Lately there has been a lot of rumor on the web about the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called... 4GS? Also today we have the announcement of the iPad 2. One thing that most iSpeculators and Technical iBloggers seem to agree on, with regard to the iPhone 5, along with more internal memory for running of programs and a faster processor, is the use of NFC (Near Field Communication). Yes still speculation until the time the next iPhone will be announced, which will probably be in June at Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference), but worth talking about in advance. I am also wondering if we will see NFC in the iPad 2 or will Apple wait until a later rev? As a quick example of NFC think, think of something many thousands of London Commuters use use daily, the London Undergrounds successful use of the Oyster Card and beyond that Barclaycard's Contactless Payment ... (more)

Okta Seeks to Accelerate Secure Adoption of Cloud Apps

"Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta. "This shift fundamentally requires them to rethink their IT infrastructure and how their employees access it," McKinnon added. "Okta," he continued, "is the only enterprise class, on-demand service purpose built to help customer secure and manage their entire cloud services network and the people who need acces... (more)

Three Mobility Trends That Will Change Your Business — InformationWeek

IT organizations need to evaluate and adopt enterprise mobility management tools to take advantage of the consumerization of IT, while maintaining the security and reliability that businesses demand.  By Maribel Lopez InformationWeek Mobile has become mainstream with worldwide subscribers reaching over 5 billion, nearly 74% of the world's populace, at the end of 2010. While devices such as smartphones and tablets are still a minority of the connections we see today, these products are changing both consumers' and enterprises' views of what can be accomplished with a mobile device... (more)

The Little PowerBuilder App that Grew

This article will describe the development of a fairly large (over 4,000 users) one-man software business, selling an application developed with PowerBuilder. I'll touch on a number of technical issues I encountered in the development of the program and the business. How the Business Got Started The DONATION program is used by small to mid-sized charities and churches, mostly in North America, to track their donors and donations, and to issue charitable receipts. The first version was actually written in C, in 1994, to fill a gap at my own Quaker Meeting, after a commercial progra... (more)

Sybase in Leaders Quadrant in 2011 Mobile Device Management Software

Sybase, Inc., an SAP company, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management (MDM) Software report, authored by Phillip Redman, John Girard and Leif-Olof Wallin (April 2011) The Gartner report points out that,”by 3Q10, there were more than 30 global smartphone vendors and more than 10 mobile operating-system platforms, although the top four (Apple, Android, RIM and Symbian) control 89% of the total market. Most adopting companies that had previously standardized on a mobile platform (for example, BlackBerry in Nort... (more)