Gil Bouhnick

Gil Bouhnick is a director of mobility at ClickSoftware and the author of The Mobile Spoon and ClickSoftware's MobileFever blog.

Tired of long meetings? Laptops? Smartphones? Meeting Miser App for iPad to the rescue!

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Technology turned many of the work meetings into a long, time consuming, and inefficient waste of time. Everyone is staring at their laptops doing "something" while someone is speaking. Then the speaker turns over the speaking slot to someone else so that he (the first speaker) can return to his personal activities. Every once in … Read more

Windows 8 Metro UI: Bold Move By Microsoft Or A Doom ? 3 Possible Scenarios

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After participating in the Windows 8 ‘Build’ event few days ago, I came back home full of ideas and thoughts about the impressive stuff Microsoft showed in the opening session. No doubt, adding the Metro Style UI to Windows is a bold move. Extremely bold, considering the fact that the latest products to use Metro … Read more

What should Microsoft do to order to save Windows Phone 7?

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It’s clear by now that despite the positive reviews and the excitement among many developers (and some power users), Windows Phone 7 is a failure.

Just like the well respected webOS, it failed in the one and only parameter that really counts, and that’s sales.

Market share is constantly decreasing and soon Microsoft will disappear form the mobile charts. Mango is just around the corner, and even Windows Phone 8 rumors have started (expected in 2012) – but will they be enough to put Microsoft back in the race?

I doubt it.

I’ve been using Windows Phone 7 for almost a year now, and for most of the time I’ve been an excited fan of the innovative Metro UI, and the strong productivity side of the OS.

Recently, however, I went back to using my old iPhone.

Why, you ask? Because I got bored with Windows Phone 7. I Couldn’t enjoy the "apps experience" and I missed the fun experience of browsing through endless high quality apps. Windows Phone 7 ceased to excite me. I’m hoping the Mango update will change that.

Regardless to Mango, it seems that in order to really become competitive with Android and iOS Microsoft must change the game a little bit. Do something drastic, shake things up.

I gave it some thoughts and came up with a few suggestions of my own.

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Back to the past with HP and Palm

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It was a crazy weekend for HP (and Palm, RIP).

First came the announcement of the discontinued webOS devices by HP, which probably means the slow death of Palm’s webOS, which in other circumstances might have been a great competitor to iOS and Android.

Second, came the TouchPad Rush, where hundreds of consumers were unable to put their hands on the webOS-based tablet after the price was cut down to $99.

And if someone imagined there was some hidden potential in HP’s mobile products – came an enormous number of threads where people are looking to port Android OS onto the miserable TouchPad tablet… talk about humiliation…

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We want information… information… information

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Paranoid: Where am I?
Apple: In the Village.
Paranoid: What do you want?
Apple: We want information.
Paranoid: Whose side are you on?
Apple: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Paranoid: You won’t get it.
Apple: By hook or by crook, we will.
Paranoid: Who are you?
Apple: The new Number 2.
Paranoid: Who is Number 1?
Apple: You are Number 6.
Paranoid: I am not a number, I am a free man

(The Prisoner, the classic TV series from the 60’s

Oh, you don’t remember? with the funny little car, gigantic balloon and no end…)

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Back from vacation! Got a funny video. Got NoDo. It’s disappointing…

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So here I am, in the middle of the busiest time of my life: tons of work, family arrangements, a new kid (my second), health issues – the best timing to take a vacation!

Vacations are the best thing a busy person can do to clean his head. Anything else which doesn’t come with "big dozes" is simply not enough; it takes around a day to get used to the fact you are on vacation, just to realize you just lost a day out of your vacation trying to adjust…

Anyways, back to the scene: here I am, getting used to being away from a laptop, iPad, and technology, using just one phone, my Samsung Omnia 7 (yep, I left the best Android smartphone ever at home), when suddenly I get a message about an update available for my phone(!). I’ve been in this movie before, thinking I got the NoDo update ending up receiving an older (and useless I might add) update, but now I was certain this is the NoDo update.

"Finally!" I’m laughing – "the update!", just to read the rest of the message saying: "please connect your phone to Zune to learn more… ". Damn.

Anyways, this is how my vacation started, but since I promised myself to forget about technology, gadgets and the likes, I actually managed to avoid reading mails, answering phone calls, etc. The vacation was amazing, quality time with the wife and kids was a great joy, and my Samsung Omnia 7 served me well as a camera. It is really good, and the hardware button to quickly launch the camera is brilliant, it turns your phone into a "ready to use" camera. Something which always bothered me with other smartphones, where it takes few seconds to open the camera, usually long enough to miss the scene you wanted to capture.

  

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The game ZNax is now free in WP7 MarketPlace

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Mobile world is changing so fast… Less than 3 years ago, I’ve recommended a game called ZNax for Windows Mobile. Sigh… good old Windows Mobile… I really liked it back then, the game was addictive, it had the element of time (countdown) & competition, it was challenging and addictive. Today I found this game (ZNax) … Read more

My Omnia 7 Just Experienced a Weird Hard Reset. Still No Sign For Copy & Paste…

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Not sure if it has anything to do with the coming WP7 update, but my Samsung Omnia 7 just got a weird restart which ended up pretty badly with no less than a complete irreversible end-to-end definite hard reset. No, I didn’t get anything new, nor copy & paste, but what I did get is … Read more

Interested In Developing An App for iPhone, Android, And Others? Html5 Might Help You

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Few weeks back, I wrote about how Html5 is slowly (but surely) becoming the only true cross platform technology, therefore becoming a significant player in mobility, supported by iPhone, Android, BlackBerry (6.0 and on), webOS, and soon, so I believe, WP7, providing advanced user interface, offline capabilities and rich media/videos. Combined with CSS3 and JavaScript, Html5 is probably the next big thing, and not only for the "classic" web…

As someone who recently used html5 for developing a cross platform mobile application, including a massive use of the offline/database capabilities, store & forward queues, files caching etc. I can tell you that our experience with it was pretty good. It’s great to see a web app running completely offline on iPhone, Droid, Galaxy S, Torch, Nexus, and other devices.

Today I saw a few great sample sites (at makeuseof) using Html5 which I wanted to share. They are not mobile optimized but they do show the strengths of html5 in terms of visual effects, user interface, and videos.

Check it out:

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