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Event Marketing Industry Embraces eshots’ New Android-Based Lead Capture Device










Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 4, 2010

The event marketing industry’s leading single-source provider of technology solutions, eshots, inc., is showcasing the second version of its handheld lead capture device at this week’s Event Marketing Summit. QuickCapture has been rapidly adopted as the event marketing industry’s lead capture device of choice due, in part, to eshots’ decision to build it on Google’s Android platform.

Craig Steensma, eshots president, said, “When we set out to build the industry’s best handheld lead capture solution, we first looked at Apple’s mobile products. We found that, while Apple’s devices are fun and slick, they lack key features fundamental to capturing data at events. The hardware offers neither interchangeable batteries nor standard ports. The application development and deployment processes lack flexibility. The onscreen touch keyboard makes it difficult to enter accurate information efficiently. These problems vanished when we turned to Google’s Android platform.”

QuickCapture makes it simple for brand representatives to collect information from consumers. Interchangeable batteries mean events can be managed with less units and less interruptions. The flexible operational design combines a touch screen, an external physical keyboard and a barcode scanner, which all work together to facilitate fast new-user training and easy, accurate data entry. Lastly, the Android platform’s ability to run background processes allows for efficient and seamless consumer interactions.

QuickCapture’s integrated reference application, which puts vital product details at the fingertips of brand representatives, is one example of Android’s multitasking ability. Chrysler Brand Event Shows Manager Bo Puffer said, “Our product specialists love QuickCapture. The availability of all vehicle product and trim information at the tap of a button, while the lead capture app is running at the same time makes their job easier than ever.”

QuickCapture will be demonstrated at the eshots booth during the Event Marketing Summit taking place at the Hyatt Regency Chicago May 3-5, 2010.

About eshots

As the event marketing industry’s leading single-source provider of technology solutions, eshots, inc. helps today’s leading brands and their agencies use marketing events to engage the right consumers. With its unique “One Platform/One Partner” approach, eshots provides state-of-the-art lead-capture devices, delivers timely and customized post-event email follow-up, helps extend the event experience via online engagement, and offers the industry’s richest set of performance metrics for complete event analysis. To learn more, visit http://www.eshots.com.

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Answer Live Chats from Your Website On Your Android-Based Mobile Phone With Alive Chat Mobile – Android From WebsiteAlive










Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 1, 2010

WebsiteAlive, a leader in Live Chat technology, is once again taking Alive Chat to new levels with the introduction Alive Chat Mobile – Android, Live Chat for Android-based mobile phones, it was announced today.

“We were the first company to develop and offer an App to take Live Chat mobile with Alive Chat Mobile for mobile devices such as the iPhone,” explained Dustin Yu, co-founder and CTO of WebsiteAlive. “My mobile development team and I saw the potential of the Android platform before it hit the market, at a time when it was dominated by iPhones and Blackberrys. We jumped at the opportunity to create the new Alive Chat Mobile App for Android-based Smartphones, including the Motorola Droid, T-Mobile® myTouch, HTC EVO 4G and Motorola CLIQ to name a few.”

With Alive Chat Mobile you don’t have to be tied to your computer to take chats. As long as you are a WebsiteAlive customer and have an Internet-capable phone, you can chat with your website visitors just as you would from your desktop, allowing you to be always available to chat even if you’re not in the office.

“Alive Chat Mobile – Android and iPhone are just the tip of the iceberg. As new mobile operating systems are developed, you can be sure we will be on top of it. If you are going to use a Smartphone, you should take full advantage of all it has to offer, including Live Chat capability. Our goal is to convert every Smartphone user into an Alive Chat Mobile user,” Yu concluded.

Alive Chat allows website visitors to connect to company representatives and have their questions answered instantly by clicking on a Live Chat button embedded on the website. Alive Chat is fully hosted on WebsiteAlive’s secure servers, which means there is no equipment to buy and no software to install. If you have an Internet connection and a web browser, you can use Alive Chat. With Alive Chat Mobile, which is included at no extra charge in all versions of Alive Chat—Lite, Pro and Pro+, you can take your chats on the road.

For more information on Alive Chat Mobile or to add WebsiteAlive’s Alive Chat capability to your website, contact WebsiteAlive at 888-696-4513, email them, or visit them on the web at http://www.websitealive.com.

About WebsiteAlive— http://www.websitealive.com

Since 2004 Alive Chat software from WebsiteAlive has been the leader in cross-platform/cross-browser Live Chat support. Alive Chat software provides instant, real time chat between company support representatives and their customers. Cost effective for every market segment, Alive Chat software works on any computer with a standard web browser and Internet connection as well as Internet-based mobile phones, to reduce shopping cart abandonment, support costs and phone calls as well as increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Used and trusted by more than 10,000 businesses and companies, including Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Jets, Gold’s Gym and Seattle Coffee Gear to name a few, WebsiteAlive’s industry-leading Alive Chat technology platform provides one of the best online Live Chat solutions available today.

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Luxoft Introduces World’s First Android-Based OEM Software Platform for Automotive Infotainment











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Munich, Germany (PRWEB) November 3, 2010

Luxoft, a leading global provider of advanced application and product development services, today announced that it has created the world’s first Google Android-based original equipment manufacturers (OEM) software platform for automotive infotainment, LUXnet. The platform delivers a successful combination of social networking capabilities with navigation, multimedia and connectivity services, including dynamic points of interest (POIs) and voice over IP (VoIP).

LUXnet supports BeagleBoard-compatible hardware platforms, and works with a wide-range of interfaces, including CAN, HDMI, USB, SD cards, 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth. LUXnet is designed for in-car social networking and dynamic navigation use, and comes with integrated Facebook and Twitter capabilities. Its easy-to-use interface is designed with car ergonomics in mind. Additional LUXnet features include: Internet connectivity, support for downloadable applications, intelligent data caching and geocaching.

“We see great potential in Google Android implementation for the automotive industry,” said Michael Minkevich, VP Technology Services, Luxoft. “Due its advanced infotainment functionality, LUXnet makes the popular Android platform more attractive to the automotive OEMs and suppliers. Luxoft is committed to providing the automotive market with efficient solutions that will greatly reduce costs and the time needed to deliver new products to market, and LUXnet is a perfect example of such a solution.”

LUXnet is an Android-based OEM software platform for head units and personal navigation devices (PNDs). OEMs can take the easy-to-deploy, extendable LUXnet platform and rapidly develop a new product by customizing it, and thus drastically cutting the development costs and time to market, while Luxoft’s professional services can further accelerate the development process. Using the LUXnet platform, OEMs can develop a variety of products, including but not limited to PND, head units and rear seat entertainment systems.

Luxoft is showcasing LUXnet and other innovative solutions for the automotive industry at the 8th annual Telematics Munich 2010 event, November 3rd and 4th, at booth number two. Luxoft’s automotive software unit offers ready-to-implement software product platforms for OEMs and Tier-1 and Tier-2 automotive suppliers. The experienced team of engineers can customize its platform according to OEM needs and assists with the product development. For more information on Luxoft’s automotive practices, please visit: http://www.luxoft.com/automotive.

About Luxoft

Luxoft, a member of the IBS Group is an emerging global leader in application and product engineering outsourcing services for enterprise IT organizations and software vendors. Luxoft builds lasting partnerships with its clients, such as Boeing, IBM, Harman, Avaya, Areva, Sabre and other global leaders, based on the culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and deep domain expertise. Luxoft offers global delivery capability through its network of state-of-the-art delivery centers in North America, Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia. Luxoft`s customers benefit from the right mix of technology skills, industry knowledge, best-of-breed processes and methodologies, and a choice of engagement models.

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CNEWSCO, LLC Expands Tantao News Mobile Reader Reach To Android-based Smartphone Devices










(PRWEB) September 29, 2010

CNEWSCO, LLC continues its rapid expansion by announcing today the launch of a new mobile application, Tantao Mobile News Reader® for Android-based Smartphone devices, specializing in both Global and China news coverage. Powered by real-time English-language content provided by Chinese news organizations, Tantao News® brings to mobile one of the world’s most comprehensive and unique news services, now available for Android-based Smartphones, iPhone/iPod touch and BlackBerry® Smartphone users, with other platform and device availability to follow shortly.

“Android-based Smartphones are receiving rapid market acceptance and growing in share among all Smartphone users, including China,” said Jim Campbell, Managing Partner for CNEWSCO, LLC. “Our expansion into the Android-based Smartphone devices applications realm allows us to build upon our rapidly growing global user base – and now provide video news service on our platform. The massive international resources of the Xinhua News Agency, and our cooperation with the Shanghai Media Group, give us a continuous, high-quality stream of digital content to fuel and power our mobile and internet platforms.”

Tantao News® provides global coverage of leading world events as well as “China Focus,” a special emphasis on China’s markets, politics, foreign relations, lifestyle and culture — a unique offering of world headlines and Chinese features that no other news organization can provide.

“Chinese media have continued the swift globalization of their operations during this past year,” said Jack Fensterstock, Managing Partner/China for CNEWSCO, LLC. “Tantao News® has been a model for expanding the reach into new media for these news organizations. Tantao News® provides a critical bridge to improving understanding and trust between China and the rest of the world. We are de-coupling rhetoric and the news and rightly placing Chinese content providers alongside other leading professional news organizations in a new media manner.”

The mobile application, with technology provided by Handmark, Inc., gives users access to full text news stories, rich photo and now video news in a compelling, easy-to-navigate application.

The Tantao News® mobile application is a FREE application and immediately available for Android-based Smartphone devices, iPhone/iPod touch and Blackberry phones. Users can download the mobile application for Android in the Android Marketplace accessible through their Smartphones. Other versions can be found in the iPhone/iPod touch App in the iTunes Store; or in the BlackBerry App download at BlackBerry App World(TM) .

About CNEWSCO, LLC

The Tantao Global News Network® (http://TantaoNews.com) focuses on providing global news coverage on a variety of topics and perspectives originating mainly from Chinese news and media sources. Tantao News® is organized and operates under CNEWSCO, LLC, an apolitical and independent company which does not represent the interests of any Chinese State entity. Tantao News® maintains absolute editorial independence from its content partners.

About Xinhua

The Xinhua News Agency, also known as the New China News Agency, has over 10,000 employees, 130 bureaus worldwide with 31 in China, and works in six languages — Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic. Xinhua is the primary provider of major and authoritative news on China.

About Shanghai Media Group

The Shanghai Media Group is a large multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company. The company employs around 5,200 people, and its core business is television broadcasting and related media entertainment services including sports, showbiz, performance arts, science and technology, and finance. ICS News is the English language broadcast with a focus on domestic and especially Shanghai news.

About Handmark

Handmark is the leading developer and distributor of games, applications and storefronts for mobile phones. The company offers a comprehensive range of mobile media solutions for consumers, as well as businesses looking to expand their reach by offering compelling mobile content and services across a wide range of mobile operating systems and handsets.

Tantao Mobile News Reader®, Tantao News®, and Tantao News Network® are trademarks of CNEWSCO, LLC. All rights reserved. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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Electric Pocket Puts a Fresh Face on Android, Offering PhoneFace Speed “Photo-Dialing” for Android-based Smartphones











PhoneFace is a photo-dial program for Android smartphones which automatically retrieves photos from Facebook or Twitter profiles


Wye Valley, UK (PRWEB) April 23, 2009

Electric Pocket is today announcing a new version of PhoneFace, a speed dial application that launches phone calls, text messages and emails with a simple click on a contact’s photo, for smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. The application shows photos of a user’s friends to offer a fun and easy way to locate the right contact to call. PhoneFace even retrieves the most recent pictures of contacts from Facebook and Twitter.

Rather than forcing users to scroll through hundreds of contacts in the Address Book of their Android Smartphone, PhoneFace adds a new twist to “speed dialing” by enabling them to flick through photos for their most commonly called contacts and quickly select the person they wish to call. PhoneFace on Android also offers a “Map” option, allowing users to quickly locate their contact’s address, and even get directions from the current location.

PhoneFace users can select any picture files for their contacts – whether they are stored on their Android phone or storage card – and for the millions of Facebook and Twitter users around the world, Electric Pocket has added the ability to locate and update the pictures of PhoneFace contacts with their most recent Facebook or Twitter profile pictures. This integration gives users a ready source of excellent photographs for their contacts – and uniquely, the speed-dial picture becomes a photograph chosen by the contact themselves.

“PhoneFace is a light and breezy speed-dialer aimed at helping anyone reach out to their friends and family more quickly with their Android smartphones,” said Iain Barclay, Electric Pocket’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer. “It’s so much easier to look for a familiar face than sort through hundreds of names in a directory.”

PhoneFace is available now from the Android Market, or Electric Pocket’s PhoneFace web site at http://phoneface.com – introductory pricing is just $ 0.99.

About Electric Pocket Limited

Electric Pocket is a privately held company offering leading-edge mobile and wireless computing solutions and services from its base in the Wye Valley, UK. The company’s product portfolio includes a rich set of wireless media and messaging applications and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.electricpocket.com.

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Zug, Switzerland and New York, NY (PRWEB) November 6, 2009

CarryQuote®, A.G., a pioneer in integrated desktop and mobile financial information solutions, today announced that the CarryQuote solution is now available for smartphones running on the increasingly popular Google Android mobile device operating system. Currently, more than 32 mobile carriers in 265 countries are providing Android-based phones, and the number is expected to grow.

By introducing a mobile application designed specifically for Android-based phones, CarryQuote has broadened worldwide access to its integrated mobile and desktop solution for high-quality, affordable, financial market information across asset classes and geographies. Because the application was fully developed in native code without the use of third party libraries or software, it offers an optimal end-user experience that features maximum scalability, easy maintenance and the fastest screen rendering speed possible.

“CarryQuote’s mobile application gives investors the freedom to move away from their desk, as well as the ability to stay on top of the market in such a way that they can make smart, fast business decisions,” said Michael Stennicke, CEO and Co-founder of CarryQuote. “By introducing a custom-built application for Android phones, we are not only staying ahead of critical mobile adoption trends, we are also enabling millions of individuals worldwide to access critical market data whenever and wherever they need it.”

According to the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute, smart phones equipped with Android will reach 6.5 million units in 2009 and grow to 31.8 million units in 2013. What’s more, Android is expected to reach number-two in OS providers by 2012, with a 15% worldwide share of the market, according to a recent report from Gartner.

About CarryQuote:

CarryQuote is the first and only mobile financial information services company to provide cost-effective, real-time pricing data, actionable analytics, and personalized alerts through an easy-to-use interface, accessible on any smartphone, including Blackberry®, iPhone®, Symbian®, Android® and Windows Mobile®. CarryQuote’s real-time snapshot market views and personalized alerts ensure that fund managers, wealth managers and individual investors are always on top of market changes and have visibility into global market data from more than 80 global data sources covering a broad range of asset classes, including equities, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities, real estate and alternative investments. CarryQuote is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and has offices in New York, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen (China). For more information, please visit www.carryquote.com.

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