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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. The story The idea of shift 2020 is based upon Mobile Trends … Read more
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 the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) stack. This protocol originated in 2000 as … Read more
(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 have totally maximized their Smartphone hardware design expertise, and should have offered … Read more
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 article on using Parse on Android that was published at IBM DeveloperWorks. … Read more
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 Dell has invested, a lot — but have not done it right. … Read more
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 users, data objects, and files for your mobile applications. See Parse cloud-based … Read more
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 vs. web on mobile” swings back-and-forth (based on the top news of … Read more
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 this and have not been able to address this. This is really … Read more
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 HTML5.” While building native apps that were bacially just a wrapper for … Read more
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, starting with their iOS app, that consumers are ready for mobile payments … Read more