Carrying a months’ worth of mobile phone charge in a packet the size of your fist. Cool. This Tiny Fuel Cell Will Juice Your iPhone Up To Fourteen Times Per Charge http://www.cultofmac.com/165696/hello-future-new-fuel-cell-will-charge-iphone-up-to-fourteen-times-per-charge/ Permalink
The Touch Web continues to gain momentum influenced by one key business driver – cost. The cost of maintining a multiple app store presence, multiple code bases, and potential licensing constraints are driving HTML5 strategies. Financial Times to discontinue iPad, iPhone apps, move to HTML5 http://www.tuaw.com/2012/05/01/financial-times-to-discontinue-ipad-iphone-apps-move-to-html5/ Permalink
[More] solid evidence you can do some cool stuff with HTML5. You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive) http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/02/linkedin-ipad-app-engineering/ Permalink
With reggard to pen-based tablets, a friend of mine recently said to me… “Microsoft has the lead.” This is surprising since I really haven’t seen much of anything from Microsoft in this area. The Windows 8 developer preview Samsung tab with pen seems pretty basic in terms of its usefulness. And even full reviews that [...]
Here are two charts that pretty much sum it up. If your oganization doesn’t have a clear strategy for embracing mobility, you are toast. In the tablet sector, we think of the past 26 months as a significant adoption period, but the data suggests what has happened so far is about a fifth of what [...]
Ed Note – this study contains some excellent insights on the true cost of mobility for enterprise workers. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Bruno Mars “The Lazy Song” is the number one ringtone that employees are downloading on the company dime. That bit of irony is just one of the amusing and sometimes alarming findings uncovered [...]
In the publishing segment, it’s pretty clear. Native is not the go-to strategy. Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps – Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40319/?p1=BI Permalink
Every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut. As I read this article, I realized that I am that squirrel today. Almost two years ago, I penned a white paper (The App-centric Enterprise). It attempts to help app-challenged folks understand the business drivers of apps and why people seem to love them. [...]
Growing up in southern New Hampshire and with a fair bit of influence drifting across the border from Massachusetts, I learned to use the term “wicked” in some marvelous ways. Certainly, it was seriously overused in my high school and after a while, it carried little punch. I don’t use it very often, but today [...]
This actually looks like it might work. Aviiq Turns USB Cables Into Tangle-Proof Works Of Art http://www.cultofmac.com/161728/aviiq-turns-usb-cables-into-tangle-proof-works-of-art/ Permalink
