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iOS 4.0 in enterprise and business – Silicon Valley iPhone iPad Business Meetup June

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on June 18, 2010

iOS 4.0 (iPhone 4.0) is announced. iPhone iPad Business meetup will invite a group of experts to share their view of iOS.

Sponsor: PayPal

Agenda:
6PM Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Speakers and demo.

Moderator:
Tony Wasserman

Tony Wasserman is Professor of Software Management Practice at Carnegie Mellon West,
and the Executive Director of its Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), which
focuses on the evaluation and adoption of open source software, as well as its use
in mobile devices. In 2000, Tony became VP of Bluestone Software (acquired by HP in 2001),
responsible for its West Coast Labs, where he led the creation of the award-winning open
source Total-e-Mobile toolkit, which allowed mobile devices to connect to web applications.

Tony is best known as the Founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE). Before starting IDE, Tony was a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tony has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin – Madison
and a B.A. in mathematics and physics from UC Berkeley.

Mike Fyall, Admob
As Manager of Product Marketing at AdMob, Mike Fyall is responsible for the company’s product marketing for next generation platforms, including iPhone and Android. He also leads the creation of the monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics Report, which analyzes the data in AdMob’s network of more than 23,000 mobile sites and applications worldwide to provide insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem. Prior to joining AdMob, Mike worked at Nielsen Mobile as an account manager handling the company’s relationship with a major national operator.

Kent Griffin Sr. Product Manager, PayPal
Kent Griffin is a Sr. Product Manager at PayPal and manages the mobile SDK products. His goal is to make it easy for you to integrate PayPal into your mobile apps. He has been with PayPal for over 5 years and is a founding member of the mobile team. Prior to joining PayPal, he helped developed search solutions for other financial service providers. Kent holds both a BS and MS degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.

Tejas Bhandarkar, Product Manager, Cisco (Webex)

Michael Aday, Senior Director, Beyondsoft
Michael Aday has a long history in the mobile space starting in 1998 with his work on the deployment of Exchange infrastructures supporting the first Microsoft Activesync devices for mobile email. Having seen early the transformative effects of mobile email and applications on a smartphone, he was an immediate convert. Later in his Microsoft career he was responsible for market/competitive intelligence on the mobile platforms as well as helping to develop the intellectual property strategy for mobile devices. Michael left Microsoft in 2010 and is currently Senior Director for Business Development for Beyondsoft. In this role he is part of the team helping the company develop a broad set of services and capabilities around the mobile space.

More information regarding WWDC (from CNET)
• This year’s WWDC has 5,200 attendees from 57 countries.
• Apple has sold 2 million iPads in 59 days, and the device will be in 19 countries by the end of July
• To date, Apple has sold 100 million iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads combined.
• There are now 8,500 iPad-specific apps, plus 200,000 iPhone apps.
• The app store now sits at 225,000 apps.
• Apple gets 15,000 apps submitted every week, in 30 different languages. Of those, 95 percent are approved within seven days.
• Users of the iBooks app have downloaded 5 million books in 65 days
• Apple has paid $1 billion to developers (from their 70 percent cut of sales)

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BeyondSoft acquired Silicon Valley based Android iPhone solution company – ExtendLogic

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on June 8, 2010

Beijing, China, April 20, 2010, China leading IT outsourcing company Beyondsoft Group and US based Smartphone application development consulting firm ExtendLogic have signed investment agreement recently. The agreement is about the acquisition of ExtendLogic’s existing consulting businesses of Smartphone (iphone, Android, Blackberry) application development, mobile embedded software development, back-end platform development, and mobile related testing.

Founded in 2005, ExtendLogic has mobile application development consulting office in California and R&D center in China which is one of the pioneers providing Smartphone application development outsourcing services to worldwide clients. With its core competitive advantages in areas of iPhone & Android, ExtendLogic will continue on Smartphone application development after being a part of Beyondsoft Group. By taking advantage of Beyondsoft Group’s strong marketing network, capital, technology and back office support, ExtendLogic aims to strengthen its international competitiveness and further expand its business scope for obtaining greater market share.

Through this acquisition, Beyondsoft will enhance its ability to access the business opportunities from the vertical industries. As a leading Smartphone application development outsourcing company, ExtendLogic has extensive experience in quality assurance and process control. Based on the resource integration, Beyondsoft will be able to provide more professional high quality services to clients from vertical industry, which will help Beyondsoft Group to establish its leading position in Smartphone industry in the near future.

“ExtendLogic’s professionalism and mature project management experience in area of Smartphone application development outsourcing are great supplements to Beyondsoft. The successful acquisition not only expands our delivery capability, but also completes its reform of our own product chain. It is a very important step taken by Beyondsoft to improve its business structure and global strategy.” said by Bin Wang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beyondsoft Groups.

About Beyondsoft Groups:

Beyondsoft is a leading IT outsourcing company with Global Delivery Centers. Beyondsoft offers IT consulting, Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), ERP and BPO services to the clients across the globe. Headquartered in Beijing, Beyondsoft has development centers in the major cities in China, as well as operations/centers in the U.S., Japan, Singapore and India. The global delivery centers enable Beyondsoft to offer high-quality and cost effective services to its clients by adopting the right mix of onsite, near-site and multi-tier offshore delivery centers. It also allows Beyondsoft to share and grow its offerings, knowledge and process maturity. Beyondsoft is an ISO27001 certified company and the security systems at Beyondsoft meet world’s most strict standards.

http://www.beyondsoft.com

About ExtendLogic:

Founded in 2005 in California, US, ExtendLogic provides Smartphone application development consulting and outsourcing services by its onshore consulting office in California and offshore R&D center, Xi’an Knowledgesurf Technologies, in Xi’an of China. Having skilled iPhone, Android, Blackberry developers in-house makes ExtendLogic able to provide high quality services to global clients over the past several years. Since 2005, ExtendLogic’s subsidiary, Xi’an KnowledgeSurf has received a number of awards recognizing its service capabilities and growth potential, including 2008 Xi’an Software Park Great Contribution Awards, 2008 ChinaSourcing – Top 50 Service Providers in China 2008 Certificate.

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GetJar announced 1 billion app download

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on June 8, 2010

SAN MATEO, USA and LONDON, UK, June 8, 2010 – GetJar (www.getjar.com), the world’s second largest app store, announced today that it has smashed through the 1 billion app download barrier. GetJar’s announcement comes as a landmark moment for the mobile industry as this is the first and only time that a cross-platform apps store has clocked over 1 billion downloads and second time ever for any app store to reach such a milestone.

The record-breaking, billionth download moment happened on June 7th at 11:02 AM  – Geodelic, an app that discovers restaurants, retailers and attractions nearby, was downloaded on an Android handset.

Ilja Laurs, CEO and founder, GetJar comments: “We’re delighted to have reached this milestone in mobile app history. As a team, we’re dedicated to driving the app market forward through an open approach. We’ve supported over 60,000 apps from developers across all major platforms, including Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian and our open philosophy has been integral to our continued growth and the development within the industry. We’re looking forward to the next billion downloads.”

Some Interesting GetJar Stats:

GetJar’s app store launched on March 23, 2004 and has rapidly grown in leaps and bounds, announcing in July 2009 that it had hit half a billion downloads – hot on the heels of Apple’s app store who had reached this only a few months earlier.

The first app ever to be uploaded on GetJar was ‘Just Yak’ – an app designed for the old Ericsson T610 mobile, on March 25, 2005.

The most downloaded app of all time on GetJar is Facebook’s mobile site shortcut, which provides a fast and easy way to access Facebook’s mobile website on nearly any handset or platform. It has been downloaded more than 61million times since launch late last year.

The most popular app is mobile messenger application, eBuddy, who recently surpassed a landmark 50 million downloads on GetJar with the help of GetJar’s Pay Per Download (PPD) mobile advertising service. Other popular apps include social networking and messaging apps Nimbuzz, Mig33 and Cncted, a mobile web browser – Opera Mini, Google, Yahoo! Mobile, and Fandango.

Over the last five years there have also been many surprise hits on GetJar, including the popularity of religious apps such as the ‘Bible’ app, which offers users access to the Bible’s entire contents through their mobile phone. It was downloaded more than 398,000 times in its first month alone. Islamic app ‘Azan’ has also proven a massive success, downloaded over 1.5 million times.

Dictionary, a simple app developed for feature phones by a sole developer in India, Vikrant Chavan, achieved over 3 million downloads since launch. Mig33 and Snaptu are also examples of small developer shops that were able to build their business and even get funding, partially due to their explosive growth on GetJar.

Over the past year, GetJar has tripled its headcount, quadrupled downloads per month and maintained its profitability despite a challenging economic environment.

About GetJar

GetJar is the world’s second largest apps store, second only to the Apple App Store, with over 1 billion downloads to date. The company’s key point of difference is its open market approach , which allows it to deliver applications for both feature phones and smartphones across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian among others. The company provides more than 65,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries. In 2009 GetJar won the Meffy, Tiecon50 and Mobile Excellence awards for its achievements and products. GetJar is backed by Accel Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the UK and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.

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Study: Developers Testing Games, Entertainment Apps on iPad – BusinessWeek

Posted by DavidCao01 on March 19, 2010

by Douglas MacMillan, Business Week

Some software makers have been lucky enough to get their hands on Apple’s iPad weeks before its April release, people tell Bloomberg BusinessWeek. What kinds of apps are they building?

Games are the focus, judging by the recent activity of software developers monitored by Flurry Analytics:

Flurry_iPad_AppsTestingByCategory.png

The chart above shows the proportion of iPad apps being created for each category in the iTunes App Store by developers who are testing on the actual devices. Flurry, a popular provider of analytics software for mobile applications, tracked the number of programs using its software on the tablet and divvied them up by category.

Games are the predominant type of app being tested on the iPad, making up 44% of the total. Entertainment, which Apple has generally defined as videos and novelties like lava lamp apps, take second with 14%. Social networking programs made up 7% of the total, followed by sports, travel, lifestyle, and utilities.

The data is not a comprehensive look at all the apps that will be available for the iPad shortly after its launch, since it does not account for the apps being built on an iPad simulator, which Apple invites anyone to download for a nominal fee.

For full report, visit Business Week

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Invitation to iPhone Business Meetup @ Apple: iPhone Apps, Analytics and Development Platforms

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on January 18, 2010

Silicon Valley iPhone Business MeetUp ( http://iphoneiphone.org ) and IMUG.org again combine forces to bring you an evening of expert panelists, lightning product demos, free food and all the iPhone info you need.

Speakers:
Speaker 1: Scott Schwarzhoff, Appcelerator’s VP of Marketing, “Develop Native iPhone Apps Globally Using JavaScript”

Speaker 1: Scott Schwarzhoff, Appcelerator’s VP of Marketing, “Develop Native iPhone Apps Globally Using JavaScript”
Last year AppCelerator introduced Titanium to you … enabling you to use your web skills to create native iPhone apps using Appcelerator’s platform. This year they have announced some enhancements:
- 100% code conversion from JavaScript to Objective-C
- More local: native maps, compass
- More social: Facebook authentication, contacts, video recording, push notification
- More interactive: Table improvements, coverflow, group view enhancements

Speaker 2: Colin Morris, Product Evangelists, Flurry,
Flurry offers cutting-edge analytics, deployment and monetization tools for mobile application developers. Its services platform is offered free to application developers. Flurry is venture-backed and is based in San Francisco.

Lightning Demos:
Each of these developers will give us 5-minute “lightening demos” of what their iPhone apps can do! These apps are all available for download from the iTunes Store.

Daniel Pifko, Greatest Road Software
Greatest Road is an iPhone application for motorcyclists. It connects bikers to help them find the best roads to ride. The SF-based founders are tech leaders, mobile industry execs, and avid motorcyclists, bicyclists, and hang glider pilots.

Joe Peterson, Geek Logik
Garth Sundem’s book, Geek Logik, is now an iPhone App. Geek Logik breaks everyday decisions down into equations. Should I call in sick? Should I get a tatoo? Should we get married? Yes, “there’s an app for that”.

James Testa, Arende, Inc.
iHomeopath offers homeopathic remedies indexed by symptom, illness and place on the body. A handy first-aid manual based on The People’s Repertory, a book by Dr. Luc de Schepper.

Sarat Chandran, MoApps, Inc.
The LocalFlyers iPhone app lets you search for deals in your local stores from the comfort of your iPhone. With interactive local newspaper flyers at your fingertips, you can flip through the pages on your iPhone and bring up detailed product info.

Free to iPhone Business Meetup members. $4 each for walk in.

More detail at http://www.iPhoneiPhone.org

Sponsors
Appcelerator
Appcelerator is a new platform and services company that is enabling Web developers to build intuitive, content-rich applications for Mobile and Desktop platforms, including iPhone without Objective-C and Android without Java.

Access Growth
Access Growth LLC is a global growth consulting and innovation management firm that was founded in 1989 to help companies successfully grow through a proprietary growth and commercialization process.

Tech CU
Technology Credit Union has been around since 1960, providing professionals in the Silicon Valley and beyond with all the financial services and conveniences they crave. If you live, work, go to school, or regularly worship in the Bay Area, you can become an member today!

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ExtendLogic offers Global Mobile Market Access solution to iPhone developers at iPhone International market event @ Apple

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on September 30, 2009

Cupertino, ca, September 17, 2009:  ExtendLogic, an Silicon Valley leading IT outsourcing and consulting services provider focusing on enterprise mobile (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Mobile backend, embedded mobile) solutions, rich media and enterprise applications, has announced at the event of “iPhone International Market” hosted by IMUG.org and iPhone Business Meetup at Apple Headquarter on 17th, Sep, about its offering of Global Mobile Market Access (GMMA) solutions for iPhone developers.

With the rising of competition in the App store US market, more and more iPhone developers are looking for more ways to make money. With Apple iPhone’s expansion internationally, lots are of developers are trying to find ways to make money from those emerging international market, like Europe, China, India, and so on.

“We want to help iPhone App developers to capitalize from their existing investment,” Announced by the CEO of ExtendLoigc, David Cao, during the presentation in the event, “With our global mobile development teams, as well as our testing and deployment solution, ExtendLogic can help U.S. iPhone developers and firms on app development, localization, promotions, as well as porting to Android, Blackberry, OMS, Symbian and other platforms.”

ExtendLogic offers end to end solution for iPhone developers who do not have the bandwidth to deal with international technical as well as business issues. The solution includes the following services:

  • Localization
  • Testing & certification for different network and carriers
  • Porting to different platforms
  • Marketing

The services can also be tailored into different packages for companies already have international access.

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Google Voice app GV Mobile ported to jailbroken iPhones

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on August 11, 2009

Yes,  it’s a logical step for jailbreakers when facing this kind of case. GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs has ported the Voice client over to Cydia for free –although donations are gladly accepted– following Apple rejection on all Google Voice-enabled applications and Google’s official Google Voice application.

gv-mobile-jb-iphone-screens-rm-engPlease note that Google Voice is not a VOIP service. Basically, it’s a service that lets you manage a free phone number that Google gives you. Since the app relies on the Internet connection (3G, EDGE, Wifi, etc), so you still need an actual phone plan.

The GV Mobile features including:

  • Dial numbers (domestic for free and international at a variable rate) via the iPhone’s address book or typing in on the keypad
  • Send SMS messages
  • Retrieve and delete recent call history
  • Playback and delete voicemails
  • Take calls from different phones other than your iPhone
  • Add, delete, enable, or disable the phones that Google Voice forwards calls to

Google Voice is currently in beta and invite only.

[via Engadget]

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iPhone in testing in China – Sina.com

Posted by BeyondSoftConsulting on July 31, 2009

科技时代_独家：首款内地版iPhone手机曝光(图)Sina.com today released picutures of claimed to be the “first iPhone” in china for testing.

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Apple Asking Developers to Submit Keywords to Facilitate App Store Searching [Updated]

Posted by DavidCao01 on July 29, 2009

Wednesday July 29, 2009 11:12 AM EST; Category: iPhone Written by Eric Slivka

MacRumors has heard that Apple has begun requesting that developers add keywords to their App Store application submissions in order to facilitate improved searching. As detailed in a report from AppleInsider, developers are permitted to enter up to 255 characters’ worth of keywords for each application.

“It is important to enter keywords for all applications as soon as possible so your application can continue to be successfully located on the App Store,” the update from Apple reads. “Keywords can be updated with the submission of a new binary.”

At its quarterly earnings conference call last week, Apple noted that it was working on improvements to App Store categorization in order to combat the “race to the bottom” in pricing that many users have complained is hampering developers’ efforts to bring high-quality titles to the App Store at sustainable price points. Improvements to the App Store’s search function appears to be a logical first step toward improving users’ ability to find relevant applications.

Update: Users are reporting that, despite Apple’s claims that up to 255 characters are allowed, the actual limit currently appears to be only 100 characters.

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The iPhone Inspired 2nd Economy: Over $100 Million Goes from VCs to iPhone Startups

Posted by DavidCao01 on July 24, 2009

By the Chubby Research Team on chubbybrain.com.

iphone-moneyWe recently revealed that $23.3 million had flown to Twitter-oriented startups from venture capitalists and angel firms (as of May 2009). Arguably, the other hot story in tech land is the iPhone and so we wanted to peer into the ChubbyBrain startup database and see how much money has been invested in startups predicated on the iPhone platform.

A brief recap
Applications for the iPhone were initially released in mid-2007 on iTunes when there were merely 500 available for download.  Earlier this year, Apple saw their one billionth download from the App Store.  Today, less than two years after the iPhone’s launch, the number of applications on the Apple App Store is greater than 50,000 according to some estimates.

Of these applications, it’s evident that a significant portion of them reside in either of two extreme ends of the spectrum that are likely not relevant to the VC/angel investing community: 1) established companies seeking some sort of presence on the iPhone to increase their brand’s awareness or product/service reach or 2) individual developers building cheap, viral applications who are enthusiasts/hobbyists or those hoping to catch lightning in a bottle.

But what about the middle of the spectrum?  Who are the startups looking to build scalable businesses with the iPhone at the core, and more specifically, who is funding such efforts?  After a look into the ChubbyBrain database, we identified $102.49 million in total VC/angel investment divided amongst 17 iPhone application startups (as of June 29, 2009). Perhaps this $100M+ number isn’t surprising given conversation that the iPhone may be bigger than the PC, but over $100 million in the span of less than two years for iPhone predicated startups is noteworthy. Or perhaps for some of you, this number is a lot less than you expected?

The following analysis takes a deeper look at these investments with a focus on what startups are receiving money, which investors are supplying funds, the amounts of these investments, as well as other interesting trends/statistics that may have implications for the future in this space and/or be helpful to investors or app developers hoping to understand what has gone on to-date.

It’s worth noting that we limited the scope of this study to startups whose core functionality/capability is centered on the iPhone.  For example, Facebook is a venture-backed company who also have an iPhone application.  However, they do not qualify for inclusion in this study because their iPhone Application is complimentary, not core, to their business. Admittedly, this delineation was a bit of art and science but our aim was to remove those startups who might be building mobile apps or tools across platforms, e.g., iPhone, Android, Symbian, etc or where the iPhone element was complementary but adjacent to their core business. And so our $100 million number focuses on those startups who are tethering themselves in a large way to the iPhone platform.

So far, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers leads the way with $50 million committed across six startups.  This is, in large part, due to the $100 million iFund they launched in March 2008 with the specific goal to target the quickly expanding iPhone app market.

See full report: http://bit.ly/nGktF

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