Jan 29, 2012
Developer of Titanium platform – Accelerator – is opening an EMEA head office in London. Doug Norton-Bilsby, former head of sales at Experian is the new managing director for EMEA and will be responsible for sales and operations.
The decision for this expansion has been made due to the constantly growing European mobile app market and the user base which doubled during the last six months. The company stated they are expecting at least a billion dollar mobile ad revenue throughout the next two years.
Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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Jan 29, 2012
Early in December last year Google announced app downloads at Android Market have hit 10 billion, which means 1 billion during the last 6 weeks, with a peak during the Christmas holidays. Recently there are 250 million Android devices and 700 000 new activations are being made daily. At Christmas there were 3.7 million Android terminals activations in just 2 days.
Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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Jan 29, 2012
The new update to BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS Native SDK 2.0 was released in response to feedback from companies and individual developers bringing apps to PlayBook. The Beta 3 release includes tooling enhancements, API improvements and documentation update. Among the new features are enhancements in the Add Library and Deployment Setup Wizard, to the BAR file editor, Scoreloop social gaming APIs, a new “Hello Native SDK” tutorial and new “Displaying a dialogue” instructions.
Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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Jan 19, 2012
French cities with population above 200,000 inhabitants are eligible to apply for funding of 20 million Euros in support of short-range wireless technology services deployment. So far 17 cities have been shortlisted, among which Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lille and Marseilles.
Most of the supported projects involve NFC deployment in public transportation, as well as other public services such as local information and tourism. Among the shortlisted organizations is French Transport Syndicate STIF, which is managing public transportation in Paris.
Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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Jan 19, 2012
Payments giant PayPal announced their decision to launch a near field communication technology trial on the retail market. The company starts working with two Swedish retailers - Webhallen electronics store and ski gear shop Alpingaraget. Besides they will also be partnering with two Swedish technology firms - mobile security systems vendor Accumulate and POS terminals provider Point (recently acquired by Verifone). The new service is called PayPal Instore and uses an NFC sticker attached to the handset and a smartphone app.
Despite until now the company was known to be sceptical about the use of short-range wireless technology for retail payments, recently it was announced that PayPal and eBay's mobile strategy will be focusing on partnership with retailers.
Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 31 Jan 2012
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