10 Mistakes Startups Make Promoting Their Mobile Apps. Rico heads up the global expansion efforts in the APAC for Fiksu, the mobile app marketing experts.
Rico’s roots run deep in the mobile space as an entrepreneur and angel investor in mobile apps, m-commerce and mobile marketing ventures including Cassiber, Foodpanda, and tenCube (acquired by McAfee). With millions of apps in the major app stores – the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and more – getting visibility for your app isn’t easy. How is a $12 phone possible? Bunnie Huang paid a visit to Shenzhen's Mingtong Digital Mall and found a $12 mobile phone, with Bluetooth, an MP3 player, an OLED display and quad-band GSM.
For $12. Bunnie's teardown shows a little bit about how this $12 piece of electronics can possibly be profitable, but far more tantalizing are his notes about Gongkai, "a network of ideas, spread peer-to-peer, with certain rules to enforce sharing and to prevent leeching. " It's the Pearl River Delta's answer to the open source hardware movement, and Bunnie promises to write more about it soon. Robinhood Taps Social Networks For Stock Tips. It’s rare that I hear something like this from an entrepreneur: “When we go live, we can really test to see if it works.”
Does Karma Herald A Future For Social Hardware? Over the last few years, as cell-phone companies have phased out their unlimited offerings and replaced them with plans based on monthly allowances of data, we users have read the message loud and clear: Mobile bandwidth is a scarce, precious thing, and its usage is something we need to keep an eye on.
Nowhere is that attitude more evident than when you’re talking about mobile hotspots--the hockey puck-sized devices that let our gadgets access the Internet on the go. We keep the things locked up and hoarded like ammo during the zombie apocalypse. Fresh From TED: A Mind-Blowing App That Could Remake Mobile Retail. 4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes. Nokia Shuts Shanghai Flagship Store, Nobody Notices. (Image: China Radio International): Nokia’s Shanghai store is now shut, as shown on that small piece of paper taped to the door.
A Tuner App That Visualizes Your Pitch In Real Time. If you’ve ever played guitar, you’ll be familiar with today’s standard chromatic tuners.
They’re about as unglamorous as little electronic gizmos can get--cheap plastic things that light up when you’re in tune and sit there stupidly when you’re not. They’re exactly the type of straightforward, single-purpose devices that can totally be replaced by any app with a halfway decent design. Addappt reaches for larger audience with latest smarter contacts app. What's next in mobile?
Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! With its newest 1.3 version, Addappt is reach for a wider audience for its smarter contacts app for the iPhone. The open mobile contact directory is now more widely available for download and it has new features like work group contacts.
Addappt‘s big idea is to free your contact list so you can take it to any platform you want. Addappt launched its limited distribution, invitation-only version in December, and the company has now updated it to include group management and quicker messaging. The free app is the brainchild of Mrinal Desai, co-founder and chief executive of Los Gatos, Calif. The contact info is richer than a normal list. The contact information remains private, and you choose whom you want to share it with. An App For Sharing Pics With Total Strangers. Today we take sharing for granted.
At any time, practically anywhere, we can broadcast what we’re seeing, doing, or thinking to more or less everyone we know--and, in some cases, to plenty of people we don’t. Looking at the fantastic success of services like Twitter and Instagram, it’s clear that we’re enjoying the megaphone. So where does this little app called Rando get off limiting our photo sharing to one single person?
And a total stranger at that? At first glance, that core functionality seems so hilariously limited--so backwards in comparison to how sharing is supposed to work--that you might think the app is some sort of early April Fool’s prank. The idea, the developers explain, was born out of fond memories of the occasional mix-ups that occurred in the days when taking pictures meant dropping off film to be developed.
On a very basic level, there’s something exciting about the way the app strips away everything but the photos themselves. Frozen Android phones give up data secrets. 7 March 2013Last updated at 05:59 ET Chilling a phone makes its contents vulnerable to copying Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents, German security researchers have found.
The team froze phones for an hour as a way to get around the encryption system that protects the data on a phone by scrambling it. Google introduced the data scrambling system with the version of Android known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The attack allowed the researchers to get at contact lists, browsing histories and photos. Nearly 35% of Android Apps Are Secretly Stealing Private Data, Says China's Latest DCCI Report. China’s awkwardly-named Data Center of China Internet (DCCI) released a new report on Wednesday about Android apps in the country, and things do not look good.
The report details DCCI’s findings in an investigation of the top 1400 apps across China’s various Android markets and found that 66.9 percent of the apps were tracking users’ private data, and 34.5 percent of them were doing what DCCI calls “cross-border data tracking”; tracking private data that has no discernable connection to the app’s function and generally not making users aware that it’s happening. So what kind of information are these apps pulling from your phone? Basically everything.
Products. 6 Startup Lessons From Designers At Pinterest, Fuseproject, And Behance. In 2011, over 60 designers started the Designer Fund, to give angel funding, mentorship, and connections to designers creating businesses with positive social impact. We believe that designers should be part of the DNA of companies from the beginning and partner with business and technology cofounders to build great products, user experiences, and a culture of innovation for the long run. That core principle has informed our Designer Founders book series, which includes interviews with designers about the path they took to create tech startups.
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