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Following on from the previous post on the Apple iPhone launch and associated video we have posted some further videos showing the AppSwing solution in use. These show a variety of solutions and can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/appswing.
AppSwing have today announced support for the Apple iPhone allowing access to corporate applications from the browser. This means that back office applications can be accessed on the move, something that wasn’t previously possible due to the closed nature of the device.
We have put together a micro-site with further details and a superb video put together by Magic Bullet. You can see a smaller version of the video below or visit the site at www.iphone4apps.com and register to access the demo applications on your own device.
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I am currently sat in the British Library waiting for the start of the London stop of the FogBugz world tour. In theory this is an opportunity to see the latest version of FogBugz but in practice I suspect that many people will be here simply to hear development guru Joel Spolsky speak.
I would like to say that the audience were a real mixed bunch but they are not. It is 99.9% Mac touting male geeks wearing jeans and trainers. If anyone wants to find the stereotypical developer this would be the place. So I guess, by extension, that unless I fill that 0.01% I am a geek too. Not necessairly. Spolsky too runs a small but successful development company and publishes an equally successful blog on the business of running a development company. His views very much align with my own and how I would like to shape AppSwing. So this is an opportunity to further tap into that success and help me find new ways of accelerating my own business.
Post seminar note: I was very impressed by FogBugz and the thinking behind it and this it could really help accelerate the development practices here at AppSwing. I will be taking a closer look with the team at how we might moved from our current collection of tools to FogBugz.
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform have announced plans to standardise the charging method for mobile devices. In future you will be able to charge your device with any miniUSB charger or cable. The only thing I couldn’t find details of when we might begin to see this charging nirvana.
Speaking to a number of prospects one thing that routinely comes up is whether you can carry out a job function on a small screen mobile device and wouldn’t a laptop be better? There are normally a number of good reasons why it isn’t practical for example: the time it takes to start-up, ability to operate with one hand, ability to run full applications over a GPRS/3G connections and, finally, how conspicuous you look working on a laptop in a street. Clearly not all these points apply to all job functions and so may not be appropriate but are usually limiting factors for laptops. However, Asus have come up with a cost effective device that may be suitable for some situations.
The EEE PC 701 comes with solid state memory (2gb - 16gb) and costs only £200. It runs a variant of Linux and starts up in around 15 seconds. It has wifi inbuilt and a3G card will be available shortly. Software includes a full version of Firefox and OpenOffice allowing docs to be updated on the go.
The screen is still too small to comfortably run full desktop applications but the inclusion of a full browser will allow for web-based applications to be run be they corporate applications behind the firewall, AppSwing enabled back-office Windows and Java apps, or third party solutions such as salesforce.com or even Google Docs.
I am currently waiting to get my hands on a device so that I can test it out but on paper at least it looks like being a good candidate for an ideal mobile working companion.
Gave an interview to a journalist from Computerwire yesterday which has resulted in a good write-up which drew the following analogy: “This approach to app delivery to unwired devices, be they cellular or on WiFi, is complementary to what Citrix does to remote PCs, laptops, and thin clients.”.
Microsoft’s Chief executive Steve Ballmer has been speaking about his companies approach to mobile with some interesting thoughts. In particular the usefulness of a browser to business users although he was less than forthcoming on how Microsoft were going to address that.
Neil is CEO of AppSwing and has over 20 years of development and management experience in the IT industry.
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