I want to congratulate my friend Mark Young, and his team, who recently raised $4.5 Million Investment from Benchmark Capital on their 1st round of funding.
His company, Numobiq Inc. has been pretty much stealth for a while, are going after the mobile applications and services and platform market. From their website:
Numobiq has created a revolutionary software platform that turns every mobile handset into a smartphone. Its technology solution adds intelligence to the network, a consumer-friendly experience to the handset, and an array of features and functionality that surpass today’s most advanced offerings. Best of all, it works across hundreds of mobile handsets to deliver a common, highly personalized user experience.
Interesting…
Note that I have no inside to Numobiq, but I am going to try to guess what they are up to… and maybe it is a client-side runtime (in Java) to run widget-like applications authored using traditional web technologies, such as JavaScript. The runtime + their platform is what “makes dump phones smarter”…
Congrats my friend!
Related to this see Numobiq, makes dumb phones smarter (VentureBeat)
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