Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
New iPad Commercial
Apple did a great job with the new iPad commercial. It’s inspiring and it communicates one of the biggest benefits of the iPad without even saying it — freedom. Go Apple. Go.
Email Center Pro – Collaborative Email
I spent quite a bit of my time in 2008 working on a collaborative email solution for the SMB market called Email Center Pro.
Email Center Pro is a web-based service that makes it easy for business people to collaborate on and manage "shared" email addresses like customerservice@ and info@. I like to say that Email Center Pro turns "shared" email addresses from "money takers" into "money makers" by improving response time and response quality.
We officially launched Email Center Pro in April of 2008 and since then we’ve been using feedback from our customers to rapidly evolve the service. Some of the new features we’ve added over the last eight months have been documented on the Dead Simple Software blog. I’m a big fan of our recent improvements to the way we display conversation history.
I’m really proud of of the way we’ve evolved the service this year and I think our subscribers appreciate the work we’ve been putting into the service. I’m looking forward to the continuing evolution of Email Center Pro in 2009.
Disappointed iPhone Owners Abound
I stumbled into a post on the Signal vs. Noise blog by David today looking for a solution to my iPhone woes. iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash describes David’s frustration with the iPhone 3G/2.0. It’s a good post and David’s experience with the latest iPhone firmware mirrors my own. Boo….. Boo…..
There were 69 comments associated with the post and the bulk of them were from unhappy iPhone owners echoing David’s complaints – I expected more Apple zealots to jump up and defend the mighty iPhone but they were largely absent.
I’m really disappointed with the upgrade and I sure hope Apple produces an update to resolve the problems quickly. I can tell you one thing – business users are going to hate the under powered and poor performing iPhone 3G/2.0. If it isn’t a good phone 1st – what’s the point?
I Want an iPhone – David Pogue – NYTimes
NYTimes technology columnist David Pogue rocks, sings actually. Watch David Pogue “I want an iPhone” to the tune “I did it my way” for a laugh. I got a laugh out of the AT&T jab at 2:40.
iPhone – Can you hear it now?
The complaints about the iPhone on AT&T’s network keep coming in.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0 – iPhone Reality Check
A next generation web browser and UI really DOES need a next generation network to deliver the next generation mobile web.
iPhone – 700,000 Sold Over Weekend
MacNN | iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR
Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T’s record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola’s RAZR did in its first month.
The iPhone Review
If you’re going to read one iPhone review, read this one.
iPhone Review – Engadget
Steve Gillmor On iPhone
Steve Gillmor’s quick-take on the iPhone. Happy or not? Watch the embedded video below and find out. By the way, I’m loving my Motorolla Q on the Verizon network. The iPhone might be great but the network counts for a lot – complaints from switching Verizon customers, accustomed to Verizon’s great network, are already coming in. For me, a network with excellent sound quality, coverage, and reliability is more important than the phone. Can you hear me now? I’m not knocking the phone, I’m knocking the network it’s tethered to.
Encyclopedia Britannica’s iPhone Apps for Kids
0 CommentsTuesday • September 7, 2010 • by admin
I’m lucky to work with a great team of developers and artists at Concentric Sky, and we’re doing some work that I’m really excited about. Recently, we completed work on a line of iPhone applications for Encyclopedia Britannica that we think kids are going to love.
Encyclopedia Britannica’s Volcanoes, Ancient Egypt, and Dinosaurs, now available for download, were designed with kids in mind. The applications feature a variety of games and a lot of interesting content. Kids can test their knowledge by taking, and re-taking, the built in quiz. Quiz high scores can be shared with friends on Facebook or Twitter.
The games included were developed from the ground-up by our developers. Memory Match, Jigsaw Puzzle, Magic Square, and Scratch Off were all designed to get kids interested in the content to improve learning. My kids love playing Memory Match, the cards are themed for each application and the pictures are pulled from a large media collection. Pics and Videos, the built in media gallery, provides easy access to a large collection of pictures and videos. Pictures and videos are cross-referenced with the content and games included in each application. Pictures and videos are mapped to the globe, making it easy for kids to zoom-in on a satellite view of a volcano or a pyramid in Egypt. High-resolution graphics were included to take advantage of iPhone 4’s new Retina Display – and it was worth the extra effort.
We think kids, and parents, are going to love this line of applications from Encyclopedia Britannica.