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Friday, 29th July 2011

Poll: Do Use HTML as an App Platform?

With today's launch of PhoneGap 1.0, a framework that allows developers to build mobile apps using Web standards, it seemed like a good time to put up a poll about HTML as an app platform. HTML, and in particular, HTML5, has come a long way to addressing the needs of cross-platform development by delivering a platform where apps can run on any…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

The State of IT Consumerization [Infographic]

Dell has published an infographic collecting various statistics about the progress of the consumerization of IT. We've covered some of this data before, such the studies sponsored by Unisys, but this does a nice job of pulling several piece of information together. I don't care for the conflation of IT consumerization with the labor movement, but…

Enterprise Klint Finley comments

SimpleGeo & Illumination of Place

Geographic data provider SimpleGeo announced yesterday that it now offers US census data for any location an app queries for, along with all the other types of data about what surrounds that place. Gender breakout, commute time, age, housing prices and other data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey is now included in the…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

PhoneGap 1.0 Launches Today

PhoneGap, the open source mobile developement framework that allows mobile developers build apps using Web standards, is launching today into version 1.0. This is a milestone release for the platform, which now adds additional APIs, features and improvements in its newly updated product. The launch is being celebrated in Portland, at an event…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Testing on Hundreds of Mobile Devices

You can't hug every cat and it's hard to test apps on every phone, too. "One of the major challenges for [mobile] platform vendors, carriers, and handset manufacturers is how to make sure the best apps are available on their products," writes mobile developer Jason Grigsby, co-founder of a new nonprofit organization called Mobile Portland. "One…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

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