July 22nd, 2010
Web2.0 Concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities such as social networking websites, Wikipedia, blogs, video sharing sites, forums, blogs, social chat, folksonomies, etc.
Benefits of Web 2.0 Web Design and Development
- Allows users to do more than just retrieve information from the web
- Users can run software applications entirely through a browser.
- Users are encouraged to add value to the application as they use it.
- Feature a robust, user-friendly, interface based on tested Ajax techniques or similar rich media.
Why choose Innodeas to Build your web 2.0 application and enhance your web 2.0 features?
- Bring up website to global web standards and cross platform compatibility
- Increase meaningful user participation and drive action
- Respond to user needs interactively and instantly
A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. This practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.
Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of social software applications such as social bookmarking and photograph annotation. Tagging, which is one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 services, allows web users to collectively classify and find information.
Tags: blog, Folksonomies, Social networking, tag, Web 2.0, Web Design
Posted in Marketing | Comments Off
July 20th, 2010
The iPad is arriving Singapore on Friday July 23rd 2010. Singtel, the telecommunication company in Singapore confirmed (source: news sites) that it will be selling iPads soon with dedicated price plans.
iPads comes in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi+3G versions. Singapore will see both versions in the market. For Wi-Fi 16GB model, it may cost around SGD 730.00 and around SGD 1030.00 for the high end 64GB Wi-Fi model. But as per Apple website, the retail prices are shown as SGD 928.00 and SGD 1228.00 respectively. Other retails models available are 32GB Wi-FI model priced at SGD 878.00 and 32GB WiFi+3G priced at SGD 1078.00.
As per Apple news, two other Asia-Pacific markets, New Zealand and Hong Kong, will also be offering the iPad from July 23 as well as Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico and the Netherlands.
iPAD (Image Courtesy: Apple Website)
The iPad which was first launched in 2010 June allows users to read ebooks with its Multi-Touch user interface as well as connect via mobile applications like those made for the iPhone and iPod touch. Apple which has said the iPad will roll out to many more countries later this year is also set to soon release its latest iPhone 4.
Innodeas is also set to take advantage of these Hi-Fi gizmos by providing services in developing iPhone and iPad Mobile Applications.
Tags: Innodeas, iPad, iPhone, iPod, mobile applications, Singapore, Wi-Fi
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
July 7th, 2010
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
— John D. Rockefeller, an American industrialist and philanthropist
Tags: good, great
Posted in Quotes | No Comments »
June 29th, 2010
iPhone fans jammed stores in Japan, Europe and the United States in an iPhone 4 frenzy that promised blockbuster sales. Thousands of people queued up through the morning on Thursday, 24th June 2010, outside the Apple store in downtown San Francisco, USA. Features luring people to the iPhone 4 include high-definition screens and "Face Time," which uses a forward facing camera to enable video chat. Apple designed silver edging on handsets to be part of the antenna system to improve signal strength.
iPhone 4 (Image Courtesy: www.apple.com)
Japan’s Eastern Time zone put it first in line to sell the phone. In Paris, over 400 people queued up before the opening of Apple’s flagship store in the city. In Germany, there were long queues at Apple stores and news says that phone company Deutsche Telekom complained it did not have enough handsets to meet demand. By lunchtime iPhones in the high tens of thousands have already been sold. Over 550 customers waited in line outside Apple’s flagship Regent Street store in London when it opened its doors – much higher than those who queued for the launch of the iPad tablet last month.
The first iPhone which was launched in 2007 brought smart phones to the general public. Apple has sold more than 50 million of the handsets in the past three years. But in this year, there are lots of rivals in the market with phones having bigger screens and running on Google’s open-source Android operating system, which is more accessible to developers than Apple’s tightly guarded system.
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, HD, iPad, iPhone, open-source
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
June 14th, 2010
E-Governance is conquering higher heights in Singapore and now its coming closer with new initiative named “Gov-with-you”. It is part of the new master plan of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Ministry of Finance to drive innovation.
This initiative will have three key thrusts. First, the public sector will work with the private and people sectors to co-create for higher value. The second is to connect with citizens in the shaping of public policies – and increase active participation – through social media. Third focus is on transforming the whole-of-government to better deliver services to the public.
Singapore : A place for innovations
Tags: IDA, Infocomm, Infocomm Technology in Singapore, Innovation, social media
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
June 9th, 2010
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." — Mahatma Gandhi: ‘father of Nation’ of India
Posted in Quotes | No Comments »
June 2nd, 2010
Singapore government announced a new tax incentive scheme this week to encourage companies to adopt design innovation. This is in tandem with the Budget announcement, the "Productivity and Innovation Credit for Investments in Design" is part of the "Productivity and Innovation Credit". This will provide significant tax deductions for investments for activities along the innovation value chain and Design.
To qualify for the scheme, the design project must be related to industrial and product design activities and result in the final design of a physical product. Eventually the scheme requires the design project results in the creation of new IP (Intellectual Property) filed with the IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore). Innodeas recently had a Trademark filing transaction with IPOS recently.
Design Innovation project must be executed completely in Singapore
The DesignSingapore Council will administer the scheme. The project must be executed completely in Singapore within a time frame of two years. Companies like Innodeas can enjoy a deduction of up to 250 per cent of total income, capped at SGD 300,000.00 for each Year of Assessment (valid for the Years of Assessment 2011 to 2015). This really inspires Innodeas to look out for new innovative projects in coming future.
Tags: design and innovation, design innovation, Innovation, Intellectual Property
Posted in Innovations | No Comments »
May 30th, 2010
An excerpt of Chetan Bhagat’s speech at Symbiosis: short and good to read…
"Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
One thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?
It’s ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, little fights with your people. We are people, not programmed devices………”
Posted in Quotes | No Comments »
May 29th, 2010
Innodeas found sometime to participate in the Final and Prize ceremony of 11th Start-Up@Singapore held at DBS Auditorium, Shenton Way, Singapore. Mr. Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts was the Guest of Honour for the day.
Start-Up@Singapore (S@S) is a world-class business plan competition organized by National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Society(NES), and supported by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre(NEC) and NUS Business School Alumni Association. This was launched in 1999 and now into eleventh year, S@S aims to be the beacon for start-ups on their road to success.
Innodeas met up with few innovative participants from this year and from last year. Last year winner was Ms. Pranoti Nagarkar Israni, CEO and Founder of zimplistic. She has her first invention – Rotimatic, fully automatic roti or chappati maker.
Some other technology ideas include Real-ID, security solution based on face-recognition and finger print technology. Real-ID was by Viktor Fisher from INSEAD. TaPP was another mobile based solution to keep the phone contacts live and central which makes the transition of address book from one phone to other very easily.
Towless won first prize (worth 3K) in Youth category and Soyato won first prize in Open Category with a prize money of 20K Singapore Dollars.
Can any innovative idea from Innodeas can win a prize in coming years?
Tags: business plan, Communication, Entrepreneurship, innovative, innovative idea, zimplistic
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
May 27th, 2010
Singapore has a technology-savvy, English-speaking population around 4.5 million. The Singaporeans stand as the fifth-largest buyer of Apple iPad tablets from the United States – via eBay – based on sales figures posted by an eBay official on a technology blog. Singapore has a mobile penetration rate of over 75% and Internet penetration of about 50%. Singapore is developing into a centre for wireless applications. Innodeas is also playing a part with Innovative Ideas and Profitable Solutions. Below are some of the examples of the continuous Innovations happening in Singapore market.
As part of implementing Overseas Business Centers, a partnership was formed in May 2010 between IDA and HP Mobile e-Services Bazaar in Tokyo, main aims being facilitating market reach and technology transfer. This Overseas Business Centre will help Singapore wireless developers gain access to beta testing in a live 3G network environment, as well as Java and FOMA handsets. (FOMA is the brand name of the W-CDMA-based 3G telecommunications services being offered by the Japanese telecommunications service provider NTT DoCoMo. It is an implementation of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and was the world’s first 3G service to commence operation).
There were many Wireless Technology Alliances recently and one partnership is the tie-up between Palm and Temasek Polytechnic to set up the Palm Mobile Computing Centre in April, 2010. There was a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and the Centre for Wireless Communications to establish the Java Wireless Competency Centre in June 2001.
There also exists a joint collaboration among Singapore’s three mobile operators – M1, SingTel Mobile and StarHub. This is in response to IDA’s Call for Collaboration on Mobile Payment Systems in May 2010. The three operators will jointly develop a common Mobile Payment Solution for entire Singapore. This will bring more and more subscribers to mobile plans, especially data plans and this will promote the Singapore mobile application development market.
There was a launch of the Singapore IT Federation’s Wireless Chapter in 2009. The Wireless Chapter provides a platform for like-minded companies to come together and address some of the challenges and opportunities of the mobile E-economy.
Innodeas wishes and hopes that all the industry players will take the lead to create and provide opportunities to build capabilities for wireless development. Whether the challenges are with Application Development, Database Design, or Mobile Application Development, we are in the move. Being in Singapore, Innodeas is also in the living lab for wireless technologies.
Tags: application development, Database Design, innovative Ideas, mobile application development, Profitable Solutions, wireless applications
Posted in Marketing | No Comments »
Facebook
Twitter
Contact Innodeas
LinkedIn
Buzz
Digg