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Daily links for 05/16/2012

2012-05-16T16:30:16Z

How Mobile is Rapidly Evolving the World – Forbes

“According to Price Waterhouse Coopers’ latest Digital IQ survey, 66% of organizations are investing in mobile technologies for their employees. But these businesses are reacting to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, most are not preparing for it.”

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Daily links for 05/12/2012

2012-05-12T16:30:15Z

IBM Innovate 2012: Learn what’s next, now – United States

“Innovate 2012 will show you how to harness the power of software-driven innovation to deliver smarter products and improve business outcomes. IBM Rational will share the stage with customers, business partners and your peers to show you how you can make the most of your investments now by managing complexity, lowering risk, and driving down costs.”

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Apple Map App to Replace Google Mapping in iOS – John Paczkowski – Mobile – AllThingsD

“Sources tell 9to5Mac that Apple will abandon Google’s mapping back-end in the next major iteration of iOS, replacing it with a brand-new mapping application powered by Apple technology. We’ve independently confirmed that this is indeed the case. Sources describe the new Maps app as a forthcoming tentpole feature of iOS that will, in the words of one, “blow your head off.” I’m not quite sure what that means, and the source in question declined to elaborate, but it’s likely a reference to the photorealistic 3-D mapping tech Apple acquired when it purchased C3 Technologies. C3 did use missile-targeting technology to develop its gorgeous 3-D models of major cities, so …”

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Daily links for 05/10/2012

2012-05-10T16:30:14Z

Facebook Launching App Center to Rock Social Mobile and Web Apps – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com

“The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook, whether users are on iOS, Android or the mobile Web, Brady said. “From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.””

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What I learned about mobile at IBM Impact 2012

2012-05-03T20:47:55Z

In this post I talk about IBM mobile products and what happened at a large IBM conference. As a result, it is more specific to IBM’s offerings than some of my other blog entries.

This week I’ve been in Las Vegas at the IBM Impact conference. The days have been a blur of meetings with partners, customers, and colleagues from around the world. We’ve talked about the new PureApplication System and updates across the software portfolio for connectivity, integration, business process and decision management, and application integration.

The Liberty Profile in the new WebSphere Application Server version 8.5 has been an especially hot topic. Conversations about that often go something like “It takes up less than 50Mb. Wow! It loads in 5 seconds. Show me! You can develop with it on your Mac. IBM did that?”

We’ve also had quite a few conversations about mobile and I’ve learned a lot.

Now I’m one of the executive leaders for mobile at IBM and I discussed it (briefly) on the main stage on Tuesday, gave an hour+ talk on “Top 11 Trends for Mobile Enterprise,” did press interviews and a panel with journalists, and challenged and was challenged by industry analysts on the topic. So I had a lot to say about mobile. But more than whatever I said, I learned an incredible amount of what our customers and partners are doing with mobile today. We also discussed how IBM’s new mobile products, IBM Worklight 5.0 and the IBM Mobile Foundation, could be essential to them over the next few years.

Here’s a bit of what I learned.

System integrators are looking to pick the one or two best mobile platforms on which to focus their efforts. The hybrid mobile app development model in IBM Worklight is very appealing because of its open standards and technology approach, and because it allows the creation of everything from pure native apps to those that are mostly HTML5 content.

Security and app management are critically important. Both IBM Worklight and Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, included in the IBM Mobile Foundation, have capabilities that address this. In some organizations, the BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, movement is accelerating their concerns but also their need to react quickly. My suggestion is to consider security and device management as extensions of what you already do for your website, web applications, and hardware like laptops and servers. Don’t think of mobile as this odd new thing, consider it as adding on to what you do already.

Partners have started building mobile apps on Worklight, often without any initial guidance from IBM. This is wonderful. It reaffirms what we knew when we acquired the company earlier this year: Worklight is an elegant product that you can use to create mobile apps for multiple device types, connecting them securely to your backend infrastructure.

Mobile apps are not islands. That is, don’t think of a mobile app server as something that sits in the corner by itself while the rest of your infrastructure is elsewhere. We included IBM WebSphere Cast Iron in the IBM Mobile Foundation because we knew that customers and clients needed to have apps talk to enterprise applications like SAP but also services that run on clouds.

Infrastructure support for a mobile app could be very little or might need to be very large. IBM Worklight 5.0 will ship the Liberty Profile of WebSphere Application Server in the box. So you get small and fast. If you have an existing WebSphere Application Server ND deployment, you can put IBM Worklight right on top of that. This includes WebSphere running on System z mainframes using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Mobile can extend your business. If you have a web presence for retail, mobile can extend that. If you are a bank and have ATMs, mobile can extend some of those functions to mobile devices. If you have automotive repair shops, mobile can increase customer trust and loyalty.

Mobile can transform your business. Your first mobile apps will enable some core functionality, but later apps and versions may bring in social, analytics, commerce, and industry-specific elements. Don’t think of just an air travel app, think of one that helps me use my time in airports productively and eat healthily.

So to sum it up: mobile is surging for good reasons, customers and partners are asking the right questions, IBM Worklight is appealing to them as platform on which to build multiple mobile apps, we think the IBM Mobile Foundation is a solid base on which construct your mobile enterprise, and I’m looking forward to showcasing the many, many mobile apps created by and for our customers and partners at Impact 2013.

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Daily links for 05/02/2012

2012-05-02T16:30:14Z

IBM Introduces New Foundation For Mobile Computing – MarketWatch

“IBM has been steadily investing in the mobile space for more than a decade, both organically and through acquisitions: building a complete portfolio of software and services that delivers enterprise-ready mobility for clients. Increasingly, enterprises are reaching beyond their traditional IT boundaries by consuming new Cloud services and creating new mobile applications for employees and customers for broad consumption by customers, partners and developers.”

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IBM Goes After Enterprise Mobility Projects With Mobile Foundation Portfolio | PCWorld Business Center

“IBM also added ways for enterprises to bring their current data and services to mobile devices. New capabilities in IBM DataPower appliances are designed to help IT departments quickly bring their existing resources to mobile devices. WebSphere Cast Iron, based on technology the company acquired through its 2010 buyout of hybrid cloud software vendor Cast Iron, can help enterprises link mobile applications to clouds and other back-end infrastructure, according to IBM.”

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IBM Creates Foundation for Mobile Computing – Mobile Devices news from Channel Insider

“Looking to give solution providers a leg up in the mobile computing market that is expected to grow from $22 billion in 2012 to $36 billion by 2015, IBM today rolled out Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of IBM mobile computing technologies that are designed to simplify the management of mobile computing and applications in the enterprise.”

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IBM Launches New Mobile Foundation Portfolio at Impact 2012 – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews – eWeek.com

“Building on its recent acquisition of Worklight, the new foundation further expands IBM’s strategy to provide clients with a mobile platform that spans application development, integration, security and management. For example, using the IBM Mobile Foundation, an airline can transform the way it interacts with its customers by establishing a secure two-way relationship with mobile applications, IBM said. Now, they can use their applications not only to keep customers apprised of their travel plans and current weather conditions, but also send push-notifications to alert them if there are changes or opportunities for upgrades. This is all made possible by deep integration into the airlines’ back-end systems and relevant cloud services.”

tags: ibm mobile
IBM goes after mobile developers with a single platform for IOS and Android – The Inquirer

“IBM has wasted no time in exploiting the technology it acquired through its January purchase of mobile apps platform provider Worklight, which underpins the new Mobile Foundation release. At its Impact show in Las Vegas on Monday, the firm launched a new set of mobile tools that let developers build a single application and then run it across multiple mobile platforms, such as Apple’s IOS, Google’s Android and RIM’s Blackberry.:

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The spectrum of hybrid mobile app development with Worklight

2012-04-30T13:09:08Z

The hybrid approach to developing mobile apps offers advantages for those wishing to produce pure native apps or those that have HTML5 content.

Earlier in 2012, on January 31, IBM announced its planned acquisition of Worklight, a provider of a mobile application development platform. Several weeks later the deal closed. There’s a lot of discussion of Worklight and IBM’s Mobile Enterprise strategy here at the IBM Impact Conference in Las Vegas this week.

Worklight’s components include a Java-based server that can run on the WebSphere Application Server, developer tools that can integrate with app lifecycle products from IBM Rational, a runtime monitoring and application management console, and multi-device runtime support. For this last part, Worklight uses a hybrid approach based on PhoneGap (now incubating in the Apache Software Foundation as the Cordova project).

A hybrid approach like this is an elegant way of using open technologies and standards to span the full spectrum of mobile application development.

The advantages to using HTML5 is that the content (HTML), CSS (formatting and UI), and Javascript (coding logic and UI) are portable across browsers on many devices. Your HTML5 will look and operate the same on Apple iOS, Android, and other modern devices.

If you can build your app entirely using HTML5, do it. You can place it on the web or your intranet and your users can access it anytime they want. You can also update it when you wish. You can also skip the whole app store experience. This approach is based on open standards, the best way we have found to handle interoperability.

At the other end, we have Native. This uses the low level APIs and programming languages for specific devices. For example, for Apple iPhones and iPads you would usually code your app in Objective-C and link in any other libraries you need. The full power of the SDK and device is available to you.

It is also completely non-portable, albeit powerful. When you need to produce an Android version, be prepared to code the app all over again. Each version will look completely native to the device, and this is an advantage to multiplatform approaches that force apps to have a common but non-native look everywhere. (“Our app works the same and looks ugly everywhere.”)

For hybrid apps, you use only enough native code to establish the main processing loop for your app, use device capabilities like the camera, and link in any special binary libraries. You try to maximize your use of HTML5 so that as much of your app is portable. PhoneGap and hence Worklight can help make your use of native code easier to port across platforms. Throw in Worklight’s support for Javascript frameworks like Dojo, jQuery Mobile, and Sencha Touch, and you’ve got a powerful solution.

Here’s something important that a lot of people miss about the hybrid approach. If you use no HTML5 content whatsoever, you still get the app manageability, push notification framework, and security from Worklight. So you get a pure native app that is nevertheless in the same “family” as your mobile apps that do include HTML5.

At the other other extreme, even if you use no special native features and try to have your app being almost completely HTML5, you get to put your app in an app store, and you, once again, get the app manageability, push notification framework, and security from Worklight.

So Worklight and its hybrid approach covers almost the entire range from pure HTML5 to pure Native.

What if you already have a source of HTML like an app server or portal and want to build a mobile app around it? You can use this content, CSS, and Javascript as the main core of a mobile app built with Worklight. So what you built in the past can be repurposed in your mobile apps.

This also means that your developers’ web programming skills are usable when building Worklight hybrid mobile apps. If you are a software developer, this is a very effective way to quickly add mobile app development to your portfolio of skills.

Some apps will use a lot of HTML5, some will use very little. With Worklight’s hybrid approach, your skills are applicable across many different kinds of mobile apps. This is important, trust me, because you won’t be building just one mobile app in the future.

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Some views from 32,000 feet

2012-04-29T15:08:44Z

As I flew from Chicago to Las Vegas yesterday to attend the IBM Impact conference, I was lucky enough to sit on the left side of the plane in a windows seat. As the 3 and 1/2 hour trip proceeded, I used my iPad to photograph some of the changing landscape underneath us.

The last three rather look like Mars, if Mars had water, clouds, a blue sky …

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Daily links for 04/25/2012

2012-04-25T16:30:14Z

Confusion Around Mobile Application Management Can Be a Good Thing | The Enterprise Mobility Forum

“Mobile Application Management is far more than just having your own private app store.”

tags: mobile application management
BetaKit » Measuring Mobile Apps: The Problem with Mobile Analytics

“When a company’s product is a native app, technological limitations are not the only challenge. Apple in particular wants their products to have a consistent, repeatable user experience, and thus would likely frown upon and possibly reject apps that have different user interfaces. This makes it troublesome for app developers and marketers who are trying to use real data to manage their products.”

tags: mobile analytics

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Daily links for 04/12/2012 – OpenStack Foundation Edition

2012-04-12T18:01:36Z

Leading Technology Companies Support Formation of OpenStack Foundation – MarketWatch

“Today nineteen leading technology companies announced their plans to become Platinum or Gold members of the OpenStack® Foundation, an independent and long-term home for OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system. AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE have indicated their intent to join the foundation as Platinum Members, and Cisco, ClearPath Networks, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo! as Gold Members based on the principles outlined in the published mission and framework.”

tags: cloud cloud computing openstack
It’s official: IBM and Red Hat get with OpenStack — Cloud Computing News

“OpenStack filled in some key checkmarks this week as it adds IBM and Red Hat to its roster of corporate backers. As GigaOM reported last week, the two tech giants will join the nascent OpenStack Foundation as Platinum members along with AT&T, Canonical, Hewlett-Packard, Nebula, Rackspace, and Suse.”

tags: cloud cloud computing openstack
For Cloud Computing to Thrive, We Need Open Standards and Open-Source Software « A Smarter Planet Blog

“That’s why IBM is joining with sixteen other tech companies to help establish the OpenStack Foundation, whose goal is to promote open-source technologies and open standards for cloud computing. The foundation is an outgrowth of OpenStack, an open-source software project supported by more than 150 companies that has more than 2,600 individual code contributors. Other members of the foundation include Rackspace, Red Hat, AT&T, Cisco, HP and Dell.”

tags: cloud cloud computing openstack

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Daily links for 04/11/2012 – IBM PureSystems Edition

2012-04-11T19:23:54Z

IBM News room – 2012-04-11 IBM Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing

“IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a major step forward in a new, simpler era of computing with the introduction of a new category of “expert integrated systems.” This new family is the first with built-in expertise based on IBM’s decades of experience running IT operations for tens of thousands of clients in 170 countries. IBM’s expert integrated systems family – PureSystems – is the result of $2 billion in R&D and acquisitions over four years, an unprecedented move by IBM to integrate all IT elements, both physical and virtual. The new systems family offers clients an alternative to today’s enterprise computing model, where multiple and disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain.”

tags: ibm expert systems
Marie L. Wieck: We’re Entering a New Era of Computing

“The CIOs I talk with describe the avalanche of projects they face. Almost three quarters of the CIOs say they are investing in mobile deployments this year, of which one-third of those will be deployed in a cloud. However, 70 percent of their budgets, on average, are still spent on maintenance and 34 percent of their projects are late. It’s a vicious cycle.”

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Experts on Expertise : How PureSystems will impact the IT experience – YouTube

“A group of industry leaders sit down to discuss how PureSystems will change the overall experience and economics of IT, and what this means for their businesses.”

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Solving Corporate Computing’s Dilemma: Melding Simplicity and Flexibility « A Smarter Planet Blog

“Organizations shouldn’t have to spend so much on routine operations. A commissioned study* conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of IBM shows that integrated systems can cut substantial amounts of time and budget for many common IT projects. For instance, pre-integration can make it possible to install and put to use new computing systems in hours rather than days. By handling routine tasks much more efficiently and effectively, that frees up time and money for companies to innovate—trying out new technologies and new business models.”

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I.B.M. Aims to Sharply Simplify Corporate Data Center Technology – NYTimes.com

“I.B.M. is bringing its answer to the marketplace on Wednesday — an effort that industry executives and analysts say is the most ambitious step yet to simplify and streamline data center technology. With this initiative, I.B.M. will sell bundles of server hardware and software packaged in simplified systems, with setup and maintenance automated by intelligent software. Tasks that now take days or weeks can be reduced to hours, the company claims.”

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IBM Takes On Oracle, Cisco to Simplify Server ‘Scut Work’ – Businessweek

“International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (IBM) is taking on Oracle Corp. (ORCL) (ORCL) and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) (CSCO) with server computers and software packaged and automated to reduce the time and money clients spend on “scut work.” The world’s largest computer-services provider built what it calls PureSystems over four years, delivering server systems that are easier to install, automate, update and manage, IBM said in a statement. That frees information-technology staff to work on more valuable, business-specific tasks, it said.”

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IBM | Expert integrated systems blog

“IBM PureSystems is the integration platform with all of these capabilities. It offers compute, networking, and storage capabilities with standard components; a virtualization engine and a high level systems management appliance to manage all the resources (14 compute nodes, the Enterprise Chassis, SAN networking switches, storage, and more); it supports resource pooling and intelligent automation for dynamic VM placement and fast deployment of services.”

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Introducing PureSystems, IBM’s expert integrated systems family

2012-04-11T19:43:04Z

Today IBM introduced the PureSystems family to simultaneously simplify yet make more powerful the hardware and software that organizations use to power their datacenters, cloud, and other computing environments.

From the press release:

With the introduction of the new PureSystems family, IBM is unveiling three major advances that point to a new era of computing technology that is designed to allow businesses to slash the high costs and nagging complexity associated with managing information technology.

“Scale-In” System Design: With PureSystems, IBM is introducing a new concept in system design that integrates the server, storage, and networking into a highly automated, simple-to-manage machine. Scale-in design provides for increased density – PureSystems can handle twice as many applications compared to some IBM systems, doubling the computing power per square foot of data center space.

Patterns of Expertise: For the first time, IBM is embedding technology and industry expertise through first-of-a-kind software that allows the systems to automatically handle basic, time-consuming tasks such as configuration, upgrades, and application requirements.

Cloud Ready integration: Out of the box, all PureSystems family members are built for the cloud, enabling corporations to quickly create private, self-service cloud offerings that can scale up and down automatically.

What this means is the hardware is tightly integrated and easier to configure and maintain. The software patterns complement the hardware and accelerate the use of the systems for the types of workloads that customers really deploy. Finally, since the systems are cloud-ready, PureSystem installations can span use cases from traditional datacenters to private clouds.

This represents a US $2 Billion R&D investment by IBM. Personally, it’s been fascinating watching the pieces come together and the different parts of IBM working to create this new family of products. It’s exciting to finally be able to talk about it!

IBM recently celebrated its 100 year anniversary and talked about the many significant computing innovations it introduced during its first century. I suspect I won’t be around to see the corresponding version for the second hundred years, but I’m very confident that today’s PureSystems introduction will be front and center.

The PureSystems team producing this snazzy infographic to sum up why customers need these new systems.

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Daily links for 04/05/2012

2012-04-05T16:30:12Z

IBM CIO Discusses Big Blue’s BYOD Strategy | PCWorld Business Center

“IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue’s ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company’s 440,000 employees over time.”

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Google’s ‘Project Glass’ Augmented Reality Glasses Are Real And In Testing | TechCrunch

“After weeks of speculation and rumors, Google has officially pulled back the curtain on what they have come to call Project Glass — a pair of augmented reality glasses that seek to provide users real-time information right in front of their eyes.”

tags: mobile google

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The Apple iPad meets the 1964 NY World’s Fair

2012-04-05T16:21:06Z

I was 6 years old during the 1964 World’s Fair and so a perfect age to be hugely impressed by all its attractions and views of the future. IBM Research, the arm of the IBM Corporation that does science in the service of all the technological directions of the company, has now published a free Apple iPad app called Minds of Modern Mathematics which focuses on the original exhibit developed by Charles and Ray Eames.

From the press release:

Users can click through more than 500 biographies, milestones and images of artifacts culled from the Mathematica exhibit as well as a high-resolution image of the original timeline poster.

The app also includes the “IBM Mathematics Peep Show,” a series of playful, two-minute animated films by Charles and Ray Eames that offer lessons on mathematical concepts, from exponents to the way ancient Greeks measured the earth.

I first became aware of the Eames’ and their relationship to IBM in the PBS American Masters documentary Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter. The iPad app, which is available in the Apple App Store, includes, I believe, a couple of the videos from the documentary. I thought they were wonderful in the film and am looking forward to seeing the rest of them. They explain several interesting mathematical problems and concepts in playful and whimsical ways not often seen elsewhere.

Exhibits like this led many people to consider careers in mathematics, engineering, and the sciences. Coupled with the race to land on the moon, there was a tremendous amount of public support and recognition in the 60s for technological knowledge and innovation. We need to return to this, and quickly. I hope this app helps inspire students around the world to think about mathematics in new ways and to consider learning more of it.

Here’s an example of someone not “getting” the importance of the subject. When I was working on my Ph.D. in mathematics someone remarked to me that I “must know some really large numbers.” Yes, there are numbers, but mathematics is about relationships and structured systems that work together in coherent ways.

I challenge you to take a look at this app and find three things you didn’t know. If you’re pleased and impressed, recommend the app to others.

Daily links for 04/01/2012

2012-04-01T16:30:12Z

Amazon Lists Nokia Lumia 900 Preorder for $0.01 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

“No, that’s not a typo. AT&T might have the Lumia 900 listed for a cool $99.99 as of this article’s writing, but a quick trip over to Amazon reveals that you can purchase the same device for a tiny piece of copper (technically, copper-plated Zinc, but who’s counting?)”

tags: amazon nokia lumia mobile

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Daily links for 03/30/2012

2012-03-30T16:30:15Z

5 Cities Benefiting From Mobile Apps

“City government agencies around the world continue to explore mobile applications to provide services more effectively and to reach citizens in new ways. And it’s not just for civil services — cities are embracing apps to highlight their own civic culture and even promote community action. Here are 10 cities that offer mobile apps for citizens, tourists or both. Does your city have an app? What do you like about it?”

tags: mobile apps
Mobile app developers, don’t forget about privacy and security

“Hearn believes that mobile app development projects will start to take security and privacy into the design process within the next two years because a lot of countries around the world are focusing on the privacy issues and starting to pass more legislation that make the penalties a lot stricter and harsher for business that don’t do it.”

tags: mobile privacy security
How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development

“Mobile development has come a long way in the past few years. But as technology continues to introduce new and more innovating products at a rapid pace, there’s room for many developers to make huge mistakes along the way — ones that could jeopardize their product or even their entire business.”

tags: mobile app development
Squashing Bugs: The Many Layered Approach to Mobile App Testing

“We enlisted IBM’s Leigh Williamson, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the CTO Team, to guide us through the different ways that developers can go about app testing. Testing is not as simple as a developer trying to troubleshoot the native code on an app. Mobile apps are often vertical software systems with a variety of moving parts on the front end, in the middle and in a back-end cloud. Your code on the device may be running perfectly fine, but you would never know it because it is being corrupted from the back end that feeds it information. Or maybe some of the middle-tier services, like third-party SDKs, are running improperly. When something goes wrong, sometimes it is easy to figure out what is broken. Many times, you have no idea.”

tags: mobile app testing

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Daily links for 03/22/2012

2012-03-22T16:30:16Z

Ask Ars: how safe is my data stored in iCloud?

“Apple’s iCloud service lets users sync a staggering amount of data between Macs, Windows PCs, iPhones, and iPads. Though Apple says it stores this data securely in an encrypted format, just how safe is it? An Ars reader wrote in to ask us this question, so we decided to investigate.”

tags: apple icloud
BBC News – Jenna-Louise Coleman takes on Doctor Who role

“Former Emmerdale actress Jenna-Louise Coleman has landed the role of the Time Lord’s new companion in Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed. Chief writer Steven Moffat announced the actress will replace Karen Gillan’s character Amy Pond when she leaves the show in the next series.”

tags: bbc drwho

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Daily links for 03/20/2012

2012-03-20T16:30:17Z

Android and Linux re-merge into one operating system | ZDNet

“Android has always been Linux, but for years the Android project went its own way and its code wasn’t merged back into the main Linux tree. Now, much sooner than Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder and lead developer, had expected, Android has officially merged back into Linux’s mainline.”

tags: android linux mobile
Survey: Android programmers shifting toward Web apps | Deep Tech – CNET News

“Android is gradually slipping down mobile programmers’ priority list, with Web apps stepping in to as an answer to development difficulties, a survey released today concludes.”

tags: mobile google

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Daily links for 03/17/2012

2012-03-17T16:30:13Z

IBM: Enterprise mobile device management key with tablet growth | Opinno

“Many companies, including IBM, have stepped in to produce security solutions to this growing need. Kimber Spradlin, who is an Endpoint Management and Security Specialist at IBM, spoke to Opinno about how the mobile working ecosystem is evolving to facilitate greater functionality while maintaining security.”

tags: ibm mobile device management
Nokia working on own tablet: design chief | Reuters

“Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio.”

tags: nokia tablet

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Mobile security video from EE Times from Mobile World Congress

2012-03-16T22:15:01Z

I’m one of the people interviewed in this video from EE Times done at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. Next time I’ll try to not move my hands quite so much.

Daily links for 03/15/2012

2012-03-15T16:30:15Z

The New iPad Is Much the Same, Only Better – NYTimes.com

“The biggest new feature is what Apple calls the Retina display: like the one on the iPhone 4S, it’s a very, very sharp screen. It’s four times as sharp as the iPad 2 — in fact, it’s the sharpest ever on a mobile device. This screen has 3.1 million pixels, which is 1 million pixels more than on a high-definition TV set. (At least Apple says that that’s how many pixels it has; I quit counting after three days.)”

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