Every job has its boring bits. Sometimes, the boring bits are actually mind-numbing; occasionally they’re actually loathsome. For in-office workers, this isn’t such a big deal. For one thing, there are others to vent to about how boring a part of your work is. And then there’s your boss, only […]
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EBay Inc. (EBAY) agreed to acquire the remaining stake in Internet commerce platform company Magento Inc. that it doesn’t already own, expanding its portfolio of capabilities that it can offer to online merchants. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. EBay, which expects the deal to …
Senior managers at PayPal, the giant online payment company, have been coming to Israel every year to check out local start-up companies, ever since 2008, when PayPal bought FraudSciences, whose products prevent credit card fraud, for $170 million. Last week, PayPal vice president of strategy and business development Mark Lavelle […]
What’s interesting about the development platform for Windows Phone is that it is based on Silverlight, which, as most of us are aware, was first and foremost a web technology. As such Silverlight supports a navigation model that maps well to the way browsers work with the ability to navigate […]
Speaking as a developer, Opera’s version numbering seems sensible. Unlike Chrome and Firefox’s rapid updates or IE’s ridiculously sedate pace, Opera normally release a new browser once or twice a year. The version number is incremented when it’s right to do so. Opera 11.50 is out now and it’s brimming […]
Pitney Bowes Inc.’s (PBI – Analyst Report) ClearPath™ international ecommerce and logistics service can be accessed by the U.S.-based retailers on the Magento Open Source Ecommerce Platform. Pitney has entered into a collaboration with Grand River, a leading provider of ecommerce development and integration service provider, to build extensions between […]
One thing that puts many people off freelancing before they even begin is the apparently perilous nature of the job. Too many factors seem uncontrollable. Even those who have been freelancing for a while can find themselves in trouble if they’re not diligent and disciplined in their approach — if […]
By Max Wheeler 21st Jun 2011 Mobile Design Tutorial 4 Many, if not most, of the new breed of mobile devices use touch as their main input method. While many of the principles we usually apply to interface design are the same, there are some shifts in mindset required. Our […]
This is an excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler. Over the coming weeks BuildMobile will exclusively publish a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps. Enjoy. As a first pass for […]