AppForge has developed a range of "Ingots"--controls that work in Windows while you are developing and also work on your target device. Most of the standard Microsoft controls have an Ingot functional equivalent; the Ingot list is installed into the IDE's toolbox when you install Crossfire. In my tests, Crossfire was very intuitive as it duplicated the same Windows VB.Net project-development method. I had no problems generating and debugging VB.Net programs in Visual Studio and downloading them to the Zire.
Crossfire requires a significant amount of storage space. With the Palm OS, AppForge installed more than 1 MB of programs just for libraries. If you're distributing a single app, 1 MB of memory is too much, but if you're deploying a large number of apps, the storage use may be justified because those apps would reuse the support libraries. If you deploy five or more applications, the overall space used would be roughly equivalent to the space you'd consume if you developed using PDA vendors' libraries.
|
Good
APPFORGE CROSSFIRE 5.0, $1,000. AppForge, (800) 637-5740, 678-686-9000. www.appforge.com
|
AppForge charges no royalties. However, there's an annual $500 fee for redistributing Booster if you're an independent software vendor, and there's a per-seat licensing scheme for enterprises.
Verizon is demoing crowd analytics technology that uses 5G along with AI and mobile edge computing to give stadium operators insights into the flow of fans throughout a venue.
As we move closer to fully realizing the potential of Wi-Fi 7, it becomes evident that the RF, signaling, and throughput tests are not merely procedural checkpoints but the pillars of excellence in wireless communication.
With low earth orbit (LEO) satellites fast becoming the norm and 3GPP unifying telecom standards around the globe, the satellite IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) sector ought to be looking at a bright horizon. But is this the case?
