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Nov. 19, 2012 9:45 am
Ellicott City first MD town with Parker, free smartphone parking app [VIDEO]
Driving around Ellicott City just became simpler, thanks to the introduction of the Parker app on Nov. 15. The app works by providing real-time information on available parking spots in an area based on data collected by street-level sensors installed wherever spots are. These “sensors communicate with a receiver on a nearby lamp pole, which [...]
business
Oct. 16, 2012 11:00 am
Motifworks CEO Nitin Agarwal: “Everyone on an entrepreneur’s team must be a sales person”
Why is math so important? That was the question many parents have heard that Nitin Agarwal was recently confronted with by his eight-year-old son as they worked together on homework. To be sure, the foundation of math that supported the web development that has spurred Agarwal’s entrepreneurial career is a good explanation. As founder and CEO Motifworks, a [...]
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Oct. 9, 2012 9:00 am
Jittergram: the Friends of The Web smart phone app downloaded 250K times
At February’s Photo Hack Day 2 in New York City, the Friends of The Web crew built an app, Jittergram, that allows people to create 3D stereograms right from their smart phones. The app, according to the Friends, has missing features, including the inability to conveniently save the stereograms to a smart phone. No matter: [...]
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Oct. 8, 2012 9:30 am
$436M generated by Maryland’s app economy, state ranks 15th overall in ‘app intensity’
Crabs, football and smart phone apps. That’s what Maryland does. According to a new study, Maryland ranks number 15 among all U.S. states in “app intensity,” the ratio of jobs developing iOS and Android apps to the total number of jobs in state, something that produces $436 million in revenue annually.
Oct. 1, 2012 10:36 am
CrowdStitch, pop-up social network for events, releases beta app with a few glitches
Over beers, wine and an ambitious spread that included someone’s favorite hors d’oeuvres, pigs in a blanket, founder Mark Howells unveiled the beta version of his CrowdStitch app at a release party at the Fitzgerald on Saturday night. CrowdStitch, which Howells describes as a “Twitter hashtag on steroids,” creates a pop-up social network for attendees [...]
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Sep. 27, 2012 8:30 am
Download electronica artist Dan Deacon’s app to make live shows even more electric
Baltimore-bred electrontrica-playing, synth-loving music man Dan Deacon has an iPhone app “turns the user’s phone screen into its own stimulating light show and also becomes an L.E.D. strobe light, all without requiring cellular data or a WiFi connection,” reports Rolling Stone. Download Dan Deacon’s app in the iTunes store.
business
Sep. 26, 2012 12:17 pm
Analytical Informatics aims to be the marketplace for healthcare apps: Chris Meenan
The frenzy for lightweight, cost-efficient and scalable mobile and other cloud-based applications is making its way through the disruption-ready healthcare industry, and it’s missing a dominant marketplace through which hospitals and other service providers can access them and sell their own. That’s right about where Analytical Infomatics aims to have its impact, said cofounder and CEO [...]
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Sep. 17, 2012 10:45 am
Mindgrub Technologies turns attention to mobile, augmented reality gaming with new division
In 2008, mobile product and web development agency Mindgrub Technologies was still a five-person company crammed into the basement of CEO Todd Marks’ house. Four years later, the company was 50-people strong, moved into a 6,000-square-foot former bank building in Catonsville, and filled out with design, user experience and testing divisions. Just last month, Marks [...]
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Sep. 7, 2012 9:30 am
Mindgrub Technologies: download free ‘Rescue Jump’ mobile game from new gaming division
Out of Catonsville-based Mindgrub Technologies’ month-old gaming division comes Rescue Jump, a mobile phone game where users control a duo of trampoline-wielding firemen in a quest to save as many people leaping from burning buildings. Download for free Rescue Jump for iOS or Android.
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Aug. 23, 2012 9:30 am
Parking Panda releases iPhone app in time for Baltimore Grand Prix
Parking Panda has taken the next step toward its apparent goal of multi-city parking market domination, releasing its iPhone app last week after several months of development. “The overall functionality is pretty similar [to the mobile website],” says director of marketing Mark McTamney, 28. “But the resounding thing that people have noticed is it’s much [...]