Mobile Applications: The Wave Of The Future

Mobile applications, or apps for short are called by a variety of names. Smartphone apps, blackberry apps, Iphone apps: These are all the same thing. Different brands have different names. Mobile apps aren’t just for phones. Basically anything you can hold in your hand, an ipod, a tablet, all have thousands upon thousands of apps [...]

Are Mobile Applications a Flash in the Pan?

Isn’t it funny how no one really talked about mobile applications for all the years that they have been around, until Apple launched their iPhone, and suddenly the world is paying attention to them. Mobile applications have come out of the technological wilderness to suddenly become the must have tool for every business. But are [...]

Cloud Computing and Tablet Devices – a Perfect Convergence?

Cloud computing is the situation where the software or services that are used by end users are all located online, or ‘in the cloud’. In other words, the software is not held or owned by the user, but is simply used by the user via the suppliers website. This type of usage is the future [...]

Mobile Apps – What’s the Big Deal Anyway?

Mobile applications have been around for a while, but have only really taken off over the last two years. There are apps for everything from controlling hearing aids to streaming videos and everything in between. While many clever individuals have ideas for “the next big thing”, few actually act on these impulses. Rather than explore [...]

The Correct Way to Outsource Development

For years companies have outsourced their application development needs with mixed results. Some organzations swear by outsourcing, while others want to stay as far away as possible. What most people fail to realize is that there’s a correct and incorrect way to outsource a project. While the logic that overseas development can be purchased at [...]