mobile

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

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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

Starbucks App == Mobile + Convenience

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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

Security & Privacy on Mobile Apps, Part 3 – PCI Compliance

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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 on mobile applications. In this Part 3, I will cover security from … Read more

On Mobile Industry Numbers and Mobile Jobs

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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 Royal Pingdom blog some interesting Internet 2011 in numbers; looking at the … Read more

Introduction to jQuery Mobile (May 2012)

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See my latest article, Introduction to jQuery Mobile (developerWorks). This article, an update to my original Intro to jQuery Mobile (Feb 2011), introduces the basics in the latest version of jQuery Mobile. Learn about browser support, the UI components, and the API. “Summary: Get an introduction to the jQuery Mobile framework. Learn the basics of … 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

Retail Stores vs. Amazon (2012)

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Something subtle but very important occurred yesterday. I am talking about Target’s decision to stop selling Amazon’s Kindle e-readers (hyperlink: USA Today). In the above article you can find one sentence that summarizes the struggle that Retailers have been facing: Target’s decision to phase out the Kindle is also occurring as the retailer, along with … Read more