Mobile Software

Speaker: Raffi Krikorian: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Raffi Krikorian makes a career of hacking everything and anything. He is currently a developer on Twitter Geo Platform. He was the founding partner at Synthesis Studios: a technological design and consulting firm that orchestrates his disjointed train of thought. He has developed Java-based distributed/mobile software agent infrastructures while also investigating human perception of sound in zero-g with NASA. While at the MIT Media Lab, he studied and built tiny, embedded, and sub-$5 Internet nodes and while also teaching students "How to Make (Almost) Anything." In his free time, he justified his television addiction by writing "TiVo Hacks" for O'Reilly and Associates, the first book on hacking into, understanding, and extending the Linux-based PVR. Raffi is an engineer with a passion to make the complicated, accessible - currently, he is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where he teaches topics ranging from digital ethics and...

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Speaker: Dennis Crowley: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Dennis Crowley is the founder of Foursquare and formerly the Director of Product Development at area/code. He was the founder of dodgeball.com, a New York-based service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile users. His work focuses on finding the intersection between location-based services, social software and user-generated content on mobile devices.

[Publish Date: May 03, 2010]

Speaker: Brian LeRoux: Where 2.0 Conference 2010 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Brian LeRoux is the lead software architect at Nitobi Inc. where he focuses on delivering apps and helping developers all over the world write their apps. Contributor to PhoneGap and creator of XUI and Lawnchair. Suffice to say, Brian believes that the future of the internets is mobile and will rely on web standards, open source and hackers like you.

[Publish Date: March 30, 2010]

Speaker: Michael Tamblyn: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing ...

Michael Tamblyn, VP Content, Sales & Merchandising for Shortcovers, works at the intersection of culture, trade, and technology. From a start in independent bookselling as a magazine and small press buyer, in 1996 he co-founded Bookshelf.ca, one of Canada’s first online bookstores, in partnership with Bell Sympatico. Indigo Books & Music purchased Bookshelf.ca in 1998, and Michael moved to the chain as vice-president of online operations. He later consulted in technology and media sectors before becoming the founding CEO of BookNet Canada in March of 2003. During his tenure, BookNet Canada launched B2B trading networks serving hundreds of bookstores and publishers, created standards, certification programs and software, and launched BNC SalesData, the national book sales tracking service. At Shortcovers, he is responsible for sales, publisher and industry relations, content acquisition, and the merchandising experience across all of Shortcovers’ web and mobile services. He is also...

[Publish Date: February 22, 2010]

Hello, Android, Second Edition--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing ...

Raleigh, NC—Watch out, iPhone. Here comes Android. Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile ...

[Publish Date: November 17, 2009]

Hello, Android--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf: Introducing Google's Mobile ...

--> Raleigh, NC—Android offers a compelling, fresh take on mobile applications. It blends the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members such...

[Publish Date: January 26, 2009]

GNOME Mobile: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, San ...

By Dave Neary, Paul Cooper

GNOME Mobile is a collection of community projects which are at the heart of an increasing number of mobile Linux platforms. We will present the genesis of the initiative, the state of the art, and our plans for the project, as we become increasingly relevant to free software mobile developers.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better - O'Reilly Radar

By Ben Lorica

Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers, reminds me of a study we did on Mobile Banks in the developing world. Designed to work on the simplest mobile devices and originally targeting the unbanked, mobile banks evolved from simple services to become widely used money-transfer and mobile payment systems. While it's technically easy to roll out a rudimentary mobile payment system, the most successful mobile banks in the developing world use complex software systems that handle more (near) real-time transactions than traditional banking systems.

[Publish Date: September 17, 2009]

Giving Your Mobile Apps a Sense of Place: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - ...

By Dave Johnson

Combining the web and geo location in smart phones is one most powerful technology combinations in software development today. Moving your web application to a mobile device is quick and easy using open source web technologies. Learn how to move your web app to the modern smart phone.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Mobile Social Location, a Practical Guide: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - ...

By Matt Biddulph

It's a great time to be building mobile location apps. Phones with GPS and compasses are now widely deployed, with good mobile data plans available. Projects like Geonames and OpenStreetMap are creating reusable datasets that provide the data backbone for your service. Open source mapping and GIS software is getting better and better.

[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]