocked Motorola CLIQ (running on AT&T). I won the CLIQ at the recent MOTODEV Summit, and despite being excited to start using what looked like a great device, I was a little sad to give up my Nokia E71. Why? I like the E71 hardware a [...]
October 23, 2009 by
Lisa Whelan |
Consulting,
Developers,
Mobile,
Monetization,
Social Media
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After listening to the podcast I did on Wednesday with Motodev on how to incorporate social media into mobile applications, Matthäus Krzykowski, (a fellow mobile consultant, freelance writer for VentureBeat, and fascinating guy) tweeted: “@motodev @lisawhelan is great, enjoyed the podcast. However, as @danshapiro http://bit.ly/3eRvaK says viral broken is in mobile. Thoughts ?” It’s a [...]
