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10 Free and Low-Cost Mobile Wireless Tools

March 06, 2013 01:05 PM
There's no replacing meaty, licensed tools for wireless network support. But a growing number of free and low-cost apps are available when all you have is a smartphone or tablet at hand. Most of the gems live in the Android space, so you iOS developers need to get to work.

HTML5 Mobile Development: 7 Good Ideas (and 3 Bad Ones)

February 13, 2013 01:28 PM
HTML5 can be a boon to enterprise mobile app development, but you have to identify the right use cases to make it work. Here are 7 scenarios that make sense for HTML5, and 3 you might want to avoid.

10 Android Apps for IT Admins

December 18, 2012 02:45 PM
IT admins can't clone themselves, but they can get darned close to being two places at once by using mobile tools. The following Android apps, several of which are free, offer handy consoles for network mapping, remote client administration, cloud management, Wi-Fi analysis and more.

10 IT Apps for iPads and iPhones

December 12, 2012 01:10 PM
Put that iPad or iPhone to work! IT administrators can get a lot done with a few taps of a finger on an Apple mobile device--given the right tools. These apps offer admins a host of mobile administration options, from router reference information to network scanning and diagramming to remote Oracle database access.

The Ugly Break Up: Time for Your Apps to Part

April 09, 2012 09:00 AM
The marketing is there, and has been for some time. Buzzwords have been coined and your interest is piqued. You sat back long enough to see if this was just vaporware or real, while gaseous. Cloud turns out to be more solid than its nomenclature. You’re ready, in fact you’re all in. Now the bad news: If you want to succeed in the cloud, the long-term relationship you've had with your apps must be broken up.

BlueStacks Brings Android Apps To Windows

October 13, 2011 10:25 AM
Bluestacks is a virtualization layer that runs on Windows PCs and allows users to run Android apps. Rather than run a full Android emulator, including the UI, Bluestacks provides enough of the Android OS to run most apps as if they were native Windows apps.

Double Encore Completes Acquisition Of iPhone Application Studio

April 14, 2010 08:51 AM
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13, Double Encore, Inc., a leader in branded mobile applications, today announced its acquisition of Massively Overrated, LLC, an iPhone application boutique known for cutting edge design and build quality.

IBM Touts 'Open' Office Replacement

February 12, 2007 09:37 PM
IBM is targeting Microsoft Office 2007 upgrades with its new applications package including open source apps and Lotus Notes/Sametime clients

To Share Or Not To Share?

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The software playground is going through a kind of tug-of-war when it comes to sharing code.

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