How To Get Your App Stands out – Get them Awesomized First!

August 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment

If you are an app maker, I am sure you have already learned that App Store is such a competitive environment. You’ve developed an iPhone, iPad, or Android application. You’ve got it up on the App Store next to  hundreds of thousands of other apps which they are also begging for attention. You built it unique, your tweeted it, you blogged about it, but not much luck with getting the word out yet. How do you make sure yours stands out?

Leverage the power of your happy users to awesomize them on awesomize.me to get new users! Read more of this post

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Android kicking Ass Taking Names

October 6, 2010 by 9 Comments

According to the latest report from Nielsen, more and more new smartphone owners choosing Android phones over others. Android has passed the iPhone and BlackBerry to become the popular operating system for people who bought a smartphone in the past six months. 32% is the percentage of the new smartphone owners that chose a phone with an Android operating system, while 25 percent chose the iPhone OS and 26 percent chose RIM’s Blackberry smartphones. Read more of this post

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To Get into their Panties, Get an iPhone

August 11, 2010 by 14 Comments


The dating site, OkCupid has completed a new study which confirms our earlier blog post back in April about the higher chance of getting laid with iPhone! The study has determined that among people who use smartphones,  iPhone users have a much higher chance of getting laid, followed by BlackBerry users and finally Android users.

Hmmm…. Perhaps this is because the Android has an easily accessible porn app store?

I am dumping my Android for iPhone today. If that’s what it takes to get laid, who cares about early termination fees? I would even pay $1,000 to get out of it.  Read more of this post

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Is the Honeymoon Period Over for iPhone?

August 1, 2010 by 1 Comment



Looks like Facebook is not the only thing we are getting addicted to. Our addiction to smartphones is certainly becoming as important. Their shipments jumped 43% year-over-year to 60 million units globally in the second quarter of 2010 and handset shipments grew by 13% in the quarter to 308 million, according to the Strategy Analytics. And no! they weren’t all iPhone. Others have been also kicking ass taking names! Read more of this post

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BlackBerry Wants You!

July 29, 2010 by 2 Comments

Better organization of pictures

From Blackberry blog post, it looks like the company is coming after us, the consumer market with their new multimedia features.  They are  going to change with BlackBerry 6 that includes:

-         A new improved camera UI,

-         Better picture handling and organization,

-         Improved YouTube integration which allows for streaming, sharing and uploading of videos,

-         Built in Podcast app,

-         And, better ways to handle and organize your music and videos.

Media capabilities always felt like a back burner issue on BlackBerry and it’s nice to see that Research In Motion has brought it forward with BlackBerry 6. Read more of this post

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We’ve gone nuts with our Smartphones

July 25, 2010 by 3 Comments


Since the inception of iPhone, we have been increasingly tapping into the advanced features of our smartphones, according to a new report released by Compete as part of its Quarterly Smartphone Intelligence Survey.

I think part of the reason behind such phenomena is a result of the improvement of the wireless network platforms that carry the data and voice connections, particularly the evolution of 3G  and now 4G technology that promises to increase both the speed at which data can be transferred and the amount of information that can be handled per cell site.

This is also fueled in part by a new generation of powerful and popular smart phones which are loosely defined as mobile devices offering more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a basic feature phone.

The survey further shows: Read more of this post

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More and More Texting, Browsing, Downloading

July 11, 2010 by 1 Comment


Nearly two-thirds of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging in May, while nearly a third used their mobile web browsers or downloaded apps, according to a new report by comScore.

All three categories rose about 2% from figures released in February. The largest increase, however, occurred among those using their mobile devices to access social networks or blogs (up 2.6% to 20.8%). All told, 49.1 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in May, up 8.1 percent from February, with Research In Motion‘s (Blackberry) platform running on nearly 42%. Apple (24.4%) and Microsoft (13.2%) followed, with Google‘s Android platform (13%) the only one among the top five gaining market share, up 4%.

The report further shows that 65.2 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device in May, up 1.4 percentage points versus the prior three month period, while browsers were used by 31.9 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 2.3 percentage points). Read more of this post

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Awesome Apps to improve your Schmoozing Skills

June 22, 2010 by 4 Comments


Given majority of jobs are found through networking, in case you are not good in schmoozing and mingling, here are several Apps/tools to improve your networking skills. Even if you are good at networking, these apps will still come handy.

Unfortunately, the apps are just for iPhone. Hope someone builds them for Android and Blackberry soon:

1.  MeetMe: There’s nothing more annoying than emailing back and forth with a colleague to try to figure out where to meet up for coffee, lunch or drinks. For these situations, there’s MeetMe ($0.99), an app designed to help people meet in the middle. You input two locations (or use your current location and input your colleague’s address) and it locates suitable venues in the middle. The search can be narrowed down by type of venue, and you can store contacts and venues in your favorites for future use. From there, you can email directions to yourself and your colleague. The only thing left to do is meet up and have a good time. Read more of this post

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Smartphones Becoming a Necessity

June 12, 2010 by 2 Comments


According to a report from Nielsen, 23% of U.S. mobile consumers owned a smartphone in the first quarter of 2010, up from 16% in the second quarter of 2009.  I don’t have any  stat on this for early 2000, but for sure I don’t remember any of my friends or colleagues  owned a smartphone back then compare to today. Slowly, but surely the smartphones are indeed becoming a must have thing to more and more people.

Research in Motion’s BlackBerry leads with a 35% market share, followed by Apple’s iPhone (28%); Microsoft  Windows Mobile (19%); Google  Android (9%); Palm (4%); Linux (3%); and Symbian (2%). Read more of this post

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It’s all about facebook and Google Maps

June 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment


At least when it comes to Smartphone App Usage, according to the latest survey by  Nielsen on 4,200 people who had downloaded a mobile application in the last 30 days.

The study shows that 21% of American wireless subscribers have smartphones.

The survey also indicates that the average number of apps that a feature phone user has on his or her device is 10, while the average number of apps a smartphone user has is 22. Read more of this post

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