On July 20, the University of Michigan unveiled “MCity”, a 32-acre mock city similar to a movie set with downtown and rural settings that will be the world’s first controlled …
Bringing Web Technologies to “Native” Mobile Application Development
Nowadays web technology (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is everywhere! In recent years, the fast-paced development of web technologies has dramatically powered development activities past its traditional boundary. Web technology has not only …
Facebook Brings eCommerce Customer Service to Messenger
eCommerce and changing technology has altered how online and offline retailers interact with customers. For online stores it is now common, expected even, for businesses to interact with customers through …
High-Speed Trains, High-Speed Technology
The train conductor announced “We are now entering the new high-speed section from Kalamazoo to Chicago at 100 miles per hour.” I excitedly texted my assistant, Linda, “I am going …
5 Ways To Get the Most Out of Your Relationship with a Developer
You’re probably reading this because you’re looking for a developer to work with to make your mobile (or web) app vision a reality. You may have even set up some …
February 2015 Newsletter
Send Off the Year of the Horse and Welcome the Year of the Goat
Every year when I travel to Asia to celebrate Chinese New Year, I usually bring back a ton of stuffed animals for the animal of the year. Last week I …
A Note from the Director of Offshore Operations: A Day in the Life
Please contact us if you’d like your own Logic-signal search light. 9:00am EST: “Keith, we have a crisis! Our client’s website is down and I couldn’t get hold of anyone!!” …
Reinventing How We Use Email
Email is messy. For many people, managing cluttered inboxes, promotional offers, and spam is an arduous task. And that one message you received weeks ago with a very important appointment …
Google announces Inbox to replace Gmail
Ever since Google’s signature email program first hit the web in 2004, the company sought to make the onerous task of sorting through email correspondence easier and more automated. But …
September/October 2014 Newsletter
Phygital: Bridging Digital and Physical Spaces
The digital revolution began in the 1950s with the transformation and transposition of analog and mechanical activities to digital ones. Today, the reverse tendency is becoming more apparent as virtual …
Two “A” Players, Apple and Alibaba
Part One: Apple I left for China the day after the keynote speech at the 2014 Apple Developer Conference. Admittedly, I have not really paid a lot of attention to …
Want to learn to develop software? Go to Girl Develop It!
Over the past several months, large tech companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and most recently Microsoft have released their staffs’ racial and gender breakdowns. These diversity numbers all seem …