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Apps to start with for successful mobile commerce

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

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Today’s situation with mobile purchases can be compared to internet purchses of the late 90’s. It is not huge yet, but the upgoing trend gives us some hints that it will be. Does it make sense to consider the new channel of sales? Yes, indeed. The next big question is which sub-channels of this channel to use first?

Native mobile apps VS web apps

Mobile websites are easier to create and maintain, but they generate only half of all visits from mobile devices and are less user-friendly than native apps due to technological constraints. Besides, native apps in some cases are more convertible (iPhone – 30% more, Android nearly the same, BlackBerry – less convertible, than average mobile website according to Kony Solutions). (more…)

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Mobile apps’ demand reflection in job market demand

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Smartphone and tablet PC penetration shows record growth during the last few years. Today more than every fifth phone sold is a smartphone, and by the end of 2011 this figure may rise to every fourth. According to different estimates, in 2010 about 300 million smartphones have been sold. For tablet PCs this figure equals about 20 million.

Naturally, this fact pushes demand to mobile apps from all segments and spheres of business. And the best recognition of that is the high demand for moblile apps developers.

Want proofs? There you go! First let’s check basic job trends from Indeed:


iphone, android, (wp7 or "windows phone"), blackberry, symbian, webos Job Trends graph
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TOP 20 programming languages for April, 2011

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Software development market is always on the move. New platforms, new devices and new media require new approcaches and new programming languages. Today we decided to share with you information about programming languages that are of greatest demand on the market nowadays - TIOBE Programming Community index.

Position
Apr 2011		 Position
Apr 2010		 Delta in Position Programming Language Ratings
Apr 2011		 Delta
Apr 2010		 Status
1 2 Java 19.043% +0.99% A
2 1 C 16.162% -1.90% A
3 3 C++ 9.225% -0.48% A
4 6 C# 7.185% +2.75% A
5 4 PHP 6.584% -3.08% A
6 7 Python 4.931% +0.73% A
7 5 (Visual) Basic 4.682% -1.71% A
8 11 Objective-C 4.386% +2.10% A
9 8 Perl 1.991% -1.56% A
10 10 JavaScript 1.513% -0.96% A
11 12 Ruby 1.482% -0.74% A
12 20 Lua 1.035% +0.51% A
13 9 Delphi 1.034% -1.68% A
14 - Assembly 0.967% 0.00% A
15 23 Lisp 0.934% +0.45% A
16 32 Ada 0.768% +0.41% A
17 16 Pascal 0.713% +0.06% A
18 21 Transact-SQL 0.583% +0.08% B
19 - Scheme 0.581% 0.00% B
20 15 Go 0.557% -0.15% A–

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Web Browser Goes Live

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Microsoft has said the latest version of its internet explorer web browser puts it ahead of competitors like Google and Firefox.

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The software giant, which is losing market share, made the bold claim as it unveiled what is known as the release candidate of IE9.

This is the final test drive for the new browser - a chance to catch any last-minute bugs before its debut.

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Apple iPad Newspaper, The Daily, To Launch Feb. 2

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Apple’s iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper created by News Corp starting Feb. 2, according to an invitation circulating among media.

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That digital publication, the Daily, will cost 99 cents per week. According to Reuters, the original Jan. 19 unveiling date was scrubbed “because of technical glitches.” News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue will headline the new launch event, scheduled to take place in New York City.

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