When:
August 3rd @ 7PM

Where:
Big in Japan Headquarters at Infomart off i-35
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Overview:
The mobile application marketplace is dominated by Apple’s App Store, but is the App Store the best model for corporations to distribute their mobile applications? Join Genuitec co-founder and vice president of product development, Wayne Parrott, and senior Eclipse developer, Greg Amerson, as they discuss the long term drawbacks of the App Store model and highlight the benefits of the Internet as the App Store of tomorrow. The discussion will further focus on tips and techniques for creating mobile Web applications using HTML 5, CSS3, and JavaScript with WebKit technology. This presentation is for both desktop and mobile developers as well as executives interested in learning how and why the Internet is the lowest barrier to entry for enterprise-class mobile applications.

Agenda:
1. Introduction by VP of product development, Wayne Parrot, and senior Eclipse developer, Greg Amerson, to Genuitec history and why Genuitec entered the mobile space

2. Mobile big picture
- Smartphone advancements (hardware, network performance, geolocation, cloud computing)
- App Store (+/-)
- Mobile Web usage stats (iPhone)
- Architectural models (native, Web, hybrid)

3. OSS Impact, Eclipse Foundation
- Eclipse Blinki & Pulsar
- Other OSS initiatives

4. Mobile app strategy
- General industry-wide approach
- Finding a different strategy to stand out, examples
- Mobile web as pragmatic and capable, low risk/low cost entry point

5. HTML5 Movement

6. Mobile Web/HTML5 demo
- Getting started in mobile Web
- Demo HTML5 capabilities and key example sites

7. Q&A

Date: Monday, March 2, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Big in Japan Headquarters (InfoMart)
Street: 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 2022
City/Town: Dallas, TX
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Experiences working with Android
by Alexandar Muse

The story behind Shop Savvy
by Rylan Barnes

Backgrounds:
Alexander Muse
co-founded Big in Japan. Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of startup experience. He served as CEO of Architel, a provider of outsourced information technology services. Previously, he was founder and CEO of LayerOne, a ventured backed telecommunications infrastructure company he started in the late 1990’s.

Rylan Barnes
co-founded Big in Japan and is the lead developer of ShopSavvy, winner of Google’s Android Challenge (ADC I). Rylan started his career at HP. Since then he has worked as a consultant for Software Architects and as a software developer for Veritix.

Big in Japan created Shop Savvy. The app that runs on the G1 snaps a picture of a barcode and finds the best prices around your area for that item. Brilliant.
http://www.biggu.com/

They won the nomination from our DFW group and have now been selected in the global top 20 for Mobile Peer Awards held annually by Mobile Monday Global: http://www.mobilepeerawards.com

So it looks like a trip to Barcelona is in their near future, Good luck guys!

Kirk

I just received information released by Strategy Analytics courtesy of Mark Doherty (Adobe) with recent numbers on Flash Lite saturation rates:
Link to Stats
It is impressive Flash has continually doubled in most markets and continues to. This time last year they were reporting around 400million devices.

Kirk

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1116168/
Exciting to see more mobile activities coming to the Dallas area. Here are the details:

This is your chance to get an in depth look at Android and the new G1 phone from T-mobile.

Event Details -
AndroidDevCamp 1 – Dallas, is being sponsored by SpringStage and hosted in the Big in Japan/Architel offices located in the Dallas INFOMART. We can support around 75 ‘campers’ for the day.

Contacts -
AndroidDevCamp is sponsored by SpringStage and organized by Anuj Bhatia, Alexander Muse, Rylan Barnes and Jason Hudgins. If you are interested in sponsoring, helping, organizing or hosting an event please email Alexander Muse at amuse ‘at’ m-ven.com.

Giovanni on Viewzi.TV

Giovanni Gallucci of Viewzi.TV and Xtrain
will present:
Mobile Social Media trends in the US

Bob DeAnna (Recursion Software CTO) will present:
Voyager Mobile Platform and cover the topic of fragmentation, performance and other development challenges facing architects and engineers when deploying location-aware, mobile and pervasive applications. With competing market share between Android and iPhone SDKs, the choice of whether to write separate code for separate operating systems or forgo a large segment of devices is a problem mobile platforms and middleware must solve. Yet the proliferation of these applications also presents scaling and bandwidth challenges, as we have seen with Twitter’s recent scaling issues. What happens when an application’s popularity is its own downfall?

Voyager Mobile Platform:

* Voyager makes every device an intelligent client & server. Its decentralized peer-to-peer/group messaging, discovery, and edge processing avoids the single point of failure and proprietary hardware requirements that hinder even today’s most popular mobile applications.
* Voyager future-proofs your applications. It serves as an abstraction layer so developers can leverage the same code base for multiple OSs and languages, and even integrate legacy applications. Voyager bridges desktops to phones to embedded devices—even devices that cannot run web applications.
* Voyager is fast, very fast. It’s faster than RMI and web apps that do not perform or scale effectively. Voyager scales to enable collaboration on an entirely new level: distributing information, files and multimedia within ad hoc communities.

Snelling University (75 / 635)
Ste 700
12801 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX 75243
(972) 239-7575

Pizza and soda provided. (thanks Snelling)

Feel free to invite friends from work or clients involved in mobile. We have room for 50+ @ Snelling.

Monday, November 3, 2008
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Snelling University
12801 N Central Expy,
Dallas, TX
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I am pleased to announce Nokia is hosting our next event! It will be held in Los Colinas.

Agenda:
Jeff Cooper will present upcoming technology and devices from Nokia

Location:
Los Colinas Summer Field Suites
5901 N MacArthur Boulevard
Irving, Texas, USA
75039

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Giveaway:
Because we are a registered Adobe Mobile User Group:
We will be giving away Adobe T-shirts, pens, stickers
(Thanks Adobe!)

We are meeting April 7th at 7pm.
Feel free to invite any of your friends with interest in mobile search.

Please RSVP on Facebook:Click Here

Agenda:
Kannuu.com will present their mobile platform
GoMoInfo.com will present their click-to-call mobile search platform

Directions:
Do not forget.
When you get to the parking garage go to the very top. We will be in the North Tower in the room with the door propped open.Address:
2200 S. Service Road.
Dallas, TX 75261

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We are meeting Monday, February 11th at 7pm.
A belated MoMo and a big thank you to our new venue providers at DFW Airport.

Please RSVP on Facebook:Click Here

Agenda:
Candy Bernhardt of Handango presents
Mobile Browser Based applications

Kirk Ballou presents XMPP/Jabber
Instant Messaging in Flash Lite

Address:
2200 S. Service Road.
Dallas, TX 75261

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Thanks to Adobe for supporting our group!