Mobile

When talking about mobile applications, the concept of the software’s posture doesn’t come up often. Posture is essentially the program’s behavioral stance, or the way it presents itself to the user. Alan Cooper, in About Face 3.0, explains that desktop and Web applications can fit into four posture categories: sovereign, transient, daemonic, and auxiliary. You’ll […]

This week I was working with one of my clients helping review their mobile strategy and it motivated me to do some additional research. The focus of the meeting was to prioritize business, marketing, and technology goals of mobile commerce. Through this work session some interesting questions came up such as is a mobile web […]

Everytime I read another article on mobile statistics I am more and more amazed.  This article at mobiThinking has some pretty amazing statistics covering mobile commerce, SMS, subscribers, and much more. Some of the key statistics that really jumped out at me are: Google makes about $1 billion annually in mobile ad revenues. There are […]

I have been ignoring this white screen for the past week, intimidated by the idea of coming up with an interesting technical blog on something that I have become passionate about over the past 6 months, enterprise mobile computing.  The reason I qualify this latest buzzword term with the adjective “enterprise” is that CTOs are […]

Mobile BI is gaining a lot of attention with the huge increase in the demand for mobile devices. This topic routinely comes up in conversations with our customers as they (along with everyone else) want to be able to receive the same analytics and user experience they interact with on their desktop/laptop on their smart […]

This week, Oracle announced Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client, an extension of the Oracle Application Development Framework. A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ADF Mobile Client allows developers to extend their existing skills into mobile devices. For more information follow this link. Additionally, you can find a white paper that discusses Oracle’s Mobile […]

There are a few options for disabling the SharePoint Mobile Redirection System. Disabling the system means that browsers will not be redirected to a mobile version of the site created by SharePoint by default. This is not about how to customize the mobile view that only mobile devices would see. Modify the webconfig file Add […]

Mobile and social technologies have gained great momentum at this year’s HIMSS conference. The Healthcare team at Perficient has planned a variety ways to interact via mobile, social, and in person means (if you’re into that). If you are new to the social scene, the Perficient HIMSS page is equipped with tools you can use […]

Gartner has just released mobile device sales statistics for 2010 which just further confirm the importance of having a mobile strategy for portal, social, and collaborative solutions. The full article is here, but some key statistics are as follows: 1.6 billion units sold in 2010 Smartphone sales grew 72% Nokia still has a stranglehold on the […]

So Microsoft and Nokia have announced a new partnership.  I was wondering what Nokia would do to step onto the highway of the smartphone revolution.  They had a platform but at least in the United States, it hasn’t proven popular.  A thanks to Liza for tweeting it.  Here’s a few details: Under the proposed partnership: […]

I’ve started to see a trend in the ever changing world of Mobile development.  In a lot of ways, it looks like the wild west days of the early .com era (Yes, that dates me.)  I believe that the solutions will mature and in 3-4 years the solutions will consolidate and mobile phone and tablets […]

I’m a strategist on mobile and social technology. I won’t claim to be one of the best, nor even a shining example of innovation (I’ll leave that to greater egos than mine) but I know two things hold true for corporate strategy at all levels. The more you know, the stronger your strategy will be. […]