May 30th, 2011 | by anoop | mobile application |
What does Google need to do to make its Google Wallet mobile-payment system a success? Answer is simple:” Give people confidence. Then make it a habit”. Think about it. So many slight modifications to our daily lifestyle mean so many millions to manufacturers, especially as they’re repeated, day in and day out. And, once established, [...]
May 21st, 2011 | by anoop | mobile application |
Using social media is one of the most popular things people do on their phones — and not just on smartphones .A new analysis indicates that more mobile Facebook users are posting by using the mobile site m.Facebook.com (a service that’s friendly to Web-enabled feature phones, the next step down from smartphones) than all of Facebook’s [...]
May 19th, 2011 | by kshaikh | uncategorized |
When you upload your latest app to a production Web server and open it up to the world, you’re really throwing your app to the elements – good and bad. Your reputation is at stake .This blog post is about security checks before releasing an Application: Don’t trust logged in users. (Authentication is one thing, authorization [...]
April 27th, 2011 | by Santo | tech |
The recent Amazon Web Services outage was one of the most severe ones. It lasted for upwards of 3 days from some companies/applications that were delivering on top of the same. Some of the prominent services / applications partially or fully affected by it were Quora (www.quora.com) Reddit (www.reddit.com) Heroku (www.heroku.com) Surprisingly services like Netflix [...]
April 23rd, 2011 | by Vinci | tech |
Brief History: HTML4 has been around since 1997, and sometime around 2009 the WHATWG decided it was time to upgrade, and so they started working on the specs for HTML5 by adding on a couple of new tags and focusing more on semantic etc. The major browsers like Opera, Firefox, Chrome etc. too started supporting [...]
April 19th, 2011 | by Santo | info, tech |
For someone who is looking at building a profitable SaaS business this article is a treasure trove http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/ . It is very precisely written and then progressively drills down in great detail how and which numbers matter and how you can address+assess them and use them to drive the business in the right direction. Some Key [...]
March 10th, 2011 | by admin | mobile application, tech, uncategorized |
Navteq is one of the leading MAP Providers and other LBSP (location based service products). Navteq is owned by Nokia. Navteq had developed an iPhone SDK which allowed the iPhone developers to integrate Navteq maps in iPhone applications. Our task involved redeveloping the SDK and the reference application for Android platform. The SDK had features [...]
February 28th, 2011 | by admin | tech, web |
HSNF (http://sll.se) is Stockholm county council which takes care of Transportation as well as Health care at county level. We have delivered a business intelligence system for HSNF using which HSNF reviews its overall operations. HSNF has more then 600 systems in place to cater to Health care and transport. As Swedish government takes 50% of [...]
February 19th, 2011 | by Santo | info, tech |
The humongous scale of users and data e.g. 500 million + users , 3 Billion+ Likes per day, 30 Billion + photoes stored etc that Facebook has been dealing with has been fairly evident and has been publicly known for a while now. I recently came across a concise answer that reveals in good detail the technology [...]
December 7th, 2010 | by Santo | info, tech |
Paul Graham’s notes/essays are always very insightful and give a unique perspective on how things are shaping up around us. In his latest post on Tablets he has some interesting points to make Would we have looked at “mobile devices” differently if the iPad had preceded the iPhone? “Ephemeralization” will continue to inspire techies to [...]