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QBurst Technologies have once again proved the expertise in delivering exceptional quality services in the latest technology market. Smarttouch mobile Inc, the pioneers in the field of high-end mobility services, launches the Shorthand SMS browser in India partnering with Shorthandmobile India, which enables users to access web content from their mobile phones through sending text SMS. The main highlight of this service is that it does not require a data plan. QBurst backs this initiative of Shorthand mobile, by providing Application support in the server side and responsibly maintaining the portal of Shorthandmobile (India); www.shorthandmobile.com .
QBurst launches theapps.mobi, a searchable directory of iPhone apps ranging from Education, Business and Entertainment to Travel, Weather and Lifestyle. Theapps.mobi provides a user friendly interface to browse through the app catalog and incorporates powerful search features. You no longer need to install iTunes to browse the Apple store. If you are an iPhone app developer, our site helps users discover your app through Internet search engines. The site runs on Google's App Engine platform.
UK based InnovativeIT engaged QBurst to develop a mobile version of their company web site http://innovativeit.co.uk optimized for smart phones. Their regular website was developed on CMS Made Simple platform. QBurst created a fast loading mobile version mobile.innovativeit.co.uk by using CMS Made Simple for content management. InnovativeIT has now engaged QBurst to develop mobile versions of sites http://creativeit.tv/ and http://creativeit.fr/.
Singapore based Innodeas engages QBurst to develop a mobile trip logging application on Symbian. QBurst will use Java for ME to develop this application. J4ME will be used instead of LCDUI as J4ME's UI is professional looking and intuitive.
QBurst starts test automation project for webs. webs (formerly freewebs) offers free website building tools and hosting space for individuals, groups and small businesses to make free websites. webs hosts more than 20 million sites. QBurst will help webs automate testing using the open-source Selenium framework. The goal is to speed up regression testing by reducing the need for manual validation.
QBurst has successfully developed netsolpartnerships.com for Network Solutions. This site aims at pooling together a group of industry leaders from various segments through partnerships in order to collectively provide all customers (Network Solutions' and those of their partners) with tools needed to achieve business success. The site was created using Wordpress.
QBurst has successfully completed the Internjobs project for Network Solutions. Through Internjobs, Network Solutions offers full time summer internships to students pursuing degrees in various disciplines. Students are exposed to live projects that help them gain work experience to pursue their academic pursuits. Internjob particulars are provided in the Career pages of Network Solutions. The pages were developed using PHP/MySQL.
GrowSmartBusiness a survey site from Network Solutions to capture small business success index, goes live. QBurst took only two weeks to build this site (from conception to go-live). It includes a blog, document repository and a survey. The site was built by customizing Wordpress.
S3 CRM shorlisted for best startup by Yorkshire Insider: S3 CRM is a SaaS product developed by QBurst for Tierlinear, UK. S3 CRM enables small business owners to leverage the power of the SaaS model. It provides a host of powerful features like document management, project management, task tracking email marketing, customer management, quotations, invoicing etc. With S3, business owners do not have to invest in servers or backup equipments or system administration. They can use the system on a pay-as-you-go basis by paying a small monthly fee.
Utharadesam, a Malayalam daily with large readership in North Kerala and Gulf countries, launches its online edition utharadesamonline.com. QBurst used Drupal to develop this Malayalam language site.
Network Solutions engages QBurst to develop a new website that tracks small business performance index. The site will be developed using WordPress and will feature small business news, blog posts, research documents, RSS feeds, poll and a survey. Small business owners can participate in the survey and then find out how they are doing viz-a-viz their peers in the same vertical. The go-live date is just a week away on March 6th.
QBurst has successfully completed the edocr API project. edocr is the leading document sharing website on the Internet. Now your applications can interact with edocr to find, read and store documents. You can get an API key from http://www.edocr.com/api/services. QBurst has implemented OAuth for allowing secure API authorization to edocr.
The Crickees Tournament Hosting platform is being used to host the Technopark cricket tournament 2008-09 online. Following its success, the platform is set to host the 14th Celestial Trophy cricket tournament 2009. The Crickees Cricket Tournament Hosting platform provides details regarding match schedules, results, stats, and scorecards of the tournament. Additionally, tournament updates can be posted online for the convenience of the participating teams and the specatators to keep abreast of the tournament progress.
DesigNET, a company based in Massachusetts, USA, has engaged QBurst to create a data warehouse and Business Intelligence application to capture and analyze call-detail-records from video-conference calls. The goal is to create a product that will help large enterprises realize maximum return from their investments in video conferencing systems. The QBurst team will build a warehouse of call-detail-records and use BI tools like Pentaho or Talend to analyze the data and find connection problems.
INP+ (Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS), a Community Based Organization (CBO), engages QBurst to build a web-based data gathering and management information system. INP+ has state and district-level networks spread throughout India. QBurst's web-based solution will allow these district and state level networks to access the system and provide relevant services to the members of the organization. This is QBurst's first project for an NGO/non-profit organization.
QBurst Technologies has recently launched a brand new product, Crickees.com. This is a definitive cricket gaming website where participants can predict the outcome of upcoming One Day Internationals and Twenty20 cricket matches.
The game is divided into three distinct parts, the Match Result, the Team and the Scorecard. In the Match Result, participants get to predict the toss winner, toss decision, the match winner, the margin of victory and other stats associated with the result of a cricket match. In the second part of the game, the Team, participants can predict the playing eleven and their position in the batting order. And finally, the batting and bowling scorecards are predicted in the last part of the game, the Scorecard.
Crickees.com has turned out to be a well-polished platform for cricket fans, who can now become more than spectators and find out just how well they know the game of cricket.
UTours.ca, a website that helps students and parents compare universities and campuses in Canada, has engaged QBurst to redevelop their site. The site sells DVD and video tours of the universities, which will immensely help the candidates make an informed decision regarding their higher education. This eCommerce enabled website will be developed using the Ruby-on-Rails framework.
QBurst UK has just embarked on its first project, forging a partnership with edocr. QBurst will aid in the evolution of edocr by adding new functionality to the popular document hosting platform. The CEO of edocr, Manoj Ranaweera, stated that he was pleased about the partnership which will soon bring some exciting enhancements to the edocr platform. Matt Grest, Director of QBurst UK said, " I'm delighted that we'll be working with edocr on these enhancements to their system. QBurst has a long history of working with web-startups, so this relationship is perfectly aligned to our skills and expertise. We're looking forward to a long and successful relationship with edocr."
QBurst sets up new subsidiary in the UK. The office is located in Sheffield. Matt Grest, former Head of Future Development at Plusnet and a web entrepreneur, will be in charge of QBurst UK. The presence of an office in UK will help QBurst better serve its UK customers.
LocallyCompared, QBurst customer, launches locallycompared.com. LocallyCompared is a great way of finding businesses in the UK. It is the place to make the most informed decisions about local businesses online.
Small to medium size companies that service a particular geographical market are looking for ways to increase their exposure at low cost. LocallyCompared offers businesses with free advertising on a number of local websites with the option of paid listings for businesses that have embraced the concept of paid online advertising and wish to get more inquiries through the Internet. The site has 2 million business listings, 11,000 of which are highly detailed, giving users information on the services the company offers, prices, opening hours, maps, events, frequently asked questions, special offers and insightful reviews. LocallyCompared owns over 200 domain names. Once a business has added their presence to LocallyCompared, the business can then be located in the parent site. i.e., http://www.locallycompared.com, as well as in their satellite sites, if the applicable domains are available. For example, a plumber in Sheffield would be advertised on www.locallycompared.com, www.locallysheffield.co.uk and www.plumbersinsheffield.co.uk.
The underlying technologies that have been used for the LocallyCompared website are Lucene, CakePHP, MySQL and Ajax.Lucene is a powerful and elegant library for full-text indexing and searching in Java.You can use Lucene to provide consistent full-text indexing across both database objects and documents in various formats (Microsoft Office documents, PDF, HTML, text, and so on).
CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM and using the convention-over-configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs by making developers write less code. It enables developers to work in a structured and rapid manner without loss of flexibility.
MedActivus, a startup whose vision is providing innovative mobile solutions to the healthcare sector, engages QBurst to develop their first product. The product will act as a mobile extension to existing Practice Management Systems. Physicians would be able to see their schedule, appointments etc on their 3G mobiles. They would be able to get patient information on their mobile phones when they are outside their clinics and doing hospital rounds and procedures. They will be able to update the patient record with illness and treatment information. QBurst will initially develop the application for HTC TouchDiamond Windows Mobile phone, and there are plans to port the app to iPhone and Android. The app is architected to work offline inside hospital premises where a data connection may not be available.
SmartTouch launches their mobile product at TechCrunch in San Francisco. QBurst has been closely involved in the development of this product, which provides a GUI interface for SMS short-codes. If you happen to have a Windows Mobile Smartphone or PocketPC, you can download the beta version of the software. The application will be available on more phones (iPhone and Android) inthe near future, along with on Facebook and MySpace. Read the TechCrunch news.
QBurst sets up office in the USA. The new office is located in Jermantown Road, Fairfax, Virginia. The US company is a subsidiary of QBurst Technologies Private Limited, India. Binny Cherian, owner and President of CT Solutions, is a director and partner in the new subsidiary. Binny brings in 12 years of business experience in the IT consulting industry to QBurst.
SleepManage, based in Columbia, South Carolina, engages QBurst to automate their workflows. SleepManage manages several sleep laboratories in South-East USA. QBurst's solution would connect the sleep labs to the scorer, physician and the billing company through a web application.
Talent-on-View, an innovative site meant for recruiting agencies, launches. The site enables recruiters to capture the initial interview with the candidate on video and forward to their clients through email. The client then decides who to call for the final interview. A very useful and innovative solution to the recruitment industry! The site uses Flash to record and stream video to the server.
QBurst launches S3 CRM in partnership with TierLinear. This is a SaaS product meant for small and medium businesses. Businesses pay a small monthly fee to use S3 CRM, which includes address-book, employee and customer management, business dashboard, calendar, meeting manager, alerting, project and task management, document management and more. Businesses now do not have to sign-up for multiple services that do not talk to each other. With S3 CRM, they get an integrated out-of-the-cloud solution that meets most of their needs. And, the product is still evolving. You can join the discussion forum and suggest or vote on features. One of the cool features in the pipeline is an iPhone client for S3 CRM.
Clearspring engages QBurst for testing services. Clearspring is a pioneer and leader in Internet widget distribution and tracking space. QBurst plans on automating the testing process to reduce the testing cycle time. This will in turn allow the build and release cycles to get shorter as developers start getting immediate feedback.
On-Communications engages QBurst to develop an Operational Support System (OSS) to support their ISP business. On-Communications provides wireless broadband Internet connections to businesses in the UK who need high speed and always-on reliability.
TalentOnView engages QBurst to develop a video-interviewing solution for the recruiting industry.
Locallycompared hires QBurst to develop their business listing website. QBurst will develop the listing application using CakePHP a rapid application development framework that supports search engine friendly URLs.locallycompared owns hundreds of domains like locallyleeds, plumbersinlondon and dentistsinmanchester. The listings will appear simultaneously on the main, category and city sites. In addition, each business will have their own local landing page where they can post announcements, events and jobs. Users can rate the businesses and businesses can reply to those ratings.
QBurst opens its new state of the art development center at Technopark, Trivandrum. This new center is located in the 'Thejaswini' building at the sprawling Technopark campus. QBurst has a strong growth record and opening of this center marks the next phase of its business growth.
QBurst joint ventures with Tierlinear, UK to launch SaaS products for the UK market. The product will be marketed by British Telecom to small and medium businesses in UK. The first version of this product BTBizBox.com was launched in October 2007, and 100's of businesses have already signed up.
Plusnet selects QBurst as their outsourcing partner. Plusnet, a subsidiary of British Telecom, is a fast growing broadband InternetService Provider, based in Sheffield, UK. QBurst will provide business application development services on LAMP platform to Plusnet.
