Sencha has recently begun targeting the Adobe Flex community, promoting their products as the panacea for development in the HTML5 arena. That message is not far from the truth. While these frameworks don't address common frustrations with JavaScript, such as its lack of compile-time checking, error-prone scoping and other language specific quirks, Flex developers will...
Read moreNFC (near field communications) is expected to bring sweeping changes to customer interactions at retail locations. Everything from check-out, to just-in-time couponing, to social networking will be affected. The hope is that NFC will be a great new tool for creating stronger customer loyalty and satisfaction while making the smartphone the...
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I knew about the soft launch of the Apple Store app, but it wasn't until yesterday when I happened to walk in to my local Apple store in search of a new set of earbuds that I realized what's actually happening
Apple just soft-launched one of the most powerful digital wallet services, and few have noticed.
First, let me walk you through the experience:
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Read moreToday Apple introduced a new version of their iBooks iOS application alongside a new content creation tool, iBooks Author. This move was focused entirely on bringing textbooks to the iPad. After analyzing both Apple's announcement and the two newly released pieces of software, I have some interesting observations.
Why the iPad?
I think it is important to take a...
Read moreDigital publishing grew tremendously in 2011. With the unveiling of new technologies such as the iPad 2, the iPhone 4S and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, we’ve dramatically changed the way companies will disseminate information for years to come.
But we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what’s possible in this space. While many industries have dipped a...
Read moreHTML5, the final frontier. This article describes the challenges and benefits of HTML5 across the enterprise. HTML5’s five-year year mission: to explore strange new devices, to seek out ubiquity across all platforms, and to boldly go where no other technology has gone before.
HTML5 is not just a standard, it is a revolution. More popular than the Beatles and Elvis...
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If Adobe’s recent Flash Mobile and Flex announcements didn’t make it official, it’s the closest thing to it. The plug-in model is over. Creators of the two main viable products Adobe (Flash) and Microsoft (Silverlight) have both publicly stated that they view HTML5 as the future. While each continue to pay lip service to their respective technologies, the writing is...
Read moreRemember buying a vinyl record or even a CD, ripping off the plastic and having an immediate glimpse into the back-story of the music project… all while holding something in the palm of your hands?
With a move to streaming music and digital downloads, we’ve lost some of the connection and back-story we used to get from vinyl and CD albums. It seems like the only time we...
Read moreWe're thrilled to release the new Jimi Hendrix – The Complete Experience app for iOS5 in conjuntion with Sony Music Entertainment, Legacy Records, and Experience Hendrix, LLC.
"Jimi Hendrix – The Complete Experience is a powerful new way for fans to immerse themselves in the world of Jimi Hendrix and discover great music and other special premium content," said Michael...
Read moreSince the news of Steve Jobs' passing, we've seen all sorts of plaudits lauded on him in the media. All of them are reverent and sincere, but they are reaching and trying to define Jobs' greatness, and not quite hitting the mark.
Numerous pieces have hailed him as the Thomas Edison of our time. I don't think that does Jobs or Edison justice. We tend to reach for...
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