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Changing the world one app at a time
Mar 23rd
Little Green Software is an app developer based in Durham, North Carolina that services every step of the app development process. Able to consult and to create apps for platforms like the iPhone, Android, tablets, and the web, Little Green Software doesn’t just build mobile applications, the company can help you build the mobile application you need.
Besides mobile applications, Little Green Software also specializes in game industry consulting and multi-platform industry applications. The startup has previous experience building apps for industries such as travel, construction, education, marketing, medical and the fine arts. One of the more successful apps Little Green Software created is a web-based game called Energy Balance. The game is part of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative, as the game encourages players to associate foods with different activities. When players consumer a food, they are to choose the best activity to burn those calories, teaching folks to balance their eating habits with their daily activities.
This startup is one of 11 participating in the Bull City Startup Stampede in April and May. The 60-day event will provide these 11 Durham-based startups with the resources necessary to become successful business, including free office space, mentorship from other successful startups, and the chance to grow and to network right in downtown Durham. Ideabing will be featuring the tech-related startups over the coming week.
Entrepreneur Outfitters out Startup Checklist mobile App for those daunting government contracts
Mar 21st
Government contracts are like unicorns, at least for startups. The super stringent norms and red tape could discourage any entrepreneur from making a bid in the all too closed world of government contracts. However, there’s help at hand. Entrepreneur Outfitters – an early stage VC firm has outed a mobile app that could make lives of entrepreneurs a little more streamlined when trying to bid for a government contract. Aptly named Start up checklist the app lets entrepreneurs prepare for Uncle Sam’s contracts through a 36 step checklist.
The checklist allows an entrepreneur to make sure she gets everything right before and after landing a contract. This app is quite cool since a lot of fine points are covered by the app that only an expert could tell you. This was earlier available as a handbook from EO for $150. But now you can get the app for about 8 bucks. It’s a great deal given that you don;t have to maintain the papers anymore. Go give it a try, it’s available for Android and iOS.
Startup Talk: Appsplit wants to create a massive app marketplace
Mar 17th
We are seeing this as a trend now. When there are too many things to be sold what’s more better than a marketplace? But where there are 500,000 apps available for purchasing, it takes a whole new twist. A few good apps bubble up to the top and the rest get left out sinking to the bottom. All that siad, the app business is so lucrative that more developers want to dive headlong into the app scene without a second thought.
In tha pst we had featured Appbistro – a startup trying to create a marketplace for facebook apps. Today we are featuring Appslit – a startup that wants to create a marketplace for iOS, Android, Blackberry, WebOS and Facbook apps. Technically speaking, the concept is quite simple but Appslit has a whole new angle to it. While the startup allows developers to sell apps at wholesale rates to potential buyers it also allows app developers to work with Appsplit on making a product successful, for a cut of course. This is a brand new way to attract developers to submit and let Appsplit (called the Split program) manage apps that may or may not sell too well while looking out for potential whole sale buyers. This way appslit is doubling up as an app marketing consultant and borderline investor – taking anywhere between 40% to 60% of app profits based on the contract period.
Stratups such as these bring to my mind questions about sustainability of single owner apps. Yes, there is an opportunity to grow thanks to the ever growing consumer and manufacturing base for mobile phones and the ever growing user base of facebook. However, there is also a need for liability sharing in the app developer’s invetments since there are too many apps put there. This is what Appbistro is doing. Taking a share of the liability in an app’s journey to success is a great way to encourage development of new innovative apps.
All this said, we believe that there is space for a bunch of app marketplaces in the ecosystem as single the Android market and Apple Appstore get crowded. All this given, an intermediary who can manage risk certainly helps.
Ideabing Daily Roundup: National Threat Edition
Jul 26th
Blackberry A National Threat To UAE, Apparently.
Infographic: Conserving Water The Good Way
Infographic: A History Of Apps
First Mobile Video Relay Application for Deaf
Jul 20th
IWRelay launched the first mobile video relay application Friday, allowing Deaf and hard of hearing iPhone users to have on-the-go conversations with friends and family members who hear. The iPhone application, called IWRelay VRS, connects Deaf mobile phone users with video relay interpreters. Using the new iPhone 4 FaceTime feature, a Deaf caller communicates by sign language
Mesh Network For Cellphones Eliminates Need for Towers
Jul 16th
We thought that this would be the future of telephony but did not know it was already happening in the land down under. 3 Australian researchers have started the Several Project that aims to end the need for cellular towers for cellphones to work. The cellphone instead depend on each other as the cellphones themselves act as cellular towers thus creating a mesh network.
Each cell phone in the mesh network is WiFi enabled and can make and receive calls within the mesh. This eliminates the need for expensive cellular towers. This concept could be of great use in remote regions where creating a cellular network may not be economically viable. This network is comparable to a bit torrent where every person downloading a file is also uploading bits of the file to another down loader. Sounds good? We think so.
Aava Mobile Talks Tablets, More Goodies This Year
Jun 23rd
Aava mobile, the open mobile platform startup is getting Intel into the high end smartphone scene currently ruled by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. We talked to Piotr Frasunkiewicz, the main man behind the sales and marketing at Aava. He talks to us about the Aava platform, Android fragmentation, Meego, Intel vs. Qualcomm, the Palm-HP marriage and
Fixed Broadband in Venezuela Grew 23.3 Percent During 2009
Jun 15th
Latin American nations are taking impressive strides in cementing a solid base for the growth of internet. Venezuela clocked an outstanding 23.3% growth in 2009. The main driver for growth was the domestic sector taking total internet penetration to 4.4% in the nation. Mobile broadband growth also grew by 29% during 2009. This is in line
Coolness: Buses in Brazil Connected To Mobile Broadband
Jun 15th
How cool is this? You are in a BRIC nation and you have mobile broadband on commuter buses? Yeah, Ericsson along with mobile communications services provider Dataprom is outfitting public buses in a city in Brazil with 3G broadband. While the coverage cannot be compared to what we have in the US, this should be
Aava Mobile Announces ‘Virta Android SDK’ for Developing Android on Intel® Atom™ Processor Based Platforms
Jun 2nd
Aava Mobile (www.aavamobile.com) today announced Virta™ Android, a hardware-enhanced software developer kit (h-SDK) for Android developers wishing to write applications for smartphones and tablets running the newest Intel® Atom™ Processor Z6xxx Series based platforms (previously codenamed “Moorestown”). The Virta Android is a fully functioning x86 smartphone that comes pre-loaded with a tailored Android SDK ported
