Looking to Build “Tiny Habits” with Your Products’ Potential Users
As part of his keynote presentation at the 3rd annual mLearnCon, Mobile Learning Conference and Expo, BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford’s Behavior Design Lab shared some of his recent work around “tiny...
View ArticleHTML5 for Developing Mobile Apps
HTML5 is an emerging technology standard, allowing browsers to run more and more Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) also on mobile devices. For this reason, whereas it has not yet reached a formal...
View ArticleNative App Versus Web App
The strong emergence of tablets and new generation smartphones and the acceleration of new apps being launched is causing a revolution in publishing companies, which have become multi-device...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer eBook & Mobility Conference: Screens, Voice and Environments
Last week, I was fortunate to attend the eBook & Mobility conference together with over 150 inspiring colleagues from around the world. We engaged in passionate discussions and exchanged best...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer eBook & Mobility Conference: Adapting to a changing market
As fellow Intelligent Solutions blogger Raymond Blijd, I was fortunate to join this year’s ebook and mobility conference together with 150 ebook and mobility savvy colleagues from across Wolters...
View ArticleTechnology and Health: What Do You Want To See?
I’ve written before about how technology is working hard to make managing your health an easier task – from glucose monitoring systems built into your smart phone to medication bottles that can text...
View ArticleIt’s All About Providing Ensemble Interactions
Mobile solutions are no longer just about getting our content accessible on smartphones or tablets; it is about delivering a holistic experience across multiple screens. If you attended the mobile...
View ArticleSkeuomorphism: Will It Make Us Smarter?
Recently Apple has been awarded a patent for the virtual book page turn. Now imagine such an event in the age of the printing press. How would we navigate books or other printed materials? The tools...
View ArticleThe Death of Cash
While in a waiting room last week, the cover of Forbes magazine caught my eye. It was entitled “The Death of Cash.” I’ve noticed even the smallest of retailers now have systems to swipe charge and...
View ArticleMission Monocle: Chasing Mona Lisa In An Online Reader
Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st. It has been my filter of the internet and a window to the world for over 8 years. It helped me focus in chaos of content on things that matter to me. I can...
View ArticleAge of Immersion
We are at the dawn of an age of immersion. We can no longer ignore the fact that our reality will be perpetually augmented with data and information. Computing devices that can beam information...
View ArticleIs a New Mobile Apps Value Chain Emerging?
Information services providers such as Wolters Kluwer have been creating mobile apps for tax, legal and regulatory professionals for several years. Some apps migrate traditional print products to apps,...
View ArticleDESH: Your Personal Legal Assistant with Sense
Lately, I’ve been intrigue by the sudden urgency from developers to solve the “big” problem of email. A rush to be your personal assistant and to make your lives easier. Moreover to anticipate your...
View ArticleHeading Towards Mobility – Maybe not Jumping Far Enough?!?
Mobility is one major trend in the industry and also a cornerstone of our Wolters Kluwer strategy. People are using more and more tablets and smartphones, also in their daily professional routine. One...
View ArticleThe Death of Legal Research on Desktop
I hear them…these voices all around me…whispering: they will never do legal research on a smartphone, the screen is too small! How can lawyers or any knowledge professional do research on a mobile...
View ArticleCYOS Divergence: How The Growth of Apps Bolsters The Complex
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has taken root. In 2012, 38% of CIO’s expected to support personal devices. Now 82% of companies allow it and it’s posing new challenges for IT because along with these...
View ArticleProfessional Services Firms Must Use Segmentation Strategies in Developing...
Most professionals (lawyers and accountants) conduct at least some of their fee-producing knowledge work on mobile devices, specifically, smartphones and tablets. Tablet and smartphone apps are a great...
View ArticleMeet Bondrew: Our Future ‘Freestyle’ Lawyer
Freestyle Chess is a competition between humans, who are allowed, like in correspondence chess, to make use of any technical support for selecting their moves. Basically it’s an interplay between human...
View ArticleNow You See Me, Now You Don’t
Through his latest post, my colleague John Barker accelerated a discussion about technology and tools like Google Glass, which could augment the professional reality of our customers in a very radical...
View ArticleUser Experience in Augmented Reality
Coming back from holiday season, a colleague of mine was wearing a brand new gear watch he received from Santa. I received a GPS watch from my brother who is a professor of Latin and Greek literature,...
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