Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Thu, Mar 18, 2010
App Stores were the big story for 2009, and growth and interest in that sector is sure to continue through 2010. But there are definite fractures in the generic app store's foundations. The developers of mobile content are increasingly voicing growing dissatisfaction over likely obscurity, hyper-competition, shrinking margins, and that same bug-bear once again - fragmentation.
Research from one Telecom Council member reveals no fewer than 44 app stores emerged since 20083Q, with at least 7 more coming in 2010Q1. This leaves us with some questions to address:
What are the considerations for the app store operators (the carriers, handset vendors, OS makers, portals, etc.) as they try to carve themselves out a piece of this role?
Is it about revenue, or is it ownership of the relationship?
Can the industry possibly support this many storefronts?
What role does application discovery play?
Does discovery take place within a store, per the Amazon sales models, or across stores, per the Google search models?
Are there social networking solutions that can help sort through the 100,000+ apps out there?
For developers, a brief trend towards homogeneity has been halted, and tough decisions once again loom about the best path to market, getting noticed, and which app stores are most promising. What factors should developers be demanding of their channels? Are there differences between enterprise and consumer, between large and small ISVs? So many questions. At this meeting, you can learn best practices for answering them, communicate with your potential channel partners, spot trends, and make the connections that will get you to your next milestones.
This meeting is free for Telecom Council members, and $200 for non-members.
Details
When Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
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Intel Campus
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, California 95054
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Sponsored By EnvIO Networks
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Wed, Mar 17, 2010
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Here are the details for our Clipboard History app. App name: AndroClip, by Ted Munnich, Matt Kanninen, Edward Leung, Kenneth Ng Description: A tool to keep track of your clipboard history Details: We took the sample NotePad application, and integrated it with the Clipboard Manager system service. The result was a database to store and access your clipboard history. -MK
Vinh
1. ShowUsLive by Vinh Lam and John Dell'Aera. 2. Have you ever been in Location A but want to know what's going on at Location B? What do you want to see? 3. This is a social app that enables you to ask the world to show you what they see live.
Francisco J. Carriedo
App: "Personal Timing Asistant", By: Francisco J. Carriedo, App that leverages the Speech Recognition and Text2Speech APIs to work as a Personal Timing Assistant., You can engage in a small conversation with your Androidy Timing Assistant to achieve your timed goals.
Important: Candidates, please bring one page of introduction of of you app to stick on the wall around dinner area during the event. So people can see you app beside the demo.
Posted Mar 16, 2010 5:57 PM
Pramod Rustagi
App Name: Handwriting Tutor TagLine: Proper Lettering for Kids By: Pramod Rustagi, Roberto Colecchia, Robert Sloan Description: Handwriting Tutor is an engaging game-like app to teach kids how to write the alphabet. Early stage learners have a difficult time writing properly, especially the correct order of letter strokes, and sometimes producing a mirror image of the letters. Handwriting Tutor rewards kids with 3D eye-candy, giving both audio and visual reinforcement.
Lawrence
App Name: Personal Genomics By: Melanie Swan, Michael Kolb, Lawrence Wong. App Description: Side-by-side comparison of consumer genomic services (23andme, deCODEme, & Navigenics) by loci and variants for 20 conditions (diabetes, cancers, heart disease, etc.)
Ben
App Name: CallerInfo; Creators: Ben Luu, Laura Klemme; Desc: Beside the phone number (and caller's name if in contact list), this application displays additional data for the incoming call such as city, state, and anything that users want to display. Here are some examples: "CA, Mountain View", "CA, Mountain View, my home town", "CA, Mountain View, my home town", "CA, Silicon Valley", and etc, Basically users have control of what they want to display or even disable the feature.
Senthil
Word Magic, by Senthil Pandurangan & Anuradha Raja A fun application for kids to identify missing letters for the picture shown. Word Magic is an excellent application for kids to have fun with words and their spellings. A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. There are three flavors. You can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last or a challenge mode. The app is loaded with lots of fun features http://android.anusen.com
gillesde
Virtual Kaleidoscope by Gilles de Bordeaux, Joel Marty, Stephan Branczyk My app displays a kaleidoscope image using a subset of a picture from your camera or from a file. Shake the phone for new kaleidoscope effects. Move the phone up for more light and a brighter picture, or down for less light and a darker picture. Use built-in color filters to change the ambiance of the image. When you like what you see, save the image. http://www.flickr.com/photo...
Posted Mar 16, 2010 11:53 AM
S Sriram
Shortcuts (highlighting the "callme" Abbreviated app) by S. Sriram. Shortcuts is an android client that allows one to use any one of hundreds of abbreviated apps that activate various web services. The callme abbreviated app allows one to type in a shortcut i.e. "callme-twittername: "which then a) composes a message with a url and tweets it and b)allows the twitter user to access the senders google voice embed widget and c) have google place the callhttp://www.qcolon.com/demo/...
Jian Zhang
App name: Xeekunote Creator: Jian Zhang Desc: Feature rich personal info aggregater supporting voice memo, camera, photos, location, map, and an elegant content browser. web: http://xeeku.com
ashrafi
TimeMap, by Siamak Ashrafi Mapping your Google Calendar on a Google Map on Android Send alarm if someone is going to be late because of traffic [time/location/distance]. Show them points of interest on the route. [grocery store, hardware store, restaurants ] http://www.YLabz.com
Karl Pohl
the application I would like to demo developed as part of android hackathon 1. Name: FractCalculator Developer: Karl Pohl 2. one line description: to calculate the size of woodworking projects i.e. cabinets using fractional values 3. The user can use any number (fraction or full numbers) to calculate the physical size of a woodworking project i.e. Cabinets etc. and to store the information in a database for future maintenance/reference
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Wed, Mar 17, 2010
Android Hackathon Ceremony will be hosted by Silicon Valley Android Developers Group, in collaboration with Informal Android Developers Meetup which organized by Gorgi. We are going to invite all the developers who successfully finish an Android Apps at the Android Hackathon (organized by Gorgi) to demo their app, then we will arrange a vote to let all the audience to select the winners and award at end of the meeting.
The Android Hackathon and award are sponsored by the following sponsors
Diamond Sponsor: Google
Platinum Sponsor: Tech CU
Gold Sponsor:
GetJar
Admob
Venue Sponsors:
Hacker Dojo
Access Growth
Gift Sponsors
O'Reilly (12 Android book)
Marakana (2 free passes for a weeklong bootcamp training session)
GetJar ($50 download credit for each attendee tonight)
Plug and Play (Demo table for PlugandPlay's PACT event)
Embedded Works (2 months of data service from Embedded Works for one person)
Agenda
6PM: Food and networking
6:30PM Introduction
6:40PM Opening remark: Android Hackathon main organizer - Georgi Dagnall
6:45PM Android Hackathon developers demo
7:45PM voting rules and begin to vote
7:50PM Break
8:00PM Speakers & and judge comments
8:30PM Voting close. Announcement
8:40PM Announce Android Hackathon winners and rewards
9pm: Lucky Draw
Posted by ExtendLogic PR on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
Android Developer Training Camp organized by ExtendLogic open for registration:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEZvUDhvRmhIWkN4ZlBHTlNqaXV1UlE6MA
It is a two days intensive training program. More detail coming soon.
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Access Growth LLC is announcing a specific program designed to support mobile developers through our Mobile Innovation Lab. We are actively seeking a few expert mobile developers that would like to participate as part time advisors and/or consultants to the Mobile Innovation Lab. In order to qualify you must have multiple applications already live on an app store and a minimum of one year experience after the first app was launched. If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity and additional benefits for getting involved please feel free to send Chris an email at chris.zelenka@accessgrowth.com
Please see below a current press release concerning the launch of the Mobile Innovation Lab.
Access Growth LLC, a growth consulting and innovation management firm is proud to announce the Access Growth Mobile Innovation Lab which is focused on assisting established mobile application developers with the resources necessary to strategically and efficiently reach the defined target market for their applications. The primary goal of the Mobile Innovation Lab is to work directly with mobile developers to accelerate development, maximize revenue potential, and dominate the competition. Access Growth has developed a complete ecosystem of channels to support go to market strategies for mobile applications into 27 countries and has made these channels available to both large mobile application development companies as well as individuals with a single app ready for market.
The following services are available for participants of the Mobile Innovation Lab:
App Promotion & Marketing
Development & Testing Support
Competitive Analysis
Market Analysis & Strategy
Monetization Plan
Business Growth Planning
IP Review & Protection Plan
End-User Testing
Strategic Marketing & Sales Plan
Launch Strategy & Implementation Support
Mobile Innovation Lab participants will be provided a place to work inside of the Access Growth Venture Center and can access the above services on a ala carte basis depending on their specific needs. Access Growth has developed a creative compensation model for mobile application development companies seeking to retain the firm for services and understands the unique problems many development companies face prior to scaling their applications.
Access Growth has partnered with Silicon Valley Android and Silicon Valley iPhone Business to support early stage developers with training and access to mobile development knowledge through specific programs and events designed for individuals learning about mobile development. Developers that go through training programs will be provided special discounts for services from the Mobile Innovation Lab in order to rapidly develop their product and be ready to hit the ground running once their applications go live.
Access Growth LLC is a global growth consulting and innovation management firm that was founded in 1989 to help companies successfully grow through a proprietary 360° commercialization process. The Access Growth team currently supports 27 countries and provides world-class growth strategies, innovation planning, and commercialization services to early-stage, emerging growth and Fortune 500 companies to quickly penetrate markets and drive top-line growth. To learn more, please visit www.AccessGrowth.com.
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Fri, Dec 11, 2009
The Product is a Set Top Box that goes in customers’ living rooms with a web camera and utilizes a Harmony Universal remote.
Contractors opening:
1) Multiple Android application developers with Java experience,
2) One low-level C++ engineer with core Linux experience - RTP, SIP, A/V, media streaming, and DSP knowledge.
3) Sr. Android Developer/Architect to help guide in Android, including NDK.
Mandatory requirements:
• 4+ years enterprise experience developing commercial mobile applications.
• Prior experience developing an Android application.
• Ability to translate functional designs into technical design.
• 4+ years java experiences.
• Demonstrated experience working with a distributed team (onshore/offshore).
• Experienced working with XML and web services on mobile devices.
Desired Skills:
• Developers with NDK experience are highly preferred.
• Experience working with video streaming is a plus.
• Self-driven and works well independently
• Good communication skills
• Demonstrated understanding of packaging commercial Android applications.
• Embedded C experiences a plus.
Posted by ExtendLogic BD on Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Google announced Android Developer Challenge 2 winners
Overall Winners
 | SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone's location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
Education/Reference Winners
 | Plink Art
Plink Art is an app for identifying, discovering and sharing art. Take a photo of a painting, and the Plink Art servers will try to identify it. You can also browse our database of artwork by keyword or timeline and share your discoveries with friends. |
 | Word Puzzle
The Word Puzzle is designed to provide a fun way to learn basic English words for preschool children. Kids can study spelling and pronunciation with flash card and check achievement with word puzzle. Interesting visual and sound interaction with awarding system helps kids to keep learning. Let kids play with your Android. |
 | Celeste
An educational augmented reality app that displays the Sun, Moon, planets and their paths through the sky onto your camera view. You can navigate through the sky selecting celestial bodies to display interesting information about our solar system. See the exact spot on your horizon where the sun will rise and set. |
Entertainment Winners
 | A World of Photo
Loosely inspired by the traditional "Spin the bottle", A World of Photo is a casual, geographic worldwide multiplayer online game with a social touch. Players spin their phones and will receive a photo from whomever in the world they pointed to. For best play experience, let the app run in the background. |
 | SongDNA
Need any information on a song? Practicing for a big karaoke gig? Music quiz coming up tomorrow? The SongDNA widget allows you to quickly look up your favorite song's detailed information. It includes the lyrics, artist's bio, homepage, highest chart rank and video. Handy when you're training for your next karaoke gig!! |
 | Solo
Solo is a great, easy to play and feature rich pocket guitar for your phone. A must for all guitar enthusiasts! Features include -Huge chord library with 380+ chords & diagrams -Load/save chord layouts -Play along with music on your phone -Overlay music & lyrics from the internet -Various strum modes, including shake strum |
Games: Arcade/Action Winners
 | Speed Forge 3D
Speed Forge: Heavy duty hover vehicles, normally used for mining are now seen in illegal races organized in abondoned factories and dark Marsian alleys. The rock crushing explosives once used in these machines now serve a different purpose... |
 | Graviturn
Tilt your phone to move the red circles out of the screen while keeping the green circles. Infinite levels from very easy to nearly impossible. Compare your performance with other players after each level (online highscore and statistics). |
 | Moto X Mayhem
Jump, lean, and race through seven levels of amazing motorbike action in the best side scrolling bike game! Lean forward and back on your motorbike as you climb hills and fly through the air using accelerometer technology. Witness realistic physics as your shocks recoil when you land jumps! Or just flick your rider around!! |
Games: Casual/Puzzle Winners
| What the Doodle!?
'WTD!?' is a real-time online multiplayer game where one player tries to draw out a given phrase and others try to guess it. Features FFA and Team games, Global Highscores, Personal Face Doodles, integrated Voice Recognition and more! Real-time drawing!? Built for performance, you'll really see the magic at first doodle! |
 | Totemo
Unloose the spirit. Break the spell. Uncover the mystery hidden between the realms in a unique puzzle game. Storm your brain and relax your mind solving over 60 mind-soothing logic tasks. Play the survival mode for extra challenge and write your name into the on-line leaderboards. http://hexage.net |
 | Mazeness
The goal of the game is rather simple - you need to bring all the balls ( up to 4 per level!) to their goals at the same time, with help of barriers, teleports and holders. It seems simple at first, but it's not that easy. The difficulty is growing steadily from level to level. |
Lifestyle Winners
| SweetDreams
SweetDreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. You can even use those inactivity periods to save battery power as well, and of course forget about enabling WiFi, Bluetooth or ringtones volume ... |
 | SpecTrek
Improve your fitness with this revolutionary augmented reality ghost hunting game. Walk or run around using GPS and your phone's camera to find and catch virtual ghosts. You will experience a new adventure each SpecTrekking session. The game offers statistics, awards, titles, records, and most of all a whole lot of fun! |
 | FoxyRing
FoxyRing makes your phone smarter by analyzing the ambient noise and adjust the ringer volume. Also: - Sleeping hours to silent your phone during the night. - Geolocated ringer profiles, change ringtone or make your phone vibrate only at work! - Widget to silent your phone for a timed period. - Great interface |
Media Winners
 | Buzz Deck
BuzzDeck is the quick and easy way to get all the web content you care about most. Flick through your daily hit of favourite news topics. And get Twitter & Facebook updates alongside. BuzzDeck learns what you like and recommends cool new stuff. Simple, elegant & fast. NB: No landscape mode yet. http://mippin.com/buzzdeck |
 | SPB TV
SPB TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. SPB TV provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee! Requires a reliable 3G or WiFi network connection for proper streaming. Full-featured 60-days trial. |
 | FxCamera
FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects. - ToyCam (Toy Camera Emulator) - Polandroid - Fisheye - Warhol (Andy Warhol-izer) - Normal *this app requires SD card* |
Productivity/Tools Winners
| WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. 1. Track your phone’s location and who is using it 2. Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief 3. Backup all your data 4. Wipe out your data remotely 5. Restore your data May the phone be with you! |
 | Hoccer
Hoccer is your application for ad-hoc data exchange. Use gestures to "throw" your data through the air and let the recipients "catch" it. There is no need for prior exchange of contact details. |
 | Tasker
Tasker let's you link any Task (action set) to the Contexts (application, time, day, location, event, widget press) where it should run. Send an SMS at 3:15 Monday, make per-app settings or locks, map camera button to a menu, launch music app on headphone insert, timelapse photos, encrypt on-the-fly, the list is endless! |
Social Networking Winners
 | Ce:real - Everyday trends
Ce:real, What's happening in this world? Are you curious about real world? How about North Pole or an edge of Africa? Also, it can be your neighborhood. It is offering to you hot photo stories with Twitter trends keyword which has speed of lights. Enjoy millions of happenings in real world and you participate in it as well. |
 | SocialMuse
Check out what users on the other side of the world are listening to! Find people with similar musical taste, or just explore the world through music. Browse other users' music libraries, listen to previews of their songs, and buy them if you like them. Check out their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Last.fm. |
 | SpotMessage
SpotMessage is a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be notified when the recipient arrives at the spot. SpotMsg finds various uses; as an alarm reminding you of a task at a certain spot or for sending your friend a surprise message on his or her arrival. |
Travel Winners
 | Trip Journal
Trip Journal is the ultimate trip tracking and sharing solution currently available on Android powered Smartphones. Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places you are visiting. GPS route tracking, record waypoints, photos & notes, trip statistics, KMZ & Picasa exports, incorporated Google Maps. |
 | iNap: Arrival Alert
Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick powernap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early... Using your phone's GPS it will determine where you are, and wake you when you are close to your destination! |
 | Car Locator
Save your location whenever you park, and Car Locator will navigate you back to your car should you ever have trouble finding it. - Points in direction of your car using GPS and compass - Radar view, map view, and split view - Parking timer alarm GPS and compass must be enabled. This free version expires after 25 runs. |
Misc Winners
 | Rhythm Guitar
Plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar. Strum and pick chords, make new chords, string them together to create songs, transpose songs to fit your vocal range. Great for songwriting, chord reference, learning radio hits, or even plugging into speakers and pedals. |
 | Andrometer
Andrometer allows you to measure the approximate distance from you to an object that you can see. Uses GPS, accelerometer and geomagnetic sensor. Tips: - Keep as steady as possible - The further you walk, the more accurate the measurement - Must be outdoors with clear view of sky - Works best under 1 km |
 | Calton Hill GPSCaddy
GPSCaddy allows golfers to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS or in the comfort of home using satellite imagery. Then, when they are playing the course, it uses GPS to tell them exactly how far they are from the significant features of the hole they are playing (green, bunkers, etc). |
Posted by ExtendLogic PR on Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Cupertino,ca, September 17, 2009: ExtendLogic, an Silicon Valleyleading IT outsourcing and consulting services provider focusing on enterprise mobile(iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Mobile backend, embedded mobile) solutions, richmedia and enterprise applications, has announced at the event of “iPhoneInternational Market” hosted by IMUG.org and iPhone Business Meetup at AppleHeadquarter on 17th, Sep, about its offering of Global Mobile Market Access (GMMA) solutions foriPhone developers.
With the rising of competition in the App store US market,more and more iPhone developers are looking for more ways to make money. WithApple iPhone’s expansion internationally, lots are of developers are trying tofind ways to make money from those emerging international market, like Europe,China, India, and so on.
“We want to help iPhone Appdevelopers to capitalize from their existing investment,”Announced by the CEO of ExtendLoigc, David Cao, during the presentation in theevent, “With our global mobile development teams, as well as our testing anddeployment solution, ExtendLogic can help U.S. iPhone developers and firms onapp development, localization, promotions, as well as porting to Android, Blackberry,OMS, Symbian and other platforms.”
ExtendLogic offers end to end solution for iPhone developerswho do not have the bandwidth to deal with international technical as well asbusiness issues. The solution includes the following services:
• Localization
• Testing & certification for different network and carriers
• Porting to different platforms
• Marketing
The services can alsobe tailored into different packages for companies already have internationalaccess.
Posted by ExtendLogic PR on Tue, Sep 29, 2009
CUPERTINO, California—September 28, 2009—Apple® today announced thatmore than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionaryApp Store, the largest applications store in the world. There are nowmore than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone™ andiPod touch® customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’siPhone Developer Program.
“The rate of App Store downloads continues to accelerate with usersdownloading a staggering two billion apps in just over a year,including more than half a billion apps this quarter alone,” said SteveJobs, Apple’s CEO. “The App Store has reinvented what you can do with amobile handheld device, and our users are clearly loving it.”
Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries worldwide canchoose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, includinggames, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. With therecently introduced iTunes® 9, it’s now easier than ever to organizeand sync your apps right in iTunes and they will automatically appearon your iPhone or iPod touch with the same layout.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution inthe 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industryin innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating systemand iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading thedigital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video playersand iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market withits revolutionary iPhone.
Posted by David Cao on Tue, Sep 29, 2009
A Delegation led by Mr Liming Zhu, the Deputy Director of Xi’an Software Park will visit Silicon Valley at Oct 11th. Xi’an Software Park is a national software industrial & export base and is one of the first Service Outsourcing Base Cities established by the Central Government.
Founded in December 1998, Xi’an Software Park is located within the Xi’an High-tech Industries Development Zone, a special economic-expansion area entitled to government tax benefits and other incentives. To date, Xi’an Software Park has attracted more than 630 software and outsourcing enterprises both from within China and abroad, with more than 50,000 employees.
LOCATION & TRANSPORTATION: Xi’an is the largest major city in China’s portion of the new Eurasian continental bridge. The city is located in the center of China and is about a 2-hour flight from both the capital, Beijing, and the major coastal city of Shanghai.Park which is one of the 5 certificated Hi-Tech Parks in China by Central Government to recruit and attract overseas to either Start up business or work inside the park. Mrs. Dang has more than 15 years experience in the hi-tech park, and witnesses the hi-tech park from nothing to the well developed area which ranks top 5 nationwide in comprehensive category issued by many authorities.
During the event, valuable information as below, but not limited to, will be brought on for your consideration:
1). General policy issued by central government for attracting overseas to start up business or work in domestic enterprises.
2). General background about Xi’an city, including infrastructure, business and living environment, resources and competitiveness advantages as well as overall industries
3). Attend panel discussion to learn successful stories presented by oversea returnee and share experience
4). Job-openings and other opportunities
Event details:
Date:Oct 11, 2009
Time: 4:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:The Enterprise Network
2953 Bunker Hill Lane Ste.#400
Santa Clara, CA 95054Official registration site:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlxcVc1RWNmYi1XVUxpZ0dSRFFYa1E6MA&pli=1
Due to limited seats, please make your reservation as early as possible.