Archive for the "Android" Category

Outblaze sends Android tablets to school in mountains of Nepal

Outblaze has donated a shipment of low-cost Android tablets, apps, SD cards, notebooks, writing tools and other supplies to the Sundardevi Lower Secondary, a school for about 170 students in Tame village in the mountainous Nuwakot district of Nepal (see Nepal Green Tara Foundation). This required us to overcome a number of challenges. Here at […]

ThinkBlaze launches with study on low-cost tablets for the classroom

    ThinkBlaze is a project we’ve been working on the last few months; it is a research and idea generation organization backed by Outblaze – an Outblaze think tank, in other words. Today ThinkBlaze has issued its first work, a study titled “Does the Learning Medium Matter?” It looks at the impact of low-cost tablets on children […]

Android Tablets for Education – delivered

Chan’s Creative School has received the 50 Android tablets donated by Outblaze and Animoca in a social programme designed to reduce the digital divide and assess the impact of tablet devices in the learning environment. Outblaze and Animoca believe that all children should receive exposure to mobile computing in the classroom in order to enjoy the learning and economic opportunities […]

It's an Android world

Animoca’s recent updates have caused somewhat of a furore in the mobile industry, as PocketGamer.biz reports. Below is the original photograph, titled “All the Myriad Androids,” which triggered the discussion: Animoca issued a reply in a lengthy follow-up post titled “The Varieties of Android Experience“, explaining its point of view on Android fragmentation, QA methods, […]

Animoca's rebuttal to claims of an Android decline

Animoca has posted a rebuttal of claims that appeared on TechCrunch about some sort of Google Android decline. Apparently,  Android as a mobile OS was thought to be on its last legs until Animoca swooped in and set the record straight in a post titled Hey TechCrunch: what Android decline? Animoca starts in a pleasantly lyrical […]

A suggestion to improve app discovery

Animoca proposes a tweak to smartphone app stores which may yield improvements in app discovery: a toggle on the top charts that hides apps you have already installed. Read all about it on the Animoca blog post.

Animoca recent mobile app releases (2011.10.07)

Enjoy this week’s installment in the “recent app releases” series, showcasing  the latest apps by Outblaze and Animoca.   New Apps Pretty Pet Cinema on iOS (free) The Pretty Pet series continues its inexorable march towards utter world domination with this latest game, in which the popular Cuby needs your help to distribute tickets, snacks […]

Animoca recent mobile app releases (2011.09.30)

Continuing our “recent app releases” series, here are the latest digital goods brought to you by Outblaze and Animoca. New Apps Pretty Pet Pony on iOS (free) Mixing strategic time management with pony races and customization, the newest installment in the Pretty Pet series  is highly addictive and very, very cute. The classic pet grooming that made the […]

Coverage of Outblaze business on Inside Mobile Apps

Inside Mobile Apps revisits Outblaze to catch up with the booming app business. Especially worthy of note is the 30 million install milestone, and the observations on iOS and Android environments. Extract: Outblaze, a Hong Kong developer with an unusual strategy of launching as many as two to three games per week, says it has […]