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This month we had another excellent turnout to see John Lunn from PayPalx tell us about all the new mobile offerings from PayPalx. The video and slide deck are here:

After his presentation John was joined by colleague Anthony Hicks (@anthonyxcom), Jon Nairn (@jonstep, working for @neverodd), Alex Reid (@alexjreid) and Peter Bull (@RoguePlanetoid) for a panel Q&A session.

General points of note from the session and pub discussions:

• Perhaps surprising to some, the iPhone market accounts for a small proportion of mobile devices, and Android mobiles are apparently selling at twice the rate of iPhone.
• iPhone users are generally more comfortable with app purchasing, and represent a more general consumer demographic.
• Submissions and updates are developer-driven for Android, so app deployment can be rapid- especially when compared to Apple’s approval process.
• Development for the less popular platforms may attract incubation or start-up funding.
• Some high-qualify third-party technology exists for integration, e.g. Bump, OpenFeint.
• Commercially, producing good middleware may be a better gamble than a good app.
• Windows Phone 7 Series sounds promising.

Thank you to everybody who attended and James for allowing me to plagiarise his write-up 😉

Last night over 100 people attended SuperMondays and watched two excellent presentations by Alex Reid and Lorna Jane Mitchell.

Alex Reid:

Lorna Jane Mitchell:

Thank you to Alex and Lorna along with our sponsors Northern Film and Media, Sunderland Software City and Newcastle University.

On January 28th CloudSeminar was organised by Arjuna Technologies and sponsored by Northern Net and SuperMondays.

The event was set out in two sessions, these were:

• Session one | The Public Cloud: Microsoft one of the world’s leading cloud providers, talk about the benefits of cloud computing. Discover who is using it and for what – and find out how you too can get started.  Speakers: Steve Caughey (Arjuna) and Simon Davies (architect at Microsoft)
• Session two | The Private Cloud: Sage, Onyx and Arjuna Technologies, talk about their practical experiences of using cloud technology.

We captured most of the event on video. the first few videos are available here:

Steve Caughey from Arjuna:

Simon Davies from Microsoft:

Andy from Onyx:

Mike Goodwin from Sage:

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