Mobile Platform Wars Further Prove the Case for Web Apps
More and more evidence is revealing that Apple is losing market share - fast. The company that pretty much invented the modern mobile app experience is losing ground, according to recent analyst results published in a recent Business Insider article. Apple is ...
Cloud Data Strategies – Think Big, Start Small, and Never Stop Improving
In an InfoWorld blog post today, David Linthicum outlined three steps to make towards a successful cloud database strategy. I think the advice is solid, and hints at the main gist of what I have been saying in recent blog posts around the transformative nature...
Google’s Cloud SQL: Validation Without Innovation
Google announced this week an enhanced version of its Cloud SQL database service. The offering is pretty straightforward; it is a MySQL database available to users in the cloud. The enhancements are around scale and performance, which are of course good things...
Cloud Apps: The Intersection of Strategic and Tactical
After reading an interesting piece at business Insider on how Toyota is building for its future by leveraging cloud applications and services, I had a few thoughts. One, is that every company these days has to be at least thinking about how IT and technology i...
The Case for Web Versus Native Mobile Apps
I came across an interesting post from Chris Heilmann over on the Mozilla blog that destroys some myths about HTML5. Most of the anti-HTML5 talk I have heard has come from those debating whether it is a viable platform for building mobile applications, given t...
Election Results Made Easy with Caspio
Regardless of your political affiliation, everyone can agree that this week's elections signified an impressive increase in awareness and involvement on the part of U.S. citizens. Voter turnout for the past several elections remains high - even with natural di...
Don’t Migrate Apps To the Cloud – Build Apps in the Cloud
In a ZDNet post this week by James Staten of Forrester Research, he cites points from a report by himself and analyst Jeffrey Hammond titled "Don't Migrate Your Apps to the Cloud." In essence, the article notes how the cloud requires a new attitude towards app...
Can Cloud Apps Give Candidates an Election Edge?
A recent CNet article about how social media is becoming mainstream in presidential elections got me thinking. While large-scale elections like those for our President involve millions of dollars of campaign contributions - what about the local government cand...
