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For those who enjoy reading, there are plenty of e-readers on the market, but more and more apps are being released that can turn the tablet or smartphone you use every day into an e-reader as well.  Moon+ Reader is an e-magazine and e-book app for Android devices that will help you to personalize your reading experience on mobile devices, but what makes it different from similar apps?  The list of advantages it holds over other e-reader apps is surprisingly lengthy. Read more »

Location-activated triggers are becoming a major part of the future of marketing in technology.  Technologies like GPS and NFC have made it so that specific locations and items can activate smartphones and tablets.  This technology can deliver text messages to mobile devices and even turn on certain apps.  Proxible is a cool product that inserts this technology into a company’s mobile application.  Proxible’s service turns everyday objects and locations into potential marketing tools.  As potential customers travel through the real world and interact with different locations and items, companies can engage them with their brand or product.  Proxible can’t have objects activate users’ phones without permission.  However, they can have objects trigger the sending of text messages or the activation of specific apps when the user has agreed to allow it.  Proxible enhances other businesses’ apps with these features and allows its clients to use the technology as they see fit.  By allowing this customization, Proxible ensures that each brand that can construct their customers’ experiences exactly how they want them.  If anyone has a Proxible enabled application but its features aren’t working correctly, mobile computer support may be helpful.  Read more »

Amos Elliston is, first and foremost, a software engineer.  However, his career has grown significantly over the years and turned him into a highly successful leader as well.  Currently, Elliston is the Chief Technology Officer of PocketChange, a company that rewards users of specific mobile apps with loyalty points.  Elliston’s current position offers him a serious challenge, as he has to work to make the PocketChange loyalty rewards system integrate with hundreds of different mobile applications.  He also has to coordinate teams that work with two different mobile operating systems: Android and iOS.  Fortunately, Elliston has a significant amount of experience handling large engineering and software projects.  This cool person in technology has held upper management positions at two other major software startups besides PocketChange over the last seven years.  This is not a man who would ever need onsite computer support to solve his computer problems like most people.  The evidence heavily suggests that Elliston is a man who knows what it takes to succeed in the tech industry. Read more »