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Enterprise App Design: Does iOS Fare with Android in terms of Security?
More enterprises are investing in mobile applications on platforms preferably iOS. The 2016 enterprise mobile apps report brought out by […]
The Emergence of AI Driving Revenue-related KPIs
Some form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) project can now be found in most companies, with the remainder seeming to at […]
3 Steps to Stop Unauthorized PHI Access by Terminated Team Members
In February 2017, the Transformations Autism Treatment Center learned that one of its former behavioral analysts had breached its security. […]
If You Aren’t Using SMS in Your Business, Now’s The Time to Start
When it comes to marketing and customer communication, most business owners know about email and social media. But if you […]
It’s 2018, and We Still Have No Idea If Mobile Healthcare Apps Work
What was the promise of reduced admissions and improved health outcomes in patients? This goal has not been achieved and […]
How IoT is Impacting the Brick-and-Mortar Retail Experience
Retailers have to get with the times if they want to compete in the online marketplace. That means evolving to […]
WIB Vulnerability: Sim-Card that Allows Hackers to Takeover Phones
In the past, we’ve all witnessed sim-jacking attacks that allow a hacker to impersonate the targeted victim to steal the […]
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A Simple Guide to Transferring Your Stuff From Android to iPhone
Apple has made it easy for you to do.
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5 Push-to-Talk Apps That Turn Your Smartphone Into a Walkie-Talkie
When was the last time you saw a walkie-talkie? Look in your pocket. Several smartphone apps mimic the walkie-talkie experience of instant push-to-talk communication.
Gabb Wireless: A Smartphone for Kids to Keep Them Safe and Minimize Screen Time
As a tech guy and a parent, I’ve been torn about the trend over the past few years where kids […]
QA Testing – Manual, Automated, or Crowdsourced
When working on software development, no matter the team you are on, it is crucial that all people involved share […]
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The 10 Most Popular Mobile Messaging Apps In The World
Who are the international titans of texting?
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The Google Drive Price Cut Changes The Game For Personal Cloud Storage
Google is turning cloud storage from an expensive function to a commodity feature.
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The Evolution Of The Cell Phone—How Far It’s Come!
We relive the defining moments and trends of the mobile era.
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Weekend Project: Make Your Own NFC Tags
NFC, or near field communication, is an emerging technology that will power mobile payment systems and mobile wallet solutions, like those in development by Apple, Google, RIM, mobile operators, banks and others. But NFC itself is just a way to send data wirelessly between devices, meaning it can be used for far more than mobile payments alone.
One…
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How To Send Videos On Your Android Device to Chromecast
Take one popular app, one new plugin, and stir.
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10 Distribution Channels for Mobile Applications
At the recent Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Patrick Mork, CMO of the second largest mobile application store GetJar, detailed a number of ways developers can distribute their mobile applications. In a breakout session he led, entitled “Monetization and Acquisition in App Stores,” Mork discussed the large number of channels now available to…
The Significant Role of Smartphones in Human Lives
Our world has been reshaped significantly since Steve Jobs declared that his invention, the iPhone, would change everything. That was […]
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Why Do Americans Hate Android And Love Apple?
Worldwide, Android rules. But here in the U.S., Android gets derided as a “ghetto” product. And you know what that means, nudge nudge wink wink.
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Transclick: Mobile Translation For Borderless Business
Transclick is a mobile enterprise application that
translates text in email, SMS and IM. The software has been around for a while (see
this CNNMoney.com article from March 2005), but is now starting to make waves as a
business productivity tool. RIM Blackberry just announced Transclick as the winner of its
BlackBerry
Developer Productivity Tools…
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Smartpox: Bar Codes For The Web
Smartpox.com
is an interesting crossover between the online and offline worlds. The
technology allows users to encode URL links, phone numbers, email, and text into
2D barcodes. These codes can then be read using a cameraphone running the J2ME
Smartpox reader. So a Smartpox is essentially a 2-dimensional barcode, which
contains data that can be…
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Asian Mobile Web Years Ahead
Pic: Vodafone 905SH, by jetalone
Great article from MSNBC.com about how Japan’s mobile phone industry is 1.5 years ahead of America’s (and even more ahead of Aus/NZ I suspect). Judging from my series on international Web markets, Korea and China are just as advanced in mobile Web. MSNBC notes:
“Thanks to early investments in high-speed mobile…
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The Google of Mobile Search
Business 2.0 has an interesting
write-up today on contenders in the mobile phone search industry. They point out that
the Mobile Web is still a nascent technology. Well, to be frank it’s in the middle of a
power struggle between telcos and standards bodies – which doesn’t help us users very
much in the short-term. But on the other hand, growing…
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The Future of Mobile Web Browsers – Device APIs
This post was written by Ajit
Jaokar, who is a R/WW guest blogger on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital
convergence.
In my last post, I spoke
of the differences between browser applications on the web and on the mobile device. This
topic is important because the Mobile Web is all about extending the concept of web
applications to mobile devices…
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Mobile web applications – do they need the browser?
by Ajit
Jaokar
(Richard’s Note: Ajit is the second of my guest bloggers on Read/WriteWeb
and he will be writing on Mobile Web 2.0 and digital convergence. Ajit runs a book
publishing company called futuretext, which
specializes in these topics. He also chairs Oxford university’s next generation…
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Intersection of Mobile and Web 2.0
A couple of weeks ago Charlie
Schick posted about the lack of mobile-focused bloggers in the Web 2.0
Workgroup. Charlie wrote:
“…from the list, I, of course, did not see a person focusing on mobility. I’m not surprised. Mobile might not need a special focus, but it sure should be part of the discussion.”
I replied in the comments that…
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Mobile Web – Watch This Space!
I’ve mentioned that September is Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, but I haven’t posted about it as much as I wanted to. Why? It’s because the mobile world is mostly new to me, which means I’ve had to batch process a whole bunch of information about it over the past few weeks.
Frankly I’ve been so absorbed in the PC Web over the years, that…
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Portable Internet
The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has just released a report entitled The Portable Internet. From the press release:
“A new set of advanced wireless technologies now promises to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connectivity to the masses. This set of technologies, and the market opportunity they create, has been termed the…
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Mobility
September is the Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, I’ve decided. This month
I’m going to explore the intersection between the Web and mobile devices. Principally
mobile phones and PDA’s, although there’s also a trend of convergence of those two
devices into “smart phones”. And let’s not forget new ground-breaking devices such as the
iPod, the…