By Eric Y Lai on Jul 24, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
IDC has been surveying mobile developers for the past two years. In mid-May, it polled more than 3,500 developers in a survey sponsored by platform vendor and SAP partner, Appcelerator, to gauge their feelings about Apple versus Google in the enterprise, their interest in Windows 8/Microsoft Surface, what their pain points are, and more. Here [...]
By Eric Y Lai on Jun 13, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Whether it’s forward thinking or sheeple behavior, but 13 groups applied to manage Web addresses ending in .app, revealed ICANN today.According to the Uber-Registrar, .app was actually the most popular domain name (aka generic Top-Level Domain name, aka gTLD) sought after in this round, beating out .home and .inc, which had 11 applications each, and .art [...]
By Eric Y Lai on May 10, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The old SAP would never have been able to deploy apps in a matter of weeks, either for customers (via its Rapid Deployment Solutions group) – or for itself. As Captain Kirk might’ve adlibbed, this is not your father’s SAP. Earlier this spring, SAP released its first HANA-based mobile consumer app, Recalls Plus. Recalls Plus [...]
By Eric Y Lai on Dec 19, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The Sybase Unwired Platform has generated a fair amount of interest this past year from enterprise developers. But to be honest, there’s been frustration, too.