Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

Categorize this under the funniest article I’ve seen in a while.  eWeek posted an article about the tablets that should die.  Some you may never have heard of but some are really well known.  When I read the list and then thought of popular tablets, it seems like the only tablet NOT on the list […]

IBM just announced new mobile social applications.  IBM has been a leader in the social marketplace over the last several years and this announcement continues their leadership status. The announcements cover applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices, so they have the major players covered. Here are the new applications IBM announced: New social networking […]

You want your iPad users to be able to scroll your SharePoint 2010 site with one finger. It can be done with the two finger swipe but it doesn’t work as well and visitors may not know that. The solution involves using CSS to disable the – ribbon positioning system – so that the ribbon […]

If you’re looking to support iPhone on a SharePoint 2010 site that is configured to use an external identity provider like Ping Federate, ADFS 2.0, or a custom STS, you will likely run into this issue. However, you may notice everything works just fine with iPad. Fortunately, the issue can be reproduced on the desktop […]

No, this won’t be a post about what’s better, Android or iOS.  Instead, I was looking at the site visual.ly and came across some cool information about the status of the mobile market.  Hunch.com collects user feedback and created this great looking chart detailing lots of statistics.  I’ve reproduced the chart below, or you can […]

SharePoint 2010 top nav problem on touch devices You may have noticed that the out of the box SP2010 site nav is not quite usable on a touch screen device like an iPad. The top nav is a list of links, to put it simply. When the links are hovered on, with a mouse, a […]

Over in CNNMoney.com, Kevin Kellehar is trying to argue that Google is a really a web portal (see Face it Google, You’re a Portal).  The logic is that if you aggregate content on the web, then yes, you are a portal.  Yahoo and MSN are web portals too, but we kinda knew that.  But Google?  […]

Contextual awareness is the idea that things that are “aware” of the context around them and behave differently if their environment changes. This term is being used a lot around mobile devices to describe what location-aware phones, or smartphones, and software can do—and it’s a topic that information architects like me are thinking a lot […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

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 […]

Over the last 3 weeks Mike Porter and I have covered a number of topics to consider when trying to accelerate your speed to production for a portal project.  In case you missed any of the installments, here they are.  Good luck on your project! Previous Installments Dependency Management Ramp Your Resources Don’t Forget Your […]

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 […]