Mobile Web Services

Adopting Best Practices for Wi-Fi: A Service Provider's Onus

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:45:00 EST

As smartphone users become more sophisticated, they are actively seeking out the service provider they believe offers the best overall network for their smartphone. Providers are learning that users are quick to switch if they are unhappy with their existing service. Customers today expect their smartphone to deliver high-bandwidth applications along with high quality voice services. Service providers must look to alternative for “offloading” these bandwidth-intensive applications if they are to keep up with this high bandwidth demands. After years of serving as a nice-to-have hospitality solution, IEEE 802.11 is being thrust into the forefront as a solution. The risk that providers face when using Wi-Fi for cellular offload is that unsatisfactory user experiences with Wi-Fi now result in a loss of high margin smartphone users. The reality is that consumers will, in most instances, not realize that new smartphones will move off a 3G or 4G service to a Wi-Fi network. At that point, end users will associate a poor Wi-Fi connection with a poor cellular network connection.

Bad Apps = Bad Press

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:45:00 EST

In today’s lightning fast information era, where anyone with an Internet connection holds virtual press credentials, news travels fast. And bad news travels really fast. In the rush to deploy new mobile apps quickly to meet customer demand and keep pace with competitors, many companies fail to properly test their apps for performance. This leads to a cycle of monitoring applications for post-deployment failure, fixing them as quickly as possible, all while hoping for minimal PR backlash or wasted IT resources. There has to be a better way.

Five Overlooked Factors of Mobile Application Performance

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:45:00 EST

Too often, little consideration is given to performance testing in the context of mobile application testing. As users demand the same experience whether they are accessing Web-based content from their smart phones, tablets, or laptop computers, the performance of your mobile application has never been more crucial to the performance of your bottom line. Here are five overlooked factors in mobile application performance that, if addressed, will help your company triumph in, rather than be crushed by, the mobile arms race.

Mobile Development – Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EDT

By now it's become pretty clear that tablets aren't going anywhere. The successful launch of the iPad 2 and the explosion of competitive offerings have made this clear. And with this explosion in tablet computing, we have just one more example of how technology is giving us the world, and everything in it, right at our fingertips For this reason, mobile has been viewed by analysts as having enormous potential as a marketing vehicle. More and more, companies are creating apps with the goal of using them to promote a specific product or service. Yet many companies approach development of these apps in the same way they do for web development when, in reality, these are two very different media. The drivers behind creating these apps may be similar, but before beginning development, it's important to ask these questions.

Corporate Applications on a Mobile Device Near You

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:00:00 EDT

In the enterprise building mobile applications is as much about integration and the corresponding challenges as it is about pure application development. Recent industry reports reveal that more than 70% of mission-critical data and most of the pivotal business logic that runs worldwide commerce still resides on existing host systems.

Adding Reliability to Occasionally Connected Computing in Mobile Devices

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:30:00 EDT

Mobile devices use wireless networks that have limited range. Therefore, they may not always be connected to a network. This kind of intermittent connectivity in mobile devices has been one of the factors inhibiting enterprise-level adoption of pervasive mobile applications. Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) deals with this problem. The challenge that mobile application developers face today is to develop applications that will let users interact uniformly with the application regardless of the connection status.

Where Web Services Meet Mobile Devices

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Let's face it, we're going mobile. You only need to consider how you communicate these days to understand that. I, for one, find that my Blackberry is becoming my e-mail terminal of choice, as well as my best source of information via the WAP-enabled Web browser built-in. And oh yes, it's a phone. Others are finding that their mobile phones are their single point of contact, both voice and data, and this trend will only continue as we learn to cut the wires and as wireless networks become more pervasive and much faster.

Web Services and Portal Technology

Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:00:00 EST

Portals are central points of access for applications and content for both internal and external use in an enterprise through interactive and rich presentation interfaces.

Extending Web Services to the Real World

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:00:00 EST

This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the realm of Web services, the challenges that lie ahead, and advancements that enable extending Web services to the real world. Applications for real-world scenarios have significant dependencies on development time and ROI and must be robust, platform neutral, and performance sensitive.