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Three Generations of Mobile Apps (Aug 2014)

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We currently are at the third generation of native Mobile apps (2014), with each generation building upon the previous one. The first generation was introduced to the “masses” circa 2000. This generation of mobile apps were Operator-centric and built for the first generation of mobile handheld devices such as PalmOS, J2ME, WinCE, BlackBerry OS, Nokia … Read more

On Ambient and (Mobile) Context

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Recently I have been seeing the word “ambient” used a lot to describe “context”; a good example is Alohar Mobile and its Mobile Ambient Analytics Platform. Alohar Mobile are also the makers of Placeme. Is Ambient the new Context? It is not. Context is more than just ambient information; ambient information is a subset of … Read more