Indians may not be doing great on the cricketing field of late , but they are possibly the best when it comes to the game in the virtual world . Several smart phone applications developed by Indians are making waves as the IPL fever spreads . While IPL Mania, an Android app, gives you live coverage of the game and trivia on your favourite team, IPL Dugout, another free app, brings the cricket extravaganza to your mobile phone through voice overs and detailed score boards with a bit of history for good measure .
Cricket Empires, another app, lets users organize their own IPL games and play them too. Also thrown in is a range of stadiums, gymnasiums, team offices and training centres to choose from . Most of these apps are developed by Indians who often remain anonymous . If all you want are cricket scores, there are plenty of apps for iPhone and in the Android market to choose from .
A search in the Android market throws up more than a hundred new apps to follow IPL 5. IPL Cricket Fever lets you play your own IPL game . IPL Mania, gives you the profiles of different IPL teams, history and structure, news updates and tweets of your favourite teams . Shiva Sankar, a software engineer with an IT company in the city, is one of several Chennai Super Kings fans who use the IPL apps . "I can be anywhere and still enjoy CSK matches," he says . He recently discovered IPL Dugout, which lets him listen to real-time voice scores . The app also alerts him about important matches .
"It's great fun even when you are stuck in traffic," says Sankar . Cricket Empires is on Facebook and its mobile platforms enable users to organize a virtual IPL 5 with all its sounds and sights . Gopalan Raveendran, a senior professor at the University of Madras and a social media expert, says there is a mad rush to create apps on mobile platforms. "The people who create the most popular applications usually remain anonymous while platforms like Android of Google and iTunes of Apple profit from the apps. The applications are profitable for companies while the people who generate the ideas and develop the apps are not paid," he says, adding that trends and features of new apps emerge from user-generated content.
Several smart phone applications developed by Indians are making waves as the IPL fever spreads . While IPL Mania, an Android app, gives you live coverage of the game and trivia on your favourite team, IPL Dugout, another free app, brings the cricket extravaganza to your mobile phone through voiceovers anddetailedscoreboards with a bit of history for good measure . Cricket Empires, another app, lets users organize their own IPL games and play them too. Also thrown in is a rangeof stadiums, gymnasiums, team offices and training centres to choose from .
Most of these apps are developed by Indians who often remain anonymous . If all you want are cricket scores, there are plenty of apps for iPhone and in the Android market to choose from . A search in the Android market throws up more than a hundred new apps to follow IPL 5. IPL Cricket Fever lets you play your own IPL game . IPL Mania, gives you the profiles of different IPL teams, history and structure, news updates and tweets of your favourite teams . Shiva Sankar, a software engineer with an IT company in the city, is one of several Chennai Super Kings fans who use the IPL apps .
"I can be anywhere and still enjoy CSK matches," he says . He recently discovered IPL Dugout, which lets him listen to real-time voice scores . The app also alerts him about important matches . "It's great fun even when you are stuck in traffic," says Sankar . Cricket Empires is on Facebook and its mobile platforms enable users to organize a virtual IPL 5 with all its sounds and sights . Gopalan Raveendran, a senior professor at the University of Madras and a social media expert, says there is a mad rush to create apps on mobile platforms. "The people who create the most popular applications usually remain anonymous while platforms like Android of Google and iTunes of Apple profit from the apps. The applications are profitable for companies while the people who generate the ideas and develop the apps are not paid," he says, adding that trends and features of new apps emerge from user-generated content.