R.I.P. Neil Armstrong — aerospace engineer, U.S. Navy pilot, test pilot, American astronaut, the first person to walk on the Moon, and university professor. And thank you, Sir Neil Armstrong, as you were one of my sources of inspiration when I was a…
Facebook Developers World HACK visits Austin Texas on August 23, 2012! For more information and registration, visit their HACK – Austin website: At Facebook Developers World HACK, you’ll hear from Facebook engineers who will walk you through developing great apps that are social…
While I wait for my Vizio Co-Star Google TV box, I’m playing with the SheevaPlug computer. For the longest time I’ve been wanting to play with a Plug Computer. Thanks to my friends at Allure-Energy I get to play with a SheevaPlug dev…
We love our customers… And it gets better when it is mission accomplished and the customer is all very happy. Yesterday was one of those days when Clipboard by VolunteerSpot for iPad 1.0 hit the Apple App Store. VolunteerSpot is a social good…
Vizio Co-Star is NO-GO. Part of creating a product is providing proper customer support throughout its life-cycle. A product life-cycle begins with product envisioning, followed by definition, followed by create/build, followed by going to market (which on itself consists of different aspects including…
I can watch this 1,000 times, and it never gets old… (To maximize awesomeness, watch it fullscreen HD) View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.
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,…
This is Part 3 of a series on Security & Privacy for Mobile Apps. Part 1 of this series introduced main concepts related to security on mobile apps. Part 2 went deeper into the security elements and guidelines related to security and privacy…
The other day I tweeted this: Just saw this — no better time to be a mobile developer than today | Mobile, Java Developers Hard to Find: Dice – eweek.com/c/a/IT-Managem… — CEO (@eortiz) July 11, 2012 (URL: https://twitter.com/eortiz/status/223096404233564160) Then I read at the…
On Retail Stores vs. Amazon (May 2012) I wrote about the issue that local retail stores are facing with respect to Amazon’s prowess: Consumers visit a physical-local merchant/retail-store to see, try and feel a product, then compares prices online via their smartphone in…
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