Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) has been a hot topic in IT for several years, primarily in sectors where technologies like RFID and GPS can significantly reduce costs in industrial monitoring, inventory management, fleet tracking, and the like. Case studies from companies like Volkswagen and Jaris Transportation demonstrate the real-world promise of cost reduction through M2M, but missing [...]
Companies today may not know exactly what HTML5 is, but they know they want it. After all, the latest revision of the HTML standard has been rumored to end cross platform woes, kill the app store, and make coding a piece of cake. But is HTML5 truly magic? Our Lead Mobile Web Developer separates fact from fiction.
Close to 4,000 attendees, including GE, Intel, AARP and Humana, gathered at the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. to begin bridging the gap between policy and adoption of mobile health technology. Find out the running theme that appeared in nearly ever panel and the five most critical topics of the annual event.
Making a mobile site look good across the numerous platforms and screen sizes of mobile devices is no easy task, but during a recent session at HTML 5 TX conference, Lead Mobile Web Developer Clay Benson showed how its possible to make flexible design that looks great everywhere. Watch a demo of how he did it, then try it on your own device.
With its ADK, Google has given developers all the tools necessary to create compelling, fun and useful accessories for its Android platform. Now, it’s up to developers to apply some Arduino knowledge and creativity. In the second post of our Android ADK series, we say ‘Hello World’ with a primitive project that introduces the basic hardware and code needed to create custom Android accessories.
There’s so much more we can do with smartphones when they begin communicating with the world around us, and with Android’s Acessories Developer Kit we can begin to envision a future where our phone controls our homes or monitors our health. Employing Arduino, one of the most basic wiring platforms, the ADK open the option for thousands of great Android accessories.
It used to be that pulling information from app users was like pulling teeth. Facebook Connect and Single Sign-On fixed this with a frictionless process that not only made sign up easier, but opened up user information for marketers. Unfortunately, most apps still aren’t employing these technologies correctly and marketers have no idea what they’re missing out on. What they don’t know CAN hurt them.
While iPhone and Android battled it out, Microsoft took a step back to look at the biggest problems in the smartphone landscape before setting out on its latest project, Windows Phone 7. What resulted was a platform that innovated on smartphone usability and introduced a new underdog to the app playing field. We talked with Microsoft evangelist Chris Koenig about how Microsoft did it.
Apple originally targeted the iPad as a media consumption gadget. It was dubbed as a Kindle killer and an additional challenge to TV. But now data is emerging that iPad, and other tablets, are encroaching on more technologies than we thought.
The iTunes store is a global marketplace, and if a company’s app strategy is focused solely on the US, they’re missing the opportunity to effectively sell in close to 100 other markets. With a little planning, localization opens an app to thousands of potential non English-speaking customers.
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