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Mobile Development: Using PhoneGap to Build Apps that Run in Any Mobile Environment — Good or Bad?

By Dick Weisinger

PhoneGap lets you write an HTML-based app that can be built and deployed in any of six different mobile ecosystems.  It is a compelling idea.  It’s actually a bit like Sun Microsystems’ slogan for Java applied to the mobile development landscape:

Content Management: Mobile Devices #TabletFail on Content Creation

By Dick Weisinger

Tablet computing has become incredibly popular.  But even though businesses are stocking up on them, they’re not about to replace all of their desktops and laptops with tablets.  They can’t — according to a recent survey by Alfresco Software, maker

Mobile: Mobile Devices Encourage Longer Hours

By Dick Weisinger

Many workers increasingly are increasingly working weekends, putting in longer hours and taking fewer vacations.  Depending on your perspective that can be good or bad news.  The forces behind this change are a combination of a tough economy and mobile

Cloud Computing: Use of the Cloud and Mobile Improves Disaster Preparedness

By Dick Weisinger

Benefits liike greater flexibility and cost savings are often attributed to new technologies like virtualization, the cloud and mobile.  But there may be another hidden benefit for using these technologies.  That’s better preparedness for disasters.  A recent study by Symantec

Mobile: Both Government and Commercial Organizations are Building Mobile Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Mobile application development is taking off, within both business and government.  Two new surveys, one of commercial companies and the other of governments, found strikingly similar results about ongoing efforts to develop mobile applications.  A survey by BZ Research found