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 [...]
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SproutCore: HTML 5 Framework
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Mobile Metrics – Oct 2009 numbers
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009AdMob’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 [...]
Mobile OS Market Share Updates
Monday, November 16th, 2009Gartner 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 [...]
Envelope Budget System for Android
Thursday, November 5th, 2009We’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 [...]
Amazon.com, General Store of the Web
Monday, September 21st, 2009An article in yesterday’s New York Times talks about how Amazon is increasingly becoming the general store of the Web, one of the few e-tailers to thrive amidst the general recession.
Sometime later this year, if current trends continue, worldwide sales of media products — the books, movies and music that Amazon started with — will [...]
3 Things, Mobile Phone Usability and m-commerce
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Three Things
At a Java developers’ conference a couple years ago, I remember hearing a keynote where Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, talked about the three things that a person always has when they leave the house: their keys, their wallet and their mobile phone. The point is that mobile phones have become a [...]
Mobile Web development with Android
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Does your current Web strategy include a smartphone accessible Web application? A couple of Dayspring-ers just demo’d a handly little application running on a Google-supplied Android phone. And good timing, as T-Mobile will be bringing out its second Android phone this summer.
But now T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in [...]
SMS: the new crack
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Very interesting read on recent trends in the mobile device industry. In this article, the author cites:
“[The] Mobile [industry] is on par with the global automobile industry or the worldwide armaments industry annually, now earning one Trillion (1,000 Billion) dollars in revenues.”
Here’s the article in full (warning: it’s really long).
Crackberry Addictions: You’re not just rude, you’re stupider too!
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Just a little glance, nobody will notice, and really, it could be important:
…rapid-fire switching of attention among tasks. In that state of mind, says computer scientist Mary Czerwinski of Microsoft Research, you don’t process information as fully and are not using your frontal lobe effectively.
When Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School studied 238 [...]
Statistics on Mobile OS Share
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009It’s unclear to me whether these statistics are for all phones or just so-called smartphones. I’m guessing that it’s smartphones given that BlackBerries are as high as they are. These stats are cited by NY Times citing Gartner:
i. Symbian (Nokia) – 52.4% of market – apps are in Java and Flash technology.
ii. BlackBerry – 16.5% – [...]
