News

15/5/2009 CTO Commissioned to author 'Mobile Application Stores' for Future Text

imKon CTO Sena Gbeckor-Kove has been commisioned to author 'Mobile Application Stores' for FutureText.

The book should be out in time for Sena's talk at Mobile Web Megatrends Singapore (scheduled for August though we are awaiting confirmation).

Links:

Sena's blog

FutureText

31/3/2009 imKon wins 'Business/Productivity' Category of the Ribbit Killer App Challenge

We're extremely proud to announce that we won the 'Business/Productvity' category in the Ribbit Killer App Challenge. Beating out 129 other application to the top spot. Sugared Frog, a VOIP integration for SugarCRM and its sister product, Suite Frog (for Netsuite) will be going into limited limited beta release in the UK and US in May with a tentative public release in September.

 

For more information please mail us at info@imkon.com

Links:
Ribbit Press Release
Sugared Frog Product Information
Suite Frog Product Information

30/3/2009 "Making money with mobile application stores."
Mobile Web Megatrends, Singapore

imKon CTO Sena Gbeckor-Kove will present "Making money with mobile application stores," at the Mobile Web Megatrends Conference in Singapore, June 2009. This global conference network hosts industry giants like Nokia, Opera, Oracle and many others who share trends and insights on the mobile web. Convergence between mobiles and laptops is highlighted topic at the conference as in the mobile application industry in general.  With uncertainty at its highest in the current financial crisis, which business models should mobile developers embrace, and what lessons can be learned from the meteoric rise of the iTunes Application Store? The Mobile Web Megatrends Conference is a combination of speakers, online education and interactive workshops.

Links:
http://mobilewebmegatrends.com
http://opengardernsblog.futuretext.com

30/3/2009 imKon coming to Singapore

Summer 2009 will watch London based imKon move their headquarters from Clerkenwell to Asia's electronic megalopolis, Singapore.  The move will position imKon in the global center of the mobile technology.  This geographical repositioning will propel imKon into the forefront of innovation with diverse mobile and desktop applications spanning multiple industry sectors including telephony, digital TV, film, gaming and fashion.

12/3/2009 imKon enters the Ribbit Killer App challenge

Find out what the world's most creative Flash and Flex developers are submitting to Ribbit's Open Telephony Platform competition. Hosted by TopCoder and featuring $100,000 in prizes with 5 categories receiving $15,000 who will then be in the running for the $30,000 Grand Prize.  Industry specialists make up the respected panel of judges who decide between the 400+ submitted Killer Apps.

Links:
Killer App Challenge

22/2/2009 JIRA Mobile - iJIRA Available on the iTunes Store

imKon are big Atlassian fans, unfortunately we often find that we're not in front of our computers when we need access to our issues.

We started the JIRA Mobile prject for everybody who has ever wished they could get at their issues to coment, assign or just browse. iJIRA is the first product released form the JIRA Mobile product suite.

Coming soon from the Jira Mobile Project

  • gJIRA for Android
  • bJIRA for BlackBerry
  • sJIRA for Symbian
  • wJIRA for Windows Mobile
  • pJIRA for Palm Pre (Web OS)

If you would like more information, please email us at info@imkon.com.

Links:
Buy from the iTunes Application Store
iJIRA Product Blog
Atlassian Software

5/5/2008 imKon provides Cheil with a Revolutionary VOIP capable Widget to support the US launch of the Samsung F300 Ultramusic

Cheil Worldwide (Seoul) aproached imKon to provide a VOIP (Voice Over IP) capable desktop widget to promote Samsung's upcoming F300 Ultramusic. The phone features a unique dual sided design with media and telephony interfaces housed on separate sides.

imKon selected Ribbit (US) to deliver the telephony capabilities and designed, architected and delivered the resulting widget using Adobe Flex.

The media side of the widget allows users to play media simply by dragging files onto this face of the widget.

Features:

  • Telephony (Originate and Receive calls)
  • SMS Send
  • Voicemail
  • Contacts
  • Plaxo Contact Sync


Links:
Brand Republic Article
Twins Become One Microsite
Sugar Cube's Blog Collaborators (Korean)