Mobile

Cindy Krum December 5, 2011 Full Transcript

Thanks to Erin Moloney (@erine) for sending me the link. Bob Tinker, the CEO of MobileIron, has a nice article on Forbes.com about Mobile and IT,  He makes five great points as to why Mobile figured out IT. Mobile IT is interdisciplinary Mobile IT is fast Mobile IT is mult-platform Mobile IT is driven by […]

Both Samsung and Microsoft have either announced or unveiled a line of phones that have been dubbed “superphones”.  In the case of Samsung, the Galaxy Note, considered a cross between a tablet and a smartphone due to its size, contains a massive 5.3-inch display with a 1280 x 800-pixel resolution. Microsoft’s roadmap indicates that they […]

It has been no secret that Apple’s iPad has pretty much eaten Google Android’s lunch both in terms of sales and the accolades of the technical press.  However, in one area, Android has outshone Apple and that is flexibility. This is by design on both Apple and Google’s part.  In the case of Apple, Steve […]

Michael Porter is a Principal at Perficient for Portal, Social, and Collaboration solutions. He leverages 13 years of experience with portal and content management projects to help clients understand and take advantage of the value provided by web technologies. He has supported many multi-million dollar portal implementations for some of the world’s largest companies. Michael […]

Gartner just published their top predictions for 2012 and beyond and the one that caught my eye was the mobile one: By 2015, mobile application development (AD) projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4-to-1. Now, obviously mobile has been one of the largest IT stories for 2011 […]

We’ve been running Google Apps for Business, including Gmail for Business, for about a year now. Some people took to running Gmail for their email right away, whereas others continued to use Outlook (and still do). Personally, I love Gmail and use it for both my personal and business email. But there are plenty of […]

One of the areas where the iPhone/iPad has trumped the Android platform is in the area of good UI design standards.  Apple has an entire website devoted to human interface guidelines for the iOS platform.  I would not be the only Android developer who has relied on the Apple guidelines in the development of a […]

The impact of tablets on the consumer market and to a lesser extent, the business market is highlighted in a new report from Canalys: “Canalys today announced that it expects Apple to overtake HP to become the leading global PC vendor before the second half of 2012. Pads, and particularly the iPad, have radically changed […]

Scott Schnaars is a technology and internet sales, business development and operations professional with a passion for technology, writing & golf. Throughout his career, Scott has held various positions within companies such as Borland, WebEx, Motorola & Yahoo! Currently, Scott is head of sales at Badgeville, the leading behavior management firm, which is a partner […]

Sunday night at about 7pm Chicago time, I downloaded and installed the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7. In a sad reflection on what passes for excitement in my life, I had been checking about a few times an hour Saturday and Sunday; I probably hit the App Marketplace 50 times on Sunday before […]

It is interesting to note that in the final chapter in the webOS saga is HP has decided to open-source the operating system HP received in the purchase of Palm back in 2010.  George Santayana once wrote in his Reason in Common Sense that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  […]