Author: Osvaldo Villagrana

A couple weeks ago Noel (@noelportugal) and I were invited by the Oracle Apps UX Innovation Labs team to collaborate as technical mentors and judges in BIAC Connected Communities, Connected Lives hackathon. What would be the best place to hold a hackathon? Cancún. Beautiful weather, beautiful beach, Mexican food, what else could I ask for? This hackathon… Read More

For a couple of months, I’ve been using as my main phone the Nextbit Robin. A $299 Android phone that started as a campaign in Kickstarter, and it got 3,611 backers including Jake (@jkuramot). I previously had my Nexus 5, but over the time, Bluetooth stopped working and that was a good excuse to try this phone.… Read More

Austin, beautiful city with a river crossing downtown, music niche, young population, cycling, brisket and the home of SXSW, a big multicultural conference for all tastes; Film, Interactive and Music. This was my first time attending the conference but Noel (@noelportugal), is a year-to-year attendee. It’s well known that this conference is not only a… Read More

At the end of 2015, our team was wrapping up projects that would be shown at the main Oracle conference, Oracle OpenWorld. As with every OOW, we like to come up with a fun project that shows attendees our spirit of innovation by building cool projects within Oracle. The team was thinking about building something cool with kids’ racetracks. We all were collectively in charge of… Read More

Editor’s note: Here’s the first post from Osvaldo Villagrana (@vaini11a), one of our AppsLab Mexico team members. Enjoy. During last week I’ve been playing with Nymi Discovery Kit I got back in our AT&T hackathon participation, and here are my impressions as a developer for Nymi SDK point of view and as a user. For… Read More