Mobile

Use Cases Determine Design A few weeks ago LinkedIn released their iPad app; it was immediately praised for it’s slick interface and immediate usability. With a full-featured and flexible site like LinkedIn, most users expect a recreation of the original desktop website with a minor design change for tablets. What LinkedIn actually delivered shows more […]

We were recently tasked with a unique challenge: to create an engaging animation composited from a user’s Facebook photos—on a cross-browser, cross-device basis. The fine print of this challenge also included the following requirements:  Don’t make the user wait around – playback should feel almost instantaneous.  Target the fastest, smoothest performance possible across desktop/laptop, tablets […]

One of the great add-ons to the Sharepoint stack is Newsgator Social Sites.  I was on a recent client who is a highly regulated healthcare company and even though the Newsgator has a great mobile app, it wouldn’t work within their security model.  That model required that all BYOD (bring your own device) employees needed […]

There has recently been a debate going on regarding whether advances in mobile health are helping or hurting patients. I read an article, How iPads Improve the Patient Experience, which gave one side of the story on how mobile technology can be a boon to treating patients. The article references a Mayo Clinic YouTube video […]

The New York Times had a nice article about the purchase of Instagram by Facebook for $1Billion.  Whether you think its worth it or not, it begs a bigger question – especially for the larger enterprise community.  Does that make mobile mainstream?  This purchase didn’t kickstart the mobile revolution but for a lot of IT […]

Ever had a problem accepting credit card at an on-site job? or Credit Card Merchants over-charging in interest/equipment? As an on-site computer engineer for several years around the year 2006, the only method of payment I could accept was cash or check. This was very inconvenient as I might have lost some clients due to […]

The question is:  can mobile cross-platform frameworks be all things to all people? Dovetailing nicely into my previous post is an article that examines whether cross-platform mobile hybrid apps can meet both the objectives of time/cost and optimal user-experience. The history of cross-platform application development has been one of mostly failure and is littered with […]

As a digital strategist, part of my job is to keep up with digital trends so that I can paint as clear a picture as possible of how and why consumers are interacting with the latest technology. If you’re familiar with interactive marketing, you probably know that this is an elusive goal. The current digital […]

On the heels of my blog the other day on the topic of iPads, tablets and The New Business Laptop comes an interesting report that only 1 out of 10 tablets sold actually have 3G capability.                         A couple of reasons have been put […]

I recently came across an article from a local newspaper where a man had lost his iPhone and Blackberry. Using a couple of applications, he was able to track his phones to the next block neighbour. Involving the local police, the man went to the neighbor’s house and asked for the phones to be returned […]

I recently started to develop some scorecards in PerformancePoint and deploy them using Mobile Entrée 3.0 version for our sales team to enable demos of Mobile Entrée 3.0. I wanted to show how PerformancePoint scorecards work in Mobile Entrée 3.0 and in particular how you can link scorecards. An earlier post shows some of the features with PerformancePoint […]

It is tough to ignore the drumbeat of good Apple news in the past two weeks. The newly released iPad 3 sold (and that is sold/not shipped) over 3 million units in the space of 4 days.  The stock price briefly flirted with $600.00 (we are talking almost Berkshire Hathaway here) and all the finance […]