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What does it take to make a mobile game? Well, for the most experienced team of game designers and developers it can be a daunting task but what if you’ve never done it before? Enter Adam Kahn, Creative Director of CBLabs, makers of The Adventures of Timmy. This is a great story about how and [...]

Is the biggest misconception that search is a mature industry that has already been won by the big guys at Google and Bing? Have developers and innovators handed over the keys to these companies before even trying anything new? I suppose if you think of the way we currently use the Internet and mobile to [...]

Massively multi-player online games were once a stationary, sedentary act. Players would sit at a computer and interact with each other over the bitsphere and activity was limited to the big screen. Not anymore. I asked Darren Pye, CEO of Going AFK (an Ottawa, Canada company), to come on to UNTETHER.tv to talk about the [...]

Mobile photo sharing applications have emerged and has now become a very competitive and highly contested space. So what does it take to rise above the competition when, seemingly, there is a new entrant every week? I originally invited Vic Singh, founder of Tracks – a social photo application, on to UNTETHER.tv to discuss his [...]

How do you build an app that allows customers to order pizza from a smartphone? Seems simple doesn’t it? Crust, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, box it and deliver. Throw that functionality on an iPhone. Done. If only it were that simple. In this episode, Melody Adhami, COO and co-founder (and Queen of Apps) of Plastic Mobile, [...]

How important is UI design. Well, if you are competing in the smartphone/tablet world it supersedes even the hardware configurations – something that Apple breaths to their core and other companies are starting to make advances in. What does it take to build something that is easy to use, functional and, well, pretty to look [...]

What’s the difference between a funded mobile company and a bootstrapped one? Fundamentally, not much except for one clear and very important feature: The business model – more specifically, the revenue model. This is my second episode with Matthew Formica of MFSoftware – the last being just about a year ago right after he launched [...]

How does a mobile applications development company grow from 3 partners 18 months ago to over 100 employees today with a vision of 200 in the near future – all without a stitch of financing? This is exactly what Mutual Mobile has done while working with some of the largest brands in the world including [...]

The iPad, and tablets in general, have only been around for less than a year but the impact they are having on industry is broad and widespread and every industry seems to be embracing their capabilities. Including doctors and physical therapists. Is this trend in medical mobile applications on the iPad a sign of things [...]

Here’s a great story – and not because they are an Ottawa-based company – but because they have managed to do something that many more established companies have not been able to do and that is to penetrate the health care system and change the way they use technology. Select Start Studios is a small [...]

It’s great to see the more established companies simplifying their offerings – and even their messaging – to ease mobile into the enterprise. Deploy Happiness – that’s the new tagline for Antenna Software and as Jim Somers, the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer for the company tells us, it is a delicate tension that needs [...]

Open data is, rightfully so, a movement that is gaining massive momentum and we all know why – data wants to be free, it wants to be used and it is at its greatest value as a layer out in the open. My city, the city of Ottawa (Canada) is one of a handful of [...]