Learning Mobile Author (LMA) is released on Download.com

WARRENTON, Va. – July 22, 2008 –As of the beginning of July, Hot Lava Software introduced their content development and publishing system, Learning Mobile Author version 4.2.9, onto download.com. Hot Lava’s Learning Mobile Author allows you to design, author, test and publish mobile content for delivery to mobile phones and PDAs. It is available for a 14-day trial download for absolutely free from download.com starting now! Visit download.com to learn more about Learning Mobile Author (LMA) and to download your free 14-day trial today!

 

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.

 

Hot Lava Software Inc. is the leading provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software’s content development and publishing system (LMA) integrated with the Hot Lava Mobile Delivery and Tracking System ^TM (MDTS) allows organizations to have the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives faster, with more cost efficiency. Hot Lava Software provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content design, authoring and publishing solution to corporations, government and universities around the world. More information is available at http://www.hotlavasoftware.com/

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Check out these awesome programs for PDA’s and Palms created by Hot Lava Software on www.handango.com. They’re a great deal too! Only $0.95 for any of the Hot Lava Software produced programs.

 

Here are some links to different categories of programs/modules that might interest you.

 

• Children’s Education  
• Emergency Care
• MSCE Prep
• Travel Information
• ESL Aids
• SAT Prep
• Yoga & Meditation
• Business Education

 

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If you are interested in trying out Learning Mobile Author (LMA), please visit www.hotlavasoftware.com.

Fans, Take Out Your Cell Phones

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CONTACT:

Sarah Brewster

(816) 842-8111 or sarah@trozzolo.com

 

Joy Torchia

(816) 932-1045 or jtorchia@kauffman.org

 

Barbara Walls

(540) 428-2988 or marketing@hotlavasoftware.com

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – July 15, 2008  – More than one competition will take place at the local T-Bones games this summer. The new Sports Bytes Competition, entering the field this July, is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and powered by Hot Lava Software.

 

The Sports Bytes Competition will engage the young fans in the crowd by sending them mathematics, engineering, technology, and science questions via their cell phones. Combining fun with technology, fans will learn the science behind one of America’s favorite pastimes. For example, while the players are warming up for the next inning, fans can learn about the impact of gravity and friction on a baseball’s path.

 

The in-game promotions will build excitement around science education during July and August home games. The Sports Bytes professor – a quirky-looking, crazy-haired announcer – will leap up on the dugout and guide the crowd through the sports-related science quiz. The announcer will ask the fans a question: “Which ball has the slower speed when thrown: a baseball or a softball?” In response, kids will text either “sporta” for baseball or “sportb” for softball to 83960. They will then receive a response text with the correct answer as well as a link that provides them access to other Sports Bytes questions. Sports Bytes enthusiasts can access the questions anytime from their mobile phones by texting “sport” to 83960.

 

 “We are capitalizing on young fans’ love for cell phones by using them as a learning tool,” said Merrilea J. Mayo, Ph.D., director, Future of Learning Initiatives for the Kauffman Foundation. “This new competition allows us to reach and inspire kids in a unique way. Our hope is that they learn how exciting science can be and potentially explore a career in the field.”

 

The kids who answer at least one Sports Bytes question correctly are entered into a drawing to win a prize pack, which is given out later in the game. With baseball players in mind, the prize pack will include free tickets to an upcoming T-Bones game, signed baseballs, a first pitch certificate, a kajeet mobile phone, and T-Bones merchandise.

 

In addition to the T-Bones, the Frederick Keys, Aberdeen Ironbirds, Bowie Baysox, Wilmington Blue Rocks and Delmarva Shorebirds are participating in the in-game promotions, along with the D.C. United Soccer Team.

 

About the Kauffman Foundation

 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children and youth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Information about the Kauffman Foundation is available at www.kauffman.org

 

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.

 

Hot Lava Software Inc. is the leading provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software’s content development and publishing system (LMA) integrated with the Hot Lava Mobile Delivery and Tracking System ^TM (MDTS) allows organizations to have the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives faster, with more cost efficiency. Hot Lava Software provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content design, authoring and publishing solution to corporations, government and universities around the world. More information is available at http://www.hotlavasoftware.com/

Local Baseball Team Teaches Math and Science during Summer Home Games

NEWS RELEASE

 

For Immediate Release 

Contact: Heather A. Katz, Ph.D.
540-428-2988

 

FREDERICK, MD – July 3, 2008 – This summer the Frederick Keys are changing the way that fans learn about baseball. The Keys have teamed up with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Hot Lava Software, Inc. to bring fans a new way to learn the science behind sports. The promotion, dubbed the Sports Bytes Competition, tests fans’ knowledge of the science behind sports via their mobile phones. Throughout the months of July and August the Keys will facilitate fans to use their mobile phones in new and exciting ways to learn the science behind the baseball game that unfolds before their eyes!

 

Attend a Frederick Keys home game during July and August this summer and you will see a wild haired professor in a white lab coat and safety goggles. The Professor will appear in the middle innings and lead on top of the dugout. He will playfully challenge the intelligence of the audience and encourage fans to take out their mobile phones and participate by text messaging an answer in response to a science question about baseball. The Frederick Keys have embraced this effort and are committed to educating the community through the Sports Bytes Competition.  Attend a Frederick Keys home game this July or August and experience, live, the thrill of the Sports Bytes Competition! Or access the questions via your mobile phone by text messaging “sport” to 83960 and prove that you are smarter than the Professor! Sports Bytes are also available at http://www.hdwap.com/s.

 

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.

 

Hot Lava Software, Inc. is the leading provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software’s content development and publishing system (LMA) integrated with the Hot Lava Mobile Delivery and Tracking System ^TM (MDTS) allows organizations to have the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives faster, with more cost efficiency. Hot Lava Software provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content design, authoring and publishing solution to corporations, governments and universities around the world.  More information is available at http://www.hotlavasoftware.com  

 

About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

 

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people’s eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has more than $2.4 billion in assets. More information is available at http://www.kauffman.org

Sports Bytes Delivers Math and Science Sports Quizzes

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release                          Contact: Heather Katz, Ph.D.
                                                            301-789-1891

Washington, D.C. – May 27, 2008 – Hot Lava Software, Inc. is collaborating with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, to use the most ubiquitous computing platform on the planet — the mobile phone — to deliver on-demand Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education that is accessible and captivating.

During the summer of 2008 Hot Lava Software will use mobile phone technology at major summer sports events — soccer, baseball, basketball, swimming and cycling — to engage more than 100,000 people worldwide with a Sports Bytes Competition. Sports Bytes are sports themed STEM educational modules — quick quizzes — delivered via mobile phones.

A spring 2008 Sports Bytes Pilot Project proved successful in reaching more than 16,000 users in over 114 countries. The ultimate goal with the summer 2008 Sports Bytes Competition is to demonstrate the potential for delivering STEM education to millions of people, via their mobile phones.

“Particularly relevant to math and science education is the love affair that many U.S. teens have with their mobile phones. This age bracket represents the pivotal turning point toward or away from math and science careers and thus mobile phones become a potentially significant intervention vector,” says Merrilea J. Mayo, Ph.D., director, Future of Learning Initiatives, for the Kauffman Foundation.

The Sports Bytes Competition will be live at select August D.C. United soccer games as well as the Kansas City T-Bones, Frederick Keys, Aberdeen Ironbirds, Bowie Baysox, Wilmington Blue Rocks and Delmarva Shorebirds baseball games, during July and August 2008. Those not attending a game can access the Sports Bytes content via www.hdwap.com/sport7 from a mobile phone web browser.

Users can access these STEM educational modules while attending summer sports events. When users correctly answer at least one Sports Bytes quiz item, they qualify for a chance to win a stadium prize pack. Prize packs can include kajeet mobile phones, first throws at a minor league baseball game, team jerseys and baseball caps and other items related to each team.

In addition to these U.S. demonstrations of the program, global partners in Canada, Singapore, South Africa, Australia and the European Union will engage users worldwide to access the Sports Bytes modules via their mobile phone web browsers.

About Hot Lava Software, Inc.

Hot Lava Software, Inc. is the leading provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software’s content development and publishing system (LMA) integrated with the Hot Lava Mobile Delivery and Tracking System TM (MDTS) allows organizations to have the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives faster, with more cost efficiency. Hot Lava Software provides mobile content solutions and a mobile content design, authoring and publishing solutions to Corporations, Governments and Universities around the World. More information is available at:  http://www.hotlavasoftware.com/

About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people’s eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Kauffman, the Foundation has more than $2.4 billion in assets. More information is available at:  http://www.kauffman.org/.