Mobile

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 […]

A new mobile developer survey has come out and pundits everywhere are trying to decipher and give their insight into who is up and who is down in the mobile development space. What caught my eye was one of the bullet points that focused on tablets: While 71% of developers are very interested in Android […]

Quite a bit has been written in the great smartphone native app versus web-app debate.  For those of you in the audience who have never read about this great schism, here is the Cliff Notes version.  When starting out to create a mobile app, the developer must decide whether to build the application using the […]

I recently gave a presentation on Android Integration to a local Java User Group and I got to talking with one of the attendees after the presentation on some of the points I had brought up in the presentation.  One question was “How did I see enterprise mobile development different from how mobile development is […]

Reading a statistic from an Evans Data report, a survey showed that 73% of major enterprises were already in development or planning to develop mobile applications that extend the reach of their current enterprise software set (called “companion applications”, they offer an additional access path to a given enterprise application by exposing certain functionality within […]

A widely quoted statistic making the rounds of various technical websites and news sites such as CNN is that 1 in 4 applications downloaded to a smartphone is opened only once and abandoned (Source).  Industry pundits have been spinning those statistics in many different ways but what does that mean for our clients who are […]

Perficient has recently launched a new blog called “Spark”, dedicated to discussing innovations in technology. On that blog, I discussed the use of a sovereign posture for mobile applications in today’s post and when it might be a good strategy. The explosion of mobile has led to many more variations on context of use than […]