Mobile

I don’t think anyone would be surprised to learn that there’s a pretty good overlap between social banking and mobile banking.  I embed the following video where Mike Panzarella talks about a variety of things.  He goes into segmentation of customers around 1:30 in the video.  The entire video is interesting though. Now back to […]

At the Connected Health Symposium in Boston I attended a session entitled “The ‘e’ is for Engagement: the Latest Research on the e-Patient Revolution” led by Susannah Fox (@SusannahFox). At this event, Susannah released new patient self tracking research for the first time. The results of her research showed that: 60% of adults track their […]

The latest vendor who recognizes the significance of the mobile environment is Oracle who announced a version of their Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) for mobile applications called appropriately, ADF Mobile.  This cross-platform framework is not targeted at the general mobile programmer but instead Oracle is focusing on the enterprise Java developer who is familiar […]

If you took a poll of the mobile development teams out there, odds are that most of the teams are using some form of Agile development methodology practice.  One of the reasons is that the concept of Agile sprints fit very well into the update model that the mobile app market has defined. The sprints, […]

A report out the other day by an industry group that tracks shipments of flat panel screens (TVs to LDC monitors) has an interesting statistic in that the screen size for mobile phones has increased 38% in the past three years.  While the group took the average of mobile phone screen sizes, I took a […]

I remembered Minjun Wang once posted an article introducing the Rho mobile, which is an HTML5 application development platform built to meet the needs of the next generation of business mobility using Ruby and Rails. Well, today I’m going to introduce another tool to develop multi-platform mobile applications – Titanium, based on Javascript. Unlike Phone […]

Mashable today had an article about the gap in mobile websites.  Stats like 66% of major retail brands don’t have a mobile site and 10% of all web traffic is via a mobile device.  If you derive much of your revenue from online sales, nearly $12 billion in sales are via mobile purchases.  But as […]

Today I was reading a guest article on Bank Systems & Technology from Gary Greenwald, Citi’s managing director of digital money services, on the subject of banks tackling mobile payments and other digital initiatives. He was commenting on Citi’s effort around creating a new business called “Citi Enterprise Payments” and how he was tasked with […]

Gartner came a number of years ago with a graphical representation and explanation of how new technologies are adopted as solutions over time.  There is a period on the graph where new technologies have been overhyped and overpromised either by vendors or the technology community at large. Projects based on these cutting-edge technologies do not […]

Today I updated my iPhone 4 to the new iOS 6 operating system.  It has lots of new features which I’ve just started to play with, including a new version of Safari, Apple’s mobile web browser.   What does this have to do with portals?  Keep reading. One of my clients just recently (yesterday – […]

As of late, I can’t go a day scanning my Google Reader or social media where I don’t see an article about a new mobile payments startup, unique loyalty features, the possibility of retailers coming together to form their version of a mobile payments platform, acquisitions announced, or predictions on which competing technology will come […]

IBM recently posted a new tutorial on developerWorks about how to use IBM Worklight to deliver WebSphere Portal pages.  The title of the article is very long, but here it is: Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight, Part 1: Integrating a hybrid mobile application with WebSphere Portal pages by Jaye […]