This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole
Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems.
This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing.
Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for
the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in
your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe
Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex applications
work in a well known and predictable run-time environment called Flash
Player. The code is compiled and you have convenient tools for development.
Flex is undergoing “Under New Management” transformations these days.
Even though Flex remains the best framework for development of Web
applications, you can feel the pressure of HTML5. But using just HTM... (more)
Apple knocked it out of the park this quarter - but is it enough?
Apple Inc just had their first $40B quarter ever – to the tune of $46B
dollars in revenue. They sold 37M iPhones, 15M iPads and 15M
iPods. Additionally, they sold 5M Mac computers. These numbers are
ridiculous. Right now Apple is stacking away a ton of cash – so much so
that it makes the $100M they wasted on a spurious lawsuit against HTC merely
a drop in the bucket.
These numbers are astounding – but are actually not surprising. In this
quarter, Apple released the iPhone 4S and was bolstered by holiday spending. ... (more)
AT&T to Launch HTML5 App Store, Offers SDK for Mobile Web Developers
AT&T’s new AppCenter is an Android app store which will sell
“unwrapped” HTML5 apps, promoting HTML5 as an alternative to native
mobile apps. The AppCenter was launched January 9, 2012, and is available
in beta form on Android devices, with plans for additional platforms in
2012. According to a January 11, 2011 article in Ars Technica, “AT&T
Offers HTML5 SDK for Third-party Mobile Web App Developers”, the company
has also “released a set of JavaScript APIs and a software development kit
(SDK) that provide Web ... (more)
SPIRIT DSP, the world's top voice and video over IP engines provider,
announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named
SPIRIT's product VideoMost.com a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY
Product of the Year Award.
VideoMost.com is massively multi-point, web-based videoconferencing software
product targeted for licensing to carriers and service providers as a
white-labeled branded service. VideoMost.com is based on SPIRIT DSP's video
engine for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS clients and Windows or Linux-based
video conferencing servers. The software em... (more)
Apple's dominance of mobile web traffic appears to be fading
Android traffic now ahead in the US; Apple still leads in the UK
BlackBerry share of web traffic remains stable
Nokia starting to slide in India
READING, UK 27th January 2012
51Degrees.mobi, the leading provider of device detection and web optimisation
solutions, has today published an analysis of the mobile devices its online
partners detected browsing the internet last year.
The 51Degrees.mobi Mobile Web Trends 2011 white paper shows that the
proportion of mobile web visitors in the USA with Android devices overtook
A... (more)