Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

This post has moved. New location Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location. Intro This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, […]

Today, I posted a video blog discussing why using Windows Azure as a mobile backend platform is an attractive option. I wanted to quickly summarize the contents of that video and also supplement it with some helpful links. Summary Backend platform selection is important because, unless you’re talking about the most trivial of apps, most […]

We’ve written a number of times about the conundrum between having to write a native mobile app in iOS, Android, Blackberry, or Windows and just create a mobile ready web app.  No one wants to create 5 codes streams. It’s too much work.  Anyway, via slashdot comes a very interesting article about Yahoo! placing their […]

There was an interesting update to technet recently describing how iPad support has been improved in  SharePoint 2010 for viewing reports and scorecards. This is one of the first articles i’ve seen from microsoft that mentions the iPad specifically and could indicate further improvements in the future. We have seen more and more customers looking […]

From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms.  Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your […]

  The mobility problem Too much diversity for a small set of new pages or JavaScript to handle. From infrastructure point of view, there are a lot of different apps that need to be mobilized. MPA solutions Extends IBM Portal to mobile devices One set of code delivered to many different devices. Developer needs to […]

Like many industries, information technology moves from one “hot” technology to another.  Back in the mid-90s, the hot technology to have on your resume was the Java programming language and more importantly,  server-side Java with the requisite knowledge of application servers such as IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic and EJBs/servlets.  In the early 2000s, the […]

WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes Live from Lotusphere, Tyler Tribe and Jonathan Lidaka gave a presentation titled “Deliver Rich Mobile Experiences with IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Theme.”  First, let’s start with some mobile statistics. Mobile Statistics Within 5 years, 80% of all people will have a mobile device By 2020, 10 billion mobile connected devices Mobile […]

With the recent release of the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone, I’ve seen numerous companies thrilled about the opportunity to extend Lync further within the enterprise! For companies interested in deploying Lync Mobility, the Lync Server Cumulative Update 4 is required. For deployment steps, I highly recommend reading the Microsoft […]

Sunday night at about 7pm Chicago time, I downloaded and installed the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7. In a sad reflection on what passes for excitement in my life, I had been checking about a few times an hour Saturday and Sunday; I probably hit the App Marketplace 50 times on Sunday before […]

In addition to increases in cloud computing and consumerization of IT, Gartner’s analysts predict that in 2012, we’ll see noticeable increases in big data. Among other specific predictions, according to FierceCIO: Gartner’s analysts fear that the ever-expanding volume of information available to organizations, coupled with IT’s diminishing control, will make it harder to ensure the […]