Google Cloud Connect for MS Office
By Darron | Apps | No comment yet
The Official Google Enterprise Blog announced today that Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office will soon be available to all consumers, and it’s available now as a preview to Google Apps for Business customers. This is a huge step forward in bringing more document collaboration to a wider audience. This new Google service will allow Microsoft Office users to work in the familiar MS interface while working on the cloud. This convention-meets-innovation technology will allow for cloud storage, real-time collaborative editing and version control of all the familiar office formats.
Grow with Global Apps
By Darron | Apps, Best Practices, mLearning, Mobile Devices | No comment yet
Mobile is predicted to be a $119B industry in 2015 (see MobiThinking article). With the current 5 billion mobile subscriptions, 3.8 billion outside the US, it is hard to ignore the burgeoning market and the huge potential for reach. If you’re developing an app in English only, you are ignoring 73% of the mobile market–this is not something a global organization can afford to do.
Windows Phone 7 – all over the place
By Darron | Apps, mLearning, Mobile Devices | One comment so far
I’ll admit that I’m so cheap I do not yet have a smart phone or other cool mobile device for personal use. I want one though, and I know it’s only a matter of time before I’ll have to get one just to turn on the lights in my house–so I study the heck out of them.
Recently, I worked on localizing some elearning modules for Windows Phone 7. I must say that I liked what I saw, and I saw it over and over again as I rolled the modules out into various languages. I love the live tiles and the hubs, especially the People hub with its Facebook integration. The real-time videos of navigating through the various features looked pretty good, and it seemed to zip through. It clearly was designed, as Microsoft claims, for a ‘glance-and-go’ experience that is much more desirable than an app-centric environment. I got very excited about this new look and feel that Windows had produced. It’s a far cry from the Windows-lite Microsoft has been trying to pass off as smart phone OS for the past 10 years, and I was sold.
App Development: Simple, Light, Accessible
By Darron | Apps, Development Tools, mLearning | 12 responses so far
Having recently attended The eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon, I made it a point to speak with and listen to attendees and presenters involved in app development. There were two distinct camps: enterprise level solutions and quick and easy dev. The enterprise level evangelists included people like Robert Gadd of OnPoint Digital and Dave Smelser of Intuition. These guys know what they’re talking about. Their companies design custom mobile apps tailored to your specific needs. Robert’s enthusiasm for mobile technology is infectious, and he spews industry know-how like a broken faucet. Dave knows all things BlackBerry. Intuition’s deep involvement with financial industry clientele necessitates excellence in RIM’s secure mobile technology. If I’m deploying a native app that grabs content from a secure server, and it’s centrally controlled by a system admin, I’m talking with one of these guys.
Google Chrome Web Apps
By Darron | Apps | No comment yet
I just saw this on TechCrunch.
Today at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google showed off a preview of a major new product: the Chrome Web Store. Yes, this is a an app store for the web. In the image you see above, those big icons in Chrome are apps.
