This blog post is contributed by Jonathan Marshall, a WebSphere Technical Professional. One of the benefits of the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (formerly IBM Worklight) is that it allows hybrid mobile app development . This is the development of mobile apps in HTML5 and JavaScript to allow the deployment of those apps to multiple mobile platforms. Part of developing HTML5-based mobile apps is choosing a JavaScript framework that will speed up the development of the mobile app. MobileFirst Platform Foundation is a very open environment... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by Jonathan Marshall, a WebSphere Technical Professional. We all know that security is important. In mobile application development, breaches are costly both financially and in terms of the trust of consumers and employees. There are many studies that illustrate the challenge and cost of security flaws:       According to data from Arxan Technologies, 100 percent of the top 100 paid apps on Google Play have malicious variants . The same is true of 92 percent of the top 100 paid iOS apps. The average... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by Susann Keohane, an Accessibility Lead for the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center. This year IBM announced it has standardized on EPUB, an open standard format for digital publications developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), as its primary packaged portable document format. Moving to EPUB is beneficial for any organization as it increases customer satisfaction and allows mobile users to access and consume documents easily and without degradation of performance. EPUB, which is... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by Leigh Bentley, Stephane Tremblay, Sean Phair, Ricardo Zakaluk and Steven Yeo. Most organizations are implementing some form of enterprise mobile infrastructure. These implementations most often include an enterprise application store to securely distribute mobile applications to their employees. What kinds of apps should you mobilize to increase the return on your mobile infrastructure investment? There are a few obvious mobile applications such as email and calendar clients that are readily available. But IT... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by Vittorio Della Rossa, an IT Executive Consultant in GTS. Nowadays the word mainframe is mistakenly used to refer to an old world. New frontiers are monopolized by mobile technology, and most people believe that these two worlds oppose each other, or are even competitors. I believe many are not aware that IBM System z technology is so up-to-date that it can be efficiently mixed to build a mobile-ready and cost-affordable infrastructure.   The mobile challenge The new aspects that mobile app developers must... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by Hisham Abdel-Hafez, an Expert IT Specialist in IBM Egypt and IBM Redbooks thought leader.  Update : As expected, IBM has released a new certification exam for Worklight 6.0 that can be found  here . The existing exam for IBM Worklight 5.0.0.3 will be sunset by the end of November 2013. IBM is also planning a new certification exam for Worklight administration that will be released soon. I recently became an IBM Certified Mobile Application Developer by passing the... [More]

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Something occurred this past week that indicates to me that the industry for mobile development tools is maturing. The OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) has announced the formation of a group to explore standardization for the APIs used by tools related to mobile application development. OSLC is a industry standards group formed to define common APIs for the integration of software development tools. The fact that tools for mobile... [More]

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This blog post is contributed by John Reddin, Staff Software Engineer and part of the Mobile Center of Competency for Industry Solutions . There are now over one billion smartphones in use across the globe. This figure is expected to double by 2015. Tablet sales are also exploding. The software landscape is changing, so shouldn't our design strategy change too? Modern users expect their services and information to travel with them and in a form that scales appropriately to their platform of choice. While desktop and web applications excel... [More]

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