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Trends on Tuesday: The Convenience of HTML5
PC Advisor recently reported on some mobile trends that technology research company Gartner presented last week. One interesting trend was about the convenience of HTML5 development. Many organizations see HTML5 as a convenient solution to cross platform development (ie developing mobile products that work across various mobile platforms-Android, iOS, etc). Gartner stated: HTML5 will be [...]
848 views | Comments OffOct 30th, 2012 | Filed under Industry News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources, Trends -
USDA’s Save Our Citrus
The USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service released the Save Our Citrus iPhone App to allow people to report citrus disease when they see it. The app is currently only available on the iOS platform. The USDA describes the app as such: The Save Our Citrus app is a free iPhone application from the United [...]
357 views | Comments OffOct 25th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Mobile Apps Life Cycle Webinar
Are you creating a mobile website or app for your agency? On Tuesday, October 30, at 11 a.m. we will host a webinar to get agencies thinking about how they can prepare for the entire life cycle of their mobile products—from planning–to implementing—to continually updating and upgrading. This webinar will feature 3 agencies giving their [...]
512 views | Comments OffOct 24th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Events, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Trends on Tuesday: Greater Mobile Usability/User Experience Awareness
During a mobile event we hosted last week, federal government mobile product implementers were discussing their concerns about mobile user experience awareness. With the rise of mobile products, they have seen a good number of bad user experiences implemented. Think of the last time you visited a mobile website or used an app that was [...]
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The Mobile Gov Wikithon Turns One!
Come celebrate our first year of successful Mobile Gov Wikithons this Thursday at our First Birthday Mobile Gov Wikithon from 2-4p.m. at the Constitution Cafe in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. More details on attending are located here. We held our first Mobile Gov Wikithon last year on October 26 and 10 wikithons [...]
331 views | Comments OffOct 22nd, 2012 | Filed under Events, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
NSA Career Links App
The National Security Agency released the NSA Career Links App to provide news and job opportunities in the agency anytime, anywhere. The security agency describes the app: Stay up-to-date on the latest news from the National Security Agency – free! This app puts everything NSA – job opportunities, news, and events – in the palm [...]
810 views | 2 commentsOct 18th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources -
The NASA Mobile App Universe
We have featured the NASA App and the NASA Visualization Explorer App in the past, but a recent Open NASA blog post highlighted the 39 apps produced and available for download from NASA. The post states: NASA has made a wide variety of interactive apps for mobile users, which range from performing a spacewalk to [...]
586 views | Comments OffOct 11th, 2012 | Filed under Uncategorized -
Trends on Tuesday: Increase in Internet Connected Mobile Devices
In research released last week, Pew found an interesting statistic that we have been tracking: Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet, significantly more than a year ago. Of the 9,513 U.S. adults contacted from June-August 2012 for the survey, there were 4,638 [...]
614 views | Comments OffOct 9th, 2012 | Filed under Industry News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources, Trends