With soaring adoption of smartphone and tablet usage over the past 3 years, companies have been forced to take a hard look at how they can utilize this emerging trend to connect enterprise systems and employees. Unfortunately with the speed in which these technologies change and many company’s lack of internal resources to manage [...]
Enterprise Mobility
It’s another way of saying “anything that allows the development of mobile applications.” MEAPs (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) have actually been around for a while—before smartphones, in fact. Remember PDAs? We saw early mobile enterprise apps in the form of data collection devices. Even if you were just keeping a salesman’s notes up-to-date, those applications [...]
Just like the name says, mobile security deals with keeping your smartphones and similar devices safe from security threats and vulnerabilities. There’s a lack of corporate control over employees’ personal devices thanks to the increasing BYOD phenomenon, and that comes with a risk factor. Employees will more than likely use their devices to connect to [...]
The increasing popularity of BYOD (bring your own device) is pushing employees to enable enterprise support for their applications. Smartphone sales are eclipsing PC sales, and tablets are doing even better. These trends and others are proof positive that the world is fast adopting portable and mobile technology in favor of their precursors. In their guidelines for [...]
Since the rise of smartphone ownership, organizations have been looking for effective ways to utilize mobile applications to empower their workforce. The mobile app economy is no longer simply a place for games and personal utilities. Now, companies and businesses of all sizes are working toward solutions to increase efficiency, drive sales, and create a [...]
In cities across the globe, public officials are making use of mobile applications to connect with local residents. The ease of use of mobile applications and the widespread adoption of smartphone technology make mobile apps an easy choice when officials brainstorm ideas of how to better reach their communities. Mobile Apps and Public Works Mobile [...]
A recent study by Nasscom, in association with Deloitte, pegs the Enterprise Mobility Market to hit $140 billion by 2020. The analysts cite the widespread adoption of smartphone devices and users preference to web experience via mobile applications as the key drivers of growth. Economies seeing the fastest growth in enterprise mobility will be Asia [...]
Web-Gl is going to change the way we interact with websites in the near future, Chrome already has basic support for web-gl installed. Just imaging the user experiences for you apps using the raw power of your installed graphics processor in web pages! I love this experiment meant for pushing the limits of the current technology for this, and [...]
The other day, one of our mobile strategists sent out this article to the company and we all found it very interesting and inspiring. It is about the One Laptop Per Child project delivering 1,000 Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids, and how these kids were able to, within five months, teach themselves English [...]
Navigation menus are the backbone of any website or web application. Much time and thought is spent arranging the hierarchy of links in an interface’s menu to allow the user to find what they are looking for with ease. When it comes time for execution, drop down behavior and animation can either make or break [...]
