Gil Bouhnick

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

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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Smartphones World – All The Statistics You Need In Just One Page

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In the never ending battle between smartphones, there are many types of reports, relying on different sources (ads, web browsing, sales figures which are never formal, etc.).

I will try to make some order in this statistical mess by giving you one final answer: iPhone.

(OK, just kidding… )

But seriously, here’s a collection figures that may help you understand what’s going on in mobility. As none of them is absolute of course, I’m counting on you to make the math by yourselves.

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How To Download YouTube Videos To Your Android

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Downloading YouTube movies is something that may be occasionally required when you need your video to be available offline. In the paat we wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your iPhone, wrote about how to download YouTube videos to your Windows Mobile smartphone (actually 3 ways: 1, 2, 3) and here’s how to … Read more

Poll: How Important Is Flash?

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There is an ongoing debate between the iOS people and the Android/Windows Mobile people regarding the importance of Flash. No doubt, Flash is a very popular web technology used by many sites, but recently a question popped up about the importance of Flash in those sites, especially when accessed from a mobile device. Some believe … Read more

Tablets-Rush Continues: Meet the ViewPad 7

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ViewSonic has recently announced the ViewPad 7, another Android based tablet aimed to compete with the iPad.   It’s actually a small tablet, 7 inch screen, similar to the size of the Samsung Galaxy Tab. We are guessing we’ll see more and more of those mini-tablet running all kinds of customized versions of Android. Google’s … Read more