U.S. Government Sees Value In Mobile Apps
You just know that a trend is significant when the government is jumping on the train, even if we have to say that we are seeing much more apparent consumer technology focus in the U.S. government than ever before. However, we think it is noteworthy to...
Just How Mainstream Are App Phones?
Smartphones, or app phones, are dominating the headlines these days and simply judging by that, there is nothing else but smartphones anymore. To make a business case, we like a bit more solid data that goes beyond a press release. Have you ever wonder...
Is Federal IT Ready To Move To The Cloud?
Earlier this week, a wide range of companies testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the question whether it makes sense to bring government IT infrastructures to the cloud. The key concerns of the hearing surrounded sec...
AT&T Fall Out: The Mobile Data Tsunami In Numbers
Nielsen’s Roger Entner provides some numbers about mobile data usage that may be fueling the discussion about how much data we actually consume on our mobile devices and if tiered smartphone service plans make sense.
Gartner: Agile is Mature And Proven
Michael Blechar, vice president in Gartner’s Applications Architecture Research division, just posted his thoughts on Agile development, a development method we at ELC prefer to achieve superior results. Blechar’s post go back to a recently publis...
The Hidden Implications of the iPhone 4 and Droid X
This has been the biggest week for the smartphone industry this year. Following the release of Apple’s iOS 4 on Monday, Motorola and Verizon released the new Android-based Droid X phone on Wednesday. Apple brought its iPhone 4 to stores on Thursday a...
IBM Cloud Service Now Online
IBM is now officially providing cloud computing infrastructure services and will wraps up the beta phase on June 30.
Survey: Cloud Computing Key To IT Revenue Growth
Audit firm KPMG has released the results of a survey among IT executives, which points to cloud computing as the main driver of revenue growth in the next three years.
Apple iOS Fuels Mobile App Innovation
We have spent lots of time with Apple’s new mobile operating system for the iPhone/iPod/iPad since its glamorous preview in April and we certainly know just how important Apple believes the new iOS 4 is. It’s an update for the existing iPhone OS th...
Trendwatch: The Cloud Today And In 2020
Guessing what will happen in tech in the future is often means that you are walking on thin ice. That is especially true when you are talking about a horizon of 10 years. Who would have predicted in 2000 that the tablet can succeed and that we will be ...
Page Caching JSONP with Nginx and Rack (and Memcached!)
If you’re reading this, you are most likely familiar with the same origin policy, and JSONP’s place in the mix. Working with JSONP is pretty straight-forward, but the small piece of dynamics that it introduces can often hinder the performance you could normally get out of serving content straight from memory or disk. I’m going...
Random Arithmetic Worksheets
I'm reading a fantastic book called Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks. It has a great forward by Bill Nye (you know, the "Science Guy"), and so far it has taught me how to do simple arithmetic problems in my head (quickly!), working from...
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