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Mobile is the topic at the top of the list for just about every organizations customer experience strategy. What things does Adobe VP of Enterprise Marketing, Kevin Cochrane, see and hear most from his customers?

The writing is on the wall and it has been read.

The importance of mobile devices, and by association mobile apps, is well established for businesses today.
 

Plone's recently released roadmap outlines near-term plans that include adopting HTML5 and CSS3 and improving user experience.

BlackBerry World is starting up in Florida today. It is pretty much the final opportunity the company has to win faith and generate buzz from developers by showing off its next-generation BB10 operating system. We look at some highlights from the BB10 keynote.

Microsoft continues to leak information on what new features will ship with next year's major Office release, the latest being more cloud support and web-type extensions.

The Web is moving away from static displays and web pages, and even advertising companies are warming up to the trend of using rich media in their campaigns. A recent study by MediaMind gives credence to the need to spend more effort in building rich media displays, as these attract more web views and user actions than static ad displays by more than 600%.

I love to walk into Business Depot and smell all that fresh, unused paper just waiting for my pen. I also love my print magazines. But what I saw at the Adobe Summit last week was enough to make me consider the alternative -- digital magazines -- as almost too enticing to ignore.

While many might still believe that games are just for the kids, the ever-evolving web is now increasingly capable of running advanced games-class technologies within the browser, and they can be deployed for much more than Angry Bird clones.

Site design for those lacking in actual design skills is a problem that many seem to want to solve. Wix is a dab hand at creating Flash sites from a drag and drop system, now it offers the same for those needing a result in modern, sexy, smartphone-friendly HTML 5.

Having a tablet-friendly website is rapidly rising up the tick list of must-haves for anyone selling online. Mobify takes the hard work out of desktop browser to mobile or tablet browser conversion, fine-tuning and optimizing your site along the way.

At the huge Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain today, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor took the stage announcing the social web giant is backing initiatives to "standardize" mobile web browsers to help deal with what Taylor characterized as "...rampant technology fragmentation across mobile browsers." 

For companies with robust Web CMSs, the move to a mobile app brings up many challenges to create consistent and seamless customer experiences.

With smartphones now outselling PCs and a recent global CIO  study showing 75% of respondents targeting mobile as a top spending priority, IBM took action to secure its place in the mobile enterprise domain, announcing a "definitive agreement" to acquire mobile app and infrastructure software developer Worklight.

“Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business,” said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware.

With the latest version of Tibbr unleashing in February, the need for real-time human interaction in the office has become even more trifling. The next update of this mobile platform adds a geographical component to the mix, guiding users around any setting or workplace, alerting them to its ins and outs. In Tibbr 3.5, the low level clerk -- the guy who messed up the PO -- has been eliminated in favor of cyber leadership. It’s Second Life, for the real world.

As much as I love those adverts where gadgets and services just work, we all know that is really some marketer's fantasy, a dream that never happens. So here are some of the "features" that have bugged me this year that should be fixed in 2012 by the various powers that be in technology today.