• MWC
    WIPJAMS AND EVENTS

    Gearing up for MWC in Barcelona - Join Us!

    2011 has flown by, and the New Year is just around the corner. That means we're making plans for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 27-March 1, 2012. We'll be holding a Jam in AppPlanet on Thursday, March 1, and a Party the night before at the Museo del Rock. Get on the list now -- all Jam registrants will receive a free MWC exhibit pass.

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  • MAC
    RESOURCES

    Bulk Up Your App With an API

    The WIP API Catalog now lists over 150 APIs you can use to enhance, improve and expand your mobile app. Looking for location help? Maybe messaging? Want to add advertising? Bonkers for billing? Find help for these areas and more in the Catalog.

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  • Regional Hubs
    FROM THE WIP BLOG

    App Marketing Tips from the Makers of SwiftKey

    TouchType, the company behind the Android alternative keyboard SwiftKey, have driven the app to the top of the Android paid download charts. Their CMO, Joe Braidwood, shares some secrets of their success that developers can apply to their own apps in a guest post for WIP.

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  • WIPJam
    WIPJAMS AND EVENTS

    WIPJam Tel Aviv

    The WIP World Tour is headed to the Middle East, where we're collaborating with Mobile Monday Tel Aviv to put on a WIPJam there on January 16. Read on for more info and to register now!

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  • Mobile Community Calendar
    WIPJAMS & EVENTS

    Where Are You Headed Next?

    Our Mobile Community Calendar is the most comprehensive listing of mobile and mobile developer events on the web. Need to get out of the office, or looking to learn about a new topic? You can find the next great event to attend on the MCC.

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  • MIDEM
  • WIPJam @ MWC

Latest Posts

AT&T Developer Summit 2012 ‘Rap Up

The new year never really sinks in until the AT&T Developer Summit and CES come along. The WIP team was in charge of FUN at the AT&T Registration Reception this year and with close to 600 in attendance, it was a great night with developers and other mobile ecosystem members choosing 3 or 4 buttons that reflected who they are to pin onto their lanyards. With equal number of each button available, the Android one was the first to run out reflecting the large number of Android developers at the Summit. Beer Drinkers, Wine Drinkers, Apple Developers, Cocktail Drinkers Buttons were not far

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Sam’s 2012 Predictions: Microsoft - The Dark Knight Rises

As the rest of the team predicted, it's going to be a crazy year of evolution in the mobile world, especially for consumers. As I watch my parents socialize with their peers about which apps they've downloaded lately, I feel that this quote from last year rings even truer this year: "We are reaching the sweet spot as the penetration of a [mobile] technology reaches [the masses]". It's a sweet time to be in the industry for sure. Here are some specifics I see happening this year:

  1. Death of the 'smartphone'
    There was a time when you had to be somebody 'important' to own a
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Get Your Dev and Design Teams Talking—Tips from Tawkon

(Guest Post by Amit Lubovsky, Co-founder and VP of Business Development and Marketing at tawkon)

Our company tawkon is focused on radiation tracking, specifically on detecting phone radiation emission on mobile devices. Especially as mobile devices are being relied on for more and more, radiation is a growing concern among consumers. When you make calls or browse the web, your phone emits radiation in various levels, depending on your circumstances and even the model of the phone. We monitor those levels and offers suggestions for lowering them before and during calls (disclaimer: while

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Can You Feel the Differentation? Haptics for Your App

Looking at the amount of new Apps that are published for Apple and Android each month, we can roughly estimate a new app comes out every 1-2 minutes.  Obviously, this is a lot to compete with so developers need to keep differentiation on their mind. There are many different ways to differentiate, but one of the most overlooked differentiators is haptic feedback. Haptics also happens to be one of the simplest and effective features to add to your Android application.

Integrating Haptics into an App
Tactile Haptic feedback is the vibration a phone creates, and now Immersion has recently

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Caroline’s Predications:  Mobile Development in 2012:  The Dichotomy of Speed

As it’s time for predications and reflections I always go back to my previous predictions to see how I made out.  And contrary to the belief of Strand Consulting, they are not the only ones to publish their previous years, so you can see how I made out too! 

Here are the highlights and  links to those predictions:
2011 – Year of APIs, Growth of Discovery, Less BlackBerry, Less Android, More iPhone
2010– a Thibaut/Caroline combo here.  I declared:  More Android, More BlackBerry, Less iPhone, More Innovation/More funding
2009 Tough economic times, Access the new open, Less US centric,

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