Technology News & Innovation

‘Five Little Pumpkins’ Wins Home Publishing Innovation Award in eBook Children’s Category

Five Little Pumpkins as interactive eBook

Santa Barbara, CA and Offenbach (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

zuuka, via its publishing label iStoryTime, and HarperCollins Children’s Books are proud to announce that Five Little Pumpkins is the winner of the Publishing Innovation Award in the Children’s category.

“It is a real honor to have the industry acknowledge both the creative work and long hours that went into producing Five Little Pumpkins, the first-ever interactive children’s ebook on the iBookstore,” said Graham Farrar, Founder of zuuka. “We strive to provide parents and their children quality titles that immerse the reader into the story, leveraging the platforms we work on, and get them excited about reading.”

The Five Little Pumpkins storybook for the iPad, iPhone and iPod® touch was developed by zuuka’s in-house studio. The ebook features ghostly animations and spooky sounds for a hands-on reading experience and is available on the iBookstore.

Released in partnership with HarperCollins Children’s Books, Five Little Pumpkins brings Dan Yaccarino’s illustrations to life in this perennial rhyming favorite of parents, teachers and kids alike, a full soundtrack and animations that activate when touched are featured throughout the book for the ultimate storytime adventure.

Toddlers and young readers are sure to enjoy the rhythmic story and vibrant and bold illustrations from Dan Yaccarino as he brings these pumpkins to life with personality and style. The book features read-to-me audio, animations and sound effects throughout.

Pricing and Availability:

Five Little Pumpkins is $ 5.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide via iBooks in the Books category.

ABOUT ZUUKA

zuuka publishes iTalk and iStoryTime – an interactive storytelling experience delivered to the convenience of your mobile device – which features a series of illustrated and narrated books created by parents for kids. iStoryTime books have been highlighted in the New York Times, LA Times, CBS Early Show, theiPhoneMom.com, CNET and are decorated with Publisher’s Innovation Award, PTPA Media’s Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval, the Children’s Technology Review’s Editor’s Choice Award and Reader’s Choice for Best Apps for Kids. With over 100 titles to choose from including favorites such as Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Peter Pan and Binky the Pink Elephant, iStoryTime books are an excellent tool for both educating and entertaining children ages two years and up. These storybooks can be enjoyed in several different modes ranging from automatic to manual, depending upon the development and preferences of the user. For additional information, visit http://www.iStoryTime.com.

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS

HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s books. Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality, award-winning books for young readers, HarperCollins is home to many timeless treasures – Charlotte’s Web, The Chronicles of Narnia, Goodnight Moon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Ramona series, Where the Wild Things Are; and popular new classics – The Graveyard Book, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Warriors, and Fancy Nancy. Consistently at the forefront of digital innovation, HarperCollins Children’s Books delights young readers through engaging storytelling in all formats, including ebooks and apps. HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and a subsidiary of News Corporation. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, and India. You can visit HarperCollins Children’s Books at http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com and HarperCollins Publishers at http://www.harpercollins.com.

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OnPoint Digital Wins Best in Show at eLearning Guild’s DemoFest

Savannah, GA (PRWEB) December 19, 2011

OnPoint Digital, Inc., a leading provider of online and mobile learning solutions, is pleased to announce its win for ‘Best in Show – Vendor’ at the eLearning Guild’s 7th Annual e-Learning DemoFest, part of the DevLearn 2011 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robert Gadd, President, and Katherine Guest, VP of Sales and Marketing for OnPoint, demonstrated the winning solution to conference attendees during the three hour event Thursday, November 3rd, 2011.

DemoFest is a “people’s choice” style competition where participants vote for the courses or applications they consider the most innovative solutions or approaches to various e-Learning challenges. Participants see a wide variety of demonstrations and have a chance to talk to the designers and developers about the tools, technologies, and processes they used to meet their project’s goals and objectives.

OnPoint’s entry in the Sales Training category was entitled “Sales Training on Tablets for Bass Pro Shops.” OnPoint worked with Bass Pro Shops to provide a way to accelerate sales knowledge delivery and retention by replacing an online training delivery system accessible only through desktop PCs and laptops with a next generation enterprise mobile learning solution that provides just-in-time access to virtually every product or sales-related learning object via preloaded wireless tablets. The sales training covers virtually every aspect of selling the Tracker Marine Group division’s fishing and recreational boat brands. The installed mobile learning platform replaced a previously static online training model with a new model that provides immediate access to more than 200 learning objects via company-provided secure Apple® iPads deployed to support sales associates in each of the more than 70 Bass Pro Shops retail boat locations. The learning objects span general product and company knowledge, selling skills, company policies and practices, corporate culture and compliance, and are supplemented with partner and vendor content. The end-to-end mobile solution OnPoint Digital provided complements the existing Bass Pro Shops enterprise LMS platform and extends the blended learning environment to a mobilized audience of sales professionals.

“We’re honored to be recognized for our work with Bass Pro Shops,” said Robert Gadd, OnPoint Digital’s co-presenter at the DemoFest event. “Working with such an innovative organization has been a true pleasure, and we’re proud that the Bass Pro Shops sales force has truly embraced the platform. Not only are the sales team members enjoying the benefits of taking their sales training and completing their certifications on their mobile devices, but Tracker Marine Group is also able to extend these same benefits to their broader base of independent boat dealers.”

About OnPoint Digital, Inc.

OnPoint Digital, Inc. is a leading learning solutions provider dedicated to the development of powerful yet affordably priced eLearning and mLearning tools for the enterprise.

OnPoint’s innovative and award-winning CellCast® Solution allows companies to easily create, deliver and track mobile content and assessments directly to users’ mobile devices. Smartphone learners use customized CellCast Apps to download and sync a wide variety of content types (including video, audio, narrated PowerPoints, HTML and ePUBs) and take tests and surveys on their devices. With CellCast, organizations have a powerful, customizable and secure platform to deliver just-in-time training, learning reinforcement, surveys, and marketing updates. OnPoint’s CellCast Solution helps organizations leverage their investment in mobile devices by maximizing their employees’ time while mobile and ensuring a stable and mature environment for tracking and reporting results.

OnPoint also offers a full-featured Learning Management System software suite for the creation and management of rich-media courseware, assessments, skill tracking and reporting, with numerous options including document management, e-commerce, localization and single sign-on modules.

About Bass Pro Shops and Tracker Marine Group

Bass Pro Shops is the world’s leading retailer of premium outdoor merchandise. Its more than fifty-five destination retail stores have received many awards for innovation, design, retail excellence and customer satisfaction. For more information on Bass Pro Shops, please visit their website at http://www.basspro.com.

The Tracker Marine Group boat division is the number one builder of fishing and recreational boats in the world. For more information on Tracker Marine Group and its market leading brands, please visit their website at http://www.trackermarinegroup.com.

About DevLearn 2011

DevLearn Conference & Expo is the largest and fastest growing annual eLearning event in North America with an average annual growth rate of 29% over the last seven years. DevLearn|11 is expected to attract 1,800+ participants from more than 20 countries. Attendees are drawn by DevLearn’s highly focused, cutting edge, and outstanding conference program designed to cater to seasoned industry professionals on the leading (and sometimes bleeding) edge of learning’s emerging technologies. This is a senior, highly experienced, and technical audience of executives, managers, and practitioners who gather each year to explore the latest and greatest technologies for learning.

©2011 OnPoint Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.

CellCast is a registered trademark of OnPoint Digital, Inc.

Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, iPod and iPhone are trademarks of Apple.

SharePoint is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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Children’s Book Writer from Skokie, Illinois Wins Acer Eight-Hour Video Contest

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 17, 2009

Tim Ackermans, an aspiring children’s book writer and part-time actor from Skokie, Ill., has been named winner of the 2009 Acer Eight-Hour Video Contest. Ackermans two-minute video, which received more than 22,000 views on the Acer website, is titled “Acer 8 Saves the World” to creatively show its eight-plus hours of battery life.

“When I found out I won, I began pumping my fists in the air like athletes do when they win a big game,” said Ackermans, who currently works as an office manager for his family’s accounting business. “I must have done it for several minutes and looked like I was impersonating a locomotive. Winning is fun.”

Ackermans will take home a valuable prize package from Acer including a trip for two to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in January, three nights at a top Las Vegas luxury resort hotel, a Lucian Piccard designer wristwatch, $ 1,000 in cash and an Acer Aspire Timeline laptop computer.

How did Ackermans enter? “I found the contest while browsing the internet and thought it would be fun,” he said. “Acer is a quality brand, and I had nothing to lose, so I did it, and it really turned out to be a fun video to make.”

Ackermans winning entry, along with many other videos, will be included in a second phase of the Acer Eight-Hour Contest in categories including Most Viewed on You Tube; Most Promoted; Most Viewer Comments; and Most Favorites. Each category winner will receive prizes including Acer Aspire Timeline laptops, X-Box 360, Xbox Games and 120Gig ZuneMP3 Players, along with additional cash awards. Judging for the second phase of the competition will be done by the world — the internet audience — with the deadline of April 10, 2010.

To view the many creative and entertaining video entries from the Aspire One Video Contest, please visit: acer8hourcontest.com.

Acer’s Aspire Timeline Notebook, a slim (less than one inch thick), cool (an actual five degrees cooler than most notebooks available) and most liberating (with its eight-plus hours of battery life) style.

About Acer

Since its founding in 1976, Acer has pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Globally, Acer ranks top 3 for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer’s continued growth, while the successful acquisitions of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the company’s global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S. and enhancing its strong position in Europe. Acer is proud to be a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Movement in staging the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter and London 2012 Olympic Games. The Acer Group employs more than 6,000 people worldwide. 2008 revenues reached US$ 16.65 billion. See http://www.acer-group.com for more information.

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TenPearls Wins NOKIA 1st Prize for Most Innovative Mobile App

uTrack’s Post-It Wall Allows You to Visualize and Manage Tasks

Herndon, VA (PRWEB) January 6, 2011

Nokia Pakistan awarded TenPearls 1st Prize for its mobile application uTrack in a competition held for the first time in Pakistan with an aim to identify best Local Apps. Nokia awarded the first prize of one million rupees to TenPearls for winning this competition organized for apps that were most relevant to the Pakistan market.

uTrack allows users to get organized with their daily personal and work-related tasks with to-do / post-it virtual walls, allowing users to define and manage tasks through a user-friendly interface. uTrack Pro comes with a number of productivity features providing task organization, scheduling and assignment.

“We evaluated many creative applications submitted for ‘Calling All Innovators Pakistan 2010’ developer competition. Most of the entries received were quite useful and impressive. Selecting a winner was a tough decision for our panel of judges. However, TenPearls’ mobile app, uTrack, stood out as clear leaders in terms of its usability and intelligent integration with smart devices. As facilitators for the developers’ community, Nokia has set higher expectation for TenPearls and we see TenPearls as our long-term partner in various initiatives,” commented Rabia Nizami, Solutions Manager, Nokia, Near East.

“Nokia’s global commitment to foster developers’ community is praise-worthy and extremely helpful in furthering an environment of innovation and entrepreneurship worldwide,” commented Imran Aftab, President of TenPearls. “We are looking forward to building more applications on Nokia’s smart devices and leveraging our relationship for greater business successes,” added Imran.

uTrack Application is available across multiple platforms, and is available for download from Nokia’s OVI store, Apple’s iTunes, and Android Market. The application is soon to be released for Windows Mobile and the Blackberry Playbook. More information on uTrack is available on TenPearls’ uTrack page.

About Nokia

At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.2 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device – from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi, including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia’s NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.

About TenPearls

TenPearls is a privately-held, global application development and technology company helping organizations solve their most pressing challenges. TenPearls’ diverse clientele includes Fortune 2000 corporations and Government agencies to high-growth small and medium-sized businesses to enterprising start-ups. We have successfully delivered mobile platforms, mobile apps, mobile sites, web-based software, and business analytics solutions.

Contact Information:

Nokia Pakistan Mobile (Pvt) Ltd

Adeel Hashmi: +92 -300-211-5227

TENPEARLS

Sid Hansen: +1-703-234-5330

Zeeshan Aftab: +92-21-3432-8447

http://www.tenpearls.com

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