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Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

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What's your UXP?

How will you choose your user experience platform (UXP)?

As I’ve previously discussed Gartner are helping organisations to understand the technologies, processes and skills required to manage and master all their user experiences. For CTO/CIOs sorting out which technologies to use for content management, social, collaboration, search and web/mobile...

Tags: applications, gartner, mobile, sourcing, user experience, uxp, vendor

What's a UXP?

UXP is an emerging solution to the growing issue of managing the web

Gartner are defining a category they call UXP to help organisations manage all their user experience requirements.Gartner defines the UXP as "an integrated collection of technologies and methodologies that provides the ability to design and deliver user interface/presentation capabilities for...

Tags: analytics, internet, it business, user experience, uxp

Is mobile app growth over-hyped?

Are we reaching the peak of mobile app growth?

There are numerous statistics on the growth of mobile apps in the various stores, and also about the number of downloads. Apple claims over 500,000 apps in its store and Google claims over 450,000 (this time last year it had...

Tags: apple, applications, apps, google, mobile, phone

Mobile apps: When to go native

Native apps vs HTML5: What do you need?

Let me say from the outset, that there is no right answer for everybody. The battle between cross-platform solutions and native mobile applications is going to continue for years to come; I know I have blogged about this before, and...

Tags: applications, apps, development, html5, mobile, smartphone, user experience

Future of the mobile phone (part 2)

What features will we expect from our phones in the future?

Previously we looked at the form factor, what shape phones could be in the future. But what will phones do? Clearly phones are getting smarter and able to do more, so here are some thoughts on the changes that could...

Tags: future, infrastructure, mobile, nfc

Future of the mobile phone (part 1)

What will you be carrying in your pocket in ten years?

For a few months now I’ve been having conversations with colleagues, friends and family about the future of phones, sad I know but at heart I am still a geek ;o). I see three possible futures for mobile form factors....

Tags: applications, form factor, mobile

HTML5 will be key to a MAD world

Welcome to an all-Internet all the time world

According to researchers, over 5 billion devices connect to the Internet today and by 2020 over 22 billion devices including 6 billion phones, 2 billion TVs will be connected. By 2014 sales of new internet connected devices excluding PC’s will...

Tags: html5, infrastructure, internet

HTML5: The right time right place for mobile?

HTML5 could be the answer to cross-platform compatibility

Most people by now understand that main challenge for developing mobile applications is creating a solution that runs on as many platforms as possible. This challenge can range from supporting browsers that only support text, up to fully fledged smartphones....

Tags: applications, html5, mobile

The end of Apple?

How long can Apple keep its hardware and software "closed"?

We are clearly in the web age an era that has turned everyone into readers and publishers of free content. In this era we have seen the rise of open source, free software and the move to software and services...

Tags: apple, infrastructure, it business, open source

HTML 5 makes the browser smarter

Write less Javascript for lighter, smarter sites

The unsung hero of the web has always been Javascript, without which the standards-based web would be completely static. Javascript enables functionality to be executed in the browser, and has been used to create all sorts of effects otherwise not...

Tags: applications, html5, javascript, security, web design