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Once a year we honor our mothers with flowers, breakfast-in-bed, picnics, and gifts to show our gratitude for their part in shaping our lives. It’s difficult to quantify all that our moms have done for us. And like a son still learning from his mom, I learned something new that we all have to be [...]

Pew Research Center has just released new insights surrounding internet use and American habits. The study, published last week, compares “the role of internet in American life” from 2000 to today. An interesting take-away from the report is the heavy influence of mobility on American culture. The following chart displays growth since 2006 in all [...]

How many times do you read the same newspaper? How useful is an old TV Guide? How helpful is an outdated map? The answers are pretty obvious, right? We all know that content must be fresh and relevant or it is of little use. Shouldn’t the same logic apply to your mobile app? The challenge [...]

I’ve seen apps do some pretty amazing things. From providing easy access to content, to push notifications, to QR Codes; apps are quickly turning mobile devices into increasingly revolutionary tools. But of all the innovative features currently available, none have yet to capture my imagination like ‘Augmented Reality.’ Augmented Reality takes a real-time view of [...]

Tangible versus intangible. Although technology is quickly gravitating towards the intangible, debate it any way you want, it is impossible to escape some of the benefits tangibility provides. But why debate it? Why not incorporate both functions? Introducing Quick Response Codes (commonly known as “QR Codes”). A QR Code is a two-dimensional barcode that links [...]

If there’s a lesson to be taken from Superbowl XLVI, let it be an invitation to craft your mobile marketing strategy for 2012. It is estimated that nearly 60 percent of mobile users planned ahead to look at or use applications on their mobile device during the Super Bowl, according to a survey from Velti and [...]

If you develop on the iPhone long enough, you’ll eventually run into this error. You decide to run your app on your device and for some reason it doesn’t work. It just errors out and says “Error launching remote program: security policy error”. You clean your project and even possibly quit Xcode, but the same [...]

We’ve been steadily upgrading Zoos to version 2.0 over the last year and a half. When we say “upgrading”, we mean a mobile app for zoos (accessible by other smartphones as well). This is a major change. For the first time, the zoo is in the pockets of those who are likely to visit – [...]