The Apple Core (Free subscription) | yesterday
As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it’s NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can’t be in front of a television. As I’ve I mentioned in the past I’m looking for something to suppliment [...]
Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Nokia recognized exceptional mobile application developers in its 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series program. The developers recognized today for the 2008 Forum Nokia Innovation Series are: Plusmo - Plusmo is a leading provider of standards-based mobile widgets that deliver...
The Web. To Go. (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Over the last several blog posts we’ve been highlighting the many cool and useful features of Plusmo’s Mobile Widgets. We’ve included photos, reviews, and information on how to get Plusmo’s Mobile Widgets on your own phone. We also have a great selection of videos that demonstrate the power and convenience of Plusmo’s Mobile Widgets. For example, [...]
The Web. To Go. (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Following up on our post about Plusmo and the S60 platform, Plusmo has been selected as a featured application by Nokia for its S60 devices. Plusmo brings the power of Mobile Widgets to users of S60 devices, so we are very excited to receive this recognition from Nokia. Stay tuned for more information about our Mobile [...]
The Web. To Go. (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Tomorrow Apple is launching their second generation iPhone, so given all the excitement around the launch we’d like to remind everyone about Plusmo’s exciting offerings for the iPhone. There is no doubt that the iPhone is an exciting mobile phone, media player, and portable computer. The iPhone has great hardware and software, and since all iPhone [...]
The Web. To Go. (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Today Nokia announced that it is creating the Symbian Foundation to unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform (Plusmo is quoted in the Nokia Press Release, which you can find here). Plusmo is a longstanding supporter of the S60 Platform through its S60 Widget Service where S60 [...]
The Web. To Go. (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
What is a Widget? A Widget is a “thin” (in the software sense), intuitive software application that does one task very well (e.g., displays the weather, stock quotes, news, flight status, etc.). (For another definition, please refer to Wikipedia.) The major modern OSes (OS X, Windows, Linux) all offer ‘Desktop Widgets’: What is a [...]
Mobile Insider (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
From the time I first played with mobile widgets Plusmo and WidSets, the format appealed to me as a cool way to organize data sources on a phone. Like their online counterparts, mobile widgets let you skim across a range of data quickly and customize the experience in an attractive way. Take the new version of Zumobi that launched last week. Zumobi is a Windows Mobile widget platform that started at...
Cell Phone Digest (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Want to spice up your cell phone? Then check out Plusmo! Plusmo is free service that lets you run mobile widgets on your phone. Mobile widgets are tiny application (software programs) that offers a much better mobile experience for a specific purpose.
Moco News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Two-year old mobile widget firm Plusmo has raised $4.41 million in its first round of funding led by VC's New Enterprise Associates, reports VentureBeat . The Santa Clara-based firm, started by ex-Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) staff among others, has over 20,000 mobile widgets on its service, and allows users to create ones that aren't available.
Widgets Lab (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Plusmo has enjoyed their “we have 20,000 widgets for iPhone” skit for almost 10 months now. That is not going to last that much longer (thank god) because they finally raised a good funding round for $4.4 Millions and they will use that to get into a post iPhone strategy. Considering that several high end phones like [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Mobile widget creator Plusmo has raised $4.41 million in Series A financing, according to alarm:clock. Launched last year, Plusmo emerged at a high point for newly released mobile widget and mobilization sites. The company has done little to make itself stand out, except for its milestone of 20,000 iPhone widgets. In cornering [...]
arnsteinblogg 2.0 (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Mobile widget creator Plusmo has raised $4.41 million in Series A financing, according to alarm:clock. Launched last year, Plusmo emerged at a high point for newly released mobile widget and mobilization sites. The company has done little to make itself stand out, except for its milestone of 20,000 iPhone widgets. In cornering [...]
alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Santa Clara-based Plusmo has raised $4.41M in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates, says PEhub. Plusmo launched in June 2006 with funding from the founders, several ex-Googlers including Felicis Investors' Aydin Senkut. Last summer, Plusmo launched 20K widgets for the iPhone. By Web widget standards, Plusmo is still not terribly big. Plusmo says they average about 10M mobile page views...
IntoMobile (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Nokia's S60 Web Run Time Widgets platform recently got two important partners - Plusmo and WeatherBug. Plusmo said that it will provide users with instant access to the latest news, sports scores and other Web-based information. A simple UI and one-click access to content, as well as the automatic updates are naturally in the mix, too. On [...]
