Sunday, August 28, 2011

Musical application for your Smartphone

Music is a holistic cure to your pressure that you accumulate in the everyday struggle of life.
Music can smooth your rough edges and I am sure no one will contradict on my statement! Moving on, if you are a music lover and if you own a Smartphone you are going to be reading this article further.

As a member in the mobile application development team, we were asked to create an app that could mobilize the music album in such a way that the user should be able to download, listen and share the same with his or network of friends. This was indeed a challenge that was readily accepted by my team and made sure these major challenges were met to the client’s fullest satisfaction.

One more aspect that could never be corned is the copy right issues of the music authors/composers/distributers. In other words, the piracy could never be given an accommodation in the music mobilizing app. With all the sole features in mind we head started our task.

The major milestone of piracy proof was achieved by embedding the DRM (Digital Rights Management) protocols. Thus the app developed had no security issues and was commendably safe with respect to the author, composers or directors in the music industry. With the iphone’s gaining popularity and over 35% of the global Smartphone sales in the US, the music lovers are around 90% of the world population.

The salient features of the Mobilized music album is it gives a impeccable user experience as the songs once downloaded could be played through the application on the mobile device. These albums however, cannot not be shared with the other phones though one could only transfer them to the other hand held via Bluetooth. But, to play the songs a definite payment is required to activate.

Why a Mobilized Music Album app is required on your Smartphone?

As a music lover, your basic requirement is the quality audio signal of the music that you just cannot compromise on. Well, this app make sure a paradigm shift from just ‘listening to music’ to ‘experiencing music’, music lovers can get it straight as to what exactly am talking about! Apart from this significant feature, this app aims at giving you more than best things. It makes sure it outputs a sync lyrics like a Karaoke, a perfect display of the album art, the details of the music composer, director, singer and other details pertaining to the music downloaded. This app is made very similar to the iTunes store, where the downloaded music is payable by the credit card through a secured process. Therefore, you can try this app and keep grooving to your favorite artists.

Keep me posted in the comments section as to how you like this app and would you want such an app on your mobile device?

We at Endeavour develop mobile applications on all platforms, we do have expertise mobile application development, iphone application development and other mobile application developers also.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Enterprise Security and Android Platform

Enterprise Mobility is now the trend in today’s technology world. With rapid changes in the corporate world, many organizations now realize the significance of Mobility. Organizations are slowly mobilizing their workforce and enabling their employees to use various enterprise applications to increase productivity and efficiency. Mobility along with convenience also gives rise to a data integrity challenge.

As highly confidential and sensitive data are made accessible through various public networks, security has become a major concern. The various risks like e-mail viruses, spam mails, hacking, phishing attacks, malware infections and device theft have turned out to be some of the major concerns. A right way to go about this for any enterprise is to build a strong mobile device security management strategy that should address the business issue holistically with respect to the combination of people, processes and technology.

Meticulous planning and governing mobile device usage through various enterprise mobility management policies can help companies to determine what information, data and web content employees should be allowed to access on corporate devices. This also helps to secure data and information at all levels. There are a lot of technical and process based approaches that can effectively satisfy the challenges posed by the enterprise mobility security and thus can be healed off the threats when used systematically.
It has been observed that since security is a major factor in most enterprises hence many employees in various departments are opting for Android devices as their corporate communication tool over other Smartphone.
For all organizations, data integrity is of utmost priority and in order to safeguard this, Android devices are the more preferred gadgets by the workforce of various departments in a firm. Android is chosen over among its counterparts as it has a unique security model. This feature enables the user to be controlling the device. Android is programmed in Linux platform with Java. Thus, is has an enhanced security mechanisms that are perfectly tuned for a mobile environment. Android supports building applications that use phone features while protecting users by minimizing the consequences of bugs and malicious software. It also offers powerful applications and innovative hardware specs.
Webinar on “Enterprise Security and Android Platform” by Endeavour Software Technologies - The Mobility Company is going to emphasize on the importance of Enterprise security and the role that Android Platform plays in it. The Webinar is going to highlight upon:
Overview of Mobility and Mobile Security
• Introduction to Mobility
• Mobile Security

Best Practices for Secure Software Development

Android OS
• Security Architecture and deployment
• Android Attack Surfaces
• Enterprise features, what can we leverage?

Endeavour-The Mobility Company has been involved in helping some of the Fortune 500 companies build their mobility strategy in the past. Endeavour will be sharing its knowledge from the 9 years of experience in the Industry.

This webinar on "Enterprise Security and Android Platform" by Endeavour Software Technologies is going to be held on 25th August, at 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT. The webinar will be useful for C – level executives, decision makers, Entrepreneurs and anyone who is interested in Mobility Security.



You can register in the following link: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/403222646

For more information on mobile application development and iphone application development visit http://www.techendeavour.com

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Mobile Ads and Smart Phones

Mobile OSCTR
iOS0.78
Others0.57
Symbian0.5
Android0.47
WebOS0.44
BB0.36


The mobile ads are revenue generators for the retailers or advertisers. With a recent study from Jumptap the Apple smartphones are the numero uno in the CTR density of the mobile ads.

The androids are not the runners up in the CTR race accounting for an unusual scenario. The second place is taken away by the other advertisement media like the conventional newspaper, TV, online advertisements etc. What is astounding is that the mobile ads on the iphone are more popular than the common advertisement media. The urban generation has been under the influence of mobility and has prioritized the access to internet at robust access points. This is the reason as to why the mobile ad is a demanding feature for any business to enhance the sales of its products/services. Reaching out to the target audience has never been this easy with the advent of the smart phones.

As for the iphone comparison with the other mobile OS goes; iphone is still the winner among the modern day advertising too! We cannot conclude on the poll that iphone sales are more than the other devices. In fact, to even find out the sales report on these two kingly OS was not possible by me as the net told me varied sales intensities.

The Jumptap being the leader in the targeted mobile advertising pointed out that iphone has that standard browser that has made the users to view the ads easily and smoothly. Android and the other OS have not reached this standard to present the ads pleasantly to their users.

With the advertisement industry facing stiff competitions and challenges, the volume of the advertisements or endorsements are on the exponential curve. And to more to the rising parameter are the competing brands having cut throat competitions. It is thus evident that the mobile devices should not lag in their infrastructure.

For more information regarding iphone application development and iphone development,kindly visit http://www.techendeavour.com.