Archive for the ‘Infinity Softworks’ category

Innovate or Die: Lessons From BlockBuster Applied to powerOne

July 14, 2010

If you missed it the king’s of the movie rental business, Blockbuster, is being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. I guess the news wasn’t totally surprising. After all Oregon’s very own Hollywood Video, bought by a Texas company called Movie Gallery, went bankrupt a few months ago. And every little movie rental place [...]

powerOne Honored As Staff Pick

June 18, 2010

How exciting to wake up in the morning and see that the sales have doubled. I never expect it but it has happened a couple of times. After a moment of shock, I now know to go check out the App Store and see what honor we received. For the first time, starting last night, [...]

Free Doesn’t Mean Cheap: powerOne Lite Introduced

June 17, 2010

When I started in this business (1997), advanced calculators — scientific or financial — were expensive. The cheapest full-featured scientific calculators were $20-30 and easily ranged up into the hundreds of dollars. Real financial calculators were $40-120. So we wrote financial and scientific calculators and charged money for them. Our first financial calculator was $39.99, [...]

A Modicum of Success!

April 20, 2010

The good times continue here. Now we aren’t talking dollars to retire on, but it is nice to actually be able to pay the bills. I will be the first to tell you that making things happen in Apple’s App Store is hard to do, but for once we were out in front. Being on [...]

A Crazy Couple Of Weeks

April 7, 2010

Wow! This has been a great couple of weeks. Two weeks ago we were still discussing an iPad version of powerOne calculator. Since then I have had lots of meetings, a trip to Apple HQ (with Dick Luebke), shipped an iPad version of powerOne (universal as the same version works on iPhone, iPod touch and [...]