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Twin Cities Premier Mobile Event

27. January 2011

The Twin Cities premier mobile event, Mobile March, will be here in just a few weeks. It’s a day long event dedicated to exploring the latest in mobile technology and trends. The name Mobile March not only denotes the month in which it takes place, it also emphasizes the ongoing advancement and growth of mobile [...]

W3i Having a Merry Christmas After Launching Recharge Studios and ‘Dolphin Play’ Game

24. December 2010

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W3i, one of the most successful Internet startups ever in the state of Minnesota, has launched Recharge Studios, which is both a mobile app launch fund for game developers and an app publishing business — and also the first product of that unit, a social game for the the Apple iOS platform called “Dolphin Play.” [...]

Waiting for a Better Price Before Purchasing at Best Buy? Now You Don’t Have to – There’s an App for That

2. December 2010

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Ever been burned buying a consumer electronics product right before a price reduction and wished you’d have waited? Or, how many times have you been burned and not even known it? Now there’s a solution for both these problems: it’s called Gazaro Protect. Gazaro is a company that’s been developing a cloud-based, realtime retail pricing [...]

Internet Trends at Web 2.0 Summit

18. November 2010

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By now you’ve undoubtedly seen much from last week’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As internet/web/mobile people, it’s always incredibly enlightening to see Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley deliver her Web 2.0 Summit “State of the Internet” talk (slides as PDF here or embedded–simply click “more” under the video). It’s always great to see [...]

Minnov8 Gang 100th Podcast

10. November 2010

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Wednesday night the Minnov8 Gang gathered at Chino Latino for our 100th podcast. Set up by Phil Wilson with the gracious participation by Christopher Lower (who arranged things with the restaurant), it was a fun and lively evening with good conversation the result. When Minnov8 was founded in 2008, Dan Grigsby and Garrick Van Buren [...]

The Death of the Tether? Verizon Wireless 4G for MSP

10. November 2010

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At an event in downtown Minneapolis yesterday, Verizon Wireless announced “the world’s first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network” to the Twin Cities, slated to come online “before the end of 2010” and will be “the death of the tether” according to Verizon sources at the venue. Graeme Thickins and I attended the event for [...]

W3i Lights Up the ‘Net with Its Latest App News

29. June 2010

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Okay, so there’s this company named Apple that I hear makes phones. And people tell me there’s been, uh, a bit of news lately about some new phone of theirs? Well, that media firestorm didn’t stop Minnesota’s W3i LLC from deciding to jump in with some news of its own, which is actually related to [...]

iKenex Platform from DoApp

18. June 2010

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The team at Rochester, MN-based DoApp just announced their new iKenex real estate platform built in collaboration with California MLS software firm Concentric Mobile. iKenex brings all the real estate data a realtor or buyer would ever need to their preferred mobile smartphone device, whether it is an iPhone, iPad, Android or Blackberry. Taking advantage of [...]

Lost in Minneapolis Skyways? FrypanDigital Has Your Lifeline

9. June 2010

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FryPanDigital, a startup that intends to create “tasty apps” was founded by, “…two dudes who know nothing about application development, but wanted to try super hard to kick out an iPhone app.” These two have succeeded in “kicking out an app” and have released their new, free Minneapolis Skyway app for iPhone (their blog; iTunes link). [...]

Phil’s Excellent HTC Evo 4 Adventure

9. June 2010

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Early adopter Phil Wilson heads over to the Lakeville Sprint store last Friday for the launch of the HTC Evo 4, the Android phone that Phil refers to in this post on his RemainComm blog as a device which is, “…light years ahead of my coal-fired Treo 755p.”

Archive | Mobile technology RSS feed for this section

Twin Cities Premier Mobile Event

W3i Having a Merry Christmas After Launching Recharge Studios and ‘Dolphin Play’ Game

Waiting for a Better Price Before Purchasing at Best Buy? Now You Don’t Have to – There’s an App for That

Internet Trends at Web 2.0 Summit

Minnov8 Gang 100th Podcast

The Death of the Tether? Verizon Wireless 4G for MSP

W3i Lights Up the ‘Net with Its Latest App News

iKenex Platform from DoApp

Lost in Minneapolis Skyways? FrypanDigital Has Your Lifeline

Phil’s Excellent HTC Evo 4 Adventure

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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