Monday, September 27, 2010
Yapper: Your App Maker (for mobile)
There are a bunch of companies coming along that let you make mobile apps. Here's Yapper. What does it do differently from the others? Watch the video or visit http://yapper.sachmanya.com/ For one, they make apps for more platforms than their competitors.
Remarkable young entrepreneur helps small businesses manage their money: Indinero
When you meet Jessica Mah you are struck by a few things. For one, she's young. For two, she's smart and she's business astute. Where did that come from, I asked her, soon learning her parents were entrepreneurs. She talks to me about entrepreneurship (her company was one of 36 that were birthed by YCombinator this summer) as well as explains why she developed her company. http://indinero.com
WiseDame Wins The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, A Black Box For Real Life
This weekend, 450 or so developers descended upon the San Francisco Design Center to hack. The result? Some really cool/interesting/crazy stuff being made at our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. On Sunday, it was time to present before our selection of judges: Cyan Bannister, Brett Bullington, Rebekah Cox, Chris Dixon, Bradley Horowitz, Dean Hovey, Michael Marquez, Christopher Poole, Joshua Schachter, and Mike Schroepfer.
After 86 60-second presentations on stage, the judges went backstage to pick the ones they felt put their time to best use last night (and/or gave the best presentation on little or no sleep).
The overall winner was WiseDame, an app that allows you to easily let people you care about know where you are. For example, perhaps you told your parents that you would be home at a certain time, but you’re going to be late for some reason, you’ll get a notification to let them know why. Perhaps your phone battery is dying and you’ll be forced off the grid — you can also send out a message to let someone know this so they don’t freak out when they can’t reach you.
This app was developed with women in mind — specifically, J’aime Ohm, the sole developer, viewed it as a “black box” recorder like they have in planes, but for real life. But you can easily see this idea being applicable in a lot of ways. (See our video with J’aime above.)
Congrats to WiseDame — they’ll get some time to present during TechCrunch Disrupt, which begins tomorrow.
Galapagos: Sharp Announces 5.5-Inch And 10.8-Inch Android Tablets (Video)
Galapagos: Sharp Announces 5.5-Inch And 10.8-Inch Android Tablets (Video)
by Serkan Toto on September 27, 2010
It took them a while, but now it seems Sharp is serious about entering the e-book and tablet business. The company announced “Galapagos”in Tokyo today [press release in English], with Galapagos being the (terrible) name both for Sharp’s cloud-based e-book service and two new Android devices supporting that service.
The smaller one, the “mobile type”, has a 5.5-inch LCD screen (1,024 × 600 resolution) that’s optimized for displaying paperback books (it will be available in red and black). It also comes with a trackball to scroll through pages.
The other model, the Galapagos “home type”, misses said track ball (you’ll turn pages just like you do on the iPad). It has a 10.8-inch LCD screen (1,366 × 800) for magazine content formatted across a two-page spread. By way of comparison: The iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD screen featuring 1,024×768 resolution.
Both Galapagos devices will have Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g) on board. Buyers will be able to surf the web, view “PC documents”, play games (via apps), and share comments and recommendations with other owners via a pre-installed “social app”. That’s the reason why Sharp, on its Japanese website, advertises the devices as “media tablets” – not just e-book readers.
The Galapagos e-bookstore service is scheduled to start in Japan in December. Sharp says that buyers of the reader can expect a total of 30,000 newspapers, magazines, and books at time of launch.
The company has yet to announce further details (more specs (which Android version?), prices, exact release dates, international availability). It expects to move about 1 million units next year. We’ll keep you posted.
Here is Sharp’s official promo video (it’s in Japanese, but that doesn’t matter that much in this case):
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