Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Access Growth LLC is announcing a specific program designed to support mobile developers through our Mobile Innovation Lab. We are actively seeking a few expert mobile developers that would like to participate as part time advisors and/or consultants to the Mobile Innovation Lab. In order to qualify you must have multiple applications already live on an app store and a minimum of one year experience after the first app was launched. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity and additional benefits for getting involved please feel free to send Chris an email at chris.zelenka@accessgrowth.com
Please see below a current press release concerning the launch of the Mobile Innovation Lab.
Access Growth LLC, a growth consulting and innovation management firm is proud to announce the Access Growth Mobile Innovation Lab which is focused on assisting established mobile application developers with the resources necessary to strategically and efficiently reach the defined target market for their applications. The primary goal of the Mobile Innovation Lab is to work directly with mobile developers to accelerate development, maximize revenue potential, and dominate the competition. Access Growth has developed a complete ecosystem of channels to support go to market strategies for mobile applications into 27 countries and has made these channels available to both large mobile application development companies as well as individuals with a single app ready for market.
The following services are available for participants of the Mobile Innovation Lab:
App Promotion & Marketing
Development & Testing Support
Competitive Analysis
Market Analysis & Strategy
Monetization Plan
Business Growth Planning
IP Review & Protection Plan
End-User Testing
Strategic Marketing & Sales Plan
Launch Strategy & Implementation Support
Mobile Innovation Lab participants will be provided a place to work inside of the Access Growth Venture Center and can access the above services on a ala carte basis depending on their specific needs. Access Growth has developed a creative compensation model for mobile application development companies seeking to retain the firm for services and understands the unique problems many development companies face prior to scaling their applications.
Access Growth has partnered with Silicon Valley Android and Silicon Valley iPhone Business to support early stage developers with training and access to mobile development knowledge through specific programs and events designed for individuals learning about mobile development. Developers that go through training programs will be provided special discounts for services from the Mobile Innovation Lab in order to rapidly develop their product and be ready to hit the ground running once their applications go live.
Access Growth LLC is a global growth consulting and innovation management firm that was founded in 1989 to help companies successfully grow through a proprietary 360° commercialization process. The Access Growth team currently supports 27 countries and provides world-class growth strategies, innovation planning, and commercialization services to early-stage, emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies to quickly penetrate markets and drive top-line growth. To learn more, please visit www.AccessGrowth.com.
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Google announced Android Developer Challenge 2 winners
Overall Winners
 | SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone's location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
Education/Reference Winners
 | Plink Art
Plink Art is an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art. Take a photo of a painting, and the Plink Art servers will try to identify it. You can also browse our database of artwork by keyword or timeline and share your discoveries with friends. |
 | Word Puzzle
The Word Puzzle is designed to provide a fun way to learn basic English words for preschool children. Kids can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card and check achievement with word puzzle. Interesting visual and sound interaction with awarding system helps kids to keep learning. Let kids play with your Android. |
 | Celeste
An educational augmented reality app that displays the Sun, Moon, planets and their paths through the sky onto your camera view. You can navigate through the sky selecting celestial bodies to display interesting information about our solar system. See the exact spot on your horizon where the sun will rise and set. |
Entertainment Winners
 | A World of Photo
Loosely inspired by the traditional "Spin the bottle", A World of Photo is a casual, geographic worldwide multiplayer online game with a social touch. Players spin their phones and will receive a photo from whomever in the world they pointed to. For best play experience, let the app run in the background. |
 | SongDNA
Need any information on a song? Practicing for a big karaoke gig? Music quiz coming up tomorrow? The SongDNA widget allows you to quickly look up your favorite song's detailed information. It includes the lyrics, artist's bio, homepage, highest chart rank and video. Handy when you're training for your next karaoke gig!! |
 | Solo
Solo is a great, easy to play and feature rich pocket guitar for your phone. A must for all guitar enthusiasts! Features include -Huge chord library with 380+ chords & diagrams -Load/save chord layouts -Play along with music on your phone -Overlay music & lyrics from the internet -Various strum modes, including shake strum |
Games: Arcade/Action Winners
 | Speed Forge 3D
Speed Forge: Heavy duty hover vehicles, normally used for mining are now seen in illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys. The rock crushing explosives once used in these machines now serve a different purpose... |
 | Graviturn
Tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles. Infinite levels from very easy to nearly impossible. Compare your performance with other players after each level (online highscore and statistics). |
 | Moto X Mayhem
Jump, lean, and race through seven levels of amazing motorbike action in the best side scrolling bike game! Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land jumps! Or just flick your rider around!! |
Games: Casual/Puzzle Winners
| What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | Totemo
Unloose the spirit. Break the spell. Uncover the mystery hidden between the realms in a unique puzzle game. Storm your brain and relax your mind solving over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks. Play the survival mode for extra challenge and write your name into the on-line leaderboards. http://hexage.net |
 | Mazeness
The goal of the game is rather simple - you need to bring all the balls ( up to 4 per level!) to their goals at the same time, with help of barriers, teleports and holders. It seems simple at first, but it's not that easy. The difficulty is growing steadily from level to level. |
Lifestyle Winners
| SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | SpecTrek
Improve your fitness with this revolutionary augmented reality ghost hunting game. Walk or run around using GPS and your phone's camera to find and catch virtual ghosts. You will experience a new adventure each SpecTrekking session. The game offers statistics, awards, titles, records, and most of all a whole lot of fun! |
 | FoxyRing
FoxyRing makes your phone smarter by analyzing the ambient noise and adjust the ringer volume. Also: - Sleeping hours to silent your phone during the night. - Geolocated ringer profiles, change ringtone or make your phone vibrate only at work! - Widget to silent your phone for a timed period. - Great interface |
Media Winners
 | Buzz Deck
BuzzDeck is the quick and easy way to get all the web content you care about most. Flick through your daily hit of favourite news topics. And get Twitter & Facebook updates alongside. BuzzDeck learns what you like and recommends cool new stuff. Simple, elegant & fast. NB: No landscape mode yet. http://mippin.com/buzzdeck |
 | SPB TV
SPB TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. SPB TV provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee! Requires a reliable 3G or WiFi network connection for proper streaming. Full-featured 60-days trial. |
 | FxCamera
FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects. - ToyCam (Toy Camera Emulator) - Polandroid - Fisheye - Warhol (Andy Warhol-izer) - Normal *this app requires SD card* |
Productivity/Tools Winners
| WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone’s location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
 | Hoccer
Hoccer is your application for ad-hoc data exchange. Use gestures to "throw" your data through the air and let the recipients "catch" it. There is no need for prior exchange of contact details. |
 | Tasker
Tasker let's you link any Task (action set) to the Contexts (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it should run. Send an SMS at 3:15 Monday, make per-app settings or locks, map camera button to a menu, launch music app on headphone insert, timelapse photos, encrypt on-the-fly, the list is endless! |
Social Networking Winners
 | Ce:real - Everyday trends
Ce:real, What's happening in this world? Are you curious about real world? How about North Pole or an edge of Africa? Also, it can be your neighborhood. It is offering to you hot photo stories with Twitter trends keyword which has speed of lights. Enjoy millions of happenings in real world and you participate in it as well. |
 | SocialMuse
Check out what users on the other side of the world are listening to! Find people with similar musical taste, or just explore the world through music. Browse other users' music libraries, listen to previews of their songs, and buy them if you like them. Check out their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Last.fm. |
 | SpotMessage
SpotMessage is a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be notified when the recipient arrives at the spot. SpotMsg finds various uses; as an alarm reminding you of a task at a certain spot or for sending your friend a surprise message on his or her arrival. |
Travel Winners
 | Trip Journal
Trip Journal is the ultimate trip tracking and sharing solution currently available on Android powered Smartphones. Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places you are visiting. GPS route tracking, record waypoints, photos & notes, trip statistics, KMZ & Picasa exports, incorporated Google Maps. |
 | iNap: Arrival Alert
Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick powernap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early... Using your phone's GPS it will determine where you are, and wake you when you are close to your destination! |
 | Car Locator
Save your location whenever you park, and Car Locator will navigate you back to your car should you ever have trouble finding it. - Points in direction of your car using GPS and compass - Radar view, map view, and split view - Parking timer alarm GPS and compass must be enabled. This free version expires after 25 runs. |
Misc Winners
 | Rhythm Guitar
Plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar. Strum and pick chords, make new chords, string them together to create songs, transpose songs to fit your vocal range. Great for songwriting, chord reference, learning radio hits, or even plugging into speakers and pedals. |
 | Andrometer
Andrometer allows you to measure the approximate distance from you to an object that you can see. Uses GPS, accelerometer and geomagnetic sensor. Tips: - Keep as steady as possible - The further you walk, the more accurate the measurement - Must be outdoors with clear view of sky - Works best under 1 km |
 | Calton Hill GPSCaddy
GPSCaddy allows golfers to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS or in the comfort of home using satellite imagery. Then, when they are playing the course, it uses GPS to tell them exactly how far they are from the significant features of the hole they are playing (green, bunkers, etc). |
Posted by Extend Logic on Thu, Jun 25, 2009
MLogy Met with CEO of Linkotec Tuesday and he showed me a very intereting product – Dazzboard, whcih manage manage content for Android device. He is try to find out how Android developers may utilize it. Bellow is more information about this platform.
Dazzboard is a Webtop application that offers seamless media management and distribution for Portable Devices. Dazzboard is the first universal media management webtop application that streamlines user data management between online and portable devices. With instant device recognition technology, dazzboard connects users’ portable device photos, images, video, music and more with multiple social media networks and vice versa. With Dazzboard users can simply drop their favorite videos from YouTube onto a mobile device or upload vacation photos and videos directly from the device to Flickr or Facebook without installing a single proprietary device application.
Why Dazzboard Android Suite ?
- No PC application currently for Android
- No simple way to manage PC to Device media
- No content back up on PC
- No easy way to transfer rich media large files
Value proposition to Android Users: beyond iTunes experience
- PC content Sync: Necessary user experience when you start using the phone
- My Music /video from my library to Android phone.
- My Apps, my personal data
- Share in full quality for Social Networks (add to your Twitter feed)
- Mobile video to YouTube made simple
- Pictures to Picasa / Facebook / Flickr, with one click experience
- iGoogle Gadget application for sharing my content from device in iGoogle to my social networks
Value proposition to Android developers / users
- Android Device manager can be integrated to partner site
- for device management, content distribution
- Full support for Android devices in media management and Social Network uploads
- Brings Android devices /users to partner websites
- Devices can be recognized / identified by serial number for better customer service
- linked to phone numbers on database
- My Android is my VIP card to the service