Mobile Applications: What is the Difference between Native and Hybrid Apps?
Some debates are doomed to go on and on. The Native Vs. Hybrid debate is of the same nature. Upon hearing the question, some people are quick to divide into ardent followers and haters and fiercely defend their point. Several years ago when HTML5 was shyly trying to tell about itself, the discussion already tackled the advantages and drawbacks of the cross-platform approach. Multiple cross-platform tools such as Xamarin or Sencha with the help of well-known scripting languages as JavaScript…
Best Practices For Secure Enterprise Mobile Communication
SoftTeco’s own Serge Zenevich (CTO) has published an article on best practices for secure enterprise mobile communication in November’s special issue of CIO Review Magazine. Since the online version made it to the most popular section, we thought we should share it to our blog: While we hear more and more often about high-profile incidents involving hacked messengers and leaked call recordings, secure enterprise communication is becoming a hot topic in the field of information security. In the business world…
Upcoming Luxury Smartwatches
At the beginning of 2015 a number of luxury watch brands (most of them are Swiss) had some intriguing announcements about the future launches of their own smartwatches. They may become effective competitors to Apple Watch if they are able to fuse best traditions of Swiss watchmaking with modern smartwatch capabilities. Let’s stick around and see the list of the most interesting smartwatches coming soon. Tag Heuer Carrera Wearable 01 TAG Heuer, a Swiss manufacturing company, have teamed up…
How is the Apple Watch Selling
It is admirable how Apple changes the landscape of any market it enters. The same goes for the Apple Watch and its impact on the wearable market. With the initial announcement last fall, we were certain that once Apple releases its first wearable device it will instantly become a major player on the market. In reality it became such before the device was released, as publicity through online debates, predictions and speculations was overwhelming. Now, two months after first devices…
Developing an App for Measuring Road Roughness
With assistance from SoftTeco, Progress Analytics LLC and Beldor the World Bank has developed a smartphone app that measures road surface conditions. The Android app – RoadLab, uses accelerometers, gyroscopes and GPS to autonomously measure and evaluate road roughness on IRI scale (International Roughness Index) before sending the information to cloud servers via cellular network or Wi-Fi. Algorithms used by the app takes into account vehicle speed, suspension type and phone’s position in order to achieve precise measurements for road pavement quality. The app…
Apple Watch Apps: What to expect and what not to. Part One
As Apple Watch goes on sale tomorrow with already over 3 million devices preordered, many are still wondering what to expect from the watch in terms of the apps ecosystem. Many of the most popular iPhone apps have already developed an Apple Watch counterpart of their solutions. In this article we will go over some of these apps within Health & Fitness, Social and Finance domains and see what value we can expect them to add to the Apple Watch as…
Developing an Online Banking Solution for BSB Bank
Last week BSB Bank has launched its own version of online banking. Before the solution was rolled out, the bank drastically changed its website design, thus, the team from SoftTeco put in all the effort needed to create an online banking solution that would match the new website design and the mobile app. The developed solution features a user friendly interface over the background of Swiss alps. The same background accompanies users throughout every page of the website, yet doesn’t…
The Age of Mobile Healthcare
Over the last few decades, computer technology had a considerable impact on the way we provide and receive health care. Now, mobile technology is helping doctors take medical examinations and treatments to the most remote areas where conventional health care is most scarce, but yet, most needed. In this article, we will examine just a few mobile apps that help doctors do their job wherever they are, whether fighting epidemic outbreaks in Western Africa, visiting a patient at home or…
MWC 2015: What Did You Miss
On the fourth day of the MWC, when the crowds started to disperse, and your feet felt like they were about to quit on you, the sense of the overwhelming experience was starting to settle in. Only after going through and experiencing the entire conference (or at least as much of it as it was possible to experience) you could begin to gasp the amount of effort it took to organize and pull off an event of this scope. A…
5 Best New Products at Mobile World Congress 2015
The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is a popular platform for the world’s leading mobile manufacturers to unveil their flagship devices and announce plans for entering new markets or establishing strategic partnerships. Before the start of the conference this year, there have been already plenty of speculations and rumors going around about big announcements at the conference. While some companies have stated that despite earlier claims, they will not showcase new devices during the event, as it is in the…
