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Here we have another installment of our "Overdue Interview Series". Due to BREW, we had to push back the majority of our interviews such as this one. In this interview, we're talking with Mark Jambas, Business Developer over at Shozu. Shozu is a means of managing your online social networking life via your mobile.

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Tags : Jambas, Mark, Shozu, entertainment, mobile, networking, social

mSpot demos its flagship products

quicklybored — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:34:00 GMT

This is the last of our BREW videos. It's been a blast but the show must go on. Here we are learning about all that mSpot has to offer. Their flagship product, Make-UR-Tones, won them best up and coming application. In this video, we're talking with Brent Sharpless, VP of Business Development.

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Tags : 2008, brew, mobile, mspot, radio, ringtones

Aces of the Luftwaffe Trailer

quicklybored — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:36:01 GMT

Not many mobile games come out with motion-picture type trailers but HandyGames' latest game Aces of the Luftwaffe has one. Check out their dramatic and epic trailer!

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Tags : aces, games, handygames, luftwaffe, mobile, of, the, trailer

Stephen Cheng Demos Alchemo

quicklybored — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:20:01 GMT

Stephen Cheng, CEO of Innaworks, sits with me and demos their porting tool Alchemo that ports Java to BREW or iPhone. Here is what their website says about alcheMo:alcheMo is a revolutionary automated system to instantly port a standards compliant J2ME application to native platforms such as iPhone and BREW. alcheMo enables simultaneous multi-platform development with a single code base and a single development team, while eliminating the difficulties of manual porting. alcheMo today powers critical applications such as mobile banking and health management produced by Tier 1 content providers. alcheMo is also the undoubted market leader in the mobile game industry, counting top 10 US mobile game publishers including Vivendi, Glu, Hands-On and I-Play amongst its customers

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Tags : BREW, Cheng, Java, Stephen, alcheMo, porting, solution

Matthew Bellows puts together a good panel

quicklybored — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:02 GMT

This will be one of the last BREW videos, so we decided to go for the longest embedded video on a website, ever. Today's video is 45 minutes of Matthew Bellows' innovative panel discussion "Networked Games: It's Not Easy, But It's Possible". The panel was set up as a networked game and it worked. We had little communities set up where everyone in the community had a different role. Your job might be to push the discussion forward, keep it on track or be a little tangential. In the end, you collect points for doing your job and redeem them at the end for an amazing prize: a sticker. Matt said he was considering a better prize and I'm still wondering where it went. Bentley maybe?

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Tags : Bellows, Matthew, Vivox, discussion, games, mobile, panel

Bowling with I-Play executives is way more fun than it sounds

quicklybored — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:36:05 GMT

We're just putting up the last of our BREW 2008 videos. In this video we go bowling with I-Play's Anders Evju and John Grotland. This was at the end of a long interview we did with them that was incredibly interesting and we'd love to share it with you except the laptop we were recording on went ka-poot. So instead, he we are playing their bowling game. Enjoy!

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Tags : bowling, brew, games, iplay, mobile

Glu's White House Rumble - Get your punch on

quicklybored — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:02:05 GMT

Ever wanted to punch Al Gore right in his tree-hugging grill? What about delivering a crippling right hook right to G.W.? I dream about it almost on the daily. So for all of us rage-aholics, Glu has released the awesome mobile game White House Rumble. It's basically Super KO Boxing part deux and features all the best White House characters. Watch out for Cheney, he's been hunting!

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Tags : bush, face, house, punch, rumble, white

IUGO demos a sweet FPS at BREW 2008

quicklybored — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:53:04 GMT

Here we are playing a sweet FPS developed for the iPhone by IUGO. The game is really easy to use but the controls are uber sensitive. One of the beauties of this game is when you enter a room with an enemy, you automatically lock on and you just have to tap the screen to begin destroying it. Also, once locked on to an enemy, you tilt left and right to strafe around. Easy no?

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Tags : demo, games, iphone, iugo, mobile

Sonic Olympic games at their BREW 2008 booth

quicklybored — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:02:01 GMT

Here I am playing Sega's latest in the Sonic franchise at Sega's booth at BREW 2008. The game has simple controls and involves pressing one button to hit your targets and then up to jump. It took me a little while to figure out the "up" part so I was really terrible at the game. Even after I figured it out, I didn't realize you had to keep pressing it. So all in all, the game was good and simple, but I could have done with a "PRESS UP IDIOT!" warning on the screen.

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Tags : games, hedgehog, mobile, sega, sonic

Glu's Super Slam Ping Pong rules!

quicklybored — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:54:12 GMT

We went over to the Glu booth to say "what's up" and ask what's new from the mobile gaming geniuses. Their boy Kevin just looked at me with a kind of "oh, you haven't heard?" look and whipped out this little number. Super Slam Ping Pong takes after Super KO Boxing, marketing and strategy wise with its catchy name and pattern-style gaming. Just like Super KO, the characters all have tells, the graphics are beautiful, the gaming is amazing and I'm once again impressed. Nice work guys!

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Tags : boxing, brew, games, glu, ko, mobile, super

GestureTek at BREW 2008

quicklybored — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:13:05 GMT

Here I am at the GestureTek booth with Ed Fowler and Adam Schlegel. First, Ed shows off their super cool fitness game. The game recognizes how well you're doing your squats and allocates points accordingly. What good parent wouldn't buy this mobile game for their kid? After that we play some bowling, GestureTek style. The controls are really easy and feel just like bowling, without the heavy ball. Next we try Crash Bandicoot which is also really fun. You use the camera technology to drive a sled down the hill and collect points. Super hard but super awesome. Enjoy!

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Tags : brew, fun, games, gesturetek, mobile

Qualcomm hires beard developer

quicklybored — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:15:02 GMT

I didn't even know there was such a job as a Beard Developer but this guy clearly knows his stuff. Qualcomm has gone on a spree of Beard Developer hirings because it's been seen as a corporation with not even facial hair. In the future, we'll start seeing "Net Facial Hair" or NFH, appear on the accounting sheets. Until then, lets just make stupid videos.

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Tags : beards, mobile, qualcomm

mSpot wins best up and coming company

quicklybored — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:56:02 GMT

Guess whose sponsor won best up and coming company? QuicklyBored's that's whose! mSpot's Make-UR-Tones product, which allows you to make your own ringtones 100% legally, helped define them as innovators at the show. In this video, we start with the opening band at the awards which reminded me of The Strokes, if they were 40 years older. The audio isn't great but you get the idea. They won. It's amazing. I'm out.

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Tags : awards, mobile, mspot, ringtones

IUGO demos its iPhone sandbox game at BREW 2008

quicklybored — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:07:09 GMT

IUGO is easily one of our favorite mobile game companies. Their CEO used to be a scientist working on virtual reality and he once stared directly into a giant frickin' laser beam. Also, their business development girl Sarah, has easily the coolest tattoo: Dark Side on her knuckles. We caught up with them at BREW and their boy Daniel showed me their 3D engine and some physics on the iPhone with a sandbox game. It's pretty cool and definitely has potential as more than a demo. I could see myself whipping this out and playing it while waiting for the bus. Can't you?More from IUGO and BREW 2008 to come!

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Tags : BREW, games, mobile

The QuicklyBored Podcast - Episode 27 - May 29,2008: BREW Exhibitor Spotlight - GestureTek

quicklybored — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:38:00 GMT

So here we are at BREW 2008 and tomorrow we'll be all over the place doing interviews. We haven't had much time to be posting content because of the conference but here is the next in our line of BREW Exhibitor Spotlights. Ed Fowler is the general manager for GestureTek mobile worldwide. On today's podcast, we talk about GestureTek's innovative technology. The possibilities are endless!

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Tags : applications, gesturetek, innovation, mobile