Mobile Applications News & Articles

Kapow Software has done some major damage with the Kapow Katalyst Application Integration Platform-- in a good way.  The company just announced their best fiscal Q1 in their personal history. Read on if you've got an enterprise-sized appetite for integration capabilities, content migration, mobile enablement, web intelligence, and business process automation. 

Last we spoke about Kapow Software, it introduced Kapow Katalyst as the future of data integration. Today, it introduced Kapow Mobile Katalyst, an integration platform that can enable and deploy business applications in a mobile environment. If history repeats itself, we may be looking at the future of mobile engagement.

This year, we’ve talked about the mobile enterprise (it is the name of the column, after all). And though we’ve talked a lot about the importance of mobile compatibility from a business perspective, we haven’t talked much about how to go about making mobile websites compatible with mobile devices.

Let’s consider for a moment that the security that controls your workforce's mobile devices is like an immune system. Is it healthy enough to fight off viruses or ward off risky infections? Fortunately, your security infrastructure isn’t an immune system, so you don’t have to rely on synapses to oversee your company’s mobile security. There are tools that do just that.

This week the mobile enterprise reveals the secret lives of business travelers, while Blackberry and iPhone jostle for position.

Last week O’Reilly Media hosted an online webinar about effective user interfaces. The online seminar featured John McRee, User Experience Architect and author of the book, Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software.

This week the mobile enterprise focuses on security, from downloading applications and iPad integration, we offer you some sage advice.

This week the mobile enterprise offers us new and improved ways to stay in touch on the go, whether it be from our chair, our feet or speeding down the highway. And no, we don't mean the internet super highway.

Mobile is fast becoming one of the most important delivery channels for business today. But what's better to have: a mobile website or a mobile application? This is the second in a two-part series on why mobile websites are the correct first step for brands that are just establishing a mobile presence.

If you’re running a major brand and you aren’t in the mobile space yet -- you should know by now that you’ll need to take the plunge in 2010 or risk being left behind by your competitors. Mobile is here and is fast becoming one of the dominant ways users consume content and make purchases.

This is the first in a two-part series on why mobile websites are the correct first step for brands that are just establishing a mobile presence.

The Guardian News & Media (via Guardian.co.uk) are broadcasting their recent good fortune. It turns out that it has sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app, which launched in December. Does the future of web publishing belong to iPhone apps?

Mobifusion, a mobile apps developer in the mood to promise the entertainment world to its users, has just released the latest version of its multimedia platform.

Mobiviewer 2.5 reportedly improves both the viewing and reading experiences on mobile phones and includes a slew of additional nifty and bite-sized “snacks” like an icon-based UI, audio plug-ins, and instant photos and graphics. Sounds pretty tasty to us.

Web sites and web applications have come a long way in the last 10-15 years. With technologies such as dynamic HTML, JavaScript and broadband connections, we have seen amazing web applications in recent years.

However, on the mobile platform, browsing the web leaves a lot to be desired. Today's websites, even those that have launched 'mobile' versions, have a long way to go if they desire to be more usable by mobile users. This is the conclusion of a deep analysis by usability expert Jakob Nielsen. He described his experience conducting his research as "cringeworthy" for users and researchers.

In a world where mobile phones are finding inroads into many different facets of our lives, a new study suggests a new usage pattern is about to emerge. According to Ovum, a telecom analyst firm, mobile video usage will soon gain traction.

Two main factors for this include: advancing the prospect of widely-used video usage including rollout of next generation wireless networks and a new carrier attitude of openness with regards to which applications can appear on mobile handsets.

Need a new perspective on Web browsing? Cooliris (formerly PicLens) has a solution with an impressive three-dimensional browsing experience that will hit the spot for those who appreciate images and videos. If that doesn’t sound cool enough, how about browsing in 3D on an iPhone? Thanks to Cooliris, this is now possible and it sure is pretty.