InfoBeans has a great mobile practice and we have created some great iPhone/iPad apps. This presentation talks about some best design practices for iPad apps. Your comments and feedback are welcome.
Proud to announce that InfoBeans is now Nasscom Emerge 50.
We thank all of our team without whose dedication, ownership and sense of responsibility this would not have happened. We also thank our clients who repose their faith in us and provide us the challenges that we are always eager to seek.
Nasscom is India's premier software industry organization. A recognition by them and their esteemed panel is really a shot in the arm for us. We look forward to their continued support. On our part, we look forward to continued participation and contribution in their activities.
Check out this link to see their methods and our peers.
Desperate conditions in the rural and urban India are forcing growing numbers of children to live in subhuman conditions. These children are deprived of their most basic rights of getting education & living a happy childhood. They are socially exploited. Most of them have never been to school or were pulled out at very young age. Due to existing social & economic conditions these children are forced to do various child abusive activities including child labor and prostitution.
Child abuse is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countries, there has been little understanding for such a deep rooted problem.
According to a 1991 census, 11.2 million children aged between 5 and 14 were forced to work as child labors in India.
Keeping these aspects in mind InfoBeans team made a valiant effort to help such children with the help of NGO CRY. The InfoBeans team grabbed the opportunity when volunteers from CRY approached InfoBeans for helping abused children.
We can't take responsibility of each and every abused child on our own. However, we are lending a helping hand as a first step towards helping such children. The team at InfoBeans gathered a non disclosed amount from within the team & have provided it to CRY. This fund will help CRY to support around 50 children for their food, education & basic requirements for a year.
We will continue to do whatever we can to help make our environment a better place for all of us.
Existing and upcoming health difficulties are encouraging mobile application developers to generate innovative mobile health care ideas. As we know, roughly 70% of the populations carries a mobile phone. If this easy-to-use mobile platform can be applied towards health care it would be of great help for the common man to have increased access to affordable and quality healthcare.
Mobile health is a recent term, broadly defined as health care supported by mobile devices. Available mobile health applications includes the accumulation of community health data using the mobile devices and delivering this information to medical practitioners, patients, and non patients. It helps in real-time monitoring of vital medical signs and direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine) for citizens.
Mobile health (mHealth) technology is capable for adding efficiency and effectiveness to existing systems, developing new ideas and ultimately distributing health care benefits across society. mHealth could be of great use for improving clinical output and also can be used for public health monitoring and education.
Mobile health services remove the distance barrier between patient and the provider.
Keeping these aspects in mind mHealth International networking Conference is being organized on September 8-9, 2010 at Town & Country Resort Hotel San Diego CA.
InfoBeans is proud to be a partner for the mHealth 2010 Conference. You are invited to experience the event for yourself.
It is a great day for us. An app created by us for one of our clients - Webe Studios is on the top 10 paid app list in the sports category and is also in the featured section of the Indian Apple AppStore.
The app is for the FIFA world cup soccer tournament going on currently and features live updates, scores, venues, match ups, team details, player details etc. Literally - all the information you need in one place to follow the excitement for world cup soccer.
Download guys - here is the link - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wcsoccer2010/id362278663?mt=8
Please pass it around. For under a buck, it is a steal!
The iPad buzz at Folio
The Folio:Show was buzz with excitement with all things iPad. There was hardly a person who was not interested in seeing how to put his/her publication on the iPad. And fast.
The iPad is such a beautiful product, and sales are proving this fact - 2 million sold in 2 months, that has become a reality for the publishing industry. Or maybe even a compulsion.
Yes, I am a big fan of the iPad. Just can't wait to get it out of the hands of whoever is playing with it at home and start my browsing and email. I think the iPad and devices like the iPad hold a great future. They need to be paid smart attention to.
Smart Attention
There is a reason why I added Smart as an adjective. Companies are scrambling head over heels to create their great iPad app and putting in stop gap arrangements for their CMS and other systems to support it. In this mad rush, many are ignoring the long term. We know the iPad, (when I refer to the iPad, I really refer to iPad and similar devices that are sure to crop up very soon) is here for the long term. Devices like these will rule and for all practical purposes, devices with a keyboard and a mouse will soon feature on the History Channel.
What publishers need today is a long term content strategy for digital publishing on a whole range of devices, not just iPads. They need a comprehensive solution to the whole digital publishing conundrum.
My company is advising its clients to take this holistic approach and not a band aid kind of approach. If they fumble on this first step, it will be hard to recover and recreate the entire iPad experience without significant money and time loss. And then of course the loss of the brand and market share.
We are taking a step back and looking at this entire play with a comprehensive approach to solving the problem for a long term. We are asking our clients to look at
- Their source of content, how they are feeding it into their CMS system
- Their CMS system itself - is it equipped to handle the next wave?
- The output that the CMS is generating - is it good enough only for the iPad? Can it be used for other devices? Can the output be dynamic enough to leverage the changing nature of content?
- Is the content easily discoverable for the range of devices we are dealing with today and will encounter tomorrow?
Check back for more on this whole digital publishing thing. Interesting times, requiring smart attention!
We had a great time at the folio show. Attendance was much better than last year, that is what the folks say. I was not there last year so can't say for sure.
My impression out of the show on the cms/ technology side is this. There is an overwhelming majority of publishers who are not satisfied with their CMS solution. About 90% of the people I talked to said they were not at all happy with their cms solution on these counts
1. Non unified
2. Non integrated
3. Does not support print to digital transformation
4. Have no clear roadmap for supporting digital devices going forward
This is what I see is the problem - people have been relying on out of the box solutions way too much. Each business is unique and each business has it's own set of challenges, opportunities and stake holders to deal with. If you are to run a successful business you need tools that acknowledge these unique situations and work with you understanding your environment.
Unless you are running a really tiny publishing business and using only one distribution channel to reach your audience - just print or just online, you cannot expect to survive the challenges and tap the opportunities that the new publishing era is throwing up.
There were opinions in the crowd that print is not dead. I agree. But at the same time, print is also not going to take your business far. If you do print only, you have to transform. Now!!
And let me get this straight. I do not say you need to stop doing print. There is still money to be made. Question is - for how long? Print will be dead, at some point. We will not see paper after a certain day. I do not see my 7 year old son doing a lot of things on paper for a very long time to come. Great print offerings are just going to extend the eventuality. Someday, print will be dead and that day is not very far out in the future.
I have certain other observations for the digital devices people are so gung ho about. Will touch upon them in another post soon.
With most of the reviews for iPad been overwhelmingly positive, there have been some minds who don’t like concept of iPad.These mindset seem to have issues, not with quality, functionality, software or working style of iPad, but with the content consumption idea behind the iPad.
The iPad has really changed the whole scenario. It has changed the fundamental concept of computing.Until now computers have been primarily designed for creating content. Whether it is creating a document, making a spread sheet or graphics designing, most of them have been built with content creation as the main priority. But we can see over the last few years, people have spent more time on their computers consuming content rather than creating it.
Since the appearance of Internet video and social networking, people have been spending time in consuming media more than they have used for creating content. People are using their computers more for browsing the web, chatting, using social networking sites for building networks, downloading music and watching videos. Some manufacturers recognised this earlier and came up with a solution called as Net-books but still they are devices designed primarily for creating content with some functionality for content consumption.
The iPad, on the other hand reverts the whole idea. The tools you don't require for content consumption move out. You can get rid of the keyboard when you are consuming content. The functionality of rotating the screen is a huge boost. Now you are not bound to read in landscape. You can just turn your screen around and use portrait. This alone is something that you will not be able to do by sticking to traditional computers.
Hours of watching video on youtube now does not need to happen on a table and chair or with a keyboard jutting at you. The iPad eases the pain of watching video anywhere with just a screen.
Finally a device for content consumption has arrived. Apple has designed the iPad around the consumption model and its exactly the same people were looking for.
InfoBeans is a rapidly growing software services organization providing technology solutions to large and small organizations of repute in the USA in
• Enterprise Content Management Solutions
• iPhone, Blackberry and Android app solutions
• Custom web applications development
To fuel this growth we are looking for the following resources for these 3 practices
Sales Manager – International sales – 3 positions –
You will be
• Leading a team of lead generators
• Managing the sales pipeline and promotion campaigns
• Responding to RFPs and creation presentations for enterprises
• Having 4+ years relevant and demonstrable experience for US based clients. BE + MBA desirable.
Assistant Sales Manager–International sales – 6 positions –
You will be
• A part of the core lead generation team
• Having a flair for picking up the phone and calling prospects to kick off the relationship building process with CXO level contacts
• Having 2 + years experience in a similar capacity but want to take your skills to a different level in the US market
• A BE/MCA preferably an MBA
InfoBeans is a rapidly growing organization in the IT services sectors and assures meteoric growth for high performers.
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