Mobile

I will offer a counterpoint to Tabetha’s post.  What does iCloud mean for the users and developers of non-IOS phones, ie. Android?  Many see iCloud as Apple’s assault to stem the dominance Android has shown over the past year.  The Android platform has surpassed the iOS platform in terms of numbers of devices due to […]

After much ado about everything in my cloud-based MobileMe account over several years of $99/year subscriptions I can only hope that the product will soon rise to the occasion. I was originally a googlecal and contacts girl, but then I finally jumped ship to mobileme since I got an iphone and I had several macs, […]

If there were not enough “ah-ha” type of technologies pushing the sales of smartphones, one that has not received much love was Near Field Communications.  NFC is a technology for data exchange between compatible devices at close range, about 1.5 inches is the maximum distance. Approved as a standard in 2003, it has stood in […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

The explosion of smartphone ownership over the past few years has brought with it all manner of software designed to tie mobile devices with a person’s experiences in the real world. I’ve got friends developing some pretty exciting location-based game apps and I’m sure these will get richer and more immersive as more people move […]

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

Just this morning, I encountered two different articles that discussed the intersection of mobile devices and cloud computing.  At first, I put it down to the accelerated hype that these two technologies have seen over the past couple of years.  The idea that if both are “really good”, then the intersection must be something like […]

comScore rolled out its most recent data on top selling smartphones and Android came out with a solid 34.7% (top) share compared to iPhone with 25.5%.  What is really astounding is that iPhone pulled just a .5% increase while Android jumped 6% in 3 months! There is obviously some traction around the Google platform and […]

As a regular iPhone user, I do certain things over and over again. Mostly, Apple gets the design of their common applications pretty spot-on, but a couple of issues trip me up regularly that could be easily addressed with small interface design changes. Placement of the Send button in Messages   I have a couple […]