Alltel Wireless Taps Grio for Website Development

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Allied Wireless (Alltel) has selected Grio to create its web presence that includes the alltelwireless.com <http://www.alltelwireless.com> consumer website as well as Alltel’s corporate intranet website.

Grio is assisting Alltel in various technical areas ranging from architectural recommendations to service integrations with Alltel's internal systems. Grio is providing software development resources for the creation and maintenance of Alltel’s website properties and content management systems.

Allied Wireless Communications Corporation is a wireless telecommunications provider based in Little Rock, Arkansas. It currently serves approximately one million subscribers in six states – Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Ohio and Idaho. 

 

 

Game Developers Conference 2011 with Schedule Builder powered by Grio

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This year's Game Developers Converence® (GDC) will take place from Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2011 in Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. Grio developed and maintains Schedule Builder, Schedule Build Mobile (enhanced for Blackberry devices and iPhones) and Vault for GDC. 

The GDC is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.

The GDC attracts over 17,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. The GDC is produced by the Think Services Game Group, a division of United Business Media.

vChatter Dials up Grio for Software Help

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vChatter has selected Grio to help enhance its Internet audio-visual communication tools and platforms. These tools provide video-chat capabilities and other features to the public via Facebook and other social networks. vChatter is the largest video chat service on Facebook with over 2 Million users and over 25 Million calls established. It provides a fun, casual and comfortable environment to discover new people and develop meaningful relationships.

In this collaboration, Grio team will provide engineering expertise and support for custom software development, recommendations for software design and architecture improvement and optimization.

Which is the best Enterprise CMS?

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I’m am working on a project currently that is leveraging an Enterprise CMS. At the outset, I did an analysis of existing CMS systems to select the one that best fit our clients needs. That turned out to be Magnolia (www.magnolia-cms.com).

However, another one of our clients is using the Alfresco CMS for their business. I reviewed it over the weekend and was impressed by the slick and intuitive user interface. The creators of Alfresco come from Documentum and Interwoven.

Three OCR Software Vendors Compared

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I recently evaluated three vendors of OCR technology for a C# .NET desktop app. Basically the software needed to accurately read and report the results of scanned “bubble” tests – the kind that you took as a kid for your Iowa tests (yes I’m from the midwest) and SAT’s. In addition to reading bubbles, the software needed to accurately read barcodes, OCR or printed characters (the test takers name) and ICR or hand-written characters (for hand-written answers).

The North Face Micro Sites Go Live

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The North Face has recently released several micro-sites that celebrate top-notch athletes' accomplishments in their respective sports. Grio is proud to be part of the team that helped turning attractive and stunning graphical designs into live interactive sites. Check them out and enjoy!!!

http://www.thenorthface.com/en_US/brand/snowsports

http://www.thenorthface.com/en_US/brand/running

http://www.thenorthface.com/en_US/brand/biking

http://www.thenorthface.com/en_US/brand/climbing

Playing Video File from Limelight Secured URL

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We worked on a project that utilized 360° panorama viewer, called PanoSalado, and ran into an issue with streaming video from Limelight, a popular CDN service.

PanoSalado renders one more more video sources by capturing the bitmaps and laying them “flat” allowing user to pan and zoom. For this project, our video source (encapsulated by a class called VideoSource) contains an instance of FLVPlayback. This is a standard Flash class for playing flv videos. To use it to play an flv file, one can simply call its load function.

My First Facebook Development Journey: Extended Permissions, FB AS 3.0 Client Library, and Application Tabs

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On a recent project, I had to create a Facebook Flash
application where the application will live in a Facebook application tab on a
fan page. The whole Facebook application development was very new to me. During
that time, because it was a Flash application, it seemed the most sense was to
use the Facebook and Adobe supported Facebook AS 3.0 client library which can
be found here.

Papervision Wish List

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I’ve been using Papervision 2.0 for several months now, and while I’ve been able to get it to do most of what I want it to, it has been a tedious journey. If I were to do this project over again, I’m not sure I would choose Papervision, unless they make some improvements.

I’ve put together a short wish list of things I’d like to see done to Papervision:

Kenmore Live Studio FaceBook Application Released

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Grio, in partnership with Fluid, have released a Facebook application where fans of Kenmore can go to interact with Kenmore's Live Studio event. Kenmore's Live Studio contains a live video feed of special events, rsvp to these special events, watch past events, and chat with other Kenmore fans. 
The application was built using Adobe Flex, PHP and hooks into the Facebook API, the YouTube API (data and video) and Twitter API.