There’s a useful press release at Gartner that explains how enterprise apps are moving to tablets. Worldwide media tablet sales will total 63.6 million units in 2011, a 261.4 percent increase from 2010 sales of 17.6 million units. Gartner predict that tablet sales will continue to experience strong growth through to the end of 2015 […]

ARM has announced a new community edition of its DS-5 Toolkit for Android NDK development. Although Android apps are developed using Java, it’s possible to use c/c++ called from Java. Examples where I have personally used the NDK have been…

To speed up image processing routines
To share code with other platforms
To use open source libraries
To take […]

Following on from my last post, another pattern I often see is that successful apps are often based on something old rather than something new. The first iteration of an app is often unsuccessful. The second (or third or fourth…) often uses the same technology in a different way or for different needs.
Developers often give […]

Over the years I have helped many entrepreneurs and companies create new innovative apps. After a while, you get to see patterns for success and failure. One observation I have is that initially perceived weak opportunities can often create new, stronger opportunities. Here are four examples…

Partnering with someone who you think provides marginal benefits sometimes […]

IBM have a free new report based on a survey of more than 4,000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries on their opinions on tech trends over the next two years.
The four main areas for growth are likely to be…

Business analytics
Mobile computing 
Cloud computing 
Social business 

The report goes on to say…

"Mobile computing is here to stay, and […]

iPass has a great new Global Mobile Workforce Report (PDF). It examines trends and habits in the usage of mobile tools in the enterprise. Some interesting stats…

95 percent of mobile workers now have smartphones, up from 85 percent in 2010
91 percent use their smartphones for work, compared to 69 percent in 2010
iPhone is now the top smartphone […]

Interesting stats from Gartner today on worldwide device sales for Q3 2011. Android accounted for 52.5 percent of smartphone sales. Smartphones accounted for 26 percent of all mobile phone sales. Of most interest to developers will be the the relative market shares of the mobile platforms… 

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