ScanBizCards Business Card Reader Announces the Availability of a Manual Transcription Option for Business Cards on iOS and Android Mobile Devices

New York, New York (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

ScanBiz Mobile Solutions today announced the availability of an option to submit business cards for manual transcription in both the iPhone and Android versions of the application. While ScanBizCards' normal operation remains scanning card images using OCR technology within seconds on the phone, manual transcription meets the needs of some business professionals who prefer 100% accuracy every time through human verification. The manual transcription option carries an additional modest fee.

Unlike some other manual transcription apps, ScanBizCards uses an in-house dedicated transcription team - not the Amazon Mechanical Turk service - for increased privacy, more accurate results and much faster completion time. While ScanBizCards just became the best manual transcription option on iOS devices, it is the only transcription option currently available on Android phones and tablets. All manually transcribed cards appear in the same digital rolodex as other scanned cards, and all of ScanBizCards 32 advanced management and networking features are available for manually transcribed cards. In addition, all cards are accessible in real time from any browser in the user's ScanBizCards Web Sync account.

ScanBizCards is unlike any other business card reader with features usually reserved for full-blown, expensive enterprise CRM applications. Built specifically for the networked web, ScanBizCards 3.11 boasts new features that turn the iPhone into a powerful contact relationship management device. Support is available for scanning cards in 22 languages: Czech, Danish, English, German, Greek, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Simply snapping a picture of a business card effortlessly adds its information to contacts, then enables a series of actions to follow-up, connect and forward the cards information to colleagues and partners through multiple web and mobile channels.

Exporting options include a direct export into Salesforce.com or Daylite CRM as well as exporting into an Excel CSV for integration with other CRM apps or apps such as Constant Contact, or exporting contacts to Data.com (Jigsaw) and Evernote. ScanBizCards is also the only iPhone scanning application with real-time backup of cards to the cloud, synchronization of cards across multiple devices as well as a web-based application to manage cards from any browser.

ScanBizCards is also a full desktop scanning solution enabling the upload of card images from a flatbed scanner for scanning online - all fully synchronized with iOS and Android devices, allowing office workers to share cards in real time with a mobile workforce. ScanBizCards turns business cards (or any image) into opportunities by putting a powerful mobile contact, social networking and calendar management system in the palm of your hand.

As ScanBizCards evolved into an increasingly powerful and complex card management tool used on multiple mobile devices as well as the desktop, the volume of cards scanned by many users kept increasing and it became evident that offering a manual transcription option was necessary to meet the needs of some users. Delivering that functionality enable access to all 32 extended ScanBizCards features to a new set of business cards power users," says Patrick Questembert, Co-Founder, ScanBiz Mobile Solutions.

Device Requirements:

iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad or Android 2.0 devices or above
Note: the iPad 2 and iPod Touch cameras are not sufficient for good photos of business cards. Using the application on these devices requires importing photos from another device.

Pricing and Availability: ScanBizCards Business Card Reader is $ 6.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) for the iPhone and iOS devices, and $ 4.99 for the Android version. The manual transcription option is an additional $ 0.18/card.

For more information visit http://www.scanbizcards.com

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Mobile Social Fashion App Snapette Announces $1.3M Seed Funding

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2011

Snapette Inc., the startup behind the iPhone application that enables fashion-savvy women to discover and share in-store products by location, today announced they have raised $ 1.3 million in seed funding. Investors in this round include leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms and strategic angels including Brian Lee, the Founder/CEO of Shoedazzle.

Snapette, founded by Harvard grads Jinhee Ahn Kim and Sarah Paiji, just completed super angel Dave McClures 500 Startups accelerator program in Silicon Valley.

This round brings total capital raised by Snapette to $ 1.5 million. The Company will utilize the funds to expand its management team, launch its service across multiple platforms, and incorporate social commerce capabilities.

The future of shopping and commerce is all about Discovery rather than Search. We are building Snapette from the ground up to lead this movement, said Paiji.

We are excited to have secured the support of world caliber investors and advisors to help us move Snapette to the forefront of social commerce, added Kim.

Snapette is the first mobile application that lets fashion-conscious users to browse products near their current location, allowing them to easily see what shoes, bags and accessories are in nearby stores right now. Fashionistas can also see what brands and items are trending globally, viewing what users around the world are sharing from their favorite stores in real time.

Users launch Snapette from their mobile devices, and are immediately connected to products through social features and crowd-sourced photos and descriptions that others around the globe have shared. Users can search by brand, store or description, or by whats New, Near and Hot. Through Snapette, users can share photos and comments with other users as well as follow their favorite contributors. Snapette also provides feeds from featured boutiques as well as fashion experts.

Snapette has been featured by Apple on iTunes AppStore in the U.S. and across the world, in New and Noteworthy, Whats Hot as well as Staff Favorites categories. Snapette currently has users in over 130 countries.

Snapette will be releasing its app across multiple platforms including the iPad, Android and Windows Phone. The Company will also significantly expand functions available over its website and over social networks.

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Hardcore Hackers Band Together, Create Advanced Mobile Crash Reporting Company Crashlytics, Raise $1M

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) October 13, 2011

Crashlytics, Inc today announced it has raised $ 1M in Series Seed funding. Crashlytics is building the most powerful yet lightest-weight crash reporting solution to give mobile developers visibility into their apps performance.

When it comes to mobile application stability, developers have no real visibility into how their apps perform in customers hands. Some developers have built ad-hoc solutions only to find themselves overwhelmed with a vast amount of data and a sheer lack of insights. Crashlytics solves these problems, providing developers with detailed diagnostics about every issue, securely and in real-time, including the exact line number of code that the app crashed on.

Due to mobile device capacity and network constraints, mobile developers are sensitive when it comes to the download size of their apps. Crashlytics is lightweight. The footprint to integrate Crashlytics into an app is about 75KB -- far less than the size of the average SDK, which can be 10 to 70 times heavier. Also, unlike some ad-hoc solutions, Crashlytics does not require the developer to ship bloated debug builds of their apps, which adds significantly to the download size.

Crashlytics initially supports iOS, with Android support on the way. It is currently in beta.

Crashlytics sets the bar high for iOS components. It was ridiculously easy to integrate, said Jeff Powers, cofounder and CEO of Occipital, the creator of 360 Panorama and RedLaser. We plan to follow their lead when we release our own components in the future.

"Crashlytics is lightweight," said David Chang, COO at Where, a PayPal company. "It provides deeper insights beyond just pure crash reports. And it does all this without adding baggage to the apps."

"I was actually laughing the whole time while installing it because of how easy it is to implement," said Ehab Abdou, Lead iOS Developer for Massive Damage, a leading mobile game company. "Crashlytics did a really great job making it this easy."

Crashlytics tracks and identifies crashes, allowing us to greatly improve the user experience, said Mark Bao of Hacker News HD, Crashlytics isn't just easy -- it delivers real and actionable results.

Crashlytics was founded by Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, both serial entrepreneurs. Seibert most-recently co-founded Increo Solutions, Inc., which was acquired by Box.net in 2009. Seibert has spent 13 years developing for - and dissecting - Apple operating systems. He also worked for Apple, contributing to multiple projects there. Seibert is a Computer Science graduate from Stanford University and a 2007 Mayfield Fellow.

Co-founder Wayne Chang is also a hacker and has built tools used by millions. Among other startups and projects, Wayne founded i2hub, a popular file sharing company, in the mid-2000's. Wayne is also an active angel investor, a mentor at TechStars, and serves as an advisor to startups.

Given Jeff and Waynes pedigrees and their vision for Crashlytics, we jumped to work with them," said David Aronoff, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. "They get it."

"When I saw the way Crashlytics was approaching the problem, it reminded me of the focus and attention to the user experience that Heroku had," said Steve Anderson, founder of Baseline Ventures that is also a key early investor in Heroku. "Its easy and powerful at the same time."

Investment firms Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures led the round. Angel investors include David Chang (COO at Where, a PayPal company), Lars Albright (cofounder of Quattro, now Apple iAds), Chris Sheehan (Managing Partner at CommonAngels), Ty Danco (Founder, eSecLending and FX Aligned), Jennifer Lum (former VP at Quattro, now Apple iAds), Roy Rodenstein (founder of Going.com and a former Director of Business Planning at AOL), Joe Caruso (Managing Partner at Bantam Group), and others.

For more information about Crashlytics, visit http://www.crashlytics.com.

About Flybridge Capital Partners - http://www.flybridge.com

Flybridge Capital Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm whose mission is to assist entrepreneurs in growing innovative, global companies. With $ 560 million under management, the firm is focused on investing in consumer, energy, healthcare and information technology markets and is led by a team with domain expertise and more than half a century of combined experience in venture capital.

About Baseline Ventures - http://www.baselinev.com

Baseline Ventures is a seed-stage capital firm founded by Steve Anderson in late 2006. Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas into companies. Since its inception, Baseline is proud to have backed over 30 founding teams in promising software and web companies including Rupture (acquired by EA), Mixer Labs (acquired by Twitter), Sendori (acquired by Ask.com), Parakey (acquired by Facebook), Haute Secure (acquired by Truste), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google), Twitter and Trialpay.

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Pittcon 2012 Launches Intuitive EventPilot Mobile Conference App

Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

The Pittcon 2012 Marketing Committee is pleased to release its official Conference and Exposition Smartphone App, Pittcon 2012. The app will be available for use on iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones, Android tablets, and all other Web enabled devices with access before, during, and after the Conference. California-based ATIV Software developed the Pittcon mobile conference app and was built on its latest mobile platform release EventPilot 5.0, which takes native event apps to the next level. This years enhanced application allows you to build an agenda and provides intuitive navigation of extensive conference and exposition information, real-time updates, and networking capabilities.

The Pittcon 2012 App is free and can be downloaded directly by clicking here or from pittcon.org

Pittcons web-based Agenda Builder will continue to be available; however, any agenda created in either the mobile app or Agenda Builder cannot be transferred or will be accessible outside of the application in which it was created.

Instead of digging through heavy paper brochures or getting frustrated with slow content access, the EventPilot Pittcon event app is designed with the needs of the conference goer in mind, said Eric Converse, CTO, ATIV Software. Pittcon offers its conference and expo attendees an exceptional educational experience, and with EventPilot, the organization is helping them make the most out of it.

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DocLanding Goes Mobile with New iPhone App

Omaha, Nebraska (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

DocLanding, the leading innovator in cloud document management, today announced the release of DocLanding Mobile, an app that allows iPhone users to easily access files and collaborate on projects.

"Finally iPhone users have an app that allows them to quickly store, search and share documents in a secure environment," DocLanding CEO Timothy Campbell said. "Now you don't have to wait to capture and store a receipt or immediately share an idea. The wait while you power up your laptop, login and find the document you need, is over. DocLanding Mobile allows you to access all of your digital content from your iPhone. The whole process can be done in seconds."

The iPhone app, available free through iTunes, is just the latest indication that the Omaha-based company is becoming an aggressive player in the cloud-based content market.

"It just makes sense to use what we learned on the enterprise side and bring it to the businesses and consumers who have a daily need to collaborate on projects and access documents, but don't have huge IT budgets," Campbell said. "We feel that we fill a gap in the market for those people who want an affordable option for easily storing and sharing documents without worrying about security."

Thirteen million files have been stored on DocLanding's US-based private cloud and the company's clients include thousands of independent users along with city and county governments, rail, medical and financial services firms.

The app announced today brings the power of DocLanding to mobile Apple devices. The "Mobile Preview" feature allows users to view numerous file types right from an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. From the preview screen, DocLanding Mobile users can print wirelessly to AirPrint enabled printers, bookmark pages and email documents. The "Recently Added Files" feature provides a quick snapshot of new content.

"DocLanding Mobile means I don't have to remember to do things later," Campbell said. "I can answer emails immediately, capture my ideas, upload them to DocLanding and sync them with my PC. I can take care of almost all of my business right from my iPhone."

DocLanding is privately held and based in Omaha, Nebraska. For more information about DocLanding go to http://www.doclanding.com.

DOCenter, DocLanding, DOCenter, DocLanding Desktop, DocLanding Sync, DocLanding Mobile product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of DOCenter, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective holders.

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