JHUMobile smartphone application launched
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “sga”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers the launch and development of the JHUMobile smartphone application.
- The News-Letter reported that JHUMobile launched to connect the Hopkins community with University institutions and online programs, with modules including Courses, Maps, Transit, Library, Events, Emergency, Athletics, Hopkins Groups and SGA.
- The paper reported that Kirk Sabnani said he proposed the application in an informal SGA discussion and that the final concept drew largely on ideas from the SGA’s JHUMobile Ad hoc Committee.
- The article adds that Student Technology Services and SGA gathered the information, while STS created the application’s graphics and the system that keeps its information current, according to Steve Presser.
- The reporter writes that the application had at least 1,200 iOS and Android installations within its first 48 hours; Presser also wrote that at least 2,500 people read the launch email.
- According to the article, the application was available to iOS and Android users, with BlackBerry and mobile web versions forthcoming.