A few weeks ago, I was reading the latest tech news with my ritual morning cup of coffee when I came across a few new studies that showed, for the first time ever, mobile app usage has finally surpassed web browser usage. While I knew it was destined to happen sooner than later, I was pleasantly surprised with the latest numbers. ComScore reported that in November...

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Last year was a big year for mobility. Actually, it was huge! Tablets and e-readers became widely adopted throughout the globe. The tablet, in particular, was heavily integrated into our daily lives, adopted by consumers and the enterprise alike. The number of people using mobile devices drastically climbed with app developers seeing increased demand.

 We expect this to continue to skyrocket, but here are a few other exciting things predicted that will take place in 2012...

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It’s tough being an app developer these days. It can be difficult to figure out which platforms to focus efforts on. We all know the iPad is at the top of developers’ lists, but other platforms are gaining popularity and offer new possibilities. Regardless of the environment, developers will face the same challenge of finding a way to stand out in the crowded marketplace of thousands and thousands of other apps. Android tablets seem to be gaining more momentum, due to a growing...

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As an app developer, we’re constantly examining the newest operating systems to scope out trends, interesting features and possibly the next game-changing platform to rock the industry. From Intel announcing Tizen, to Apple’s long-awaited and highly speculated iOS 5 release, the past few months have supplied no shortage of new OS developments and updates. What do all these new updates and OS launches mean for developers and how will they affect the demand and development of...

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As a mobile-centric company, we bring smartphones and tablets with us everywhere we go, and some of us find it hard to believe we could ever live without them. It’s difficult to remember what it was like, not long ago, when we couldn’t check our email on the fly, and even harder to remember when we had to use a payphone to contact someone.

As we become increasingly dependent on our mobile devices and the functionality of these devices becomes more PC-oriented, we have to consider the greater importance of mobile security. Many of us have our entire lives accessible on our smartphone or tablet, from photos and personal contacts, to passwords and bank accounts...

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One of the industry’s newest computing devices is the ‘Ultrabook’. Designed to evolve the laptop, these devices are thin, light notebooks that take computing to a newer, different level and have been said to revolutionize the traditional PC industry. Several companies have recently launched Ultrabooks, including...

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Here on the Quickoffice blog, we like to speculate on hot industry topics, and one subject that caught our ears recently is Google’s ‘Native Client’. An ‘open source technology that allows you to build web applications’ in a compiled native code, TechCrunch describes it as ‘a potential missing link between native apps and web apps’. A hybrid model approach, the technology could become the next generation of web apps, allowing developers to build apps directly on a web browser, such as Chrome.

In a recent blog post, Google announced that they are baking ‘Native Client’ into Chrome, allowing developers to leverage...

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Are you a fan of Quickoffice on Android smartphones or tablets? Well, we have good news for our Android addicts – Quickoffice Pro and Quickoffice Pro HD just got even better with version 5.0. Both apps now offer a crisper, more integrated user interface, advanced Office viewing and editing features, increased connectivity through new cloud storage partners, and social publishing capabilities.

 As mobile and cloud environments converge, we believe the future of the industry lies in connectivity; and Quickoffice plans to remain one of the most connected apps available. We increased our connectivity on the...

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There has been quite a buzz of late around the idea of us entering a ‘post-PC era’, or possibly already living in one, ever since Steve Jobs used the term at the iPad 2 launch roughly seven months ago. Nobody is denying that millions of people each day spend increasingly more time on smartphones and tablets, but does that mean that PCs are obsolete?

Many believe that the not-so-distant future will be a world where there are no more PCs and everyone will use a mobile device such as a smartphone, tablet or laptop. But should we be discounting the PC altogether as...

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A recent survey indicated that as many as 50 percent of all iPad tablets used in the enterprise are in the category of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). BYOD is the abbreviation for employees who have individually purchased devices, like a smartphone or tablet, and are now using them at work, which means accessing and locally storing corporate documents on them. While this can cut down costs and be beneficial to both the employer and employee, it means these devices are often no longer controlled by...

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