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Wednesday, 27th April 2011

Cross Platform Mobile App Creator OpenPlug Drops All Fees

OpenPlug, a development toolkit for creating native apps for phones, tablets and other connected devices using JavaScript, ActionScript and XML, today became available free of charge or advertising - after more than 8 years of doing paid and ad-supported business. The company also announced a Certified OpenPlug Solutions Provider Program…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

iPad Predicted in 1994 (Video)

iPad Predicted in 1994 (Video)

The iPad is a futuristic looking device, but imagining something much like it isn't terribly new. In the video below, the former newspaper giant Knight-Ridder shows its vision of the newspaper's future - delivered by tablet computer. Circa 1994. It's amazing how much the company got right. The tablet's user experience, design and impact on…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Application Virtualization

Considering Virtualization? Start by Breaking Down the Borders

Virtualizing your business critical apps is not a task to be done piecemeal. It can lead to confusion about job responsibilities, poor application performance and in the end a lot of money spent on new servers to make up for the taxed virtualized environment. That may seem simple enough but the journey to virtualization is one with a history…

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Study: 77% Don't Want to Share Location on Smartphones

For the last two weeks, it seems like anything anyone can talk about is the fact that our GPS-enabled smartphones are tracking our location. First, it was the iPhone, then the Android and finally Windows Phone 7. Why has this struck such a chord? According to a study by TRUSTe, a leading Internet privacy service provider, privacy is the leading…

Mobile Mike Melanson comments

Try HootSuite's Social Analytics Dashboard For Free

If you read our hands-on review of HootSuite's fancy new social analytics dashboard and have been meaning to try it out, you just ran out of excuses. The company is offering users a $50 credit for reports to make up for last week's 15-hour service outage. HootSuite was one of many sites that experience downtime as a result of Amazon Web…

John Paul Titlow comments

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