Don’t try this at home: back cover change requires iPhone dissection

24.01.2010
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My wife’s iPhone is on duty 24h a day and most of the time in places where it better should not be: loosely flying around in a handbag among a few million other things, on the floor in the supermarket, in our little one’s hands, somewhere on the playground… So it was time for a [...]

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E-Commerce and Travel-Commerce in 2010

30.12.2009
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With 15 years of E-Business experience at dmc, the company I joined earlier in 2009 has seen quite a number of trends and hypes come and go. We have helped our clients implement some of the more successful ones and quite a few of our ideas have become E-Commerce best practices and innovative approaches to [...]

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Payvment: An Open Shopping Cart Network

27.11.2009
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Payvment is a US based startup with an online shopping cart offering as a webservice. They makes use of PayPal’s new Adaptive Payments API, which was developed in an effort to compete with Amazon’s Flexible Payments API. PayPal’s API gives developers, and Payvment in this case, full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot [...]

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Free Education by Apple – Disc vs. Disk

24.10.2009

What’s the difference between a “disc” and a “disk?”: They’re pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300

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Helsana 10km Dolder Trail

17.10.2009

My friend David showed this track to me two weeks ago and today I took my GPSies App to record the track:

Thank you David.

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Let the ones report on traffic that know it best

28.08.2009
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The conversation and the controversy on privacy also around mobile apps the their collection of only partially anonymous data will go on and with Google’s latest announcement it won’t get any better. And my point to accept sharing data with out loosing anything but for the benefit of a greater good gets lots of support [...]

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Mobile Analytics and the Spyware Discussion

23.08.2009
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Publishers who distribute content, media and applications on the web want to understand how, where and by whom their assets are being consumed. This is a question very often answered by Google Analytics, a tool based on JavaScript and Cockies to track user behavior on the web that comes bundled with a nice analytics service [...]

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Apple’s next OS Snow Leopard to support Microsoft Exchange

01.08.2009
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The by far most read post on my blog is my post on migrating mail archives from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Mail.
I’ve had numerous discussions with to-be-switchers about what was going to happen to their mail archives and future email. Because not all of them have followed Apple’s announcements and not all have made the [...]

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Google Wave Open Source Components Available

29.07.2009
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From the Google Wave Developer Blog:
To kickoff Federation Day, we open sourced two components: 1) the Operational Transform (OT) code and the underlying wave model, and 2) a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. The OT code is the heart and soul of the collaborative experience in Google Wave and we plan that [...]

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Adobe surfing the Google Wave?

24.07.2009
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Through their labs Adobe has launched a new service called Adobe Wave.
Adobe Wave is a client application (based on Air) that will keep you informed about updates to subscribed services. The subscriptions are handled by a service by Adobe.
With Adobe Wave, get all of your notifications through a single application. You don’t have to worry [...]

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