Archive for the ‘Solutions’ Category
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, cloud, cloud computing, cloud hosting
Posted in Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Web Strategy, Website Hosting | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
ChangeWave’s December survey shows Android is used by 4% of smart-phone users (up 3% from September).
Android is the choice for 21% of people planning to buy a smart-phone in the next 90 days (up 15% from September). Compare this to iPhone’s figure of 28%, down 4 points. Satisfaction of Android users is at 72%, almost [...]
Tags: iphone, market share, statistics
Posted in Android Development | No Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
Tags: framework, html5
Posted in Android Development, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, Mobile | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
AdMob’s October 2009 mobile metrics report is out, and it’s clear that the Droid may be a serious contender to the iPhone. Just two weeks after its launch, the Droid accounts for 24% of Android requests.
It should be noted that AdMob measures requests to its advertising delivery system from applications and mobile websites. These numbers [...]
Tags: android, iphone, market share, statistics
Posted in Android Development, Mobile | No Comments »
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Gartner released a report last Thursday, November 12, which showed some market share movements in the mobile OS space. iPhone and RIM gained market share, while Symbian and Windows Mobile lost share. Android has gone from 0 to almost 4% of market share. This is in line with Gartner’s prediction that by 2012, Android will [...]
Tags: android, market share, statistics
Posted in Android Development, Mobile, Web Strategy | No Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
We’re happy to announce that we just launched our first Android™ application! Meet EEBA, the Easy Envelope Budget Aid.

Android’s been all the rage recently with every major carrier making announcements about Android phones and Gartner predicting that by 2012 Android will overtake iPhone. Its open source nature makes it a [...]
Tags: android, eeba, envelope budgeting, envelope method
Posted in Android Development, Dayspring Announcements, Easy Envelope Budget Aid, Mobile, Products | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
PayPal X Adaptive Payments API allows a single payment to be divided among up to 6 separate receivers. Also supports currency conversion and PayPal registration through API.
Tags: adaptive payments api, api, paypal, paypal x
Posted in E-Commerce | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin [...]
Tags: amazon web services, cloud computing, mysql
Posted in Databases, Website Hosting | No Comments »
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Drupal, the open source content management system, has just received a big vote of confidence. It’s now powering the White House website. Obama’s campaign used it to power its campaign website and it’s already been powering Recovery.gov for some time, but this is another move into the spotlight for this solid content management choice.
White House [...]
Tags: drupal
Posted in Content Management Systems (CMS) | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Is website speed critical to your business?
Consider: A study has shown that increasing response times by 500ms for Google reduced traffic by 20%. Response time increases of 100ms on Amazon decreased sales by 1%1! These are some pretty amazing figures.
The reason is probably that [...]
Posted in HTML & CSS, Strategy & Consulting, Usability, User-Centered Design, Website Hosting | No Comments »