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 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,056 |
 I am here to tell you it’s true. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder. I’m sure that you are waiting for the other shoe to drop but ladies and gentlemen, there is no other shoe. It is simply the truth. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder.
Those of you who have i...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,594 |
 This book is a nice concise no nonsense introduction to Objective-C. This book is different than most of the Objective-C books I have read in that it uses Cocoa and Cocoa Touch to teach the language.
The book starts out covering the developer programs, Xcode, Object-Oriented Programmi...Jan. 26, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,455 |
 Twenty years ago, a software engineer named Neil Papworth kicked off the holidays – and a communications revolution – by sending the world’s first text message via phone. The message, appropriately enough, was “Merry Christmas.”
It took a few more Christmases before text messaging ca...Jan. 14, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,343 |
 Like an automobile, a web application needs occasional maintenance and management over its life cycle. Although it doesn't need oil changes, it will probably need version upgrades. There may not be manufacturer recalls, but sometimes servers fail or hang. An application doesn't need to...Dec. 28, 2012 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,528 |
 Personally, I’m more of a last-minute holiday shopper, but nonetheless, there I was being dragged out to the brick and mortar stores on Black Friday. Given that my role seemed to be limited to that of manual laborer (“Honey, can you carry all this for me?”), I had a lot of time to peop...Dec. 14, 2012 04:15 AM EST Reads: 2,030 |
 If I had to give this book a one word description, I would say it is 'balanced'. In the beginning of the book the author mentions that he does not want to right one of those books that list a little code and then explains the code, changes the code, explains those changes and so on and...Dec. 11, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,203 |
 Contrary to popular belief, the discussion doesn't need to produce a winner and a loser. Instead of classifying apps as web apps or as native apps, why not just call them mobile apps? I believe "mobile app" is a great name. Under this name there are simply two variations of mobile app ...Nov. 26, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,546 |
 The exponential growth of smartphone users around the globe is no secret. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports that vendors shipped a total of 444.5 million mobile phones in 3Q12 alone. The importance of the mobile evolution reaches a broad range of industries from fi...Nov. 20, 2012 02:10 PM EST Reads: 1,479 |
 In this acute age of class warfare, elitism, and social media tools, somewhere in the middle of all of it, the retail and financial services industries are spawning the latest “Must-have” digital bling: mobile wallets. (or digital wallets)
Will credit cards become a thing of the past...Sep. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,412 |
 A new online exchange in China is helping mobile game developers find partners, advertisers and a new approach to in-app promotions.
China will have an estimated 100 million smartphone users by the end of the year, and it's a market that is keenly interested in high quality games. The...Aug. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,014 |
 Major retailers like Sears, Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Shell and others announced last week their focus on developing MCX, Merchant Customer Exchange, to enhance their sales and cover the growing demand for capabilities to buy things from the smartphone.
This is a great milestone in ...Aug. 25, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,648 |
 This is a great book for both someone who wants to learn Test Driven Development (TDD), anyone that wants to learn how to do unit testing in Xcode, and anyone who wants to improve their designs using TDD.
The author begins the book with a nice overview of the benefits of testing and h...Aug. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,817 |
 Wi-Fi has truly come of age as a viable means to connect mobile devices to the Internet. The past four blogs in this series have highlighted some of the key findings of a recent survey of U.S. mobile users by Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Our survey uncovered some ...Aug. 1, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,339 |
 A little background so you know what type of experience I have. I have been a Microsoft .NET architect and developer since the first beta release. Before that C, C++, ColdFusion, ASP, JavaScript and of course HTML. Being a .NET developer has many advantages, but the one major disadvant...Apr. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,995 |
 One sure fire way to keep budget and buzz away from your projects is for you and your department to be associated with incremental improvement. Projects can generally be classified into two categories. The first is “business transformation,” which includes projects that generate excite...Jul. 20, 2011 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,056 |
 The rapid growth of smartphones, tablets and netbooks are forcing mobile service providers to consider how best to meet the growing demands for rich data services that are straining mobile network capacity and eroding profits. Because their networks were originally designed for the low ...Jul. 19, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,067 |
Adobe offers Customer Experience Enterprise Platform that includes Flash, Flex, HTML, PDF, designer’s tools, workflow servers, data services, tools for all major mobile platforms, marketing campaigns in social networks, usage analytics, friendly content management system. Adobe becomes... Jun. 20, 2011 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 6,083 |
 At Starbucks, Panera, and McDonald’s restaurants everywhere, personal hubspots can be purchased to fuel our need to access applications on our mobile devices. Today, we automatically assume that we are able to access applications and the Internet if we have a connection but, with the r...May. 4, 2011 02:46 PM EDT Reads: 2,921 |
 Which mobile device should I target for my application? That's one of the first questions you need to answer as a mobile developer. You might select the device based on personal preference or what looks cool today. The problem is that mobile technology choices are diverse and evolvi...Mar. 17, 2011 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,971 |
 The design cornerstone of the Sybase's MEAP the Sybase Unwired Platform is the Mobile Business Object (MBO). The MBO encapsulates the business process logic and data into a reusable unit that can be accessed from a variety of clients. The development can take two approaches, firstly t...Feb. 11, 2011 03:45 AM EST Reads: 9,436 |
 Any Enterprise iOS application should feature some important features. Firstly Security, so encrypt your users application data on the device and that is in addition to any other Device Management & Security that you should be using. Check out Afaria which uses Apple's MDM. Secondly su...Jan. 28, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 5,364 |
 With January almost over now and conferences like Mobile World Congress and CTIA upon us, here is a thought: In the age of Mobile applications, will 2011 be the year of the Mobile Web appsIn this article, we outline the reasons why it will be and welcome your comments. Jan. 26, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 8,217 |
 This morning I was able to catch up with SAP Mentor Bryan Whitmarsh for an interview. I conducted a video interview with Bryan last year at Sapphire which you can watch here. Bryan works for Sybase's product management team and reports to Tony Kueh, who I interviewed last week. Brya...Jan. 11, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 5,409 |
 Over the last year I have been mentioning my thoughts on Mobile Developments and architectures. This week I have seen a great article by my colleague Willie Jow, published on Wireless Week, where he discusses deploying strategic and mobile platforms etc. Willie provides some recommenda...Feb. 9, 2010 07:05 AM EST Reads: 3,116 |
 There were two kinds of technology companies issuing press releases today.
Goofball ones that were somehow oblivious to Apple's planned announcement, and thought it was just another day and their stuff would get the usual attention. And those who watched the announcement of the iPad...Feb. 1, 2010 08:45 AM EST Reads: 9,352 |
 The speed of communication and connectivity today of the smart phone is unparalleled. Even better and faster than the Internet itself, because your phone is always talking to the network, always available and open to receive and send information without you having to dial a number or o...Jan. 15, 2010 11:30 AM EST Reads: 6,295 |
 One of the biggest problems developers have when building apps for the iPhone is memory violations. A lot of developers, especially those who come from a Java or .NET background, have trouble adjusting to an environment where they need to manually keep track of reference counts and the...Dec. 15, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 7,994 |
 This is the last in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this final article I have decided to sum up the thoughts and findings of the previous articles to form an initial set of 'Steps for Succes...Oct. 23, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,059 |
 This is the fourth in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this penultimate article I've decided to raise the Risks to be aware of before and during implementation of an Enterprise Mobility Strat...Oct. 20, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,478 |
 This is the third in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enterprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to discuss the Opportunities that lie in front of companies that undertake an Enterprise Mobility Strategy. Oct. 16, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,855 Replies: 1 |
 The new Tommy Hilfiger application connects consumers through the Web, iPhone and/or iPod touch to the Tommy Hilfiger stores as if they were experiencing the stores in-person. If shoppers can’t find an item in the local store, they can check availability on the iPhone and place an orde...Sep. 30, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,404 |
 Mobile marketing has recently been blessed with 3 new technologies to leverage: Augmented Reality (AR), Mobile Image Recognition (MIR) and Mobile Tagging (MT). What are they used for? Can they co-exist? This introductory article aims to position the three technologies to help businesse...Sep. 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 12,296 Replies: 2 |
 Netbiscuits added many devices to their database within the last month: Three Skypephone S2 (Amoi 8709), Nokia 5730 (XpressMusic), LG LG265 (Rumor 2), Toshiba W62T,Sharp SH902i, Kyocera A5528K Sanyo A5522S and- Samsung GT-S8000 (Jet), among others.
Aug. 7, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,674 |
 Master, what is the best way to master iPhone Development? Grasshopper, here are my seven steps to becoming an iPhone Developer. Tread carefully and you will become a wise man... Buy an Intel Based Mac & a Device - though the iPhone/iPod Touch device isn't 100% necessary for this early...Apr. 8, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,713 |
 The iPhone's accelerometers can provide access to a variety of information about where an iPhone exists in space. By measuring gravity, you can easily discover an iPhone's precise orientation. By measuring movement, you can see how an iPhone is being guided through space. Further, you ...Nov. 5, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 11,139 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 38,569 Replies: 6 |
 I want to thank everyone who showed up to share my enthusiasm for the iPhone as it is, what I believe, the mobile development platform to target. I also want to thank those people who tolerated my evasiveness and lack of detail during the SDK session. As I've said before, just because ...Mar. 30, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 24,748 |
 This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for m...Mar. 16, 2008 03:18 PM EDT Reads: 29,643 |
 They're termed 'early adopters.' They're the early birds who snap up the latest wireless devices like Apple's breakthrough iPhone. These high-tech consumer electronics' enthusiasts are critical to a new product's success because their opinions can often make or break a new product base...Feb. 5, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 8,523 |
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