Mobile

There’s been a bit of excitement around the recently-announced Leap Motion device. The Leap allows for an inexpensive, accurate computer interface using gestures in mid-air. It immediately makes one think of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, or Tony Stark’s computer in The Avengers. A wave of the hand and images are shuffled around on the […]

As IBM puts it, mobile is not a secondary requirement on portals or websites these days.  With the purchase of WorkLight, IBM has proven that they are serious players in the mobile market.  With the release of the mobile theme for Portal 8, we start to see the leanings of support for responsive design.  Now, […]

Roambi was clearly built to bring some of the cool factor of Apple products to BI…or maybe it was the other way around. The downloadable Analytics app for Apple iPad and iPhone may be solely focused on these two products for delivery, but is also able to connect to a variety of data sources, as […]

One of the things I love about my HTC EVO (a droid enabled smartphone for those not in the know) is that I have several apps I can use at any time to help me look up information. This is a nice trick at parties because it makes me appear smarter than I really am. […]

Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 Enlighten (now Perficient Digital) developed and launched a fabulous iPad app in February and accompanied the launch with several kinds of media, including publicity on the client’s main brand website and various kinds of paid and unpaid media, and press releases and so on.  Downloads of […]

IBM recently published a new presentation on their mobile strategy for social businesses.  This presentation is a comprehensive look at the available IBM mobile technologies across their broad spectrum of systems, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Domino, IBM Connections, Sametime, Sterling Commerce, Cognos and Coremetrics. IBM has a three prong strategy when it comes to […]

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 […]