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For the second time, Grappetite has been listed among the leading European app developers. SourcingLine, a Washington DC-based publisher of the research on global service providers in the areas of mobile development and digital design, and Big Data solutions have just published their annual Leaders Matrix.
Today Amazon joined Apple, Samsung and Google in an attempt to get their share in the mobile industry. And although the hardware of the phone looks great the thing that strikes me most is the integration of services such as 24/7 virtual assistance by a real person (hey, they had their customer support centers already in place) and unlimited cloud storage (hey, S3 cloud hosting is theirs).
As a CEO I am almost daily reading through my CV. And what stands out to me is that hardly any of them stands out. So if you are the goldfish in between many other fish you better make sure that we recognize you immediately!
Just in time for the Football World Cup that is about to start in Brasil, Google launched an update of their Glass software that has the World Cup results in it. So if you are on the go you can still keep an eye on the score board, check out the upcoming matches and standings.
For the Dutch educationalist Simone de Groot we developed a digital classroom system which supports primary school teachers with their lessons and keeps track of the students and their results.
Apple has introduced “Swift” as the official programming language to develop OS X and iOS apps at WWDC 2014. What's good about Swift?
Halaat-O-Meter is our crowdsourcing platform that allows people to see and report the security situation in their area. This comes particularly in handy if you live in tumultuous places such as Pakistan. The innovation of Halaat-O-Meter has been recognised by the jury and we are now shortlisted for the mBillionth Award 2014, an award that recognises best practices for social development in the mobile and telecom sector in South Asia.
Each day, Emily an 11-year-old records a video to teach sign language to the classmates of her sister who has Down Syndrome. Once she and her family decided to start a Facebook community and publish the videos there too, it immediately became a hit and they got thousands of likes in no time. We made an Android app for them that through a one-click publishing solution, fetches their videos from Facebook and presents them in a Sign Language app for Android.
Having your app designed and developed is one thing, having it published is something else. Our clients sometimes use our Publisher accounts on the iTunes, Android, and Windows Phone stores to get started but to give them complete control I always recommend our clients to have their own Publisher account set up. In this article, I describe what-to-do and what-not-to-do in publishing your iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone apps.
Our sophisticated smartphones have come a long way from being just a simple basic phone. It’s hard to imagine life without it now, isn’t it?