Archive | July, 2009

iPhone Boot Camp hiring instructors (particularly for SFO)

By on July 20, 2009 in Events

If you’re interested in learning how to develop for the Apple iPhone platform, then take a look at the iPhone Boot Camp. They hold crash-courses in iPhone platform programming all across the planet (upcoming events are being held in LA, Chicago, Boston, Sofia, London…). The chaps who run iPhone Boot Camp are on the hunt [...]

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iPhone Developers: £10k prize from o2 Litmus

By on July 20, 2009 in Comment

o2 Litmus, the application developer community for Telefonica’s o2, is running an iPhone Developer competition. Called The App Showdown, the competition offers a £10,000 prize to the winning application developer. The judges, well… they’re not an esteemed panel of mobile gods or mobile executives. Instead — and interestingly — the judging panel is going to [...]

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$100m invested across iPhone developer startups in 2 years

By on July 6, 2009 in Comment

There’s a rather interesting story on ChubbyBrain regarding venture funding for iPhone application developers (via Johannes). They calculate that 17 iPhone application startups have received $102.49m as of the end of June 2009 (over two years). Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the Silicon Valley titan, has reportedly invested the most — $50m across 6 startups. [...]

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Episode 16: John Poisson of TinyPictures takes us walkabout

By on July 2, 2009 in Videos

Radar.net is a really smart mobile picture sharing service run by TinyPictures. I’ve been following Radar for quite some time now — so when I was in San Francisco recently I popped by the TinyPictures office and filmed a walkabout with their CEO, John Poisson. Take a look!

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