The current economy has created numerous reasons for enabling your company’s employees to be mobile, even turned into full-fledged digital nomads who have the computing power they need while on the go – regardless of the size of your business. What does such an employee need in their mobile toolkit? Here’s a [...]
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AT&T: iPhone Tethering, iPad 3G Data Plan Changes
The Apple iPad is now available in nine more markets, not including the USA. Both the WiFi-only and 3G models are available, in all three memory sizes (16GB, 32GB, 64GB). This is great news for non-U.S. consumers who have been waiting for these devices. Meanwhile the USA seems to be sold out of them. Unfortunately, [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 29, 2010
The mobile tech rumor mill suggests that Apple might open up iPhone/ iPad development to tools on the Windows PC environment, and for that reason, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will appear at Apple’s WWDC keynote next week. But Microsoft’s officially Twitter channel says it’s not true. What might be true, on the other hand, is that [...]
Mobomo Mobisphere Roundup — May 17, 2010
According to an ABI Research report, one billion people will have 4G cellular coverage by 2012. That’s compared to the just under 500M people who had coverage by year end 2009. [Via Softpedia]
It’s happened: According to the New York Times, cellphones are now used more for their data connection than for phone calls. Now that’s [...]
Get Ready for a Mobile App Usage Explosion
The NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics), a CDC sub agency that uses telephone surveys for data gathering, has determined that nearly 25% of American homes have no landline, only wireless phones. As well, 15% of American homes have landline phones but don’t usually use them. These and other related mobile statistics are available in [...]
Apple iPad Development First Impressions
Like most of the Internet, we were glued to the various blogs covering Apple’s iPad event today (gdgt seemed to deliver both the best quality and availability). As soon as the SDK was announce we jumped on it and got to work updating one of our iPhone apps to see what kinds of challenges were [...]
Easily Create .ipa Archives for Ad Hoc Distribution
Today I whipped up a little shell script, mkipa, that creates .ipa files for distribution. Typically, people are dragging and dropping .app bundles to iTunes and back out of the arcane depths of their ~/Library. This should streamline things for devs, since you can just specify the source .app bundle and the name of the [...]
Revisiting Android via Titanium
I’ve been focusing exclusively on iPhone development lately and only briefly looked at the Android SDK back when the G1 was just a glimmer in T-Mobile customers’ eyes. Without a doubt the iPhone App Store is the place to sell mobile applications right now. The Android Market simply can’t compete (at least, according to every [...]
Mobomo at DC Chamber Gala
We got to meet Ted Leonsis, Capitals’ owner and AOL Exec at the DC Chamber of Commerce Gala, over the weekend with our friends at Network Solutions. Ted won the “Economic impact of the year Award.” During the Gala, the Capitals won against the Nashville Predators with a final score of 3-2. [...]
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