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Mobile developers meet Ribbit’s open API!

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Developers | No Comments »

If you are in the Bay Area, we are hosting a free event tomorrow (Thursday, November 5th) to give developers a sneak peek into what we have been doing with the Ribbit Platform, and give you an opportunity to get your hands on the REST API, currently in beta. We lovingly call these things ‘Spawn‘.

Building a killer mobile app? Want to find cool ways to bring comms (voice, SMS, etc) into your service? Join us (now about 10 seats left)! We kick things off at 9am and spend the morning digging into the platform, what it means to ‘communications enable’ your application, how pricing works and highlighting some creative ways developers have used the Ribbit APIs. Then we roll up our sleeves and spend the afternoon coding, with sessions for each of the SDKs available.Geekery at its best.

Can’t make it tomorrow? No worries. We will be taping the sessions and posting tid bits from the conference on the developer blog by early next week, so be sure to check that out often. We will also be live tweeting updates tomorrow, so take a peek at that stream and give us a holler if you have any questions!

From CTIA: What’s Hot in the Mobile World?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | located in Conferences/Events, Industry Trends | 2 Comments »

Interesting read from the Editor’s Corner of FierceWireless based on their experience/observations at CTIA.  FierceWireless was the most active press group on the ground there, covering just about every major news announcement across a handful of editors and Twitter updates.

For them, the big ‘winners’ at the show were:

• Mobile healthcare
• Applications/mobile content
• Operating systems, most notably Android
• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski for his commentary on policy & regulation
• Wireless carriers, most notably Verizon for its pact with Google

The first item ‘Mobile Healthcare’ excites me most. There are some hurdles for sure, but I expect to see more healthcare professionals using mobile devices to access and review patient records and test results, consult drug allergies and other reference material, enter diagnosis information during patient visits, handle billing items, and synchronize information with their organizations’ centralized systems, all without the need for wired network connections.

These benefits are appealing and impressive, both from healthcare delivery and back-office business perspectives. This is just the beginning, but I do hope this is a trend that perculates to the top TO DO list for *someone* in 2010.