4G Mobile Technology is the fourth generation mobile device communication standard that provides ultra-broadband internet access on the mobile devices.

Communicating through mobile includes two steps – mobile network access and access to mobile services. Generally, both of these steps are controlled by just one operator but in the 4G technology, the mobile services access will be extended to an Open mobile cloud. So it will be open to any developers/providers and it will be possible by any non-wireless industries like Google, Microsoft, etc to provide this service to their mobile users.

The 4G technology will be influencing most to the smartphone industry. Currently, most of the smartphones are running on 3G technology. But soon smartphone users will start opting for 4G which can improve the speed they connect to the internet. This technology will be useful for many smartphone users as it is being observed that most of them use their mobile devices as mini-computers. Most of the business tasks or personal tasks are performed nowadays on the move, and so the 4G technology will be an added advantage for users.

The 4G technology will for sure change the future of mobile internet. It is evolving at a very fast pace and it is also announced that 4G will be at every place where currently 3G network is available by the year 2013.

The main objective of launching 4G mobile network is to expand the internet usage through mobile phones. It will make easy and speedy for mobile users to obtain and transfer all the data required anytime and anywhere. It will also allow mobile users to access and view videos, audios and other apps speedily.

The 4G network will also bring rise in demand of mobile apps. It will be exciting to watch the overall scenario of mobile tech world with 4G technology. Softweb Solutions has expertise in Mobile App development for various mobile platforms including iOS, Blackberry, Android, Windows, Symbian, and others.

Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com, if you have some specific requirements for mobile Application Development. We deliver high-quality customized mobile solutions to all our clients fulfilling all their needs.

Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) is a comprehensive Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) that enables application developers to quickly and easily develop apps that are useful to connect business data with the mobile workers on the go.

SUP has the ability to make the deployment, development and management of the mobile applications easy and speedy. SUP, being a consistent yet adaptable platform enables the users to drive mobile initiatives across the whole organization coping with the changing business needs. SUP allows the enterprise developers to build native apps using their familiar tools such as Visual Studio or Eclipse. It also enables enterprises to use mobility across the complete organizational processes by using consistent and flexible platform.

Sybase Unwired Platform is considered as a comprehensive mobile platform useful for extending the applications and data on any mobile device. The key features of this Platform are –

• SUP provides a feature-rich SDK useful for developing native and hybrid applications.
• It seamlessly integrates with variety of enterprises back-end systems.
• It allows workers to access the enterprise mobile apps on corporate as well as personal mobile devices.
• It protects enterprise data by end-to-end encryption and enhanced application security
• The SDK has libraries that allows administrator to remotely distribute app connection and configuration settings
• The apps can be developed for multiple mobile platforms like Blackberry, Android, iOS, Windows, and others
• It works with heterogeneous data environment which means the data can be integrated from many databases, web services and other apps in to one single mobile app
• It reduces the total cost of ownership [TCO] by enabling the strategic mobile deployments
• It enables developers to use the existing tools and expertise, which is useful to lower the total cost of building mobile apps

The Sybase Unwired Platform provides a connection between backend systems and the mobile devices. SUP enables businesses to take hold of the mobile technology across the entire organization by using this consistent and flexible development platform.

Softweb Solutions is a Sybase Partner that enables creating SAP Applications on mobile devices for enterprises. Being a Sybase Partner, we can develop enterprise applications that would connect business data of the organization to the mobile workers on any device and at any time.  Additionally, Softweb Solutions has the needed expertise in mobile app distribution, management and security and that enables the enterprise to get the solution that is complete.

For further details on the mobile device management (MDM) solutions, please click here.  We have a vision to provide businesses the ease to access valuable data through Enterprise Applications and utilizing Sybase Unwired Platform, we deliver full-featured Enterprise Mobile Applications. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com to make your business mobile.

The iPad has created a revolution in the technology world. The iPad lovers keep a close watch over the release of the new iPad applications and they prefer to use the iPad for varied purposes.  Being only 2 years old it has truly transformed the way people work, read books, do business, listen to music, and perform many more activities. In spite of its exorbitant prices, it sells like hotcakes.

The iPad has also created a drastic revolution in the education industry. Apple launched the iBooks 2 and iBooks Author with an objective to bring a ‘new textbook experience’ to iPad. There are plenty of schools that prefer to use electronic devices to facilitate learning and, the preference for iPad as a tool for study continues to increase.

iPad for Education

The iPad has made its way to modern classrooms. It’s an easy- to- use device for all age groups and it makes the vast amount of information readily available to students within the classroom environment. As it is thin and lightweight, it is best to replace the heavy textbooks that are normally used in schools. The iPad can be best used as an e-reader for textbooks and enhance the students’ learning experience. It facilitates the smooth sharing of books, files, tools, and other educational resources for teachers and students. Many schools have already supported bringing the iPad to classroom teaching and even encourage students to take the iPad home.

Independent Learning

Self-learning is the best learning. The iPad makes a great tool for independent learning. A wide variety of educational apps which facilitates learning are available in the market. Free educational apps are popular among both – students and teachers.  These educational apps provide new and exciting ways of instructing students in complex concepts. The iPad provides an interesting and fun-filled learning experience for students.

Student Performance Factor

Reports show that iPad has enabled students to increase their Math score by up to 30%.  Students are motivated to actively participate in the teaching- learning process, which in turn has improved the over-all students’ performance in education.  Students can learn to communicate effectively through custom iPad apps. The use of iPads in education will surely enhance students’ IT- related skills, which can equip them to such an extent that they can try their hands on developing innovative apps for iPads. Students enjoy the over-all iPad learning atmosphere.

At Softweb Solutions, we have created an interesting children’s book application for our client. This app has self-playing audio features, and special effects attached to each chapter to capture the attention of children using it.  In order to avoid the hassles of audio/video streaming, all the images have been embedded within the app.

Our iPad developers have made a book reader application for younger readers. It has plenty of attractive images along with audio effects which can be modulated as per the need of the child. These two iPad apps were created to meet the specific business requirements of the clients.

Softweb Solutions is a leading iPad Application Development Company that design and develop attractive and interactive iPad applications for our clients. We have a team of skilled iPad developers who can provide customized iPad applications to meet your business requirement. For more details on iPad app development, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com

With the launch of iPad device by Apple, most of the companies have changed their ways to work and do their business where Healthcare Industry is no different. The mobile device – iPad has become one of the most important professional tools for Doctors.

The days where Doctors used to walk to each patient’s room and study the paper chart for each medical history are gone. This tedious process of working for Doctors is now more compact and speedy with the use of iPads and the comprehensive Medical iPad apps available in it.

Apple proudly claims that more than 80% of the top US hospitals are already in the process of using iPads for their different work activities and processes. Apple also informs that it has more than 10,000 medical apps in its App Store that can be downloaded easily. They are specially designed for doctors, patients and other medical staff. Some of the apps provide guidelines and suggestions for proper healthcare while some provide diagnosis. There are variety of iPad apps available which can actually enable doctors and staff to be more efficient.

With these apps, doctors can easily access the information or browse on internet for collecting some information immediately or receive updates thru e-mails while carrying their independent iPads around the hospital or elsewhere. Many doctors in US and other advanced countries believe that using mobile healthcare apps that helps to monitor fitness will be useful to cut down on hospital visits.

Why use iPads at Hospitals?

Doctors prefer using iPads to make their work run more efficiently. With so many in-built features and useful apps present in it, it reduces the amount of paperwork, provides easier access to patient files and records, and makes it easy to take notes. Moreover, it also makes simple for staff members and others to read what is documented.

With iPad, Doctors or staff can take pictures at the time of examination of the patient which can be useful later in many ways. Also, iPads have high definition video recorder which is useful at the time of video chatting with other doctors or patients.

It is also useful for patients in lots of ways – videos or charts or some animated features can be uploaded in their iPad regarding how to improve on health, or the medical schedules of the patient, or other health related recommendations.

The iPad application developers understand the growing needs and interest of the Healthcare industry. Softweb Solutions is a prominent name in the iPad app development industry. We recently developed an interactive therapeutic iPad app – Motion Doctor, which is helpful for people to prevent their pains.

With this app, users can access through 60 different videos consisting exercises and stretches for their entire body. To know more about this comprehensive iPad application, see – http://www.softwebsolutions.com/portfolio-curative-ipad-application.html

Our iPad Developers have capabilities of redefining the interactive experience on this gadget with our best software skills. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com for more information.

Apple has finally introduced the long awaited third generation iPad on March 7, 2012 with all new attractive specifications and features. It is available by Pre online order since 8^th March and will be available in the market by March 16. It will be available between the ranges of $499 to $829.

Tim Cook introduced iPad3 on Wednesday at an event and also unveiled the updated Apple TV box at the same time. The iPad3 will come with the latest Operating System of Apple – iOS 5 with some useful multitasking features like notifications, app-switching, background sound, task finishing, and many more.

The new iPad3 features a new Retina Display of 2048 x 1536 pixels which is crystal clear, sharp and realistic taking the quality of apps to an exceptional level. It has the highest resolution display ever with 3.1 million pixels. The iPad designers and developers will now need to design more flexible apps for better visual appearance because of the new extra ordinary retina display of iPad3.

Along with this, it also features A5X Quad Core Processor which enhances the speed of the system for supporting the advanced visual and graphics. Moreover, it measures 9.4 mm thickness and 1.4 pounds weight which is little more than the iPad2. It delivers approx 10 hours of battery life and on 4G approx 9 hours which is same as iPad2. The most attractive feature offered by iPad3 is – it allows users to connect their multiple devices to the iPads data connection and acts like a modem

It includes a 5MP iSight camera and a FaceTime front camera with advanced optics, auto white balance, and face detection. The new camera has HD video recording at 1080p resolution and it also has an upgraded iMovie version by which users can capture, edit, arrange, and publish the movies from the same device with easy-to use format. It also has a voice dictation feature which will dictate what a user needs to say.

Many other features are included in iPad3 which will be prove to be useful once users start using it such as – Fingerprint Proof, Cloud Computing, 3D feature, and many more.

With this release by Apple, iPad application development market will definitely see some more innovative and attractive iPad apps. This release will be beneficial for iPad developers as they will get a platform to prove their innovation thru developing apps.

Release of iPad3 will certainly dominate the application development market which will raise the demand of iPad app development. You can get your iPad application developed by our experienced iPad app development experts. To hire or to get more information, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com.

NFC technology is basically a short range high frequency wireless communication technology that allows two devices to exchange data over the distance of 10 cms. The idea of Apple Inc. behind incorporating this technology into its upcoming devices is to make the iPhone or iPad sort of virtual wallet so that users can make the payments easily.

The concept of making payments using mobile phones is gradually getting famous and catching on. There is even news that the upcoming next generation iPhone and iPad devices will be equipped with NFC capabilities enabling Apple users to make easy payments. According to the reports, it is indicated that Apple Inc. is working on the payment infrastructure of NFC which is necessary for actually making payments thru iOS devices.

In some ways, NFC is a great technology. It is a short range contactless technology solution that enables scanning of the device to recognize and identify an NFC device.

Recently, Starbucks introduced a system that allows iPhone users to make payments thru their iPhone devices. But this system was not using NFC technology. It actually connects an iPhone application with a funded card of Starbucks and allows customers to make payment by scanning the barcode image from the iPhone display. Inheriting NFC abilities into the iPhone and iPad will only be completion of half battle for Apple Inc. considering the fact that Google already holds an NFC technology capable Android smartphone – Nexus S, though still any sort of payment revolution is not seen.

There are two most important and critical barriers that must be resolved first in order to provide real-world value to the NFC technology. The first one is – there is no connection of the device with the creditors back ends like a bank account, or a credit card, or with some kind of wireless carrier backed system, which is actually most importantly needed at the time of making a transaction. The second problem is – Very few vendors have the hardware to support this technology and so it is needed that more and more merchants get involved with the concept of NFC. Having an NFC enabled smartphone without the vendor support will be useless in the real sense as it will be impossible to take advantage of it.

If we think of the NFC concept, then it is actually not a new idea at all. In the year 2009, Nokia and Visa actually together introduced the Contactless payment system in Malaysia. Today, Nokia mobile device is backed by Visa payment system successfully and is accepted in more than 1800 locations around the world.

Today, NFC is full of promises. It is possible for Apple to get succeed with the concept of NFC. If Apple provides the necessary NFC enabled hardware for free on its devices, it can be expected that retailers then wish to grasp this concept. If that goes successful than Apple users will no longer have to carry their wallets with themselves.

Statistically, today Apple is the leading Company in the mobile sphere across the world. In terms of selling easy to use software and hardware, Apple has always stayed ahead. The company is now concerned and concentrated on all the things that are related to the use of Near Field Communication. It will soon come up with the iPhone as the most crucial mobile device serving means of electronic payment. By this technology loaded, the iPhone can act as an electronic currency, as a credit card, as debit card, as electronic coupon, and also as the means of holding electronic tickets like for concerts, air tickets, or subway tickets.

It is expected by everyone that NFC feature that is also known as iWallet will be present in the upcoming Apple mobile device – iPhone 5. The reason behind not introducing it still is the lack of a clear universal standard. It is certainly the biggest problem as still the technology has not been out at all; it’s only available in very few locations presently. Also, United States has been little slow to adopt the concept of Near Field Communications [NFC] technology of making use of mobile phones for making payments. But it is heard that now it is gradually catching on and also Apple Inc. is working on its own version of NFC introduction for iTunes.

It is expected that Apple will once again make it grand by embedding NFC technology in its 5^th generation iPhone and 2^nd generation iPad. By this step of Apple and by the adoption of NFC by major leaders in consumer mobile electronics, the mobile payment systems will likely take a hold as never before in US.

The long awaited Operating System software update by Blackberry Playbook users is ready to be launched in this week. RIM is all set to launch OS 2.0 for its 7-inch Playbook Tablet.

Originally, it was announced by RIM that they will launch this update in October, 2011. But now it is expected to be launched with all fresh features that are much needed by Blackberry users. RIM itself announced at CES 2012 that it will launch BB Playbook OS 2.0 on 21^st February, 2012 which is today. With this new OS, the BB playbook users will able to have native e-mail on their tablet, they will also be able to run Android applications, and will be able to do much more useful things.

In this update, the Blackberry Bridge has been improved so that now the playbook can be easily paired up with the Blackberry handset.  It also makes simple to share the contacts, calendars, and many more important data. But the biggest benefit of this feature is – the tablet can be browsed by simply using the handset’s data plan.

Playbook OS 2.0 will allow its users to run Android apps natively. This means, users can get apps from the Android market for their Blackberry Playbook. This feature will be very useful as up to certain extent Blackberry App Store lacks into apps offerings compared to Android.

Many other useful features will be present in this update which will be revealed once it is being launched. RIM will also launch Blackberry Mobile Fusion with this software update on the same day, which will allow IT professionals to manage their Blackberry devices from a single interface. Android and iOS controls are also expected to be launched in March, 2012.

This update will bring a big market for Blackberry application development. The updated OS with all useful features will also increase the sales of Blackberry Playbook and other RIM devices. At the same time, the popularity of Blackberry applications will also increase with new OS 2.0.

For customized Blackberry application development, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com.

The need of printed catalogs amongst people is diminishing day by day mainly because of the digitalization. The days have come when shopping and ecommerce are taking the web ahead giving birth to the digitalization of product catalogs. By building an interactive place [product catalog app] where people can flip through your business products, select their favorites and then purchase them immediately from there; a rich and fast sales process can be accomplished.

Product Catalog applications for the iPad is used by many companies nowadays to organize and distribute product information to customers and salespeople. This results in improved productivity of the business, and competitive advantages. By developing product catalog applications you can respond to the habits of your customers to buy online and give them better experience.

Sales professionals consider iPad as the most powerful and useful tool today to showcase their business and products/services. An interactive product catalog, specifically used to create, maintain and distribute timely information of company products provides many advantages.

Some of the advantages of using Product catalog apps are –

-          By offering products in an array of colors, styling, sizes, and other attractive variations is more effective and efficient than physical samples.

-          It is more interactive and appealing to share with a client at a time of sales call.

-          It is easier to update the sale’s team iPads in real time.

-          Easy and Fast execution of transactions in a sales meeting. With an interactive environment, your customers can view your products to select their favorites and then make a purchase immediately right there.

-          To demonstrate products in a better way, videos can be used. The ability to play videos of tablets should be used creatively as everybody loves to watch videos.

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR APPS:

1] An Enterprise iPad Product Catalog Application for an Auto Industry

This product catalog application is for automotive appearance protection industry providing all useful details to the users like type of dents, scratches, and broken rim on the car. In this iPad application, we have used 3D animations and videos for the products of Xzilon for better interaction.

2] An iPad Product Catalog Application for our client – Wenger

Our client desired a Catalog iPad application by which its field staff can showcase their company’s products at anytime and at any place. We developed a comprehensive iPad app for them with simple interface enabling their staff to demonstrate products with the help of Wi-Fi connectivity.

3] An Enterprise iPad Application to showcase Products of Rexroth Bosch Company

We built a comprehensive product catalog iPad application for Rexroth Bosch that takes full advantage of their GoTo Focused Delivery Program showcasing their entire product line interactively. With this application, it is now faster and easier to browse thru industry’s most popular collection of products for manufacturing, automation, and machinery engineering.

Product Catalog Applications can be useful for business in following ways –

-          At the time of some exhibitions or event where you need to present the whole range of your business products.

-          For attracting your new and existing customers, this modern and innovative method of presentation can be useful.

-          It is useful for getting immediate feedback from your customers about your company and your products/services.

Our product catalog applications not only help our clients in their sales process but also lead their users to explore their brand with beautiful images of products and organized overall appearance of the application.

Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com, if you desire to build an rich iPad product catalog application.

Softweb Solutions participated in one of the most reputed Annual Intellectual Property Summit, 2012 held at AMA in the Ahmedabad city on 7^th and 8^th January, 2012.

We successfully showcased our Softweb MDM product as a solution that is going to be offered as a SaaS model as well as a hosted model to the clients in India and worldwide. Mr. Nitin Bawsay – General Manager and Executive V.P Sales, Softweb Solutions gave a very interesting presentation at the event on a topic – “Is your Corporate Data Secure?” This presentation was held on the first day of the Summit, that is, on Saturday – 7^th January, 2012. Over the two days, experts at the summit discussed about various topics such as Cyber Squatting – Awareness and Handling of Cyber Crimes, Competitive Strategies for Patents, Corporate Data Security, Copyrights in Virtual world, Corporate House Mark and a Trademark.

Along with the presentations, Softweb Solutions also amazed the visitors with the demo of the product. Many of people visited and showed interest in the product, considering it greatly useful for their enterprises.

What is Softweb MDM:

Softweb MDM is a mobile device management service by which it gets easy to ensure that the Company’s employees use their mobile devices within the bounds of corporate policies, and it also helps to keep the Company data secured by remotely enforcing pass codes, lock devices, call barring can be done, and the device features like Bluetooth, WI-Fi, etc can also be disabled.

The speedy advancements in the mobile technology are changing the dynamics of enterprise IT. Smartphones are taking the place and role of traditional PCs for accessing the corporate data outside the office environment. The need of better security and management of the mobile devices is growing. Also, the increase in the power of the mobile devices leads to more exposure of the corporate data and systems making it more vulnerable to theft.

Features of Mobile Device Management products and services:

1)      Network Security

2)      Minimized Data Threats

3)      Control on the mobile devices those are in your network.

4)      Exclusiveness of information.

5)      Remote Locking

6)      Call Barring

7)      Passcode enforcement

8)      Device tracking

For more information on our Mobile Device Management services, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com.

In our technology savvy world today, people make choices based on the applications offered for the smart phones. The differences in features, between the apps could help users during decision making process.

If you ask anyone carrying an iPhone or an Android mobile phone these days, what makes their phones smart or different and the quick answer would be “It’s all about Applications”. Apple is leading with 230,000 apps in its App Store while Android holds 70,000 apps.

Mobile Industry is getting hot now as the Android and iPhone are being matched in the limelight. The application development is almost similar in many phases of these two mobile leaders. Apple’s applications are written in Objective-C which is similar to the common C language while Android apps are written in Java programming language. Few developers possess the coding skills required for both the platforms – iPhone as well as Android. But what about the design?

There is a big question here that do designers have to design twice for creating the native apps for the iPhone and Android? According to the recent analysis, the definition and concept phases of the application designing process is quite similar in almost all platforms but the refinement and production phases differ. These phases require adaptations for creating a full-fledged application for both the platforms.

Let’s discuss the differences faced by mobile application developers based on these four phases – Definition, Exploration, Refinement and Production.

1] Definition: In this phase at the time of User research, a deep understanding can be acquired about the user needs and how those needs are currently being met. With this research foundation, you may uncover opportunities for new apps and develop innovative solutions to improve the existing apps. The research methods in this phase like Diary studies, User interviews, shadowing will be same despite of different platforms. Also, in this phase you will want to read each device’s technical specifications and UI guidelines. This will then help in the application development. During this study of specifications, iPhone and Android may have considerable overlap but there are some exceptions.

2] Exploration: In exploration phase, you start with brainstorming and sketching app ideas once you are done with candid research. This can be challenging for a developer because if he/she has more experience with one platform then it’s natural to descend to the familiar one. At the time of prototyping and testing the apps concepts, it gets extremely difficult to remain platform agnostic. Specifically for some apps like Facebook, Yelp, etc. it gets too difficult due to the varying navigation styles.
For example, there is no concept of home in the iPhone apps while in Android the app name in the header links to home. Secondly, android apps don’t have back buttons.
The best way to differentiate the navigation differences of iPhone and Android applications is to compare Facebook layout of both the devices.

3] Refine: It will get more difficult during application refinements to incorporate abstract design elements. You may have certain features like sign-up, settings, etc. in an application where there is a need to follow platform rules. Some partial common UI controls for iPhone and Android available are –

• Turn the feature On/Off – Switch in iPhone and Checkbox in Android
• Current List selection – Disclosure arrow in iPhone and down arrow in Android
• Choosing from any List – Checkmark in iPhone and Radio button selection in Android
• Date/Time Selection – Picker inline style in iPhone and Picker overlay style in Android

4] Production: During the production phase, it is important to make sure that the images used are of correct resolution for each platform. But for this, not only there are differences in the platforms but also there are differences within the platforms. For example, in iPhone 4 there is a new retina display – 640 x 960 while the earlier phones were having 320 x 480, and same problem is with Android – the latest Droid X has 480 x 854 called as HDPI but the older ones were of lower resolution called as MDPI.
Both platforms provide icons for some common app tasks and also there are many services that sell icons at a reasonable price.

Currently, there are no good solutions to provide cross-platform support. The only solution for now is to rewrite the application into the desired platform’s native language.

Softweb Solutions has expertise in all mobile platforms and have an experienced team of mobile application developers for delivering interactive and attractive applications. Contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com for specific requirements of Mobile Application Development.