Kin Lane on July 8th, 2010

Tweet I’m refining my strategy for best practices in designing mobile web sites.  I just added a few RSS feeds from quality design firms, and added a Google Alert.  I’ve put together a few things to consider when designing your web site for mobile browsers: Keep it Simple Use White Space Make Wise Use of [...]

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Kin Lane on July 8th, 2010

Tweet I see many companies and clients jumping on the “developing an IPhone Application bandwagon”.  Its definitely a hot medium for delivering your web application, content, products and services to. One big disconnect I see is that many companies don’t even have a mobile friendly version of their web site or application yet. Enabling your [...]

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Tweet Wyse PocketCloud gives you access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine securely from your desktop and your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android devices. Connection Protocols Microsoft RDP protocol VMware View 4.0 connection broker Wyse PocketCloud Security Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) RSA Two-Factor Authentication [...]

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Kin Lane on June 28th, 2010

Tweet Google released a mobile version of the Google Docs viewer for Android, iPhone and iPad today.  You can now view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files that are uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file. I’m viewing more and more office documents on my Iphone and IPad these days.  Since [...]

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Kin Lane on June 17th, 2010

Tweet The ExtJS team is really excited about HTML 5.  They see HTML 5 as the future.  I definitely agree.    Ext JS,  jQTouch, and Raphaël are combining into a new entity called Sencha. I have used Ext JS for several web applications and internal adminstration systems.  It is one of my favorite JavaScript frameworks that [...]

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Kin Lane on January 11th, 2010

Tweet Google released the SDK for Google Android 2.1 today.   I need to play with the new release.

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Kin Lane on August 6th, 2009

Tweet Image via CrunchBase Just read another post with data backing up the growth as Google Android as an application development platform.    A post from ReadWriteWeb called “More Developers Start Working on Android Apps” has some good data from Flurry on application platform growth for Iphone, Blackberry, and Android. The post states: Flurry’s stats for [...]

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Kin Lane on July 20th, 2009

Tweet I was just reading an article on Wired magazing called, “Google Says Mobile App Stores Have No Future“.    It reflects the same thought I was having last week of the importance of making sure your web application is mobile browser compatible. I feel that mobile applications are an important development area your business should [...]

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Kin Lane on July 17th, 2009

Tweet Was just reading a post on Mashable about Google: Browser is the Platform of the Future, Even on Mobiles. Reading this and continuing my journey to understand mobile platforms, primarily IPhone, Blackberry, and Android.  Which I feel are the big players you should consider these while planning your mobile application development and deployment.  I [...]

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Kin Lane on July 17th, 2009

Tweet Just came across good introductory look at the HTC Hero from Techcrunch.    I think this is just the beginning of a wave of Android based mobile phones and webbooks you will see over the next year or two. 2009 will be a big year for new mobile phones and webbooks to be released based [...]

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Kin Lane on May 31st, 2009

Tweet I am not blogging to among the A list bloggers or drive large amounts of traffic to my blog.  I do this primarily for myself and as a result I tend to have some readers and followers.  At conferences I tend to take notes and when I find time and get in the blogging [...]

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Kin Lane on May 31st, 2009

Tweet I am still processing my notes and information from the Google I/O conference in San Francisco last week.  I will be making some individual posts on different sessions I attended. I wanted to speak to my overall experience at the conference. I had a little insight behind the scenese because even though I went [...]

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Kin Lane on May 30th, 2009

Tweet I was browsing the magazine rack at borders books this morning as I often do.  I notice an IPhone Application directory magazine.  Besides the fact that Mac and I everything seems to dominate the technology section of the magazine rack, Apple really is on it when it comes to publishing. I would like to [...]

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Kin Lane on May 3rd, 2009

Tweet Watching the recent explosion in growth around IPhone applications and seeing the potential for other mobile application development on Blackberry, Android and other platforms…I can’t help but think how this is the future of computing. I see many useful business and fun applications on the Iphone and Blackberry coming out every day.  I just [...]

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Kin Lane on April 26th, 2009

Tweet IPhone applications are a success, no arguement here.   With this success there are a lot of of mobile providers mimicking this.  We saw the recent release of the Blackberry application directory and we see other mobile carriers talking of the same. Having a platform development kit for your mobile platform will be a requirement [...]

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Kin Lane on April 26th, 2009

Tweet I have talked before about data centers supporting the cloud and green data center construction strategies.   I have heard comments on the amount of data center infrastructure we have is adequate for the next round of cloud growth. I tend to be an optimist, but I think the next round of cloud adoption is [...]

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Kin Lane on April 26th, 2009

Tweet Reading various posts about application development platforms for IPhone, Blackberry, Vodafone, Android and many others. Being a big fan of Wikinomics, Crowdsourcing and all those visionary 2.0 concepts….I can’t help think….should every company have an open platform for their business? Is this R&D 2.0.  Many companies can’t even afford an R&D Department, maybe they [...]

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Kin Lane on April 26th, 2009

Tweet I was just reading about Research in Montion and their innovation in Fast Company and about their applicaiton directory in Business Week. I was also reading about Vodafone in Business Week. Seems that open platforms and creating application directories are all the rage.  All the mobile providers are seeing the success of namely IPhone [...]

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