Solitaire!!

If you've checked the Top 100 Free Apps chart in the iTunes AppStore in the past couple days, you might have noticed an app that was slowly making its way up the charts.  This morning it was at #5.  Yes, it is our free Solitaire app, which slowly gained momentum at the beginning of the week before it shot up the charts!

I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you for supporting our app and getting Solitaire to break the Top 5!  When there are over 100,000 apps in the AppStore, all of your support is extremely appreciated and we absolutely could not have done it without you guys!

Here's a screenshot from AppShopper.com of how Solitaire has been doing recently.  As you can see, as of this morning, it's jumped seven spots up to #5.  How high do you think we can get it?

Let's get Solitaire to #1!!

iPad Madness!

So unless you have been living been under a rock in 2010, you have obviously heard of the iPad, Apple's first attempt at developing a tablet computer.  After months of speculation, Apple finally announced on January 27th, 2010 they were indeed going forward and releasing the iPad in a matter of months.

After Apple's announcement, they were immediately met with mixed reactions.  There were those who loved the gigantic interface and software and gushed over the possibilities of how applications, pictures, and videos,s would look on the iPad, while there were others who slammed the idea, calling it just a larger "iPhone or iPod touch," and criticized the lack of a webcam or Flash capability.

Last Friday on March 12th, 2010, Apple officially announced it would be taking preorders.   Needless to say, regardless of what kind of reception the iPad received when it was announced, it sure could sell.

On the first day of preorders, within a matter of two hours, 51,000 iPad orders were received.  In six hours, 90,000 iPad orders were received!  A blogger named Deagol who monitored some of the order numbers estimates that over 100,000 orders were received in the first ten hours!

Is it the very generous $499 price that's grabbing all these people's attention, or do people just want a piece of this revolutionary piece of technology?  Maybe a combination of both?  Are you going to get one?

Anyway, if you decide that a regular iPad isn’t for you, you could always settle for one of these.

Technology these days...

Technology is absolutely ridiculous these days.  I'm sure many of you have realized that already, especially in the past few years, with the introduction of tiny laptops, cell phones the size of credit cards, and electric sports cars.  Is there anything technology can't do?

It's scary to think that if somebody can think up an idea, then there's somebody else out there who has the resources to make it happen.

This past week, I stumbled upon a couple things that I found especially intriguing and to tell you the truth, a little frightening.

Death Spiral Launch Party Contest

Hey, I just wanted to fill you in on how our Death Spiral Launch Party Contest was coming along.  We saw that Word Warp Xtreme was a HIT at Macworld, and we invited all those who stopped by to check out the Launch Party contest.  I can already tell a lot of you have been practicing!

Talk about a terrific response.  We've had an overwhelming amount of entries and we absolutely love the turnout.  The competition is great and there's still a couple weeks still left to play!  It seems there are some very skilled Word Warp Xtreme players!

So remember, go download the latest version of Word Warp Xtreme (free), make an account through our Community (free again) and play the Death Spiral mode (also free…Xtreme!)  Your scores are automatically recorded and you can enter as much as you want, so hurry up and play!  For more info, go here

The contest ends on March 12 and we'll be announcing the winners on March 16 on our website, so stay tuned!

Our trip at Macworld 2010, complete with pictures!

So for the last month, you probably know we've been super busy here at MobilityWare getting ready for Macworld 2010.  In case you didn't know, Macworld is a gigantic convention held once a year in San Francisco that offers access to tons of different Mac products and services.  There's a ton of booths, demonstrations and programs there that are all somewhat related to Macs and electronics.  This year, they decided to devote an entire section to highlight the latest apps from iPhone and iPod touch developers, namely dubbed the Mobile Applications Showcase.  So we figured, what better way to showcase Word Warp Xtreme than to take it to Macworld, the one place where tons of people are looking for the latest great products for their Mac devices!

Click past the jump to read about our trip and check out some pictures!

Macworld 2010 Contest Winners!

Macworld 2010 was so much fun!  It was so great meeting everybody and I'm sure everybody had a blast.  We'll have a blog post recapping our trip really soon so check back later for that!

Anyway, our Macworld 2010 Word Warp Xtreme contest was a HIT!  Thanks to everybody who came and checked out the game, and it was extremely fun showing all you guys how the game worked and stuff.  Thanks also to everybody who took the time to enter in our Word Warp Xtreme contest!  We just posted the winners here, so go over and check it out!  Lots of people entered, but in the end, there was only one grand prize winner.  Congratulations to Ben Rice, who wins a brand new iPod touch!

We already sent emails out to the winners, so if you see your name on there but haven't received anything, send an email over to Marketing@MobilityWare.com right away!

Macworld 2010 and Contests!

Greetings from San Francisco!  We are currently getting situated at the Moscone Center, getting things set up and whatnot.  While we're here, I just wanted to let you know about some contests we're going to be running!

Click past the jump to read about two exciting contests we're having!!