Eye for Travel has put together a detailed Mobile Technology in Travel report. Through a series of case studies, it provides some great examples of how mobile applications are sweeping the travel industry. bitHeads was asked by Eye for Travel to contribute to the report as an expert on mobile application development best practices (see section starting on page 52). More detail on best practices is given in bitHeads’ white paper Mobile Application Development: Challenges and Best Practices.

We’re pleased to be featured in the latest BlackBerry Alliance Partner E-Newsletter. It requires alliance member login to view, so I copied it below. The fastest growing company claim refers to our 2008 Software 500 ranking as the third fastest growing software company in our revenue category.

“One of the fastest growing software and services companies in the world”
For over 12 years, bitHeads has been a trusted behind-the-scenes mobile application development partner. With a unique focus on the creation of new mobile applications for others, bitHeads has built an enviable track record for quick and reliable delivery of award-winning products. Rising demand for its BlackBerry application development expertise in recent years has contributed to bitHeads’ ranking as the third fastest growing software and services company in the world.

bitHeads’ ProductStream™ service draws from their North American staff of mobile software experts to rapidly assemble a team of world-class designers and developers for each project. bitHeads uses a proven agile-based development methodology to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and reliably develop commercial grade software.

bitHeads’ many years of experience and ongoing investment to maintain a world-class team of mobile experts enables them to quickly define solid architectures, design great user interfaces and develop high quality software. ISVs tap these bitHeads capabilities to innovate, reduce risk and accelerate new product launches. In addition to their mobile technology leadership, bitHeads’ has extensive experience building transactional enterprise systems, communications products, web 2.0 applications and games. They’ve created applications that support millions of users.

bitHeads will continue to work closely with RIM to expand the availability of BlackBerry application development expertise and resources to meet the growing demand for innovative applications across a wide variety of product categories. “

In a non-upset that nobody didn’t see not coming, bitHeads did not win OCRI’s Technology Company of the Year at the OCRI Awards last night.

Nobody here is too disappointed (we really weren’t expecting to win, after all), and we wholeheartedly congratulate SiGE for the big victory.

What’s worse is that I actually didn’t even get to go to the show (*shakesfist at Martian Death Cough*), so I didn’t get to go up on stage and make a total ass of myself like every other year. People had to put up with Ted getting up and saying nice things about people. I think we can all agree that that’s the real tragedy here.

Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s been an emotional night– I’m going to crawl into bed with a bottle of Ameretto.

…then look no further than this.

Yes, bitHeads has been selected as a finalist for OCRI’s 2009 Technology Company of the Year.  Given that we’re in the final three, we’re pretty sure only four companies applied this year…and one of them was Jerry’s House of Organic Fudge.

Actually, we’re pretty proud to be selected as a finalist, especially after winning OCRI’s Service Company of the Year 2008. Yeah, we’re that awesome.

In any event, but would like to offer our congrats-in-advance to the winner, either SiGE or IDC. Both are great companies who represent Ottawa well on the world stage and either are very deserving of the title, along with all the prestige and power that goes along with the award (I think you also get ham and plaques).

That’s okay, we’re much more happy in the Loser’s Lounge, anyway…