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Mobile
Engaging Patients with “Gamified” Mobile Care
There’s a new buzzword floating about town. That word is “gamification”. So, what is it, and why do I think it has everything to do with the fastest moving trend in healthcare technology? In their great piece on gamification, Mashable defines the term as “the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications. The term also […]
Tablets: Rise of the Machines
IDC just published their latest PC sales forecast and what caught my eye is that netbooks had dropped as a percentage of PC sales (desktops, laptops, netbooks) from 22% down to 12% last year and slowed even more the first part of this year. This year, netbook unit sales are expected to be in the […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 11 – Don’t Forget Mobile
Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly. Why the change, especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels? The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 11 – Don't Forget Mobile
Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly. Why the change, especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels? The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]
Teach Your Apps to Talk
Pam Baker at ReadWriteWeb posted an interesting article this morning advocating the atomization and integration of enterprise software. She argues that integration and accessibility are becoming as important as features and functionality. Remember the old days, when a mainframe or PC operating system dictated what corporations would buy and support? They seem so quaint now. “Anything […]
Starbucks goes mobile with business intelligence
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 […]
Forget the Apple Tax, how about an Android Discount?
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, […]
Mobile UI Patterns – a comparison
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 […]
Going Mobile with Adobe CQ5
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, […]
The Future of Mobile Payments
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.
BI Mobility with SharePoint and Mobile Entrée
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 […]