Wearables have been in the mobile space news again lately, with the news that iWatch sales have slipped significantly. However, one of the other facets of mobile space and one that has greater enterprise applicability, Internet of Things (IoT) and in this case, beacons have made a number of quiet but significant advances lately. The […]
Perry Hoekstra
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The Connected Car Platform Conundrum
I recently completed some proof-of-concept work for a major automotive manufacturer and I have come to the realization that the automotive manufacturer’s approach to the concept of the “Connected Car Platform” is going to run into growing pains as the pace of mobile innovation continues unabated. One of first issues I ran into was that […]
Reconsidering Enterprise Wearables
I was talking to a colleague a number of weeks ago and the topic came up of where mobile was headed now that smartphones/tablets have become “commonplace”. The three areas that seem to get a considerable degree of focus is wearables (whose hype will be even further boosted if Apple releases the rumored iWatch on […]
Microservices as a Mobile Development Enabler
A mobile application has very little function without data to work with and enterprise business mobile applications, even more so. This has given rise to the visibility of application programming interfaces or APIs within the enterprise. Businesses are using APIs to allow visibility to certain business data to business partners outside the company. This concept […]
Android Version Deprecation
The latest version of Adobe Cordova was released today (v. 3.5) and perusing through the release notes, I saw that they had dropped support for iOS 5, leaving only one major previous release (iOS 6) and the current release. In the past, Android developers have been plagued by the slow release of new versions of […]
Minimal Viable Product
In a conversation the other day, the focus was around the integration of the Agile methodology with Lean Startup and the cycle of build > measure > learn and how concepts from Lean Startup can complement an Agile software development process. One of the intriguing ideas that carry over into enterprise mobile development is a […]
The ‘Businessification’ of Tablets
Apple has always been known as a consumer-oriented organization. It’s last business or enterprise-focused product; the Apple xServe rack servers were discontinued at the beginning of 2011. However, a funny thing happened on their way to consumer electronic dominance, they became relevant to business. The evidence is never clearer than the dominance of the iPad […]
Mobile Security Reference Architecture
Just recently, the Federal Government handed out a gift (how often can you say that?) to the mobile community. As part of the new open digital government initiative, the Federal CIO Council and Department of Homeland Security have published the Mobile Security Reference Architecture. It is a comprehensive picture of the minimal security controls necessary […]
Are Tablets Truly Mobile Devices?
No, I am not trying to make a Thorsten Heins-like splash (the BlackBerry CEO who recently stated that “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”). If you pose the above question in one of those Jay Lenoesque “Jaywalking – Man on the Street” episodes, the response would […]
You Need Mobile Development as a Skill Set
If you have been sitting on the sidelines, looking at the mobile space and wondering if it is worth your time to learn mobile development, think again. According to a recent Gartner report, Android mobile device sales outstripped PC shipments in the third quarter of 2012. Obviously, if you throw in the iPhone/iPad ecosphere, Windows […]
Linking to Mobile Consumers Through APIs
The recent purchase of Mashery by Intel and Layer 7 by Computer Associates highlights the importance that APIs (Application Programming Interface) have become in exposing internal corporate services to mobile developers, both corporate and outside. Corporations are beginning to understand that one of the keys to users interacting with their services is through mobile and […]
New Class of Prototyping Tools
If you believe you are a good software designer, the great news about creating mobile applications is that with mobile apps: design is everything. Time and time again, it has been show that users value good design and its impact on usability. As with everything else in life, we’re all individuals, with different preferences and […]