Verizon’s made good on its promise to open an Application Innovation Center in San Francisco, and kindly invited us all the way down to have a gander. It’s very like its sister facility in Boston , except it eschews the LTE focus for one on mobile-app innovation. Developers both big and small may be ready to benefit from several labs, where they’ll be aware of Verizon equipment and services “not available elsewhere,” all while being a stone’s throw from Big Red’s in-house engineers and developers. Handy was Qualcomm , whose MDPs garnished the test lab, and Chomp, whose app-search tech powered a majestic nine pane multi-touch App Wall — allowing one to locate and explore apps, replete with informative videos and QR codes for every. Need to know more? Check the gallery, videos and PR after the break.
Myriam Joire contributed to this report.
New Facility Supports Developers and Entrepreneurs Creating Mobile Apps for Consumers and Businesses
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2011 — Verizon today marked the official opening of its Application Innovation Center (AIC) in San Francisco, located near Silicon Valley and shut to a growing nexus of developers within the city. Developers large and small might be invited to apply the applying Innovation Center to create, optimize and varnish their ideas and switch them into viable applications for wireless customers. The collaborative approach is designed to facilitate connections between developers and quite a lot of Verizon partners.
“The work of the appliance Innovation Center is set encouraging and supporting developers who bring new ideas to the table and are creating exciting mobile applications for consumers and businesses,” said Dan Mead, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless. “The appliance Innovation Center is here to check, challenge and make better what our customers will do with their phones and other wireless devices.”
The power is made out of collaborative lab environments, private lab space, demonstration and seminar area and office space for engineers and members of the company’s developer relations team.
Verizon established the applying Innovation Center for developers to work on applications side-by-side with network experts from Verizon. Participants within the Application Innovation Center may have access to Verizon equipment and services not available elsewhere and may have the ability to interact with experts in application development, Web services development, network application programming interfaces (APIs), network performance and business development, all together in a single place.
As component to the applying Innovation Center’s opening day program, Steve Mollenkopf, executive vp and group president at Qualcomm, and Ben Keighran, co-founder and chief executive officer of Chomp, spoke about their companies’ roles and experience with the Verizon Application Innovation Center.
“Innovation is the lifeblood of Qualcomm, and the outlet of Verizon’s Application Innovation Center demonstrates our companies’ unyielding commitment to expanding the mobile ecosystem through creative engineering and enduring collaborations,” said Mollenkopf. “This Center will enable developers seeking to access the foremost advanced mobile technologies to develop, optimize and deliver extraordinary experiences for mobile users.”
“Integrating Verizon’s custom catalog of applications into the Chomp app search engine wasn’t a trivial task,” said Keighran. “The Chomp search engine needed to read details about enormous quantities of apps across multiple storefronts in order that Verizon customers could find exactly what they wanted in seconds. Having developed our app search engine from scratch, we all know that for app search to work it needs to be executed flawlessly. Search is difficult, but working with the Verizon team was incredibly easy. They hurried and were very flexible. Frankly, it was more like working with a nimble start-up than a sizable corporation. The fruit of all that labor is that Chomp is the appropriate matchmaker for Verizon customers seeking the precise app on the lowest price.”
First announced on the Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference in 2009, the San Francisco facility is attached to the recently-opened Verizon LTE Innovation Center, located in Waltham, Mass., as a way to optimize synergies between development activities at each location. The LTE Innovation Center in Massachusetts has spurred development for products, services and solutions starting from home monitoring and control, healthcare, visual collaboration and gaming.
Construction of the applying Innovation Center, located on Spear Street, was completed earlier this summer.
For additional information in regards to the Center visit 1 http://innovation.verizon.com 1 . For additional info about Verizon Wireless and its 4G LTE network, visit 2 www.verizonwireless.com/lte 2 .
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s fastest, most advanced 4G network and biggest, most efficient 3G network. The corporate serves 106.3 million total wireless connections, including 89.7 million retail customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a three way partnership of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: 3 VZ 3 ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For additional info, visit 4 www.verizonwireless.com 4 . To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, go surfing to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at 5 www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia 5 .
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