A few days ago, Singtel and e27 announced the 2011 edition of Asia’s Top 50 Apps Award. As a independent developer in the region, I decided to submit my main two apps, Muslim Pro and Frenzapp. While trying to include a small “vote” button on my various websites in order to maximize the visibility of my apps, I came across a security hole in the voting system. I could easily have kept it for myself and exploit it to promote my two apps to the top of the leader-board by the end of the contest. It was of course not an option and I quickly, via an email to e27 as well as a public tweet, disclose the hack and warned the community that the vote was at risk of being biased if the organisers did not address the issue quickly. Here is the rest of the story and why I offered to forfeit my apps…
[UPDATE] read the comments, I actually did confirm my request to boycot the contest by removing my app
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Smartphones, PDA, Organizers, PIM (Personal Information Managers) have been trying to help you keep your professional and personal lives better organized. If early US Robotics Palm Pilots and Pocket PC shipped with a default task management tool, recent iPhones and Android devices leave it to you to choose the todo or GTD app of your choice. And there are tons for you to choose from. Read more to find out the ones that work best for me.
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I left Paris 10 hours ago and I am 2 hours away from Singapore as I start drafting this post on my iPad. Usually a great sleeper on any short and long distance flight, the 12 noon departure time of Singapore Airlines SQ 333 flight from Paris to Singapore made it difficult to actually get more than 2 hours of sleep so far, leaving me more than 10 hours to experience and enjoy the Apple iPad as a flight companion. Read more to find out 7 work and leisure activities (and apps) that the iPad turns out to be the perfect match for while traveling on a long haul flight. Read more…
The iPad has now been out for a week and the web is full of quality reviews which give you in-depth details of Apple latest revolutionary device. The App Store already offers 3,500 apps specially designed for the iPad which happens to be a fantastic device for playing games, browsing the web, watching videos, as well as working and being productive. Here is the list of my top 7 productivity apps for the iPad.
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As some of you may know, I run a one-man show company developing iPhone applications. I started Bitsmedia in Singapore less than a year ago and have since been focusing my efforts on delivering quality applications to enterprise clients.
About 6 months ago, I received the first of what was going to become a long list of phone calls from the Forum Nokia team in India. They basically seem to be approaching every company in the world doing iPhone applications and begging them (including myself) to port our applications to Symbian and distribute them on OVI. Read more…
If you have been a geek for 10 years or more, you probably know that Apple did not invent touchscreen phones and mobile applications (apps). For the rest of you, here is a bit of background information about apps, appstores and touchscreen devices that existed well before the iPhone, well before Apple managed to bring what was essentially made for geeks to the bigger and more profitable mainstream market.
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