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The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008. Android is open source and Google releases the code under the Apache License. This open-source code and permissive licensing allows the software to be freely modified and distributed by device manufacturers, wireless carriers and enthusiast developers. Additionally, Android has a large community of developers writing applications (“apps”) that extend the functionality of devices, written primarily in a customized version of the Java programming language. The HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1 in the United States and parts of Europe, and as the Era G1 in Poland and other countries) …

THE VOICE OF THE MOBILE INDUSTRY IN CHICAGOMobile Monday Chicago relaunched in 2009 and since has grown into one of Chicago’s biggest technology networking organizations. Our mission at Mobile Monday is to increase the size and innovation of the local mobile industry by facilitating connections between companies and people: helping investors connect with new mobile startups, companies connect with new employees, entrepreneurs connect with each other, and bringing new professionals and students into the mobile industry. Presentations: Brian HuntFeature Team Lead, Mobile Applications Orbitz WorldwideBrian is currently Director of the award-winning native mobile applications team at Orbitz Worldwide, a leading …

Providing a well designed and thoughtful checkout experience for your customers can be the difference between a healthy conversion rate and a failing business. This fact is amplified on mobile devices where the number of mobile shopping sessions are soaring but conversion rates drop-off massively when it comes to entering a credit card. Presenter: Mark Tattersall, Product Manager at Braintree Braintree recently launched Venmo Touch to solve this problem by allowing customers to use credit cards across different merchant apps, thereby reducing the friction at checkout. As the Product Manager for Venmo Touch I did a lot of research in …

It is easy to dream up mobile app ideas, but very difficult to uncover and select apps that will provide the most value to your business. There are billions of dollars locked away in enterprise workflows! Lextech CEO & Chief Geek, Alex Bratton, will walk you through his tried and true Billion Dollar Apps™ process that has been used in startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. This process will help you determine the viability and return potential of each of your app ideas, and arm you with the data you need to sell mobile internally. Monday, April 22, 2013 from …

Presenter: Margaret Dickman INTERSOG Mobile Game Apps A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer, portable media player or calculator. This does not include games played on dedicated handheld video game systems such as Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita. The first game on a mobile phone was a Tetris game on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994. Three years later Nokia launched the very successful Snake on selected models in 1997. Snake and its variants has since become one of the most-played video games and is found on more than 350 million devices …

Join us for an upcoming Mobile Monday event hosted by GOTO Chicago team.  Registration starts at 5:00PM and we will serve drinks and appetizers until 6:00PM.  The presentations will begin at 6:00PM.  The two presentations include: Killing PhoneGap and Going Beyond HTML5, presented by Brian LeRoux from Adobe HTML5 is exciting, but whats next? Emergent projects from the leading vendors of web browsers may give us a clue. Chrome OS, Firefox OS, Windows 8 all offer the ability to develop system applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This new breed of web technologies comes super charged with powerful access to …

November 19, 2012 at 6:00 PM GeneXus USA Presenter: Margaret Dickman INTERSOG Industry Gaming Experience Trends – Gaming App Usage *  Gamification *  Education *  Loyalty *  Ad revenue *  Brand building Dev Cost/ timeframe Product launch *  Competition *  Strategy Presenter: Chris Phenner Head of the Midwest for Unified, a social media buying platform. An introduction of the 2012 timeline of releases from Facebook’s mobile team and a demonstration of how companies can promote themselves through paid mobile ads. Facebook is releasing so much in the form of (i) ad unit types, (ii) targeting capabilities and (iii) tracking options that …

Jason Huggins, SAUCE LABS Jason is co-founder and CTO at Sauce Labs, where the focus is on testing infrastructure as a service for software developers. Before Sauce, Jason was an engineer at Google where he supported the Selenium Farm for testing applications such as Gmail and Google Docs. While at ThoughtWorks in Chicago, Jason started the Selenium project, a popular open source web testing tool. Since 2011, Jason has been building robots to play Angry Birds on mobile devices — the project has been featured in Popular Science magazine, NBCNews.com, O’Reilly Radar, and Hackaday. Monday, October 22nd, 5:30 PM Morningstar …

The Mobile Pitch Challenge Mobile Monday’s Chicago does this once a year and its one of the best times to come and hear interesting business ideas that people are working on. Its also a great networking opportunity. We do request that you RSVP only if you intend to come since space will be limited. Hot on the heels of Level Up that presented a few months back, we have 2 mobile payment solutions pitches! Full details and registration here. We’ve selected the 5 finalists for the pitch event – Echo Mobile Payments (Trent McMurray, CEO) – Their target market is small …

Chris Balcer, Director of Technology Innovation at SuperConnect, will share their experiences in attacking cross platform design challenges… Please Register in Advance Here! From user experience to data transfer there are a number of considerations required when you build a mobile app on multiple platforms. Take a look inside at how SuperConnect is building their Connections app for phone and tablet on the iOS, Android, Mobile Web, and Windows 8 Surface platforms. Design topics will include maintaining native app performance when working with sizable server side datasets, supporting multiple android resolutions, leveraging cloud to provide server side processing, and creating …