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We’re on way to New Orleans for CTIA
We’re at CTIA next week in New Orleans. Good timing, as Jazz Fest has a big weekend planned for the CTIA early-birds. And then Jim Cramer will kick-off the show on Tuesday with the CEOs from ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint onstage for a panel discussion.
During CTIA, stop by and see us in booth 4043 and booth 4322. We’ll be showcasing the Jibe App-to-App platform with our partners, Acision and Interop technologies. If you missed us in Spain at Mobile World Congress, stop by for a head-to-head matchup of Kodo or Air Hockey. Each winner will get a VIP invite for developer SDK access.
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Jibe’s CTO Talks 3G/4G Head-to-Head Gaming
Elmar Weber, Jibe’s CTO, is interviewed by Kevin Hnatiuk from New Media Manitoba at Jibe’s Mobile World Congress booth in Barcelona, Spain. Elmar shares what developers are doing with the Jibe SDK: creating games with head-to-head mobile gameplay, plugging in real-time communication into mobile apps, adding live audio, video, chat, and file transfer. Get ready for app-to-app mobile gaming!
Visit the New Media Manitoba MWC 2012 channel for more video coverage.
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Jibe Wins Mobile Merit Award for best Service Delivery Platform
Jibe Mobile received the Mobile Merit Award for best Service Delivery Platform for Mobile. Jibe won this award for its innovative approach to platform enablement and its forward thinking approach to bring together content and comms to deliver the best possible mobile experience.
A special thank you to the developers bringing apps to life with the Jibe SDK and the Jibe Platform.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Jibe demonstrated developer games and business apps running on the Vodafone IMS network – at the Jibe stand, the GSMA stand, and the Vodafone stand. Developers in the Jibe early access program develop with the Jibe SDK to add in-app comms and to optimize latency in mobile apps with Jibe’s Fast PATH™.
Quotes:
- “It is so encouraging that there were so many strong mobile entries,” said Chuck Martin, Author of The Third Screen and CEO of Mobile Future Institute. “The finalists also showed that brands and mobile developers are continuing to innovate from last year’s contest.”
- “It is an honor to participate in the prestigious Mobile Merit Awards in order to lend expert opinion in recognizing outstanding innovators in the mobile industry. I would like to congratulate all participants and winners in this year’s awards,” said Jonathan Roubini, Editor-in-Chief, LabReviews.com.
- “Each year the judging process becomes more difficult as the quality of technologies and advancements in mobile is outstanding. I’d like to extend congratulations to all of this year’s winners,” said Bob Bilbruck, CEO of B2 Group.
The Service Delivery Platform category, one of 20 different mobile awards, recognizes products that are shaping the way the world communicates. This year’s winners were judged based on industry impact, innovation, technologies, social importance, implementation and overall success factor.
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Live Coding: Add Voice to Air Hockey
Our very own, Tim Schwerdtner, live from c-base in Berlin kicked off the Droidcon Hackathon by showing how you could take the peer to peer game Air Hockey and add voice right into the playing experience. So when you challenge your friend to Air Hockey on your mobile, you’ll be able to talk smack during game play. Pretty impressive.
If you didn’t make the hackathon, you can register for SDK access in our early access program at developer.jibemobile.com. Or if you know Tim, you can skip the entire line.
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Developers from Spain, USA, and Hungary win Sony Xperia Phones @ Mobile World Congress, Spain
Congratulations to Spain, Hungary, and the USA on your game play. At Mobile World Congress in Spain, we had a daily Air Hockey Tournament at the Jibe Booth. Each daily winner had to win games against all challengers to receive a really awesome Xperia(TM) smartphone. Thank you Sony Ericsson for providing gaming phones to the Jibe Air Hockey Tournament winners.
We had many exciting matches throughout the week, and developers at the show were impressed by the fast action and low latency of the game. The Air Hockey app was developed by Entag/MTI built with the Jibe SDK.
The key features of the SDK that allows game play are (1) capabilities detection, (2) peer-to-peer data, and (3) app presence. App presence detects if your friends have the app, capabilities detection determines if your friends can play the game, and the optimized peer-to-peer data exchange keeps the two games super synchronized.
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Jibe In The Spotlight As GSMA Introduces joyn Brand For Rich Communication Services
There was non-stop action at the Jibe Mobile booth on day one of Mobile World Congress 2012 as carriers, developers and mobile device manufacturers came in droves to experience the latest in joyn-friendly, RCS-e compliant applications developed on Jibe’s Software Developer Kit (SDK).
The activity came on the heels of the GSMA announcement of significant advancements in Rich Communications, including a new global specification, RCS 5.0 and the creation of a new consumer facing-brand, joyn.
“There is clear consumer demand for enriched messaging and voice services, and Rich Communications provides mobile network operators with solutions to address these consumer needs, as well as paving the way for future, innovative IP-based voice and messaging services,” said Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA. “These services will be delivered to consumers in a seamless way and with the level of innovation, quality of service and attention to privacy that they have come to expect from their mobile operator.”
Jibe’s RCS-e compliant mobile apps currently being showcased at the Jibe stand (Hall 1, A50) and also featured at the Vodafone stand in the Hall 3.0 Courtyard and at the GSMA Pavilion, Hall 8, C118, include:
Jibe ON: Consumer messaging application featuring group chat, file transfer, VoIP and video calling.
Air Hockey: Multi-player “fast twitch” Air Hockey with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
Kodo: Multi-player arcade action, where once you receive your instant play invitation, the goal is to chomp your friend before you get chomped.
Reversi: Reversi board game with embedded voice and video features plus mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
Car Racing: Real-time multi-player auto racing game with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
View Together: Tablet-based audio and video collaboration suite including live document co-editing.
Jibe is also featuring Mobile Advertising and Remote Device Customer (RDC) Care. Mobile Advertising is in-app advertising using context aware placement and ads via the inMobi mobile advertising network. Remote Device Customer Care enables live over-the-air device troubleshooting and remote device control.
To learn more about Jibe, visit www.jibemobile.com or schedule a meeting to learn about App-to-App.
Tags: GSMA, Jibe, joyn, Mobile World Congress 2012, RCS 5.0
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It’s a “Fast Twitch” Face-off in the World’s First Mobile Air Hockey Shootout Competition
Charge the center line and shoot an under the mallet goal off the rail in the world’s first mobile-to-mobile multi-player Air Hockey shootout in Barcelona, Spain.
Shootouts will be hosted daily at noon, 2pm and 4pm during Mobile World Congress 2012 in the Jibe Mobile booth, Hall 1, A50. Drop-in challengers are welcome, but be warned – the Jibe team has been practicing (a lot)!
Air Hockey is just one of many RCS-e compliant mobile apps built on the Jibe SDK that will be showcased in the Jibe booth at MWC12. Air Hockey features “fast twitch” multi-player gameplay with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
While your basking in the glory of victory, or wallowing in the shame of bitter defeat, be sure to check out the other Jibe SDK mobile app demonstrations at the booth, including:
Jibe ON: Consumer messaging application featuring group chat, file transfer, VoIP and video calling
Reversi: Board game with embedded voice and video features plus mobile address book friend discovery and instant play inviations
Car Racing: Real-time multi-player auto racing with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations
View Together: Tablet-based audio and video collaboration suite including document co-editing
To learn more about Jibe, visit www.jibemobile.com or schedule a meeting to learn about App-to-App.
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Jibe is Heading to Mobile World Congress
The newest apps built using Jibe’s Software Developer Kit (SDK) will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (taking place February 27 – March 1X, 2012) at the Jibe stand (Hall 1, A50).
Jibe’s Demo Showcase includes developer demos of RCS-e complaint mobile apps, including:
Jibe ON:
Consumer messaging application featuring group chat, file transfer, VoIP and video calling.
Air Hockey:
Multi-player “fast twitch” Air Hockey with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
Reversi:
Reversi board game with embedded voice and video features plus mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
Car Racing:
Real-time multi-player auto racing game with mobile address book friend discovery and instant play invitations.
View Together:
Tablet-based audio and video collaboration suite including live document co-editing.
We’ll also feature Mobile Advertising and Remote Device Customer (RDC) Care. Mobile Advertising is in-app advertising using context aware placement and ads via the inMobi mobile advertising network. Remote Device Customer Care enables live over-the-air device troubleshooting and remote device control.
Jibe’s RCS-e compliant mobile apps will also be featured at the Vodafone stand in the Hall 3.0 Courtyard and at the GSMA Pavilion, Hall 8, C118.
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APIs Open Up Circles of Innovation
I spent a couple of days in Vegas to kick off 2012 starting with the AT&T Developer Conference and then CES. I make it a point each year to go a day early to participate in the AT&T Developer Conference to hear the announcements first hand but also see the carrier actually “pitch” their customer, the app developer.
Facebook 2007 platform launch spurred API hockey stick growth
This year’s highlights included a number of items but the topics were centered around:
- The “Blazing Fast Speeds” of the newly deployed LTE network with a plethora of new LTE devices from all of the leading handset OEMs
- A renewed commitment to Android and iOS but most notably, a real push for Windows Mobile with a surprise appearance by Steve Ballmer.
Ballmer, excited on Stage at ATT Dev Conference 2012
- An update to the developer API set, services, tools and capabilities with particular focus on HTML5, open platforms and application ubiquity
- A new developer engagement/support function known as “The Foundry” for helping to foster innovation and facilitate access to key AT&T resources
- And a host of “cloud services” with an emphasis on messaging being sent/received across multiple devices
It’s clear that developers are the clear path forward and APIs need to be made available to create new circles of innovation. I’ll be interested to see if the carriers do anything unique (APIs) to unleash advanced capabilities within the newly deployed LTE network. Is the formula still faster speeds + higher throughput = more data consumption as a path to additional carrier revenue?
Looking forward to an exciting 2012.
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2012: The Year Of The Connected App
This year, we’re going to see the birth of a new class of connected apps. We’ve spent much of the last year building out our 3.0 platform and working with a select few rock star developers we invited to use our new SDKs. This year, we’re excited that those initial mobile apps will be released in the wild. And these new apps will pave the way for app to app communication and how an app should work going forward.
This new class of connected apps will allow friends to find other friends that have the app installed. You’ll know in advance what capabilities your friend has – Can he video? Can she chat? Even before you try to communicate. And finally these apps are live, instant and always connected with a heart-beat.
Connected apps will deliver more value for the user, this will produce more opportunity for developer revenue, and more differentiation in the marketplace. They’ll do this by bringing community into the app and real people interactions inside the app experience.
We’re looking forward to a fantastic 2012 and seeing this new class of connected apps communicate.
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