Mobile Devices - A Market On The Move In the final quarter of 2010, for the first time, sales of handheld mobile devices - defined as smartphones and tablets - exceeded sales of "conventional" connected devices, such as desktop systems and laptops. Although the overwhelming majority of businesses continue to run their essential operations (ERP and CRM) on desktop GUI devices, most client-facing software development in the last decade has focused on internet applications, targeting web browsers running on these conventional systems. With the ascendancy of the handheld mobile device (with their different form factors and varying communication and processor speed), these internet applications will have to change to accommodate the different environment at the same time they grow in importance.
Grouping together smartphones and tablets as "handheld mobile devices" blurs the very large differences amongst the devices in this group, and obscures - but in no way remedies - the problems with building software that works well with all of them. These differences fall into three categories: form factor, connectivity, and software. READ ON...
TECH TIPS Did you know... That you can push the OpenInsight ClientSetup out to each workstation on the network.
Each workstation that accesses an OpenInsight application requires several libraries and supporting MSI packages to be installed. This article presents several methods to prepare new workstations using the ClientSetup.exe program provided in the OpenInsight directory.
OpenInsight should be installed and shared from a network folder before following the guidelines listed. If you have not already installed OpenInsight please refer to the installation instructions and then return here to setup additional workstations. READ ON...
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SYDNEY ROADSHOW Revelation Software will be down under hosting the Sydney, Australia Roadshow. The Roadshow will be held at the Holiday Inn Darling Harbour located at 68 Harbour Street, Darling Harbour, NSW 2000 on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from 9am to 4pm. Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The agenda is as follows:
* OpenInsight 9.3.x new features * O4W mini training session * Lunch * Banded Report Writer mini training session * Drinks at the bar
AUCKLAND ROADSHOW Revelation Software will also be in New Zealand hosting the Auckland, New Zealand Roadshow. The Roadshow will be held at the Quay West located at 8 Albert Street, Auckland 1010 on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 from 9am to 4pm. Please register by contacting Richard Bright atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The agenda is the same as the Syndey Roadshow.
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