Sparkle Toy is insanely easy. You simply touch the screen with one, two, or even all ten of your
fingers and watch as the electric field reacts to your touch. Try to include relaxing
music, turn off the lights and try multi-finger touch, try playing with the particles, “running away” from them, scattering in all directions and creating a bizarre twist.

Different effects will appear on your screen, shimmering like a rainbow. This is something
similar to observation of the “lava lamp”, but much more interesting, because you control the process.

The toy is worth a penny, you can download it in the Market.

Download Sparkle Toy from web store.
If you have a tablet, then download the THD version, there is a lot more particles.

Sparkle Toy App is a post from: Android News Blog

Recon API automatically aggregates responses and displays them in an easy-touse web interface. It also employs charts and graphs to visualize collected data from user polls. Additionally, you can choose to receive a periodical digest of the information you’ve collected from your users so far: what they’ve said and how they’ve voted.

Basic access to Recon API is totally free, so you can get started right away; you only have to subscribe once you have surpassed your API request limit. Recon API will not throttle users and continue to record responses from them even after you’ve surpassed your account’s subscription limit. Pay only when you are ready to view the aggregation of collected responses on your dashboard!

Recon API is a post from: Android News Blog

What is also important is that Jeebboo (www.jeebboo.com) does not require any personal information of belf of its members in order to log-in and participate in the jeebboo community-apart from an email account, in order to contact the member in case he/she has won.

You can select which multiple choice questions to answer and which ones to skip. For every question you answer you will receive credits. For each credit you receive you are automatically entered into one or more draws for an award. Jeebboo users belong to a network based on their geo-location and weekly draws take place for each network.

If you answer at least one question per week, you automatically enter the weekly draw! As the network expands the prizes will as well. Apart from the network draws, there is a global draw in which all Jeebboo members take part. More draws, more chances of winning! And this is only the start. As we go on we intend to introduce a lot more features to improve the game because in Jeebboo the important thing is not only to win but also to make it fun for everyone!

Jeebboo app is a post from: Android News Blog

Vatuma Games, a mobile gaming company, is pleased to announce
the release of Word Tower a unique, fun, addictive and educational word game for Android. This traditional game played by generations of adults and children has surprisingly never been turned into a game for a mobile platform.

Now after months of planning and programming, Ivan Milyaev and his 3-man team have released Word Tower so that generations more can enjoy this challenging word game. The idea behind the game is deceptively simple, yet hard to master. The idea of the game is to fill in the towers with words, simple. But the catch is that each tower already has some letters filled-in, meaning the words need to fit, just like in a crossword.

The game comes with a whole variety of options and variations allowing beginners to easily master the game with just three small towers, but yet hard enough (10 towers and more) for even the most expert linguists.

“I played the game all my life on bits of paper – from childhood to university and into my adult life,” said Ivan Milyaev founder of Vatuma Games. “My wife is a big fan of the game and I was very surprised when I could not find the game on the Android Market. So I decided to write the game myself.”

The game is playable in English and Russian and there are plans to add more languages later. The different levels of difficulty add restrictions like forbidding the use of duplicate words in the towers or limiting the types of words allowed (nouns but not verbs and so on).

About Vatuma Games

Vatuma Games is part of Vatuma, the media and technology company, known for its advanced WordPress themes (including the Clear Line Theme and the Aesthete Theme) and its Web 2.0 development work. Vatuma Games was started by Ivan Milyaev specifically to create Word Tower, but now with its team of dedicated developers, Vatuma Games is destined to create many more engaging and fun games for the Android and other mobile platforms.

Contact
Vatuma Games
Web: http://vatumagames.com/
Word Tower on Android Market: Word Tower game

Traditional Word Game Turned into Modern Android App; Word Tower Released is a post from: Android News Blog

Hamburg, 12/14/2011 – With rad.io every iPhone and Android phone turns into the perfect radio to go. The new update contains a radio alarm clock and a sleep timer. Now users can choose their favorite station they want to hear at wake-up time from over 4.000 international internet radios and podcasts. Furthermore, the free rad.io app offers well organized station lists, sorted by genre, top 100, city, country or topic.

“With the Christmas update we are fulfilling our users’ wish for an alarm clock. That way our app accompanies the user throughout the whole day. Especially during the morning, radio is still an important medium. The mobile usage continues to be one of the biggest growth drivers for us.” (Bernhard Bahners, CEO rad.io/radio.de GmbH Germany)
In addition to the new features, the rad.io app got a new design for the holiday season and presents the best Christmas stations from all over the world including the “homemade” program http://merrychristmas.rad.io.
More information on the rad.io mobile apps/ Download links:

http://rad.io/iphone

http://rad.io/android

The best Christmas stations:

http://rad.io/xmas

About rad.io
The international radio platform rad.io provides easy access to radio stations from around the world via the internet – using a browser, social networks or mobile devices like the iPhone and now also on Android based phones. rad.io is a product of the radio.de GmbH, which is located in Hamburg, Germany and runs further platforms with radio.fr in France and radio.at in Austria since 2008.

rad.io launches Christmas update for iPhone and Android apps is a post from: Android News Blog

It is one of only a handful of apps that facilitates customer feedback.

‘Make-feedback‘ allows you to operate the Net Promoter Score system via SMS messages. The app allows you to receive useful feedback from your clients whatever business or organisation you operate.

Net Promoter is a customer feedback methodology (and a registered trademark of Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix).

The Net Promoter Score is used by a vast array of companies including American Express, eBay, Phillips, Dell, E.on and many more. They score their feedback responses and this is used to establish growth of their company.

Within 3-4 SMS messages you can have valuable feedback from your clients!

Net Promoter Score

The net promoter score can be calculated via The Ultimate Question:

“On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most likely), how likely are you to recommend us to family or friends?”

The ‘ultimate question’ (UQ) is an established method of gaining feedback from clients. If the client responds with a mark of 9 or 10 (PROMOTERS) they are asked a subsequent question of what did we do well?
If the client responds with a mark of 6 or below (DETRACTORS) they can be asked the subsequent question of what can we do to improve?
Clients responding with a mark of 7-8 (PASSIVES) are not administered into the equation.

Scoring

The net promoter is calculated by detracting the detractors percentage from the promoters percentage.

So if 20 people give you a mark of 10 and 10 people give you a mark of 6 your net promoter score is calculated as follows:

Promoters calculation: 20/30 x 100 = 66.6%
Detractors calculation: 10/30 = 33.3 = 33.3%

Therefore NPS = 66.6% – 33.3% = 33.3%

What to do with the net promoter score (NPS)?

The idea of the net promoter score is to promote growth via personal recommendation. The NPS can be used to measure the level of customer satisfaction and potential growth as well as a measure of achieved improvement (or vice versa).

At a basic level we at Make-Feedback think this could work as follows:

Receive a score which is a promoter and use the subsequent response to find out why you did well and then reinforce this methodology. e.g. ‘excellent customer service’ ’ could lead to enforcing set guidelines for customer care.

Receive a score which is a detractor and use the subsequent response to find out where you need to improve and then make changes to your customer service. e.g. ‘slow to respond to emails’ could lead to employing more staff devoted to email responses or an increased focus on emails.

We recommend you do this:

1. Display your mobile number to your clients and ask them to text the word ‘feedback’ to it. This starts the feedback process.
2. The user will then receive an SMS asking for a score, another SMS asking why the client gave the score and they will then receive a thank you SMS.
3. To initiate the feedback process you can send the client a request if they are willing to participate. If they reply with the word ‘feedback’ the feedback process at step 2 above is started.

Viewing your scores with the Make-Feedback app

The Make-Feedback allows you to view all your feedback, calculate your net promoter score between certain dates and it allows you to view promoters, passives or detractors between any particular dates you set.

The app allows you to get customer feedback via SMS for a very small fee (you would have to pay a continuous fee for a service outside this Android app)

We hope you find our app very useful and it helps your organisation to grow and improve!

So to summarise the app:

1. Allows you to receive feedback via SMS from clients

2. Allows you to seek feedback via SMS from your clients

3. Displays feedback in a logical style uses the net promoter model (this model is widely used by respected + global companies)

4. The net promoter model encourages growth for your company

Make-Feedback App is a post from: Android News Blog

Available via the Android Market, the free to download Lite version contains 22 textipic messages while the full version with 100 textipics is just 99p. https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.sugarushuk

Just Connect the first app from online retailer Sugarushuk who design and create fun, colourful and contemporary stationery and gift products. www.sugarushuk.co.uk

Addictive new app brings fun and colour to texting is a post from: Android News Blog

As part of its transition out of beta, Verious has introduced expanded license management capabilities for mobile app components and SDKs; the addition of over 25,000 mobile app contract developers and designers via a strategic partnership with Elance (see Verious Partners with Elance, dated November 9, 2011); and a suite of Small Business Solutions tailored to ‘main street’ businesses who want to quickly and cost-effectively launch iOS, Android or other mobile apps to serve their local customer bases.

“Our mission is to enable ROI from the mobile app economy to eclipse that of the Web,” said Anil Pereira, founder and CEO of Verious. “We are thrilled to come out of beta with a raft of new capabilities to enable customers to add app features, monetize their apps and connect with the solutions they need to launch new apps across any major platform, including iPhones, iPads and Android devices.”

Verious operates a one-stop marketplace for mobile app development supported by a powerful, patent-pending license management platform. In addition to enabling the licensing of a range of pre-built, pre-tested mobile app components, Verious has now extended its platform to include the licensing of mobile app component source code; mobile SDKs from third-party developers and technology companies; and private label and white label apps for both enterprises and small businesses. This allows mobile software developers, publishers and technology partners to leverage Verious’ license management platform to “meter” their software to facilitate various licensing models.

Verious supports annual and lifetime licensing, per user licensing and a range of volume-based models. The platform enables virtually any partner to offer their mobile app components, mobile SDKs and pre-built apps on a “free trial” basis, dramatically expanding their marketing and distribution capabilities.

Verious has also launched a Small Business Solutions Center (www.Verious.com/Marketplace/Small-Business) to continue its mission of serving as the one-stop marketplace for mobile app development. Now, small businesses–ranging from restaurants to law offices to hair salons and retailers—have several options to quickly and cost-effectively launch mobile apps for their businesses. These include pre-built “white label” apps from a range of providers, starting as low as $99; access to a network of over 25,000 pre-screened mobile app developers and designers; and the ability to post an app development project to attract bids for the creation of an app or other app-related assets (landing pages, splash screens, buttons, app icons and the like).

About Verious

Verious is a mobile infrastructure company operating an online marketplace and license management service for mobile app development. The company launched in beta as a Finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, CA in September, 2011.
“Verious” means “very serious, major, something cool”. The company is backed by leading seed and angel investors and its management team includes industry veterans with experience at leading mobile, software and trusted services companies including American Express, Apple, Motorola, Oracle, Samsung, TRUSTe, VeriSign and VMWare.

For more information, please visit http://www.Verious.com or follow us on Twitter @Veriously.

Verious – a marketplace for mobile app development is a post from: Android News Blog

Cologne (Germany) October 31st, 2011 – mobivention releases Spin the Bottle – or Truth or Dare – the popular party game, for Android smart phones and tablets in a modern version. The base version is available in the Android Market for free and upgraded for $1,99 to the Gold version with an additional psychological question and task package and ad-free gaming.

It is one of the best popular games for party fans: Spin the Bottle Party Fun – or also known as Truth or Dare. The concept of the game is easy and very entertaining: Spin the bottle and let it choose a person which must answer a question or to fulfill a given task. Of course the questions and tasks are not simple and trouble-free. If the person denies to answer a question or fails to fulfill the task he/she needs to take the penalty chosen at the beginning of the game.

The base version of the game comes with the following features:
- 100 questions and tasks
- Add your own tasks and question to the game
- Normal and sexy version
- For three to eight players
- Different background images available
- Choose between different penalties
- Use your own images and names as avatars
- Facebook connection

Furthermore, the Gold version with the following additional features can be purchased for $ 1.99:
- Psycho package with 50 new questions and tasks
- Ad removal

Android Market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobivention.game.spinthebottle.free
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SFqlBthZQ

Inquiries:
Bibiana Hesseler
Director Marketing
mobivention GmbH
Gottfried-Hagen-Str. 24
51105 Cologne – Germany
e: bhesseler@mobivention.com
f: +49 221 677 811 20

About mobivention
mobivention is an international leading provider of apps, widgets and personalisation products for smart phones and tablets. The company, founded in 2003, is highly regarded to be an innovation leader in the market. Its product offering includes the conception, production and marketing of apps, widgets and personalisation products. More than 100 app stores, mobile network operators, brand manufacturers and ad agencies belong to its circle of customers.

The company employs 25 staff members and has a longstanding wealth of experience in the development of mobile content and realisation of customer projects. This unique expertise is the basis for a successful cooperation with namable and well-known customers of various lines of business. Further information can be found on www.mobivention.com.

New version of Spin the Bottle party game now for Android smart phones and tablets is a post from: Android News Blog

Latest mobile VoIP app can prevent cellphone “bill shock”

Toronto – Oct 26th, 2011. Bradon Technologies (www.bradontechnologies.com) is
pleased to announce the release of SAViiPhone™ (www.saviiphone.com), an Internet
calling app for the Android community.

SAViiPhone™ allows you to make calls to mobile and landlines worldwide over
3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and LTE. Once downloaded, SAViiPhone integrates directly into
the mobile’s address book so no behavior change is required to place a call. Simply
download and dial as normal.

SAViiPhone subscribers can talk when they want for as long as they want while
reducing their monthly mobile bill and eliminating outrageous long distance fees (also
known as cellphone “bill shock”).

“The launch of SAViiPhone™ for the Android consumer market will be interesting to
watch as our technology breaks down the barriers limiting mainstream adoption of
mobile VoIP calling; namely tinny call quality and poor integration with a mobile’s
address book” says Joseph Compta, President of Bradon Technologies.

The unique capabilities of SAViiPhone™ enable it to deliver faster communication
data while using fewer resources than any other mobile communications app on the
market. The result is a great call experience for less money than you would pay for a
traditional cell phone plan.

SAViiPhoneTM is a free app with thirty free trial minutes of calling within North
America once downloaded. Prepaid and unlimited plans are as low as $3/month.

The beta version of SAViiPhone is now available on the Android Market (https://
market.android.com/details?id=com.saviiphone.apk) for Android devices 2.2 and
higher.

About Bradon Technologies

Bradon Technologies (www.bradontechnologies.com) is an innovator in the area of
compression technology for voice, video and data transmissions over the Internet.
Bradon’s strategic area of focus has been in the development of its proprietary voice
compression technology (BTAC, BTWC) for embedded use in business, mobile and
telephony network applications.

New Mobile Voip App – SAViiPhone is a post from: Android News Blog