It is commonly understood that mobile apps should have a clear focus and designed for that particular task. I wanted to say single task, but some require the ability to support more than this. Apple are very good at making this distinction, so for example the email is separate from the calendar, which is seprate from messaging, calls […]
September 1, 2017
I’ve been thinking about the use of AI in apps and web sites. Currently there is a lot of effort going into the data science aspects, using AI to make sense, at a human scale, of the huge volumes of data. Separately there is a strong movement towards conversational interfaces where the AI is processing […]
November 25, 2015
Over the years there has been a switch of internet traffic from PC to Mobile, and this has been combined with massive growth, but have you seen how much. Ericsson’s report this year shows just how incredible this growth has been with the following graph. So what are you going to do with all that data, […]
December 9, 2014
Listening to the architect of many IBM mobile applications, explain his reference architecture, he made some very interesting points, Now it must be said that they were made because the IBM products help fix them, and so I thought I should point that out. Of course many of the solutions can be non-IBM too! Firstly […]
March 20, 2014
In short: Ensure your apps react quickly (sub 1 second), and tell the user when delays are expected, because with a flaky mobile connection these delays can happen more often than you’d like. For many years at the birth of the internet there was a lot of effort in making web pages load fast over […]
October 10, 2013
For the last few years APIs have become more and more important for business, often they become either a source of revenue, or central to success when use by third parties is the key driver. However when making APIs for mobile it is necessary to consider some characteristics that will make the difference between success […]
September 18, 2013
Someone pointed out to me today that video is the future of 4G, quoting that at least 40% of traffic over 4G will be video, but that also videos taken by devices are gaining in popularity, and size. Well vine and the like aside that is. It is quite possible to have videos be hundred […]
July 25, 2013
APIs APIs have become an important part of business’ strategy, and it’s product mix. So what are they and why should I care Well firstly they are a way to provide software services to selected partners, or the whole world, as you see fit. Typically each API performs a single action (give the details of […]
May 15, 2013
as you may know I work for IBM, and we have an aliance with Mobile Iron so we can provide our clients with their software. It is a platform that will look after the devices your employees use, the enterprise apps that run on them and the data used by those apps. So if your […]
September 7, 2017
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