Enterprise mobile development

Adrian Frielinghaus, one of our directors, was recently interviewed by ITWeb about his thoughts on how enterprises should respond to the rise of the new consumer mobile platforms and the intricacies of developing mobile applications for those platforms. Adrian advises enterprises to … Continue reading ...

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Our mobile app hackathon

New mobile app development projects have always gotten our team excited here at Maxxor, and our recent hackathon proved no different. And by hackathon we don’t mean sitting in front of a laptop in a dark, dank room profusely pushing … Continue reading ...

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The winners and losers in the mobile platform wars

Published Feb 2012 In terms of sheer consumer growth, nothing matches the rise of tablets like the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. According to media reports, US tablet sales took just two years to reach 40 million units, a … Continue reading ...

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The meteoric rise of iPhone and Android

As of the late 2000's, two mobile OS platforms started gaining significant headway in terms of market dominance. Racked up against the offerings of BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone and Sony are Apple's iPhone (now branded as iOS) and Android. In this second instalment in our history of mobile development platforms we recap the meteoric rise of the iPhone and Android platforms. The Apple iPhone devices boast a small but impressive range of multimedia, web-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first ground-breaking iPhone was launched with much-anticipated fanfare in January, 2007. The new iPhone functioned as a camera phone,...

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A recent history of mobile development platforms

Recent developments in mobile computing have been fast and furious. In this three-part overview of mobile development platforms, we'll be taking a closer look at this history, starting with a broad overview in this post. Part 2 examines the rise of the iPhone and Android platforms and the final post will look at how this has affected some of the other mobile platforms. In mobile development terms, what we developers call a "smartphone" is a high-end mobile phone built on some sort of hardware and software platform, created specifically for that family of devices. These types of phones feature more advanced...

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What do MXit users want?

At Maxxor we’ve been busy developing games for the MXit platform for more than two years now. To date, we've entertained well in excess of one-million MXit users with at least one or more of our apps. Our most popular game by far, is Moonbase. But other Maxxor titles like Glamour Girl and Bubble Blast continue to attract new and different players. During this time we’ve also learned a great deal about MXit users. What stands out the most is that they’re an incredibly active bunch of people, who get really excited and enthusiastic about new Mxit apps to engage with....

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