Mobile

Being on the bench gives a man more time to do what he truly enjoys: mindlessly playing around with new technologies, APIs and generally making a lot of cool stuff that doesn’t really do anything. Enter…the gyroscope! What is a gyroscope? No, it is not a telescope that automatically zooms in on the nearest Greek […]

2013 has been touted by many Payment Pundits (including us right here on the Perficient FS blog) as “The Year of Mobile”.   While many articles and posts have been written about what mobile banking should be, I wanted to take a moment to caution what it might become. We all know the feeling of checking […]

Green Dot Corporation is on a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Its market leading brand of prepaid debit cards and prepaid reload services are available to consumers at more than 60,000 retail locations nationwide and online.  In early 2012, Green Dot made a move in the mobile space by purchasing Loopt, a location-based mobile […]

Key Points The adoption rate of mobile devices is off the charts. There are about 120 million smartphone devices in the United States and between 40 to 45 million tablets. The Television and Video Game industries are offering increasing amounts of supplemental content optimized for mobile devices broadly to encourage multi-screen engagement and specifically to […]

It is an 8 KB substitute for jQuery. That should answer both of those questions. In the world of Javascript libraries there are a plethora of options, but no one knows what any of them are; we all just use jQuery. jQuery is powerful, it caters to all browsers, and above all it works. However, […]

The first time I saw someone use Square was last year during a brief shopping excursion in Chinatown. I was in San Francisco for a User Experience conference and had a few hours free to explore. I had just found what I would refer to as the “cutest iPhone case ever” shaped like a bright […]

Tactus Technology has introduced a new way to interact with your phone: The Tactus Tactile Layer. This morphing layer of magic goo [paraphrasing] can raise up to form actual tactile buttons on your device, and disappear again when not needed. Previously, the only form of realistic haptic feedback available to touch devices was to have […]

Business is increasingly data-driven (raise your hand if you have heard the term “Big Data”) and when you talk to a company about enterprise mobile applications, the issue revolves around providing key data to a mobile workforce when and where they need it.  The important point is “providing key data” and the challenge is connecting […]

Web developers are familiar with the importance of Cascading Style Sheets when developing HTML5 apps. The basic premise is simple, standard look and feel of the elements can be described separately in a CSS definition file and without changing a lot of other code, or simply by applying a different CSS file, you can alter […]

At the recently concluded, Lean Startup Conference 2012, there was a interesting talk given by Matt Brezina of Sincerely regarding how they approach rapid mobile app development using Lean principles. This talk got me to thinking on how possibly similar principles might apply in an enterprise mobile app development world. Figure out the Minimum Viable […]

Mercedes made headlines recently with their revamped mobile site. The good news is that they were able to increase mobile traffic 85% year to date, and 170% over last year. The bad news is that when I looked at their revamped site it was evident that they didn’t account for SEO as part of the […]

Sure to spark some interest at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held next week in Las Vegas, a new smartphone OS has been announced. Ubuntu is no newcomer to the OS space, having released the first desktop version of Ubuntu, which is based on Linux, in 2004 which now has more than 20,000,000 […]