Developer engagement vital to Mobile OS success
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
How companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and HP engage and compensate developers on their mobile platforms will eventually determine their long term success.
Tag: smartphone
Mobile Apps and Multi-player Games come from Ottawa’s High Schools
Grade 3 students act as ‘Customers’, spec’ing out the kind of game they’d like to play, and doing some ‘beta testing’ and ‘QA’ along the way.
by Lee Rickwood
Rogers rolls out Canada’s first LTE network
Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis
Ottawa is officially “Canada’s fastest city” after Rogers uncorked its high-speed Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the nation’s capital. The new LTE network will increase download speeds by up to 12Mbps to 25Mbps, more than double what consumers are using now on 3G.
Silver Generation Seeks to Demystify Technology at Ryerson University Silver Screens Arts Festival
by Lee Rickwood
These are pretty tech savvy seniors, and everyone in the room raised their hands as computer users and e-mailers, with maybe 60 or 70 per cent of them on Facebook, and about the same having used iPhones, digital cameras or video camcorders.
Father’s Day – a Dad reflects on his favorite gadgets
By Mark Orton
Father’s Day is approaching and at my house there are whispers on the phone and texting between my wife and my daughters. Ah yes. What to get Dad? I don’t think it should be hard to figure out – anything technology.
Digital Media Readies for ‘Moonshot’ as New Tools and Technologies Roll-out at Canada 3.0
by Lee Rickwood
Like the pledge to land a man on the moon before the end of the ‘60s, the goal is to develop a technical infrastructure and digital environment in which anyone in Canada can do anything online.
New Canadian Telecom Launches in Basement; Start-up Offers Leading Edge Cell Phone Service to Other Small Businesses
By Lee Rickwood
The newest phone company in Canada is starting in the basement – literally. But one subscription to its service equals a telecom solution with a multitude of opportunities ffor small and medium businesses.
Windows Phone 7 demo impresses but questions remain
Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis
Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.