Mobile

Business intelligence is a pretty strong buzz word right now, and for good reason. So many companies are jumping on the bandwagon, investing funds into BI because it can provide unique business insights that drive efficiencies, speedier decision-making, and mobility, among other benefits. This is particularly true for the retail sector, where operations such as […]

A number of new reports have come out that document how the iPad/iPad 2 have dominated the tablet market to this point (various statistics put it at Android-based tablets selling about one million compared to Apple’s 28 million iPads sold).  A slew of new Android-based tablets have been released from vendors such as Acer, Asus, […]

I just came across Mari Sheibley’s Mobile UI Patterns site, and I find it really interesting.  Mari is a graphic designer and currently is lead designer for foursquare. Mobile UI Patterns shows the design of many different applications and shows how these applications implement various patterns (Activity Stream, User Profile, etc).  You can see two […]

Adobe CQ5 has been getting a lot of great reviews by many analysts.  In the latest Forrester publication, CQ5 jumped into the leader wave.  I recently had a chance to look into the mobile support provided by CQ5 and I must say, Adobe has a compelling story for users and developers. In the following video, […]

Mashable.com has an article about the future of mobile payments.  It’s an interesting article that tells you more about where it’s headed.   Both Google and ebay think it’s important.  My favorite is the list of contenders.

It is almost impossible to have a conversation about Business Intelligence these days without talking about mobility. Mobile internet and data consumption is growing rapidly and it doesn’t look like that is going to change any time soon. There are many mobility options to choose from but not all of them work on all mobile […]

eWeek has a short article out about the Adobe’s updated Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aimed at mobile development.   Adobe continues to follow their model for using Flash as a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  While still relatively young, small vendors like Pyxis and even larger vendors like IBM are pushing a strategy of […]

Smaller screens, fat-finger errors, dropped connections, myriad platforms – why would anyone whose focus is designing immersive digital experiences be excited about the emergence of mobile as a dominant channel for accessing the Web? The “Year of Mobile” has been declared each year for the last eight years, and with it predictions of how mobile […]

Now that the newest Android tablets (Motorola XOOM and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) have come close to matching Apple’s iPad in terms of fit and functionality, I expect the demand for Android tablets to show a marked increase in sales.  There has been a considerable amount of material written around Android smartphone  User Experience (UX) […]

This past Thursday, I attended a Mobile Meetup hosted by Solstice Consulting and I felt it was very engaging and interactive. Many topics were covered ranging from mobile UX/UI to cross-platform development to marketing an application. The meetup was run in an Open Space Technology format. This enabled there to be many topics discussed in […]

Everyone agrees that taking business intelligence mobile adds flexibility and versatility to access to information. On the road or out in the field, access to data and analytics is increasingly mobile, and for good reason. Access to business data on the fly is making us more efficient and helping us make decisions faster and more […]

  Alright. Here it is. Today’s good morning announcement. Let’s call it ‘setting expectations’. A plain language conversation with users about how to potentially (because they are still figuring it out) smoothly transition your data….in the future (this fall)…. ….iCloud subscription is actually free ONLY with OSX Lion and iOS 5 users (which requires purchase […]