Can the new LG smartphone save a company in trouble? – RealtyGo.co

Revol sidesteps bankruptcy, plans LG Android smartphone – RealtyGo.co

Regional, flat-rate CDMA operator Revol Wireless reached an agreement late last month with bondholders that the company said will prevent a possible bankruptcy.

Scott Bergs, Revol’s chief operating officer, said Revol was unable to repay its senior secured notes due Dec. 15, and as a result began negotiations with its bondholders. He said the company reached an agreement with the bondholders Dec. 30 that extends the deadline for the repayment to April 30. He said the extension will give Revol additional time to obtain the necessary funds. However, in the event the company remains unable to repay the notes when they become due in April, Bergs said the agreement outlines a transfer of control of Revol to its bondholders–a stipulation he said is intended to prevent Revol from having to file for bankruptcy.

Bergs declined to name the bondholders. The company owes $150 million.

Bergs said Revol encountered some unexpected “hiccups in our refinancing plan,” and the company was therefore unable to make its Dec. 15 payments. “We still remain excited about our growth trajectory,” he said.

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Revol–a privately held carrier with 350 employees and operations in Ohio and surrounding areas–is currently in merger discussions with another regional, flat-rate CDMA carrier, Mobi PCS in Hawaii. Both companies share the same main investors–Boston’s M/C Venture Partners and Virginia’s Columbia Capital–as well as the same CEO, Bill Javis. Revol’s Bergs acknowledged that such a tie-up could be explored, and said the companies have collaborated in the past, but declined to comment on any possible merger discussions.

Interestingly, Revol’s financial troubles come during a busy time for the carrier: Revol plans to begin selling its first Android smartphone, the LG Optimus, Jan. 7 for $299. The phone will be available with a no-contract, monthly service plan of $55 per month, which includes unlimited talking, texting and data.
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OnStar teams with Verizon for wireless rear-view mirror – RealtyGo

OnStar teams with Verizon for wireless rear-view mirror – RealtyGo.co

OnStar announced a new retail effort that dramatically broadens the company’s addressable market. Instead of offering its service through a calling system built into General Motors vehicles, OnStar announced a rear-view mirror that provides many of the same services and can be installed into cars from other automotive manufacturers.

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every social service is an island… ; Great Article, we had to Repost!

Google has unveiled the awkwardly-named Hotpot, which is a kind of ratings tool and recommendation engine for Google Places.

As you review restaurants, music venues, stores and the like, Hotpot’s recommendation engine learns what you like and suggests other places you might like. Throw in recommendations from friends and Hotpot starts to sound very useful. Indeed Hotpot is useful, bringing location-based searching, algorithms that learn what you like and friends’ recommendations together in a single place.

But, perhaps because of that combination of features, it’s also awkward to set up and poorly integrated with the rest of Google’s services. It has some features that trump its main competitor, Yelp, like the awesome search tool. But the social and community aspects of Hotpot — features Yelp handles well — are too difficult to get set up.

Which isn’t to say that Hotpot isn’t useful. You just have to clear its awkward silo-style hurdles first. If you head over to the new Hotpot URL, you’ll be asked to sign in with your Google account and then to pick a nickname for use on Google Places.

Once that’s done you’ll need to find your friends and “add” then to your list of Hotpot friends. Setting up Hotpot feels a bit like you just slipped back in time five years to a web where every social service is an island.

It could be that Google was worried about another Buzz-style backlash if it made Hotpot’s social features automated. Instead, everything is manual — you’re presented with a list of friends that you can add (follow might be the more familiar verb here) much like the process Google Reader uses.

However, with Reader the sharing notices are sent inside the Reader web app. With Hotpot, the notices are sent to your friend’s Gmail account for approval. Worse, there doesn’t seem to be an “Add all” button — if you’ve got 300 friends, you’ll be click “Add” 300 times.

Once you’ve made it past the initial hurdles of setting Hotpot up, its results are actually pretty good. Having only tested Hotpot for a few hours, it’s hard to judge the quality of recommendations, but as a simple Google Places search tool, the interface is clean and easy to use.

Hotpot is also integrated into normal Google searches as well. Just click the Places option in the list of filters and you see reviews and ratings from your friends alongside the familiar Yelp, Urbanspoon and other aggregated ratings.

The aggregated reviews are a win for Hotpot. The big difference between Yelp and Google Hotpot is volume — Yelp has hundreds of reviews for all the restaurants in my neighborhood written by individuals from its loyal users. Google has a big enough database of user reviews, but it’s not as vibrant or extensive as Yelp’s.

But Hotpot gets around that limitation by culling reviews from around the web — in the case of restaurants, there’s Zagat, OpenTable, Gayot, Yelp, Blogspot and WordPress food blogs. Some places have a lot of Google user reviews, but Yelp usually always has more.

Though there needs to be a way to keep reviews from Insider Pages from showing up in Hotpot. They are universally worthless and presumably written mainly by YouTube commenters.

It’s interesting to note that Yelp is all about community, and Hotpot’s mapping and searching features are more advanced, but its community and social features are lacking. The two would be a perfect match if they were combined. Yelp reportedly screwed up a chance to be bought by Google last year — consider it salt on the wound that Google is pulling reviews from Yelp to beef up its own competing product.

Where Hotpot may find its big mojo, which would save it from the same fate as Google Wave, is inside Google’s mobile apps. For now that means Android 1.6+, though an iPhone app is in the works. There’s no word on a Windows Mobile app.

The new features in the Google Android app mean that, if you’re in an unfamiliar part of town, you can quickly find a nearby restaurant that your friends love, or an out-of-the-way music store you didn’t know about.

Link: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/11/google-hotpot-smartens-up-local-search-but-its-no-yelp-killer/

RealtyGo.co launches its answer to “Hot Spots” mid February of 2011

We received an email from Zillow “Did Santa bring you Mobile Goodies?…

We went to the Zillow App and we did down load, however some of the reviews concerned us…

 

Ryan Wrote 12/30/2010

I just found my house on here! But I bought it two years ago! This app isn’t reliable. I like the concept but what’s the point if it’s outdated?

Jason 12/30/2010

Lost my favorites overnight and will not sign me in.

Angela 12/29/2010

It’s a great app but its not as accurate as realtor.com. For example it shows houses for sale that are not listed on realtor.com

 

These were the 3 top reviews, in our experience with google, they welcome constructive criticism, which is a good feature of their corporate presence.

We hope that our customers and affiliates will give us great feedback and reviews to help make our services better and more user friendly.

Thanks to everyone in advance that take the time out of their busy schedule to help companies be better!

With RealtyGo.co you can post your RealtyGo mobile real estate listing “TAG’s” within other listings, like Zillow, Realtor.com, Craigslist, etc.. . So feel free to register your Unique Mobile Listing Code(s) today and brand your Mobile business TAG.

 

Mobile Listing TAG posted here within our Real Estate Flyers...

 

RealtyGo.co advanced Mobile Software runs on any OS Mobile Hardware, iPhone, Android,Blackberry,Microsoft or any PDA device!

RealtyGo / Apple / Android

RealtyGO has designed its software to run with any mobile phone manufacturer’s  OS “operating system” ; which guarantees  your Mobile Real Estate listings and professional information will be consistent no matter what type of device is being used to request the information/listing.

Try our demo today, you can scan or text to get the demo with any mobile device.

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Mobile Listing TAG

Innovation / RealtyGo.co / Mobile Real Estate Listings and more…

Innovation / RealtyGo / Music

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Here is a fun and innovative YouTube Video, Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w&feature=player_embedded

Green Real Estate by RealtyGO.co, the Nations leading Mobile Real Estate Listing Application!

Green Real Estate with RealtyGO.co

RealtyGo.co was designed with the belief that everyone can pitch in a little to help cut back and stop the excessive waste associated with Real Estate Flyers, Expensive ink costs and other paper waste associated with promoting traditional Real Estate Listings.

Try our demo now to see how your Real Estate Listing(s) can be environmentally friendly, saving you money and enabling you to add Green Business Practices to your Professional Business portfolio.

Demo; Scan or Text to see how your traditional listings can become “Viral – Mobile Real Estate Listings”

Green Real Estate with RealtyGO.co

RealtyGo.co is the Nations premiere application for Mobile-Real Estate-listings…

Mobile that Accelerates your Business!

Mobile That Accelerates your Business!

RealtyGO.co is leading the way in Mobile Real Estate. Our goal with introducing RealtyGo; is to provide a robust Mobile real estate listing application to help real estate buyers and sellers get information fast and in a well organized and professional environment.

Googles doing it! QR Codes – Businesses – Maps – Coupons and Search

RealtyGo QR Code / Scan for Demo of Mobile Real Estate Listing

QR Codes are here to stay!

Click the play icon after selecting the link below to watch an informative video on QR Codes, you can see google is very innovative in everything they do.

To see the full article and how RealtyGo.co is striving to become relevant and a helpful tool for the Real Estate industry, visit the link provided here:

http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=140932

Google Places

As always thank you for reading, RealtyGo.co

RealtyGo and Mobile Real Estate Listings on your Smartphone, Flip phone, iPad, Tablet, or any PDA device!

Mobile Listing TAG

RealtyGo‘s software services include all types of real estate listings; VRBO- Vacation Rentals, FSBO- For Sale by Owner, Broker/Agent, Business Listings, Apartments, Commercial and Residential listings.

Using PDA devices such as Smartphones, Flip phones, Tablets, iPads, etc.. , prospective home buyers, new customers and other business professionals can immediately access your real estate listings at point of contact – in front of the home/listing, from a magazine / newspaper / flyer or within other internet listings, from their mobile devices.

Mobile real estate listings enable potential buyers, new customers and other business professionals to access and review all your current real estate listing information! Buyers get immediate mobile listings by scanning the SmartCode, Sending a Text message or using our GPS technology when accessing the listing.

Some key features of RealtyGo’s mobile real estate listings are; dynamic lead generation, the ability for end users to leave notes about the listing, forward the listing to friends & family, and Auto Schedule an appointment to preview your real estate listing based on your available schedule. Never miss a call again, prevent consumer drop off / abandonment rate, and ensure that consumers trying to reach you have alternative choices in making contact with you and even auto scheduling an appointment to preview the listing. In the event a potential buyer can not reach you initially, Your mobile real estate listing, the consumer has on their Mobile phone or PDA will give them a point of reference with photos and listing information after they have departed from the physical real estate listing, website or print advertisement, where your Mobile listing TAG was provided to access  list price, photos, contact info and more.

RealtyGo, turns your real estate listings into mobile real estate listings, enabling end users to interact with all your listings, set appointments to meet with you automatically based on your availability, at a specific address you specify, either the listing address “by default” or your business office, if you so desire. RealtyGo’s easy to read analytic area, located within the log in area of your RealtyGo account offers valuable history and traffic statistics you may want to share with your clients and new customers to prove your marketing and sales success.

Scan or Text to see a DEMO now!

Try our DEMO on your Mobile device to see how your Mobile Real Estate Listings will look.

Any time you need to change your real estate listing(s); update property info, add new photos, edit the listing price, change your availability for previewing the listing,  you can! It’s easy, and rest assure the moment you change your real estate listing information,  potential buyers and new customers will always receive the latest and most current real estate listing information from any of your mobile real estate listings, which are all connected and professionally displayed to the end users via their mobile devices. No more costly reprinting fees and updating paper ads to match your current real estate listing criteria. When you advertise your Mobile real estate listings, they are always current and your mobile listing TAG will always deliver the newest listing info to everyone. Each Mobile real estate listing has its own Mobile URL for organization, advanced SEO and to identify it, so potential buyers and new customers can access your current listing information.

Rider Sign

Secure your unique Mobile URL today and start offering all your real estate listings on the Go!

Once you have selected your unique Mobile URL by visiting RealtyGo’s home page, our automated system will walk you through a few easy steps on how to select the proper signage  to advertise your new Mobile real estate listing(s) or you can choose to have a PDF file emailed to you – which you can then send to your local sign company to print your signs and advertising material any way you like.

“An example of a Mobile URL is the Word DEMO in the Rider Sign, hanging below the For Sale Sign in the image shown above”

Select your Mobile URL to represent your business branding and name, just like you would a website URL to promote your business information.

Craigslist and more!

Post your mobile listing(s) on Craigslist, Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia or any place you currently display and advertise your real estate listings. Before RealtyGo you would have to recreate an add with each real estate listing and photos when posting to places like Craigslist and Zillow, etc.. . Now you can simply write a clever one line sentence, and display your Mobile Listing TAG from RealtyGo in the image area, which a prospective buyer can then scan, text or use GPS at point of contact to see all your real estate listings, photos, business website, and your professional contact information.

Once Prospective buyers and new customers access your real estate listing(s) via their mobile phone, iPad, Tablet, or any PDA device, they will have all your real estate listing information with a point of reference (your real estate listing) in the palm of their hand, which they can take with them after leaving the home or listing to review, refresh, set appointment, contact you and even forward to family & friends with easy, all while giving you a lead capture; with time and date of listing inquiry, contact information, specific listing they were interested in and more – for follow up.

RealtyGo is designed to effortlessly allow you to display your Mobile URL and Mobile Listing TAG everywhere, which allows prospective buyers, new customers, and other business professionals to see all your real estate listings via their Mobile hand held devices and conveniently auto schedule an appointment to view or preview all your real estate listing.

RealtyGo Offers prospective buyers all your mobile real estate listings and professional business information via their mobile devices, Smartphones, iPad’s, Tablets, or any PDA device.

SEO (search engine optimization)

Consumers searching the World Wide Web will also have access to your Real Estate listings, which are properly TAGged within RealtyGo’s website- data base for best SEO (Search Engine Optimization) using google, yahoo, bing, etc.. . RealtyGo uses very specific information to promote your real estate listings to people searching in your listings- Zip Code, City, State, and even Neighborhood. Regardless of the “keywords” or order of the keywords used to search for real estate listings using major search engines like google, bing, yahoo, etc.., your real estate listings are properly TAGged to produce better search results and get your listings seen more often. We have designed our system for best SEO (search engine optimization) to make sure your listings are being seen every time consumers search for real estate in your listing area.

The convenience  of offering your real estate listings via the mobile channel is unmatched in todays tech savvy environment. All you have to do as the lister of the real estate property, is create your listing by – simply “fill in the blank” areas, add photos and let our advanced software do the rest, promoting your real estate listings on the World Wide Web and through any mobile device.

Never worry about Empty flyer boxes again, or the costs associated with printing expensive flyers, with RealtyGo all your current real estate information is always displayed to the end user requesting your listing information.

Environmentally Friendly

You can also promote your professional business practice as environmentally conscious, by offering your real estate listings, color photos and business contact information via the digital channel, Mobile phone, iPad’s, etc.. .

Forward to a Friend / Digital Business Card

Once you create your Mobile Listing(s), you can forward them to your mobile device, to have with you all the time, enabling you to forward your real estate listing to new customers,prospective buyers, with all your listing information, digital business card- business contact information and your business website on the world wide web. You can even be on the telephone with a new customer and forward your real estate listing(s) & digital business card right from your phone as your talking with them, confirm they have received the listing. In the event the prospective buyer sees a listing they like, they can very easily schedule an auto appointment to meet with you from within your mobile listing you sent them.

Now new customers have a reference when contacting you for future business; they will have your real estate listings as a point of reference on their mobile device and all your professional contact information in a nicely organized and professional mobile listing.

This first Blog Post does not change, it is always the first post you will see when accessing our blog, it is called a Sticky post, which always shows up first, as an introduction to new visitors, allowing them to become familiar with our business services and functionality.

RealtyGo – Your Real Estate Listings Best Friend!