T.A. McCann
is Management Advisor at Zooppa.
RIM plans new contact management features on BB10 devices
RIM plans new contact management features on BB10 devices - International Business Times The new contact management feature, which pulls in contact details from social media and other Internet sites into a single Blackberry page, will be available on RIM's next generation of smartphones that ... Read more »
RIM to shut down Gist next month
RIM to shut down Gist next month - Seattle Web 2.0 | Examiner.com Today, we gather around one of the pioneers of social graphing, Gist, that was put on life support and given one month to live. A Seattle entrepreneur T.A. McCann gave birth to Gist 4 years ago and named Paul Allen its godfather... Read more »
Atlanta Business Radio Spotlights Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot
Atlanta Business Radio Spotlights Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot - Yahoo! News Atlanta Business Radio Spotlights Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot - Yahoo! News Atlanta Business Radio Spotlights Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot - Yahoo! News BusinessRadioX®'s Atlanta Business Radio talks with ... Read more »
RIM To Sprinkle Android Mojo Into BlackBerry 10
RIM To Sprinkle Android Mojo Into BlackBerry 10 - Development - Mobility - Informationweek New version of RIM's contact management application in BlackBerry 10 will take a page from Google's Android platform. One of the features Research In Motion plans to add to its BlackBerry 10 platform is ... Read more »
Brent Leary to Host Second Annual: Social Biz Atlanta 2013: Improving Customer Experiences by Improv...
Brent Leary to Host Second Annual: Social Biz Atlanta 2013: Improving Customer Experiences by Improving Your Ability to Beat Expectations on Feb. 22, 2013 - Yahoo! News Brent Leary to Host Second Annual: Social Biz Atlanta 2013: Improving Customer Experiences by Improving Your Ability to Beat ... Read more »
6th Annual 'Startup Riot' Event for Entrepreneurs and Investors to be Held in...
ATLANTA, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta's 6th annual Startup Riot event on February 20th at the Tabernacle is a day-long opportunity for emerging entrepreneurs to present their companies to investors and marketing professionals in 3-minute segments – speed dating for startups. Some of ... Read more »
Incubator Secrets: If Walls Could Talk at TechStars
Ever wish you could listen in on the advice top startup mentors give to company founders? We did. So we visited the Demo Day presentations for the fall graduating class of startups in business accelerator TechStars’s Seattle program and asked the successful entrepreneurs who serve as TechStars ... Read more »
RIM unveils BBM voice feature for BlackBerrys
Research In Motion is adding a voice feature to its BlackBerry Messenger service, commonly known as BBM. The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that the new service can be used when a BlackBerry is connected to a WiFi network. BBM Voice "functions effectively like a phone call," says the Globe and ... Read more »
RIM Adds Free WiFi Voice Calling to BlackBerry Messenger
With roughly 60 million of Research In Motion’s 80 million subscribers using it, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is among the company’s more important assets. And as RIM gears up for the launch of BlackBerry 10, it is doing all that it can to ensure that BBM remains a key selling point of BB10. To ... Read more »
BBM Now Lets You Have Voice Chats for Free Over Wi-Fi
WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 14, 2012) - For the times when you want to hear a friend's laughter instead of reading LOL, BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) is taking the social networking experience to a whole new level with an exciting new feature called BBM Voice. Research In Motion (RIM) ... Read more »
4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer Engagement Has Changed
4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer Engagement Has Changed 4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer Engagement Has Changed 4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer Engagement Has Changed 4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer Engagement Has Changed 4 Startup Founders Discuss How Customer ... Read more »
BlackBerry 10 Contacts App to Aggregate Info From the Social Network
BlackBerry 10 Contacts App to Aggregate Info From the Social Network It looks like Research in Motion will be taking a page out of Windows Phone’s and Android’s playbook as far as the Canadian smartphone manufacturer’s BlackBerry 10 contacts app goes. The new contacts app in BlackBerry 10–new ... Read more »
RIM’s new BBM Voice enables voice calls over WiFi
The leading feature of the new software is known as BBM Voice, which will enable users to place free voice calls to their BBM contacts over a WiFi connection, similar to other Internet calling services such as Microsoft Corp.’s Skype or Apple Inc.’s FaceTime. With the new feature, BBM users ... Read more »
BlackBerry Messenger 7 App With Free Voice Calls in Beta
RIM BlackBerry OS 6 and OS 7 users can now download a free BlackBerry Messenger 7 app that enables free voice calling in BBM over WiFi. BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has improved on one of its most-loved offerings with a BlackBerry Messenger 7 with BBM Voice. The feature enables BBM ... Read more »
New BlackBerry Messenger 7 brings free voice chat feature
Research In Motion (RIM) has released a BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) v7 beta, adding a new voice chat feature to the application. The BBM 7 beta works on BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS version 6 or higher. According to reports, RIM will be soon rolling out the voice chat feature to ... Read more »
RIM’s BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) added to dictionary
RIM’s BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) added to dictionary | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post It’s a noun. It’s a verb. Now it’s in the dictionary. Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Messenger, better known as BBM, is now officially a part of the English language, after it was announced on Thursday ... Read more »
BlackBerry 10: RIM to talk with BCE, Rogers about platform launch
BlackBerry 10: RIM to talk with BCE, Rogers about platform launch | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post Research In Motion Ltd. plans to soon begin commercial talks with Canadian wireless carriers such as BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. after showing them early versions of the BlackBerry 10 ... Read more »
Notes from T.A. McCann’s Startup Riot Keynote
The first keynote at Startup Riot was by T.A. McCann, founder of Gist and head of social product strategy at Blackberry. T.A. did a great job going through his background, lessons learned, and the Gist experience from starting to selling a pre-revenue business in 2.5 years for a large ... Read more »
T.A. McCann’s Keynote at Startup Riot
By Kyle Porter on February 20, 2013 in ATL, Starting-Up Startup Riot today was a big hit. If you missed the pitches, here’s a recap. If you missed the keynote by T.A. McCann, maybe this will help. I’ve been a big fan of T.A.’s since last summer when we met in Boulder. For those who don’t ... Read more »
Gist founder gets the app store opportunity
tags: App Store, Gist, IPhone, T.A. McCann App stores have been on my mind lately. The coming surge in enterprise mobile app development presents opportunities for faster, cheaper, relevant tools for employees (especially those in geographically dispersed job sites), but they also present ... Read more »
