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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...

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Mobile 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...

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TIM Presentation: The Business of Mobile Apps

Purple Forge – The Business of Mobile Apps V7 Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, carleton university, Entrepreneurism

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Purple 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...

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Smartphones 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...

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Purple 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...

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Purple Forge at CTIA – Pics

Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, CTIA 2012, html5, john craig, mobile apps, Ontario, rim

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RIM 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...

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Blackberry/RIM YouTube Videos

Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, google, mobile, parody, rim

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UPDATED: 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....

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Mobile 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/...

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Mobile 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

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Designing the User Experience (UX)

Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, blackberry, mobile apps, mobile development, UI, user experience, UX

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More 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...

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Augmented 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...

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HTML5 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...

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Robotic 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...

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Follow 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...

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Online Resources for UX Designers

Filed under: Ottawa Tagged: android, apple, mobile web, online, resources, UI, UX, web

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NFC = “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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