Zeichick’s Take: Android is everywhere in a multiscreen universe

Android is the spearhead of Google’s plans for cars, smart devices, TV and more … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Should you sign the non-compete agreement?

These agreements prevent workers from working where they want, and companies from hiring the best available employees … continue reading

Industry Watch: The future of work

Employees working out of office and on their own terms are what managers can expect … continue reading

Guest View: Should you build your next mobile game with HTML5?

Should you build your next mobile game with HTML5? This is the question facing thousands of mobile game developers and studios struggling with game discovery and monetization within the Apple app store and Google Play. Is now, finally, the time for HTML5? HTML5 took quite a beating a few years back when Facebook dropped it … continue reading

Analyst Watch: The Top 10 nontechnical security issues in mobile app development

Mobile app security flaws, especially privacy-based ones, tend to make a very large splash in the media. Significant brands such as Delta Air Lines, Starbucks, Pandora Media and others have released mobile applications that customers and technology pros later discovered were capturing private user data. Sometimes these companies had no idea they were gathering the … continue reading

Code Watch: Quick thoughts on Swift

Objective-C developers in particular should look at Apple’s latest programming language … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Forget Big Data, what you should worry about is Bad Data

If you’re not checking the validity of the data in your databases, you could be in a lot of trouble … continue reading

Guest View: Why hybrid app developers should love the new iOS 8

Exciting news coming from WWDC for all HTML5 hybrid app developers, notably for Cordova and PhoneGap. Apple’s iOS 8 has a new browser engine called WKWebView. As the name implies, this is a real Webkit-based view that can substitute for the traditional UIWebView. Browser engines allow mobile app developers to embed Web content into their … continue reading

Guest View: Why outsourcing is no longer a dirty word

The word “outsourcing” comes with a lot of baggage.Rightly so, outsourcing is often associated with low-cost labor and taking jobs offshore. Large outsourcers are known for playing the cost arbitrage game. In many situations, results are compromised and quality is risked to reduce costs. Many managers have pulled out their hair trying to manage an … continue reading

Guest View: Quality assurance in a connected world

In today’s connected world, traditional quality assurance and testing approaches are not going to achieve the necessary results. In order to successfully deliver high-quality and innovative products and services, IT requires agility and rapid innovation of testing and QA because businesses are competing not only at the level of individual products or services they produce, … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Forget Objective-C: It’s time to learn Swift

Mobile developers have a lot to like in Apple’s newest programming language … continue reading

Guest View: Use Oracle’s UPL, abandon your intellectual property

Many members of the open-source community—including HP—have embraced the concept of non-proliferation of open-source licenses due to interoperability and compatibility issues raised by having a large number of licenses. The reaction to any new license tends to center on whether a new license addresses an unmet need. That’s why I am concerned about a new … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Git control of your software development assets

There are risks associated with not using Git as your source-code repository … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Microsoft withdraws from the Tablet Wars

The Surface Pro 3 is not at all competitive with other tablets … continue reading

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