Congratulations to Rhomobile! InfoWorld has chosen Rhomobile Rhodes for a 2012 Technology of the Year Award. The Rhodes framework allows developers to more easily build mobile apps for Android, IOS, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry devices.
This award is just the latest triumph for Rhomobile. After joining forces with LMGPR in early 2011, the momentum began to build with dozens of media placements including Forbes and Bloomberg News West. The momentum culminated with Motorola Solutions acquiring Rhomobile in October 2011. Now a new year is here and Rhomobile continues to move forward with this InfoWorld award.
We take great satisfaction in seeing Rhomobile continue to garner the accolades it deserves and are proud to have worked closely with Rhomobile to get to this point.
been the year for technology, social media and mobility. New gadgets made their debut, social sites hit record numbers of users and the largest amounts of data and traffic were recorded. For all this developments to take place, many teams of geeks had to put their heads together to come up with clever and sophisticated campaigns. The following are these creative campaigns, listed by quarters.
In the first few months of 2010 we saw an increase of interest from many consumer and enterprise companies in implementing a social media programs. Social media has proven to be of high value to many businesses and entrepreneurs. This led to Google’s launch of Buzz, a networking tool that promised to displace Twitter, but didn’t follow through growth. Location based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, began gaining a positive momentum in these first few months. Worpress proved to be the leader as the blog platform of choice, while Justin Bieber was a regular top trending topic on Twitter, showing signs of his future dominance as the 
active users, Facebook launched the “like” button social plug in, which rapidly spread throughout websites. YouTube exceeded 2 billion views a day and decided to also incorporate the “like” button on each of their videos. Meanwhile, people started raising security concerns on Facebook and other sites, which put Facebook in a controlled PR moment.
We saw the success of the viral “Old Spice Guy” campaign, which began on YouTube and earned hundreds of thousands of views within a few days. Apple, realizing the importance of social networks, launched Ping, which didn’t catch much buzz, but is still striving to survive. By this time Facebook hit a new record of subscribers with 500 million. This news confirmed a direct battle against Google on the domination of the online space. This came along the realization that 
run by expanding user’s time and shortening the wait time for a query by 2 – 5 seconds. Meanwhile, the soccer World Cup took over the media and out came the vuvuzelas, even made into a YouTube button. November and December marked the months for “internet freedom,” after Wikileaks revealed classified government secret documents. Cyber security was a big concern throughout 2010, but particularly these months after an anonymous group launched DDoS attacks on companies that bailed on Wikileaks. Finally, the year couldn’t end without mention of the Angry Birds fever. People discovered the addictive pleasures of pitting Angry Birds against smug snickering pigs so much that the social game was made into a Play Station and PSP game.
Our client Phone Halo has once again scored a huge hit! The Cobra Phone Tag, which features Phone Halo technology, was featured today on the nationally televised show Live! With Regis and Kelly with an audience of over 3 million people. Tech guru, Leo Laporte, included the Cobra Phone Tag in his segment on the hottest products featured at CES earlier this month. Leo explained the functionality of the product and how it enables your smartphone to help you find your keys, luggage and other valuables and how the tag on these valuables can help you find your smartphone.
landscape has altered the way that people collaborate, communicate and coordinate with each other and the world they inhabit. Mobile technology has influenced western countries for years, but it’s in places like North Africa where it has had the greatest social impact. It is as our basic understanding of modern North Africa has changed, that we have been reminded of the evolving nature of our own world. No longer can mass killings be carried out in relative obscurity without the knowledge of the global community and no longer can governors pass unjust laws without strong and organized opposition. As we have seen in Egypt and in Libya, totalitarian governments will still try their best to silence their opposition both virtually and physically, but only with limited success.
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By Michael Erwin
