Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

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 […]

Business intelligence is a pretty strong buzz word right now, and for good reason. So many companies are jumping on the bandwagon, investing funds into BI because it can provide unique business insights that drive efficiencies, speedier decision-making, and mobility, among other benefits. This is particularly true for the retail sector, where operations such as […]

A number of new reports have come out that document how the iPad/iPad 2 have dominated the tablet market to this point (various statistics put it at Android-based tablets selling about one million compared to Apple’s 28 million iPads sold).  A slew of new Android-based tablets have been released from vendors such as Acer, Asus, […]

I just came across Mari Sheibley’s Mobile UI Patterns site, and I find it really interesting.  Mari is a graphic designer and currently is lead designer for foursquare. Mobile UI Patterns shows the design of many different applications and shows how these applications implement various patterns (Activity Stream, User Profile, etc).  You can see two […]

Adobe CQ5 has been getting a lot of great reviews by many analysts.  In the latest Forrester publication, CQ5 jumped into the leader wave.  I recently had a chance to look into the mobile support provided by CQ5 and I must say, Adobe has a compelling story for users and developers. In the following video, […]

Lance Korsun made a comment on my recent blog about mashup.com’s review of mobile payment systems.  He said we should have had Square in there.  He makes a lot of sense because I’ve started to see it popping up quite a bit. Here are some examples: I recently paid for a taxi fare with Square […]

In his post Time to Give Up on Controlling Our Designs, Jonathan Smiley says that what we need to know about designing for the future is: “You will never know what device someone will use to view your website, or read your content.” He goes on to say that there will be so many permutations of […]

Mashable.com has an article about the future of mobile payments.  It’s an interesting article that tells you more about where it’s headed.   Both Google and ebay think it’s important.  My favorite is the list of contenders.

eWeek has an article out about the recently released Oracle Virtual Desktop for iPad.  For those of you who want to use a mobile device but still need a full fledged client browser and your company uses Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure then this might be of use to you.  I […]

In the era of the mobile internet, many firms have taken the action of developing the mobile version of a web application to ensure the user will gain a better experience when exploring the site through a mobile phone. In order to test the mobile version of a web application on the computer, you can […]

eWeek has a short article out about the Adobe’s updated Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aimed at mobile development.   Adobe continues to follow their model for using Flash as a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  While still relatively young, small vendors like Pyxis and even larger vendors like IBM are pushing a strategy of […]

Smaller screens, fat-finger errors, dropped connections, myriad platforms – why would anyone whose focus is designing immersive digital experiences be excited about the emergence of mobile as a dominant channel for accessing the Web? The “Year of Mobile” has been declared each year for the last eight years, and with it predictions of how mobile […]