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Mobile wars 1: Cross platform mobile

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:16:00 GMT

The world has gone mobile. Workers are logging-on to the corporate network through handheld devices and finalising business deals on the move.

Don't lose that loving feeling

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:01:00 GMT

All of a sudden, everyone everywhere is talking about customer experience – “use social media to build stronger customer relationships; find advocates that will help build your brand and reputation”.

Try before you buy User Interfaces

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:13:00 GMT

Too many firms are failing to find a means to visualise their applications as early as possible, and those that do are having to throw away their “visualisations” so that the final application can be coded.

RIM = Rich Internet Mobile ?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:11:00 GMT

Designing and creating a site for mobile devices is now easy. Rather than relying on a separate and proprietary programming language, developers can create mobile sites using tried and tested technologies from the web.

Decoupling the presentation layer

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:27:00 GMT

There is only one problem with finishing the job. When your work is complete and your software is integrated, it can sometimes be timely and expensive to modify your work.

The contradiction of BPM...

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:51:00 GMT

For IT professionals, it is an important question: does service-oriented architecture (SOA) include business process management (BPM), or is BPM an architectural approach in its own right?

Write once, present many times

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:10:00 GMT

More and more organisations, especially in Financial Services, looking to take existing products and deliver them to different brands, a business approach called “white-labelling”. For example LV provides car insurance through their own brand but also to a number of other brands like Nationwide and What Car.

Does CTO mean "career transition occurring"?

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:45:00 GMT

Does CTO mean “career transition occurring

Three brides for three technology specialists

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:04:00 GMT

The season of good will is fast approaching. But let’s not concern ourselves with the triviality of showing good will to all men.

Mobile usability: Is it good enough?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:00:00 GMT

The business world’s suddenly gone mobile, with workers logging on to enterprise applications through handheld devices. Sounds good, but are mobiles really ready?

Providing structure through model-driven development

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:50:00 GMT

When you think of end-user development, you might think of IT taking a back seat as the business defines the type of applications it uses. That approach is all well and good in theory, but what about practice?

Everything is going mobile

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:45:00 GMT

One out of every seven minutes of media consumption today takes place on mobile devices, according to new research from IPG’s Universal McCann and AOL. How can companies prepare for – and communicate with – their customers in the mobile age?

SOA:Now is the time to find a competitive advantage

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:02:00 GMT

“The choice is no longer whether to do SOA or not do SOA. It’s how to do it,” said Gartner research vice president Paolo Malinverno at the analyst’s recent Application Development and Integration Summit.

WYSIWYG is dead go with the flow

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:24:00 GMT

Since the birth of window based user interface (MAC, Microsoft Windows) application designers have adopted the What You See Is What You Get approach to creating User Interfaces.

Project failures can be good news

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:07:00 GMT

When it comes to software development, the latest research from the Standish Group presents very little in the way of good news. Failures are up and projects are considered less successful.

Arise, sir presentation architect

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:09:00 GMT

Someone, somewhere is always willing to step into the limelight. In an age of celebrity culture, where self-promotion almost seems like the key to success, the real stars can sometimes get hidden beneath the hype.

Buying usability

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:03:00 GMT

Buying online should be convenient and simple. Rather than having to traipse around town centres or retail parks in the pouring rain, customers should be able to buy from the comfort and convenience of a broadband-connected computer.

Technologies for the new age of mobility

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:56:00 GMT

The talk of the IT industry is that we are about to enter a new age of mobility. But as the market for mobile phones and chips is actually falling, it is important to seek the deeper trends beneath the vendor puff.

Technologies for the new age of mobility

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:56:00 GMT

What will happen to the in-house IT professional?

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:19:00 GMT

The new generation of all-knowing users are the future of your IT department, using development tools – such as spreadsheet macros, process models and collaborative wikis – to create winning applications.

Making BrITain Great Again

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:50:00 GMT

Making BrITain Great Again - Well done Stephen Kelly of Microfocus for putting his foot forward for IT in the UK!

Making BrITain Great Again

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:50:00 GMT

Making BrITain Great Again - Well done Stephen Kelly of Microfocus for putting his foot forward for IT in the UK!

The browser is your new operating system

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:33:00 GMT

It is a theory that has been talked about for a while: why use an operating system on your desktop, when everything you need can be run through your browser?

Are desktop applications dead?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Last month, I wrote about the potential benefits of web browser based-computing. This month, I go further and explain why we should all turn to the web.

Disposable software

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:58:00 GMT

So, you have finally taken the plunge and given your end-users more power to create useful applications. The job, however, is far from done.