David Wilkerson

It is vital to distinguish between a mobile site and a mobile app, even though the skills and technologies required for a hybrid app overlap.

What is a mobile "hybrid" app?  Since the IBM acquisition of Worklight this year and release of version 5.0, a lot of interest in the newest member of the IBM product family has been generated. It is a response rich with confusion regarding the meaning of "app" and "hybrid."

The IBM Worklight product is a member of the IBM Mobile Foundation along with two other key products: Read more  

Jeff Mirman

Do you have a phone on your desk with buttons on it?
Does it ring when people dial the number to that phone?
If you're not sitting next to your phone, do you miss the call?

If you answered yes to the above three questions, while you may have escaped green screen, you are still stuck with mid-1960s technology.  That's right.  According to the push-button telephone wiki "the first electronic push-button telephone system, with Touch-Tone dialing, was offered by Bell Telephones to AT&T customers" on November 18th, 1963.  After reflection, I was surprised at how much I use decades-old phone technology on a daily basis without complaint.  I work daily with sophisticated collaboration tools that allow me to communicate in a variety of ways-but when it comes to the phone, I regularly use time-consuming, out-dated processes, such as copying phone numbers to my phone manually off my computer and other devices.  Add a business phone and mobile phone to the mix, and the time spent working with 1960s phone technology further increases.  In today's fast paced world, phones and their enterprise requirements should be changing along with it, instead of slowing you down.