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 There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong ...May. 17, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,034 |
 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 853 |
 Every young software business is different. Yet regardless of niche, competitive pressures or economic conditions, all startups face the same key issues. It’s possible to survive those hectic, early years as a bootstrapped business – even thrive during them. All you need is…
1) An ide...May. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,431 |
 I read the following question recently, "Are we acting strategically enough to matter?" I remember the question, because I believe it is so important for us all to answer. It is a question all IT and business people should be asking themselves!
In this picture of charging elephants,...May. 8, 2013 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 438 |
 I have Google's Blogger app on my iPhone and iPad mini. I can write articles for publication from anywhere with an Internet connection, but are they read, are they shared? That is our subject for today.
One of the biggest growth areas involving mobility is mobile marketing. If your...Apr. 29, 2013 01:22 PM EDT Reads: 876 |
 A new American workforce is emerging. A recent report from Accenture says the number of U.S. workers who are independent (such as freelancers, contractors or temps) is up 6 percent from 1989. Work as we know it is changing. Because of constant connectivity, companies across the globe n...Apr. 20, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,149 |
 Staying current with the latest and greatest in hardware and technology is challenging for organizations of any size, but especially so for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) who are often extra challenged with limited resources and personnel. It’s no surprise then that today’s SM...Apr. 20, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,829 |
 Have you had a chance to review the full inventory of Google's solutions and apps lately? I have been working with many of them this week and am impressed with how Google is enabling enterprises to become true social businesses. It is very interesting how they are not just demonstratin...Apr. 8, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,791 |
 If you’re not convinced the hype around Big Data is entirely justified, consider the following statistics: in the time it takes an average person to read this article, 72 petabytes of data (that’s 72 x 1015 if you’re counting) will have been added to the global information pool. Each h...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,074 |
 The enhanced adoption of Cloud, Big Data, Mobility is causing more services to be developed and aggregated, hence there is a greater emphasis on Agile for service aggregation. Agile processes have specific methods to manage the rapid development cycles and changing requirements in appl...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,611 |
 I am here to tell you it’s true. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder. I’m sure that you are waiting for the other shoe to drop but ladies and gentlemen, there is no other shoe. It is simply the truth. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder.
Those of you who have i...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,476 |
 How many advertisements for automobiles today promote the fact their cars are horseless carriages? None! Why? It is an assumption that your automobile will be horseless. The same is happening today with mobile apps. Who would develop a work order management or scheduling system tod...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,504 |
 Agile software development is increasingly enabling developers to better create applications that meet user needs quickly, and the advent of increased mobile apps development is further accelerating its power.
As IT aligns itself with business goals, Agile software development is incr...Mar. 12, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,408 |
 To say that mobility is affecting the way enterprises do business is akin to suggesting the planets revolve around the sun. These are not unproven theories, they are undisputed facts. However, while the modern model of the solar system was established long ago, the effects of enterpris...Mar. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,814 |
 During a recent conversation with a CIO of a multi-billion dollar enterprise and his top executives, it became apparent that amid all the new technology advancements like cloud computing and Big Data, organizations are struggling to seek the concrete advantages in applying these techno...Feb. 19, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,853 |
 It’s common knowledge that the subscriber growth enjoyed by wireless Communication Service Providers (CSPs) over the last several years is tapering off. The CSPs really need new sources of revenue to deliver the required growth. Over-The-Top (OTT) players on the other hand are moving q...Feb. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,067 |
 The telecom industry will be challenged in the coming year as operators learn to adapt to the rapidly changing mobile landscape.
2012 was the year of mobile – big brands and Internet companies have just started to realize the potential impact that mobile communications can have on the...Feb. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,900 |
 With more smartphones being utilized everywhere, should we be redefining cloud computing? If not redefining it, at least recalibrating it to encompass and fit new edge technology that is becoming the device of choice.
Many organizations that are looking at implementing cloud computing...Jan. 21, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,103 |
 It’s that time again – the New Year has arrived and everyone’s excited to start 2013 on the right foot. We’re ready to tackle the biggest projects, climb the tallest mountains, and make the biggest deals. Now all we need are the right tools to help us get the job done.
To make this ta...Jan. 19, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,279 |
 Analysis and insight on the famous four buzzwords in the IT world... Enterprise Mobility, Cloud Computing, BYOD and Unified Communication; how they complement, assist and disrupt each other; and the potential impact of the underlying forces in action on their future....
Cloud comput...Jan. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,495 |
 Twenty years ago, a software engineer named Neil Papworth kicked off the holidays – and a communications revolution – by sending the world’s first text message via phone. The message, appropriately enough, was “Merry Christmas.”
It took a few more Christmases before text messaging ca...Jan. 14, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,320 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In Part I of this article we discussed the differences between testing traditional and mobile applications, specific challe...Jan. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,417 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entre digi...Dec. 14, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,293 |
 One of the truisms in information technology is that everything old is new again – well, except maybe for punched cards. We went from big corporate data centers to regional/division corporate data centers back to big corporate data centers and now to even bigger cloud data centers. We ...Dec. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,451 |
 When I talk to CIOs, they usually complain that the trend of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, is undermining their ability to keep their organization’s infrastructures and data secure. Every employee who comes to work with his or her smartphone or tablet and pulls up sales reports, help...Nov. 23, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,743 |
 The exponential growth of smartphone users around the globe is no secret. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports that vendors shipped a total of 444.5 million mobile phones in 3Q12 alone. The importance of the mobile evolution reaches a broad range of industries from fi...Nov. 20, 2012 02:10 PM EST Reads: 1,466 |
 If you had to pick a winning news, feature or blog headline to garner maximum reader interest and the widest potential industry relevance these days then how about trying… Open Source Mobile Touch-Based Social Chinese Clouds.
Of the eight words in this banner, we can probably say tha...Nov. 15, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,572 |
 Service enablement of existing enterprise applications helps us to extend the functionality of enterprise applications to mobile devises. Service enablement framework is explained in the multi layered approach for mobile browsers and also for native mobile applications. Different ways ...Nov. 14, 2012 03:17 PM EST Reads: 1,936 |
 In the initial presentations at the 4G World Conference in Chicago’s McCormick Place this week, several executive insights from Verizon, Nokia, Telstra, IBM, and others focus on the need to expand speeds and network capacities. One talked about the need to expand networks in order to h...Nov. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,212 |
 There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.
What I see driving it is three things. One is the advent of the cloud and mobile, which requires a lot of cr...Oct. 22, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,125 |
 How does the approach to performance / load testing extranet mobile applications change from testing other RIAs? In some ways, not much. Yes, the user activity for every mobile application will be unique, but the same goes for every web application. Different technology stacks, differe...Oct. 12, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,228 |
 If they plan to remain viable in today’s markets, now is the time for real estate firms to make some dramatic changes by offering intelligent amenities in their commercial properties.
How do we prop up our dying shopping center?
How do we develop and maintain more business for our st...Oct. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,317 |
 Center of Excellence (CoE) is essentially a team of people that promote collaboration and using best practices around a specific focus area to drive business results. The CoE is a team of like-minded people from various organizational backgrounds with skill and organizational executio...Oct. 3, 2012 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,637 |
 “Mobile” and “Web” sound like a perfect match, but reality often shows that these two trends form opposite forces. Recently we had an interesting engagement with one of our customers where we found how easy and dangerous it can be to inadvertently spoil end-users’ experience with mobil...Sep. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,817 |
 The cloud is a commercial vehicle. This undeniable truth must now be accepted as a deeply entrenched truism by CIOs who are looking to manage the forward-looking growth of their technology architectures.
We can actually refine this statement further. The cloud is a commercial vehicle ...Sep. 24, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,195 |
 In this acute age of class warfare, elitism, and social media tools, somewhere in the middle of all of it, the retail and financial services industries are spawning the latest “Must-have” digital bling: mobile wallets. (or digital wallets)
Will credit cards become a thing of the past...Sep. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,395 |
 There is a famous saying “Imagination is the creativity behind all innovations.”
In today’s world where there is a plethora of smart devices to the market, the growth of smart devices is changing our work patterns. Enterprises are looking to build a solution that will give unified exp...Sep. 13, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,111 |
 In 1704, the first newspaper advertisement was published. Ever since, newspapers have served their local and loyal community of readers, while pursuing new revenue streams in advertising. And so began an uneasy relationship with consumerism – newspapers can uniquely offer advertisers a...Sep. 4, 2012 12:20 PM EDT Reads: 1,957 |
 Smartphone penetration in the US recently passed the 50 percent mark and it’s a similar story in Europe. There are now nearly 110 million smartphone owners in the US alone, according to comScore. The tablet market is also growing fast and mobile devices are claiming an ever-greater sha...Sep. 3, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,139 |
 There is an increasing demand for rendering rich content quickly on mobile devices due to the massive growth of such devices. In the past there have been silo applications that supported mobile devices, but a lot of that is being transitioned to the Cloud. The big advantage is that Clo...Sep. 3, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,727 |
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