Emerging New Channels to Market for “Creative Class” Microbusinesses
For a start-up, one of the biggest challenge is gaining access to customers and being able to transact business with them as easily and quickly as possible. In the last 5 years, new business models...
View ArticleMobile App Companies in the Ottawa Region
UPDATED: go here http://purplejunction.com/2012/08/25/updated-mobile-companies-in-ottawa/ ———- There has been a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa. I recently took an...
View ArticleTIM Presentation: The Business of Mobile Apps
Purple Forge – The Business of Mobile Apps V7 Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, carleton university, Entrepreneurism
View ArticlePurple Forge Wins Major Awards for the American Petroleum Institute’s Mobile...
Mobile communications is the new frontier of government and public relations. New changes to congressional rules have allowed organizations such as the American Petroleum Institute (API) to get...
View ArticleSmartphones are Changing the Way We Communicate
A new study from PEW Internet, “Just-in-time Information through Mobile Connections” highlights that the rapid adoption of cell phones and, especially, the spread of internet-connected smartphones are...
View ArticlePurple Forge @ CTIA in New Orleans This Week
Purple Forge Launches Mobile Application Development and Lifecycle Management Platform for Carriers at CTIA 2012 Purple Forge (http://www.purpleforge.com) is announcing the launch of our proven mobile...
View ArticlePurple Forge at CTIA – Pics
Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, CTIA 2012, html5, john craig, mobile apps, Ontario, rim
View ArticleRIM Following the Path of Palm to Oblivion?
News reports indicate RIM may be moving towards a Palm-esk split of the company – hardware and services. My guess would be they split three ways: hardware spin QNX back out (since it is somewhat...
View ArticleBlackberry/RIM YouTube Videos
Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, google, mobile, parody, rim
View ArticleUPDATED: Mobile App Companies in Ottawa
There is a lot of interest in the mobile app development cluster in Ottawa. I have been maintaining an inventory of companies in Ottawa who are/were developing mobile apps or mobile related software....
View ArticleMobile App Companies in Toronto
Company Name Website 21 Logs http://www.21logs.com/ Blu Trumpet http://www.blutrumpet.com/ BNotions http://bnotions.com/ Brisk Mobile http://www.briskmobile.com/ Broadplay http://www.broadplay.com/...
View ArticleMobile Info
Untether.tv is a great source for information on mobile. The site is the brainchild of Rob Woodbridge out of Ottawa. Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, blackberry, Entrepreneur, html5, iphone, mobile
View ArticleDesigning the User Experience (UX)
Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, mobile apps, mobile development, UI, user experience, UX
View ArticleMore Wireframe Tools, or “As far as the customer is concerned, the interface...
A good quote that always stands out in my mind relative to the importance of the user experience of a product is “As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product“. Capturing and...
View ArticleAugmented Reality – A Solution Looking for a Problem
Why this is somehow better then the traditional 360 degree viewers is beyond me… I have only come across one really practical use for augmented reality so far… and I am keeping that to myself for now...
View ArticleHTML5 Rather Than Native – One of Facebook’s Biggest Strategic Mistakes
“I think the biggest mistake we made was betting too much on HTML 5 rather than native. It’s just not there.” “We burnt 2 years. It is really painful. We’ look back on that and see that one of the...
View ArticleRobotic Telepresence Current State of the Art… Still Not Quite There
Lots of progress on robot telepresence has happened over the last five years. WSJ recently did an experiment with robot telepresence, but ended up opting for travel and face to face over buying a...
View ArticleFollow The Money – Apple Apps
Latest article to highlight the obvious – Apple is where the money is at. Android, not so much. “Early in Android’s short lifespan, it seemed to me that subsidizing a free, open-source platform to...
View ArticleOnline Resources for UX Designers
Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, mobile web, online, resources, UI, UX, web
View ArticleNFC = “Not for Commerce”
“EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe often quotes a merchant saying NFC stands for “Not For Commerce” – and dismisses the prospects of Near Field Communication technology used to turn cellphones into...
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