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Innotribe $100k Startup Challenge

August 12, 2011   Android PR   No comments
Innotribe

In an attempt to seek out startups that are integrating GOOGLE’s Android Mobile OS, we’ve turned to Innotribe’s list of submissions.

Innotribe:

Now in its third year, Innotribe at Sibos, Innotribe’s flagship event, runs throughout Sibos week and offers a comprehensive programme exploring a range of topics crucial to the financial industry. Innotribe at Sibos in Toronto will once again bring together a powerful combination of world experts to participate in an exciting mix of keynote sessions, case studies, and interactive discussions.

Sibos:

Every year Sibos brings together influential leaders from financial institutions, market infrastructures, multinational corporations and technology partners to do business and shape the future of the financial industry. Facilitated and organised by SWIFT for the SWIFT community, Sibos is much more than a conference and exhibition. It is a unique forum to collaborate and take collective action in payments, securities, cash management and trade. With the power to draw over 8,000 participants from across the globe, Sibos is unparalleled in its reputation to reach the entire financial services industry.

We’re excited to see a handful of startups implementing the use of mobile payments. We’d be more enthusiastic to see if they’ve integrated Android.

Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey (@jack) announced his new startup project, Square just last year. We’ve yet to see them include Android in their mobile mix. Naturally, we’re disappointed to see that most startups choose to build, deploy and launch on the Apple iOS first. We’re not saying NOT to include Apple’s iOS. We’re merely saying, “Why not include Android in your initial launch as well?”.

We hope to be attending the Sibos event in Toronto, for a chance to see what types of developments on Android’s mobile platform, are being utilized in the financial technology sector.

I’m sure we’ll have better findings at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, next year.

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Toronto Police Launches Social Media

July 27, 2011   Android PR   No comments
Toronto Police Service Social Media Launch

Before you question why we would even attend a  milestone event such as the Toronto Police Service Social Media Launch Press Conference, think on this: Smartphone usage among the Toronto Police Social Media Department.

As entities start to adopt Social Media into their existing enterprise, more and more individuals, who head up their online communications teams are paying more attention to smartphones. Just recently, I was asked by Constable Scott Mills a.k.a. @GraffitiBMXCop, ”What Android phone should I get?”. @GraffitiBMXCop has been active on the Social Media environment and is one of the pinnacle forces when it comes to adoption of this new reach within the Toronto Police Services. His online and offline relationships with the various communities in the Toronto and surrounding areas has helped bring a more positive and welcoming image for the department as a whole.

Blackberry and iPhone devices were still dominant during this press conference with perhaps only 4 known individuals using Android phones. Even more important than Android is the usage of mobile devices as a way to do business within enterprises such as this.

We were very happy to have been invited to this event. It certainly provides us the connection to a community in where Android can readily be accepted.

Congratulations to the Toronto Police Services in using Social Media to help bridge their efforts and those of their communities, together. You can view photos of the event on flickr.

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Netbooknews.com: Sascha Pallenberg

March 20, 2011   Android PR   No comments
sxswsascha

The tablet world has started to see an onslaught of devices running on Android. Naturally, Sascha Pallenberg of Netbooknews.com, “the king of netbooks” as the phrase was first coined by Robert Scoble a.k.a. Scoblezier, is on top of everything netbook and android.

We caught up with Sascha at this year’s SXSW Digital Interactive, sitting against a wall next to a power outlet just outside of Exhibit Hall 3. What was Sacsha doing? Blogging of course!

Sascha blogging

In our mind, Sascha had the best business model ever developed by a blogger:

1. Move out of a country that back then, was a bit slow on accepting the notion that anyone who had a passion for anything could just set up a site and talk about it. Actually, much of the world was like that.

2. Create a blog, not only in your mother language but in the global language of choice.

3. Move into a country where your passion *products* are manufactured.

4. Team up with great people who share in your enthusiasm.

We’re sure there are other successful bloggers out there with similar or different stories but we don’t really know them personally. Sascha, we do. In fact, it was Mr. Pallenberg that made it possible for us to attend SXSW and most especially, the Team Android Event (more on this event later).

What was rather interesting for us was the opportunity to record a conversation that Sascha and Robert were having just outside on the patio of Lustre Pearl. It was rather dark but we managed to catch ALL of their candid talk on mobile and tech relevant topics. Robert was also capturing this conversation using CinchCast.

Here’s a glimpse of the conversation:

Once we have the full video version up, we’ll post the update on our twitter stream @whatsupandroid along with a follow up post.

Despite the never ending list of invites to all the cool SXSW parties our sources found out that Sascha was also there on business. Obviously. After digging deeper and stalking, bumping into Sascha every now and then we were able to find out who Sascha was meeting up with and why. Alas, we can’t share that here. But what we can share is another candid video of Sascha after he realized Foursquare had just received an update.

“Sorry Gowalla …. “

Sascha will also be keynoting at this year’s DroidCon Berlin this coming Thursday, March 24!

Sascha and the Android PR Gal

Sascha and the Android PR Gal

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PTPT Demo at SXSW

March 20, 2011   Android PR   No comments
Ramin and Scobleizer

We were lucky to have caught up with Dr. Ramin Assadollahi, CEO of ExB Communication Systems at this year’s SXSW. He was kind enough to sit down with us and talk about ExB’s new product, PTPT (People, Things, Places and Time). In my opinion, PTPT is the first of its kind that takes advantage of touch screen features when retrieving previous information that has been stored in various programs. Not many mobile browsers or apps have been able to truly merge application functionality with a UI design that maximizes “touch”.

The UI (User Interface) design was developed from a neuro perspective on how the brain makes use of graphics and information.

PTPT is a user interface paradigm and application framework that converges, manages and uses your digital assets productively.

PTPT was demo’d using the Samsung Galaxy Tablet and the new Motorola XOOM running Android’s Honeycomb 3.0. The video below explains it all.

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