mobile
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The Wearable Bank
In a sense a banking app on a mobile phone is already ‘Wearable’. Yet having apps on a Smart Watch or other ‘really’ wearable devices will allow us to do all kinds of new interesting interactions in general and with our banks specifically. Take Google Glasses, imagine them being available in normal looking designs 5… Continue reading
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3 Successful hybrid banking apps
With facebook, LinkedIn going off the Hybrid route a year or two ago and now with Asana also leaving the path of hybrid one might think hybrid apps have no place in Appland. However, some banks seem to have made some successful hybrid apps as we’ll shortly see. What makes them successful? Probably the following… Continue reading
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Mobile ads and independent game developers
In the interesting article Games Take Center Stage in Mobile Ad Surge on The Information, Walter Driver, CEO of Scopely, a mobile game publisher, calls Facebook “a very elaborate platform for routing people to the apps that are most relevant for them”. Google is another such platform. Google and facebook own 70% of the $18bln… Continue reading
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Great book on web site performance
Just when we thought we don’t need to worry too much about web site performance anymore, because PCs seem to have unlimited performance and are connected to broadband networks, come along mobile devices that are very capable yet resource restrained and connected to unreliable comparatively slow networks. Steve Souders‘ book Even Faster Web Sites: Performance… Continue reading
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Mobile Testing Strategy
Introduction Talk about a difficult area of mobile development. Testing mobile applications and Web Sites. First we need to decide which platforms we wish to test: What is the lowest iOS device we’re testing on? 3GS, 4, 4S? (Worse) What are the Android devices and versions we’re testing on? Hmmm, Windows Phone market share in… Continue reading
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Selecting the right cross platform mobile development framework for your project
Many cross-platform development frameworks exist in “native”, html or hybrid forms. It is very time consuming to track all these technologies, let alone implement a non-trivial application in each one of them. This is, however, exactly what the people at Property cross have done! They implemented a non-trivial application using several known cross-platform development frameworks… Continue reading
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LTE in Europe
Ever wondered what frequencies are supported in different European countries? I did. I found the information on the Wireless Telecommunications blog (I only counted implemented frequencies and not planned ones). I added the information on Belgium to the ten countries covered in the blog post. Maybe I’ll add more lines to the spread sheet later… Continue reading
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Mobile OS landscape has shifted dramatically
While Apple is prepping the delivery of the first iPhones in the states, we’ve been seeing a real shift in the dominant Operating Systems in Europe the last 12 months. And of course this has an impact on the mobile browser scene as well. Have a look at the graphs below. This needs to be… Continue reading
About Me
As an experienced enterprise architect with a deep-rooted passion for cloud, AI, and architectural design, I’ve guided numerous companies through the management of their existing application landscapes and facilitated their transition to a future state.