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Archive of posts published in the category: Mobility

shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future

Check out Rudy De Waele’s new book project titled shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future — a collaborative book including foresights on how technology will impact our future by some of the world’s leading experts. See the related Kickstarter project.…

Enabling Voice Communication on Android Apps

Check out the new guest post that I wrote on Enabling Voice Communication on Android Apps, for the Safari Books Online blog. It covers how to enable voice communication using the Android SIP Stack/API. Enabling voice communication on Android apps is possible via…

Betting on Nokia (2013)

(Image source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk) Have you given up on Nokia? From my perspective, due to its recent (couple of years old) debacles and endeavors with MSFT, I had stayed away from Nokia. I never believed on how their MSFT strategy was approached. Nokia should…

Facebook buys Parse :-/

Interesting — Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service (via TC). First congrats to Parse, for the monetization event. I have been a Parse.com fan for a while and even wrote a few months ago an…

Dell to exit global smartphone business

Deja-vu? Today I read “Dell to exit global smartphone business” (Austin Business Journal). From the ABJ article: “It needs a lot of investments to really be successful,” Clarke told Forbes. Translation: “…we don’t know how to make it happen”. I say this because…

Article: Parse cloud-based services for Android apps

My latest article on Mobile & Cloud computing… Summary: Explore the advantages of storing mobile application data in a private cloud with this introduction to the Parse SDK for Android. Mobilist C. Enrique Ortiz introduces the Parse API classes for cloud-storing and manipulating…

Total Time Spend Using Mobile Web vs. Apps (October 2012)

Saw this today at BI website… Source: Apps More And More Important Than The Mobile Web (Business Intelligence). Original report by Nielsen. The above is self-explanatory… What I find ‘funny’ is that over time I have noticed that Business Intelligence’s opinion on “native…

The Eternal Debate — MoMo London Event on HTML5 v.s. Native (Sept 2012)

Image Source: Mobile App Testing Blog Seems that I missed a very good debate. I just read a blog on MoMo London event on HTML5 v.s. Native. Seems like an eternal debate. Today in 2012, I am still amazed we still are debating…

“The biggest mistake we made as a company was not investing enough on native.” — Zuckerberg (2012)

The title of this blog is not what Zuckerberg actually said, but is what he really meant. From TechCrunch Disrupt — Zuckerberg Shows He’s The Right Man For The Job: “The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on…

Starbucks App == Mobile + Convenience

The Starbucks App for Android 2.0 is out on Google Play (see announcement on VentureBeat). Good to see… (I was one of the people who contributed design & dev to this product, specifically the Card Management tab/functionality, plus some other.) Starbucks have proven,…