UIEvolution

The focus of our June issue of Mobile Connect is connected screens. Consumers expect to be able to create their own rich experience on any screen, including their computer, smartphone, tablet, television, and connected car head unit.

Our feature article asks whether televisions will be the next connected screen and discusses why the new Smart TV model will finally usher in the long promised era of interactive television.

Enjoy! – UIE Mobile Connect Team

The 11th Annual Telematics Conference was held in Detroit from June 7-9th. At the gala dinner, winners of the 9th International Telematics Update awards were announced. This year, the top cloud based in-car applications were Toyota’s Entune, and Blue Link from Hyundai. Joint winners selected from eight competitive nominees.

“We’re excited Toyota Entune has received the award for Best In-Vehicle Cloud-Based Product. Telematics Update has always helped foster good collaboration within the telematics industry which has inspired new product innovation.  We’re pleased to be given this important and significant distinction, as we believe Toyota Entune is truly the class-leading product.” Jon Bucci, Vice President – Telematics, Toyota.

Entune, powered by UIEngine, will be available in the 2012 Prius V first and will expand to other models later this year.

 CEO Chris Ruff explains the new cloud based service, UIEMagnify, and it’s ability to integrate and manage applications.

Toronto, Ontario– April 27, 2011 –MMV Financial (MMV), a pre-eminent specialty finance firm serving venture-backed companies in North America, announced today that it has provided a $2 million follow-on financing to UIEvolution. The leading producer of mobile convergence technology, UIEvolution consistently delivers rich application experiences for mobile and embedded digital devices. The additional capital provided by MMV will assist UIEvolution in innovating industry-leading software products and services that allow operators, device makers and media companies the ability to engage today’s consumers across the ever-expanding mobile devices and platforms.

“We are extremely happy with our partnership with MMV Financial,” said Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution. “We appreciate MMV’s flexibility in structuring a deal that suited our growth requirements and business needs.  Also their ability to close quickly allowed me to focus on our business instead of a lengthy financing process.”

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2011 was expected to be “The Year of the Tablet.”  CES seemed to confirm that belief in January, as over 100 new tablets were unveiled as challengers to Apple’s iPad.

Motorola’s powerful Xoom led the way among Android tablets, boasting a 10.1” display powered by a dual core 1 GHz processor running Honeycomb, the first version of Android designed specifically for tablets.  RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook was also a favorite, packing 4G power and HTML5 support into a 7” format.

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UIEvolution partner, Campaign Touch, quotes CEO Chris Ruff in a recent interview. New mobile apps may be integrated into the 2012 elections.

Click to see the video interview of UIEvolution’s CEO Chris Ruff at the 2011 CTIA conference in Orlando, Florida where he discusses UIE’s cloud based strategy.

 http://youtu.be/W6FhlPUCdrk

Quoted on UIE’s site last year:  “By 2011, phone shipments with touch screens are forecasted to reach 178 million users.” New projections for 2011 raise the number to 450 million units, and this number is in sales, not shipped products. The International Data Corporation (IDC) stated in a recent press release that, “the smartphone market will grow more than four times faster than the overall mobile phone market” this year. With a 49% increase in the use of smartphones, which operating system will come out on top?

Android is predicted to take a firm hold on the market, with nearly 40% of the market share, only to increase over the next five years.  This move overtakes the Symbian OS operating system’s past performance used by Nokia. Blackberry and Apple’s iOS fall in line behind Android and Symbian for now, but with Nokia announcing a switch to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone OS, the future of the smartphone market may take a turn. Senior research analyst with the IDC, Ramon Llamas, states, “up until the launch of Windows Phone 7 last year, Microsoft has steadily lost market share while other operating systems have brought forth new and appealing experiences. The new alliance brings together Nokia’s hardware capabilities and Windows Phone’s differentiated platform. We expect the first devices to launch in 2012” and by 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to come in second worldwide after the Andriod operating system.

UIEMagnify supercharges interaction of apps on mobile, tablets, TVs and autos by allowing apps to easily connect to cloud services

Kirkland, WA – March 21, 2011 – UIEvolution today introduces UIEMagnify™ a cloud-based software product to enhance its already robust User Experience Management Platform for connected apps.

UIEMagnify drives engagement and supercharges interaction of apps on smartphones, tablets, TVs and autos by allowing apps to easily connect to cloud services, including social media, music & video providers, advertising networks, content management systems and payment services.

“Our customers are focused on creating app experiences that define a new connected lifestyle for their consumers,” said Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution.   “With UIEMagnify, we help our customers capture this growing connected apps opportunity.”

UIEMagnify lets brands, media companies, service providers and device manufactures integrate and manage their own custom API’s and cloud services. In short, UIEMagnify  allows creation of apps that are highly branded, easy to use, and continuously upgradable. See the Full Post »

Building on the successful launch of its Top25 Brand, UIEvolution has expanded to international destinations with the launch of Top25 Cairo, Top 25 Rio De Janeiro, Top 25 Madrid and Top 25 Barcelona.

“US mobile users are traveling abroad and global mobile app usage is growing rapidly all over the world,” said Travis Beaven, COO UIEvolution.  ”Our customers usage and the demand for these applications made expanding globally a logical extension for us.”

As the market and our customers for this app continues to grow, UIE will continue expanding the franchise to other device platforms and hundreds of new exotic locations.