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By Kevin Benedict
When you first look at the list of mobility vendors that are attending SAPPHIRENOW 2012, it may seem like most of them compete with SAP mobility, but that would be to forget that SAP sells ERP software. Look at where SAP makes their money. They make their money selling and maintainin...
May. 14, 2012 06:15 AM EDT  Reads: 540
By Kevin Benedict
Sencha is one of the three new partnerships SAP announced in April around HTML5.  Here is a quote from SAP, "By collaborating with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, SAP will enable millions of developers to effectively build mobile apps based on their choice of client architectures ...
May. 8, 2012 02:33 PM EDT  Reads: 595
By Kevin Benedict
I am in Scotland this week conducting workshops on mobile strategies. I met with a large company with multiple enterprise mobility projects to connect back office ERPs and HR apps to mobile applications. They have already determined they will be using HTML5 as their preferred mobile ...
May. 4, 2012 05:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,012
By Max Katz
ReadWriteWeb published SAP Plans to Dominate Enterprise Mobile Apps with HTML5 and New Partnerships article a few days ago. SAP acquired a mobile development firm Syclo and also announced important partnerships with Appcelertaor, Adobe (PhoneGap) and Sencha to become “…most powerful en...
Apr. 12, 2012 04:28 PM EDT  Reads: 1,125
By Kevin Benedict
HTML5 based ads are gaining on Flash. For ads that will be seen on mobile devices, developers are focusing on HTML5. Systems management and monitoring firm DN2K is turning to HTML5. It announced that HTML5 is now, “one of its core technologies in its business and industrial applica...
Mar. 26, 2012 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,246
By Kevin Benedict
The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. For each 10 percent increase in broadband penet...
Mar. 22, 2012 10:56 AM EDT  Reads: 838
By Kevin Benedict
IBM has jumped into the MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) competition with yesterday’s announced intent to acquire MEAP vendor Worklight.   Worklight is headquartered in New York and was founded in 2006 by CEO Shahar Kaminitz.  Worklight's software supp...
Feb. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EST  Reads: 2,895
By Adam Blum
Recently Nitobi (the company behind PhoneGap) announced that they had been acquired.    Congratulations to Andre Charland, Brian Leroux, and the rest of the PhoneGap team.   We have always said that if you don’t need the data synchronization, Model View Controller pattern, indust...
Oct. 3, 2011 08:20 PM EDT
By Jeff Haynie
We have been working closely with Yahoo on a number of fronts and we’re pretty excited about the Yahoo YQL integration in Titanium we released in the 0.8 release. More stuff will be coming soon. Here’s a video that Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) featured about Appcelerator ...
Feb. 1, 2010 01:32 PM EST  Reads: 1,027
By Adam Blum
Smartphone apps are the most exciting trend in computing since the advent of web apps. How do you as a developer take advantage of this? More generally, how do you do that and get maximum reach for your app across the diversity of smartphones out there. If you’re writing a consumer ...
Oct. 23, 2009 09:00 AM EDT  Reads: 5,383
By Jeff Haynie
Yesterday I gave a presentation about the future of mobile development at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Mountain View, California. It was the battle of the current emerging players in the space (if you could call it a “battle”) : Appcelerator, Rhomobile and Phonegap. Of co...
Oct. 17, 2009 02:43 PM EDT  Reads: 1,586
By Jeff Haynie
Today was a very busy day. I spoke about Appcelerator Titanium at the O’Reilly/360 Inside Mobile Conference in San Jose and later served on a discussion panel with Daniel Brusilovsky (Teens in Tech, Techcrunch), Phil Libin (CEO of Evernote) and Christian Sepulveda (Pivotal Labs)...
Jul. 28, 2009 01:19 AM EDT  Reads: 979
By Jeff Haynie
I gave a talk this week at the Mountain View JavaScript meetup hosted by Google at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Thanks to Michael Carter who hosts this event on a monthly basis. The event was also video recorded by Google and is being made available on Youtub...
Jul. 20, 2009 11:30 AM EDT  Reads: 3,329
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Mountain View-based startup Appcelerator has raised $4.1 million in a Series A round led by Storm Ventures. The money will go primarily towards the development of an open source competitor to Adobe AIR, which enables web developers to create applications that look and function more l...
Dec. 9, 2008 07:00 AM EST  Reads: 611
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Appcelerator's VP of Community, Matt Quinlan, gave an excellent talk to the Denver Open Source Users Group about his company's flagship product. Appcelerator seems at first blush to be another JavaScript framework wanting to make AJAX and UI widgets easier, but it does much more by bri...
Oct. 10, 2008 07:57 PM EDT  Reads: 498