Like the PC’s domination over Macs in decades past, low-cost devices for the masses will win the global smartphone war. It won’t even be close. Most of the world population has to buy their device first, without the luxury of … Continue reading
Let’s talk about trust. So far, my BYOD guidance has been to give your employees a lot of value without allowing their devices to access your internal corporate network. Frankly, the ability to trust any mobile device inside the firewall … Continue reading
The user is the Endpoint. Apps and Devices are just Enablers.
I continue to see people refer to buying a ”MEAP” as if it’s a noun, a thing, or a shrinkwrapped 4GL product. It’s important to remember that Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) is a Gartner Magic Quadrant where a stack of … Continue reading
Wow! Just opened a 1099 tax document for 2011 from Apress. People must still be buying my old books on eMbedded Visual Basic, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and SQL Server Compact 2.0. The Pocket PC and Windows Mobile live … Continue reading
Since 90% of the world’s population has mobile network coverage, lets take a look at how they’re using it, where they’re using it, and what we should expect from the future… Continue reading
Join the Windows Azure team at Seattle Interactive Conference (Nov 2 -3, 2011) for two days of technical content and one-on-one advice and assistance from product experts. Cloud Experience track is for experienced developers and who want to learn how … Continue reading
Beyond developing apps and games with Silverlight and XNA, take advantage of the new emulator to view and test your new HTML5 websites. Continue reading
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Our friends at Kleiner Perkins have some great insights into where things are going with the Mobile Internet: Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011) View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
CIOs are asking for help in confronting the tidal wave of mobile devices entering the enterprise. IT departments have raised the white flag as attempts to block consumer-focused smartphones and tablets have failed. The Consumerization of IT has been a … Continue reading
With the new version 4.0, the little-database-that-could has grown up into a powerful server database ready to take on the web. Continue reading
Uniqueness is a key factor when synchronizing data between SQL Server/Azure and multiple endpoints like Slates and Smartphones. With data simultaneously created and updated on servers and clients, ensuring rows are unique to avoid key collisions is critical. As you know, each row is uniquely identified by its Primary Key. Continue reading
By now, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the role wireless data networks play when it comes to the success of your mobile application. They are unreliable, intermittent, highly latent and often slower than they should be due to … Continue reading
Five years after Ray Ozzie penned The Internet Services Disruption, he reflects on Microsoft’s move to the cloud. While he’s most proud of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, he also gives our competitors their due by mentioning that they have … Continue reading