Questions and answers with Heath Clinton

An Article by the Daily Oklahoman
Published: August 22, 2010
By: Paula Burkes
www.NewsOK.com

The president and chief operating officer of Phase 2 Interactive talks about his career.

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Sit down opposite Heath Clinton at Phase 2 Interactive and one can’t help but notice the white oval sticker on the cover of his laptop. The decal simply bares the number 140.6.

Clinton explains 140.6 is the number of miles Ironman triathletes traverse: swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles and running 26.2. He completed one in 2008.

“It’s all about goals,” he said. “I’m a big goal-setter.”

A similar drive is what Clinton brings to Phase 2, a developer of business, smart phone and iPad software founded by Mark Towler in 1998. Clinton joined Phase 2 in 2000 as a marketer and became president in 2003. Read More »

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So I have an idea for a mobile app, how do I get started?

So you have an idea for a mobile app, what’s next? Everyone has a great idea at some point whether it’s something to enhance your productivity, or it’s an internal app that will help your business operate for efficiently. The only real problem is getting those ideas into a tangible form. Many of those great ideas can be turned into a mobile apps for several different phone platforms but there are some limitations that, for now, make some ideas ineligible to be an app in the app store.

Obviously the iPhone is a hot ticket, but there are others like Android or Palm or Windows Phone 7 that you can also branch out into to expand your user base. Getting the idea, that’s the easy part. The next hurdle is that along with the idea for an app, there also comes some very common questions.

These are the most commonly asked questions. Read More »

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Video Testimonial – Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon

For years Phase 2 has been a proud partner and supporter of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. Recently, marathon president Thomas A. Hill took filmed a video testimonial to share what it is like working with Phase 2.

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Get Appy: You have an idea for an application for your iPhone. Where do you go from there?

An Article by the Daily Oklahoman
Published: June 27, 2010
By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman
www.NewsOK.com

So, you and your friends have this great idea for an application for the iPhone that you think will change the world and make you a millionaire because so many people would want to download it.

Now what do you do? How do you develop it?

Those are questions that many people are asking these days as more people are using apps on their mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. People want apps for fun and work, and businesses want to oblige.

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What is all this mobile talk anyway?

In the last few years, one big thing has been popping up in homes and pockets across the world. What is it? A “Smart phone”. If you don’t have an iPhone, then you probably have another “smart device” like any of a number of Android phones, or one of the newer Blackberry’s or maybe a Palm Pre.

The main driving factor for these smart devices in all of our pockets is the need to stay connected. You may think that it is the iPhone that caused it, but even if Apple didn’t release a phone, we would all still have some sort of device. The thing is, most of us do have an iPhone in our pockets, and a percentage of us also have an iPad, but it can’t quite fit into my pocket anyway. Read More »

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