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Video News App Offers Unique Multisource Perspectives from News Sources Around the World

Columbia, MO (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

Today, Newsy is announcing the availability of its app for Windows Phone and for Nokia’s Symbian and MeeGo operating systems.

With remarkably fast video download speeds, the Newsy app is intuitive and easy to use. Users can browse an array of video thumbnails and choose to watch videos in landscape or portrait orientations. The Newsy app for Windows Phone offers a Live Tile that allows users to easily view newest stories in a glanceable format on their Start Screen, a feature unique to Windows Phone. Users can easily share stories with a friend by texting or emailing using the phone’s address.

To download the apps for free, search for ‘Newsy’ in Windows Phone Marketplace or Nokia Store.

“We’re delighted to see Newsy embrace Nokia’s global distribution opportunities by making their app available to consumers across our platforms. The Newsy app for Nokia Lumia smartphones brilliantly leverages the Windows Phone Metro UI by presenting videos using rich displays and flowing panoramas. The experience is made even better with two-minute video packages, which are produced especially for mobile consumers,” said Mark Fletcher, director, Partner Management Marketing, Nokia.

“Windows Phone is backed by a rich developer ecosystem that is creating a variety of quality apps and games, like Newsy, that take advantage of the phone’s unique features and design,” said Todd Brix, senior director, Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft Corp. “With its glanceable Live Tile and easy to use sharing tools, Newsy is a great example of the kind of rich applications that people will find on Windows Phone Marketplace to get the most out of their phone,” he continued.

“Nokia and Microsoft have been great to work with and we appreciate the opportunity to bring our innovative multisource video app to these platforms,” Jim Spencer, president of Newsy said. “Newsy’s focus on multiple sources and video are what the mobile audiences are asking for and we are looking forward to delivering it to them.”

Newsy is the go-to news app for on-the-go news users. In 2-minute videos, users understand the differences in coverage from media outlets from around the world as well as discover new sources they would not have found on their own.

About Newsy

Newsy is a multisource video news service that analyzes the world’s news coverage – highlighting the key differences in reporting. Through short videos available on the web and mobile devices (Nokia, iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Kindle Fire), Newsy accelerates the understanding of how a news story is covered. Newsy has won an Appy Award, a Davey Award and a W3 Award for its apps.

Alexandra Wharton
Newsy
(415) 596-9411
Email Information

Nokia’s rather painful public transformation continues. The latest quarterly figures are incoming, and the company is warning of a 3% loss over the first three months of the year – worse than the already bleak -2% to break even ballpark previously expected.

In terms of handset sales, the Windows Phone revolution continues at a decidedly gentle pace. A total of 2m WinPho Nokias were sold in Q1, still way down on the 10m figure achieved by its unwanted Symbian range.

That, let’s not forget, comes more than a year after Nokia boss Stephen Elop announced that Symbian was a burning platform and Windows Phone was the future. Doesn’t seem to be burning particularly quickly, does it Stevo?

Anyway, rightly or wrongly Symbian represents Nokia’s past, and Windows Phone and the Series 40 feature phone OS are its future. Problem is it’s not going too well no matter how you look at things.

Cue Elop and some undiluted marketingspeak via a statement: “Our disappointing devices services first quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the second quarter 2012 illustrates that our devices services business continues to be in the midst of transition.

“Within our smart devices business unit, we have established early momentum with Lumia, and we are increasing our investments in Lumia to achieve market success.

“Our operator and distributor partners are providing solid support for Windows Phone as a third ecosystem, as evidenced most recently by the launch of the Lumia 900 by ATT in the United States.”

The full earnings report is expected next week, but whatever the details are, one thing remains clear: another three months have passed, and we’re still waiting for any meaningful signs of the big Nokia turnaround Elop keeps promising is coming.

Hyperkani, a Finland-based game publisher, is announcing the migration of its wildly successful Worm Jump franchise to iOS. Players will hop, skip, and jump in this fast-paced vertical action game. They will navigate their way through a forest maze of bombs, berries, and balloons as they jump even higher and avoid falling down or hitting the swinging spiky fruit. Worm Jump makes full use of the iOS accelerometer, allowing players to control their Worm by tilting their device left or right. To us, the gameplay feels similar to other games like Doodle Jump, Mega Jump, or Hedgehog Launch.

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

Hyperkani, a Finland-based game publisher, is announcing the migration of its wildly successful Worm Jump franchise to iOS. Players will hop, skip, and jump in this fast-paced vertical action game. They will navigate their way through a forest maze of bombs, berries, and balloons as they jump even higher and avoid falling down or hitting the swinging spiky fruit. Worm Jump makes full use of the iOS accelerometer, allowing players to control their Worm by tilting their device left or right. To us, the gameplay feels similar to other games like Doodle Jump, Mega Jump, or Hedgehog Launch.

The iOS version of Worm Jump features enhanced graphics, new game features, and better sound effects. According to the lead designer, “We put a lot of time and effort into building the iOS port for Worm Jump, focusing on the things iOS users like to see in games – more features, an immersive game experience, and upcoming integration with the Game Center so users can compare scores with their friends.”

The game has received rave reviews from around the Web – many calling it the most addictively fun game on Android. More than 1.5 million played it on Android and Symbian, and many of these users now have iPhones. The migration to iOS will allow Worm Jump to continue growing its fan base while giving old fans that have left the Android platform another way to play. At release, scheduled for May 1, Worm Jump will be available to play for $0.99. We’re confident that the iOS launch will introduce many new gamers to the Hyperkani Worm Jump franchise and to the other games Hyperkani has released.

Device Requirements:

• iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Requires iOS 3.0 or later
• 11.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:

Worm Jump is $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Review copies are available on request. Word Jump is also available for Android.

Worm Jump

http://hyperkani.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=103Itemid=75

Purchase and Download

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/worm-jump!/id508887867?mt=8

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Hyperkani was established late 2009 by three experienced developers located in Tampere, Finland. The company’s initial game releases on the Symbian platform met with enormous success and enabled the company to grow. Hyperkani is now adapting their games to be featured on more mobile platforms, including Android and iOS.

Peter Song
appsasia
+82 10 9015 3026
Email Information

(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire – 24 April 2012

Release date- 23042012 – Smart phones have changed the very essence of one’s existence making life faster encircling and fulfilling every need of human with a simple touch of a mobile.

This lead to the development of a special field named Mobile application development that is continuously expanding segment as the user has numerous thoughts to be made into mobile apps with every passing day. Various categories of mobile apps are available today and more are being added. But developing a mobile app is certainly not an easy task.

Need for Mobile app development

Mobile Application programmers face numerous challenges and obstacles while developing and creating applications that can meet clients’ requirements. An ever-increasing volume of competition for providing the best possible solutions through mobile software development rages on in the mobile industry today. It is evident that the development of mobile-phone applications has become an absolutely necessary tool for organizations and individuals who seek premier positions be it in business or for entertainment or for personal usage. Custom Mobile Application Development is becoming more and more popular these days. There are various innovative programs designed that allows the companies to obtain new levels of achievements through unique mobile apps.

Now let us see some important Mobile app development platforms, Choose one from below and get your mobile app developed…

Apple iPhone: Apple’s launch of iPhone way back few years ago has literally rocked the world with new innovation. Later on followed iPad and further releases. But it actually paved the way for mobile app development where in numerous categories of apps are possible and many are already available.

Google Android: It is an Operating System (OS) which is widely and powerfully used in smart phones which is more comfortable and easier for the users to use, where the application is written using java programming language. The main advantage of android is its architecture, which has components like application, application framework, libraries, android runtime and Linux kernel all in all enables rich app development environment.

Symbian: It helps to operate the mobile phones in numerous ways as Symbian applications are all about providing better facilities and amenities, so that the users can easily access their required stuff like Microsoft office, internet, games, business related software and many others. The Symbian applications are developed using C++, NET, Python, Flash Lite, Ruby and Java ME.

Blackberry: is widely used smart phone all over the world. It supports so many types of applications. Blackberry phone and its applications are largely used by business people. There are many features of blackberry over normal phone like in built GPS, wireless emails, interface customization, push content, CRM, ERP, easy browser, organizer and many more.

For getting effective mobile app services it is very necessary to hire dedicated mobile app developers who have smart ability to provide application solutions. You can choose reliable mobile application development companies from numerous available through proper planning and thus get your desired mobile app developed at nominal rates from many outsourcing mobile firms located in India.

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 By Vlad Bobleanta on 25 Apr 12

It amazingly turns out that Nokia figured out a way to remove the highly annoying user prompts in Symbian… in June of 2009. And it even has a patent application to prove it. The application was recently made public at the USPTO, and it shows that three years ago, Nokia was actively concerned with one of the biggest annoyances found in the Symbian mobile operating system.

See, Symbian likes to hold your hand and ask questions. A lot of questions. The only other OS to come even close is BlackBerry. Prompting the user for input so often is something virtually unheard of in the world of iOS, Android, or Windows Phone.

So it took Nokia two years from the iPhone’s launch to get this right. But even after applying for a patent on the issue, it doesn’t seem like this ‘innovative technology’ actually made it into any Nokia Symbian phones – at least not completely, since some annoying user prompts are still there. Perhaps the Finnish company wants to wait for the patent to be granted first. Which is kind of ironic now that Symbian is dying a (not so) slow death. Who knows, maybe the USPTO will grant the patent just as the last Symbian device will be sold… making this patent effectively Symbian’s legacy to the world.

Anyway, Nokia somehow managed to figure out that users tend to always select ‘Continue’, ‘Accept’, ‘Yes’, ‘Agree’, ‘OK’, or their synonyms when they’re faced with prompts. And there’s a rather obvious downside to this, as Nokia explains in its patent application: “When the user nearly always selects the best or only choice, the user will become conditioned to make that selection.” So when suddenly there are two equally valid or useful choices to pick from, the user will hit ‘OK’ without even thinking about it.

Pictured above is the ‘what happens when you plug something into the 3.5 mm headset jack’ situation that Symbian users are surely familiar with. What Nokia proposes is that, instead of always asking the user what accessory he or she has plugged in, there should be a default setting.

Say the default is headphones. If you then plug in a TV-Out cable, there are two things that can happen: either the change is auto-detected, or you can manually make that list of choices appear and select TV-Out.

Sure, this requires more user input in this case, but most people will just plug in headphones most of the time. So more often than not, this solution would eliminate an annoying prompt, while for some rare use cases, it may end up requiring the user to manually trigger the list if the auto-detection of the best policy doesn’t work for some reason.

Think about what could have been… if Symbian was still the king of smartphone (or is that smarter phone?) operating systems, what is described in this patent application would have made your life a whole lot easier.

Then again, with Nokia having to work on such trivial things for so many years to get them right, Symbian simply couldn’t have stayed on top of the game, regardless of what fanboys say.

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Internet telephony provider Skype released its app for the Windows Phone operating system on Sunday on the Windows Phone Marketplace, a couple of months after releasing the beta version of the app.

The app, available in 18 languages, brings users of phones running Windows Phone into the mainstream of 200 million people who use the Skype service every month on smartphones and tablets running Android, iOS, and Symbian, computers and laptops running Mac and Windows, and connected TVs, the Microsoft division said in a blog post.

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Luxembourg, Skype was acquired by Microsoft in October last year in a US$8.5 billion acquisition. Microsoft said that Skype would be integrated with its products, but without affecting availability of the popular Internet telephony application on platforms from competitors. Skype functions as a business division within the company.

Available for use on 4G, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks, Skype for Windows Phone has since the initial beta app added some new features including video calling in portrait mode and friend management capabilities including invite, accept invitations, block, and unblock contacts. Consumers can place calls over a Wi-Fi connection or a mobile data connection, though Skype recommends a strong Wi-Fi connection for best-quality video calling. A video on YouTube shows how the app works.

Users can download the app directly from their Windows Phone but Skype warned it may take up to 48 hours for the app to propagate in all local Windows Phone Marketplaces.

The app has also been tested and certified for performance on seven models of HTC, Samsung, and Nokia phones. These are the Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900 from Nokia, Titan and Radar from HTC, and Samsung Focus S 
and Samsung Focus Flash. The Lumia 900 was launched earlier this month in the U.S., but Nokia reported a software glitch that affected connectivity to ATT’s network.

John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John’s e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com

Nokia’s first quarter of 2012 is expected to be a slow one, similar to the last three months of the past year.

Analysts suggest that the mobile phone maker will post disappointing financial results for the three months period ending March 2012.

In fact, they claim that the company’s performance has been greatly impacted by the diminishing sales of Symbian handsets and the slow take off of Lumia devices.

Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley has lowered the forecast on Nokia’s earnings for the timeframe, while waiting for the Finnish mobile phone maker to make an official announcement on the matter.

“We are lowering our estimates ahead of Nokia’s Q1/12 earnings report as our checks indicate weak Symbian sales, seasonally soft feature phone sales, and a slow ramp in Windows smartphones,” the analyst noted, according to BGR.

Nokia’s shares still have a Hold rating, while their price target is expected to drop to $5.

“Our global checks indicated mixed Lumia sales with price declines helping sales trends in Europe. However, our checks indicated extremely poor Symbian sales trends and seasonally soft feature phone sales, resulting in our lowered Q1/12 Devices and Services sales estimate from 4.9B to 4.7Bm,” he continues.

Moving forth, Nokia is expected to experience growth, though predictions are still mixed with uncertainty. In fact, the success of Microsoft’s entire Windows Phone platform is still questionable, the analyst notes.

“While we believe global wireless carriers intend to diversify product portfolios and support Windows smartphones, we view 2012 as a critical year for the Windows ecosystem to gain market share,” Walkley said.

“Given the investment necessary to grow the ecosystem, we view 2012 as a transitional year and anticipate a modest pro forma loss for Nokia.”

This is not the first time that the future of Windows Phone is said to be uncertain, nor the first time that Nokia’s ability to regain it foothold is questioned.

However, the strong sales that Lumia 900 has seen in the US in the first days of availability suggest that Microsoft and its hardware partner might have finally found the right formula for success. Hopefully, it won’t take them too long to bring other similarly appealing devices on shelves.

April 23rd, 2012, 18:30 GMT · By Cosmin Vasile

Nokia issued a press release back in late April 2011 that said they were going to get rid of their Symbian employees. Instead of firing them, Nokia said they’d transfer them to Accenture instead. Why? Because it takes people off Nokia’s payroll, which improves earnings, which makes the stock go up; that and it’s easier for Nokia to contract work from Accenture instead of dealing with the huge overhead typically associated with human resources. Anyway, how have those employees been doing at their new home? Not good according to the Finnish news site YLE, who quotes Sami Sallmén, Product Owner at Accenture:

“Around 40 percent of those who were transferred have sought the pay-offs. A majority of them have signed leaving agreements. That’s based on the survey we commissioned. Workers have not exactly been pleased with their new employer, and they want to seek new challenges outside the company.”

Sallmén is a former Nokia employee, turn Accenture employee, and he admits that he’s going to take the resignation package that was offered to everyone. He goes on to say that:

“Sure, at first it was a positive thing. There were maybe more different tasks at Accenture than at Nokia. After it went through, it has been hassle and negative feedback the whole time.”

The YLE piece suggests that 1,200 Symbian employees moved to Accenture last fall, so if 400 of them go then that’s basically one out of every three people. Not exactly a good thing, but then again none of this should be too surprising when you recognize Nokia’s commitment to Windows Phone and their plans to stop supporting Symbian within a few years.

The funny is that over the past 12 months we’ve seen Symbian evolve at a such an astonishing rate, first with Anna, then with Belle, that we’re actually kind of sad to see Nokia throwing a mature operating system out the door.

But then we also look at MeeGo, and we start crying at what could have been.

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