Apple has announced that it allows businesses to purchase apps in volume. With the Volume Purchase Program the buyer can choose an app, determine the needed quantity and complete the purchase with the corporate credit card. The buyer then receives redemption codes which he can send out. The Volume Purchase Program is only available in [...]
I came across an interesting report from 3GVision, the creator of the i-nigma barcode scanner. The numbers show a worldwide growth in mobile barcode usage. The US is leading the growth, but the popularity of barcodes is also increasing in Europe with Germany, the UK and Italy leading this trend. So maybe this is finally [...]
UPDATE: We will meet on Thursday (05/26) at 7 pm at Affentor-Schänke Neuer Wall 9 60594 Frankfurt www.affentor-schaenke.de —————– Just a quick reminder: we are holding our first PhoneGap & HTML5 Meetup this Thursday in Frankfurt/Main. Last year we already held a couple of HTML5 Meetups. This year we want to focus more on the [...]
This Monday we held the second iteration of our JavaScript User Group here in Frankfurt: #jsugfra (thanks Björn!) There were only around 12 attendees there, although signups ranged around 20 – so shame on you if you didn’t show up! ;) But it’s your loss, because aside from Evgenij‘s talk you missed my “little” (1hr) hands-on [...]
March 28th will see the 2nd JavaScript User Group meeting in Frankfurt (JSUGFRA). I will do a little talk about different SDKs that enable you to bring your JavaScript application to many different platforms and devices, not in the browser but as an (almost) native app. iOS, Android, Nokia, BlackBerry, HP/Palm and even Samsung TVs [...]
Back at 2010′s MWC a number of leading telco companies announced the formation of an international alliances called “Wholesale Applications Community” (WAC). Not a lot was heard since then until this year’s MWC (2011): WAC launches its first products WAC has announced its commercial launch with over 69 member companies already. The goal is to [...]
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There are some great mobile related events coming up in the next months that might interest you. Have a look: Mobile HCI 2011, Aug 30 – Sept.02, 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley, Sept. 01, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA Wireless China Industry Summit, Sept. 01-02, 2011 in Beijing, China Apps World Asia 2011, Sept. 01-02, 2011 in Singapore [...]
Almost two weeks ago the Mobile Unconference took place at Grey in Düsseldorf. It was a great day, everything worked out well and as co-organizers we are happy about the positive feedback from our attendees – here is a short selection: “Congrats to all the #mobunc organization, very nice day, great location, good food, very [...]
Mark the date: 15. November 2010! This Monday will be packed with 3 exciting mobile events all taking place at the same location at Grey’s in Düsseldorf: Mobile Unconference Vodafone Developer Day MobileMonday This is a great opportunity to learn more about many mobile development topics and get in touch with mobile enthusiasts from all [...]
We attended MobileMonday in Tokyo, Japan. The event started around 7pm at BierVana, a very new bar, opened only a few days ago. There were four talks – all about location based services. The first presentation on the “Asia Pacific Mobile & LBS Outlook” was held by Marc Einstein from the market research company Frost [...]
Mostly out of completeness reasons here is a little recap of our October 7th HTML5 Meetup: This time 3 out of the 7 total attendees were there for the first time, so we might actually grow this meetup one day. But it was good as it was and we had some quite interesting topics. I [...]
Webinos is a pan-European initiative trying to build a “Secure WebOS Application Delivery Environment“. It aims to create an open source platform that will “enable web applications and services to be used and shared consistently and securely over a broad spectrum of converged and connected devices, including mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car units”. [...]
As you might have seen we collect and blog about many different events. This event is special, because we are helping to organize this one! The Mobile Unconference is a one-day event, a bit like a BarCamp, a bit like a conference, entrance free or very low (around 30 EUR). Our goal is to bring [...]
Our June meetup for HTML5/CSS hackers was a hot one! We had around 30 degrees around here, and were sweating like crazy. Drinking hot tea apparently is a good helper (thanks Björn). Again, less people attended than anticipated (learning there again). Luckily there were also two new attendees, thanks for coming Jens and Christoph! The [...]
Update: now that Steve Jobs’ keynote is over we can confirm that our hopes from below have not been fulfilled (again) and the new iPhone 4 will not feature a dashboard or home screen widgets. This rumor has actually been around for quite a while – we’ll not stop hoping though and we all should [...]
Jesse and I took part in Germany’s GTUG Chrome Extension Battle back in March. GTUG stands for “Google Technology User Group” and the Extension Battle was a hacker competition to create some kind of Extension for the Google Chrome browser. This is rather simple to get started with and very similar to creating web-based widgets. [...]
Last Friday we attended the Mobile Unconference in Rotterdam. The topics at this event were mostly game related and over 90% of the attendees were Dutch. We really liked the unconventional style. There were some presentations, some discussion slots and a lot of space to get in touch with people. The first presentation was held [...]
Tomorrow we will attend the Mobile Unconference in Rotterdam. We are really looking forward to the one day event. Some of the topics: Windows Phone 7 & Marketplace and mobile gaming communities – interesting stuff for us. We try to keep you updated through our blog or via Twitter (@pavingways). There are also some other [...]