iRa Pro, a video surveillance app developed by Lextech engineers, will be highlighted on CNBC’s Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution tonight at 10 PM Pacific time, 1 AM Eastern. Note the iRa Pro eyeball icon in the top right portion of the globe. About Planet of the Apps from cnbc.com The documentary will “…look at how [...]
I had a chance to get up close and personal with the new point of sale system at an Apple Store tonight. Replacing the previous mobile POS system is an iPod Touch wrapped up in a black case that contains a laser barcode scanner. The iPod runs Apple’s Easy Pay app to manage the transactions. [...]
Gartner research has posted numbers covering Q3 world wide mobile phone sales. Crunching those numbers results in some very interesting data points: Smart phones make up 13% of all mobile phones sold (41 million of 308 million phones) up from 11.8% in 2008 for the same quarter. The total volume of phones sold was flat [...]
paidContent.org has a good overview of ESPN’s current iPhone offerings and strategy around using free apps to drive paid adopters. Key take-aways: ESPN’s target is to convert up to 10% of a free audience to paid users Native iPhone apps are additive to mobile web usage of ESPN resources — iPhone users want native apps [...]
Alex Bratton was invited to present for the launch of a new business networking event at the Apple Store Woodfield in Schaumburg, IL. He will talk about some of the amazing things we’ve done with the iPhone and how Lextech uses Apple technology to create custom web apps, iPhone apps, and manage daily business operations. [...]
Recently we made our annual family trek to the Dayton airshow in Ohio for one of my favorite airshows. Seeing everything on the ground and then watching them take off right in front of you before each demonstration is so very different than planes just appearing above you. This year I had my new iPhone [...]
It’s crunch time. Last 10 minutes of development, and we’re putting some finishing touches on our first cut at Mockup, a user interface prototype tool. Many participants are still hard at work finishing up their apps for the competition.
Our broadcasting of the iPhoneDevCamp event to as many as 1000 remote users around the world on their iPhones has been a great success. We believe this is the first time ever that a live event has been broadcast with audio & video directly to iPhone end users. Using the new HTTP video streaming protocol [...]
Good Morning America walked through a demo of iLOCi2 friendly locator in their segment, “Keep Track of Your Kids This Summer.” Engineered by the Lextech team for GTX Corp, iLOCi2 shows you exactly where a friend, co-worker or loved one is, fast and easy. With the push of a button, iLOCi2 populates your iPhone’s built-in Google [...]
