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Find iPhone App Developers

Hi Everyone,

I had the pleasure of speaking with Gregg from iPhoneAppQuotes.com. iPhoneAppQuotes.com is network that helps companies find the right app developers for their project and budget.

What happens is quite simple; you request a quote, then you get a call from the iPhoneAppQuotes team. They assess your needs, identify the top 3 developers in their network that are suited for their project, and then those companies can submit bids for your business. It is a pretty great model, and it is free for anyone to request a quote.

Here is a bit more about the company:

iPhoneAppQuotes.com is the premiere source for entrepreneurs and business people to find iPhone App developers. Our growing network of experienced U.S. based iPhone developers and iPhone App Development companies can assist you with your project – large or small. iPhoneAppQuotes.com takes the hassle out of posting a job with a head hunter, on Craigs List or having to sift through endless profiles of “qualified” developers on other websites or forums.

iPhoneAppQuotes.com is owned and operated by Optimum Lead Generation, LLC and based in South Florida. We are not associated with Apple Computer and we are not iPhone developers ourselves, although we do have a strong technical background. What we do is simply match people with a need to find iPhone Developers, while providing a service for iPhone Developers who would like to receive qualified, pre-screen leads to help grow their business.

Gregg and iPhoneAppDevelopers.com are both great resources if you are interested in building an app. Here is more about working with their network of mobile application developers:

All iPhone Developers in our network are based in the U.S, have at least 1 App in the App Store, and have passed a screening process given by our staff. If you are an iPhone Developer looking to grow your business, please visit our Apply page or contact us. Read testimonials from iPhone developers in our network.

The company was just written up in the Wall Street Journal, in an article called Smartphone Apps Fuel Business. They have also been featured on WebProNews.com with a story called Businesses Increasingly Looking to iPhone Apps and in MobileMarketer.com in a piece titled iPhone App Development Trends Shifting Rapidly: Study.

Tags: iPhone Applications, mobile applications, Mobile Development
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Mobile Marketing Events in 2009

Hi Everyone,

There are some interesting international mobile marketing events coming up. I am not sure if I will make it to any of them, because of my rediculous schedule, but I am hoping to. Let me know if you are going to be at any of the following events:

• Mobile Monday Berlin: Operator Day: Mar. 2, 2009, Berlin (Germany)
• Le mobile 2.0: Mar. 10-11, 2009, Paris (France)
• IIR’s Mobile Internet 2009: Mar. 23-25, 2009, Vienna (Austria)
• MobilePlus Summit: Mar. 26-27, 2009, Kiev (Ukraine)
• Mobile Monday Munich: Mobile Automotive: Mar. 30, 2009, Munich (Germany)
• BRIC: Emerging Mobile Markets conference: Mar. 31, 2009, Las Vegas (USA)
• Mobile Monday Frankfurt: Mobile Internet and Applications: Apr. 20, 2009, Frankfurt (Germany)
• ForumOxford: Future Technologies Conference: Apr. 24, 2009, Oxford (UK)
• The Mobile Web 2.0 Summit: Jun. 3-4, 2009, London (UK)
• Mobile Monday Berlin: Mobile Entertainment / Mobile Games:Jun. 8, 2009, Berlin (Germany)
• Mobile Vision Congress: Jun. 23-24, 2009, Munich (Germany)
• Mobile Asia 2.0: Aug. 17, 2009, Singapore

Are there some other events coming up in the next couple of weeks? Please let me know!
(List from www.pavingways.com. Thanks guys!)

Tags: mobile conferences
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RIM Unseats Apple in The NPD Group’s Latest Smartphone Ranking

Buy-one-get-one promotions helps RIM increase U.S. consumer market share in first quarter of 2009

PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, May 4, 2009 – According to The NPD Group, a leader in wireless industry market research, an aggressive “buy-one-get-one” promotion by Verizon Wireless helped RIM’s BlackBerry Curve move past Apple’s iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009.  RIM’s consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the prior quarter, as Apple’s and Palm’s share both declined 10 percent each.

Based on U.S. consumer sales of smartphone handsets in NPD’s “Smartphone Market Update” report, the first-quarter 2009 ranking of the top-five best-selling smartphones is as follows:

1. RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models)
2. Apple iPhone 3G (all models)
3. RIM BlackBerry Storm
4. RIM BlackBerry Pearl (all models, except flip)
5. T-Mobile G1

“Verizon Wireless’s aggressive marketing of the BlackBerry Storm and its buy-one-get-one BlackBerry promotion to its large customer base contributed to RIM capturing three of the top five positions,” said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at The NPD Group. “The more familiar, and less expensive, Curve benefited from these giveaways and was able to leapfrog the iPhone, due to its broader availability on the four major U.S. national carriers.”

Smartphones, which represented just 17 percent of handset sales volume in Q1 2008, now make up 23 percent of sales. “Even in this challenging economy, consumers are migrating toward Web-capable handsets and their supporting data plans to access more information and entertainment on the go.” Rubin said.

Tags: Black Berry Curve, BlackBerry, iPhone, RIM, US Mobile Handsets
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