By Misha Kalhin, Senior Project Manager
This article is for website owners whose web traffic comes from China, or for someone who plans to market their product in PRC.
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Global data show that by the end of 2013, over 700 million Android mobile phones were activated and that number is expected to pass 1 billion soon. Maybe Apple’s IOS is better or maybe not, but Android will be a major player for a long time. Unless you are willing to bypass the majority of smartphones with your mobile app, you will likely want an Android version of your app eventually.
This post is written for someone planning to have an Android app created. It will give you some background on the unique technical challenges of Android and offer some advice on technical decisions you will need to make.
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By Vakeesan Rajadurai, Senior Project Manager
What is Parallax Scrolling?
Parallax Scrolling is a special effect used in computer graphics, where background images move by the camera more slowly than foreground images. The technique first gained widespread use in the gaming industry more than 10-15 years ago. Recently, Parallax Scrolling has begun to appear in trendy web sites, as designers and developers explore new ways to make their sites through engaging visuals and functionality.
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By Kashif Zafar, VP Client Services and Justin Wang, Delivery Director
In principle, the task of testing software is not very different in Waterfall, Iterative, or Agile methodologies. Â However, the same Agile processes that have have transformed how teams plan and manage software projects require a different set of techniques for testing the software created.
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By Eric Byron, Director, Client Services
WeChat is like the FaceBook of China with over 272 million active users and is growing rapidly worldwide. About 1/3 or 100 million active users of WeChat are outside of China. WeChat is part of Tencent’s suite of some of the most popular online services in China and the world. Tencent has been publicly traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2004 and reported USD $2.5B revenue in the second quarter of 2013. Their revenue from eCommerce for the quarter rose over 100% YOY. This year they have introduced a powerful new application and payment platform that allows companies to sell directly and easily to WeChat’s enormous customer base. In the current version (5.0) of WeChat, the messaging platform is available in English but the application platform is only in Chinese. We expect that will change as TenCent invests in WeChat’s international growth.
By Misha Kalhin, Senior Project Manager
In a word – No. First of all, CMMI certification is a misnomer. There’s just no such thing. You can get a CMMI appraisal, you can be rated by a licensed CMMI Institute partner, but you won’t be certified, because the term “certified†has legal implications. Contrary to what some might think, CMMI is not an engineering standard; it is a framework for process improvement. So if you are considering CMMI for its nominal value, a pre-requisite, or a necessary evil that will help your business by making it appear more credible, without really planning to implement real changes in your organization, you might be doomed from the start.
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By Vakeesan Rajadurai, Senior Project Manager
Speed matters. With the internet dominating the business world, securing a good position with the search engines is not a matter of chance or twist of fate, but of comprehensive research and keen analysis.
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By Vakeesan Rajadurai, Senior Project Manager
Search Engine Optimization is the process of editing the content and structure of your website to make it more likely to appear in web searches. The increased visibility which results from a properly well thought out SEO optimization campaign boosts your website’s ability to be found by those seeking your company’s services.
By William Murphy, CEO, Dextrys
No one would argue that software service teams should regularly review their performance over time in order to compare their effectiveness to other teams and to their own past performance. Our experience has shown that few teams actually collect and review meaningful information and fewer still use it to effectively make changes. Most teams fall short by either not collecting the right data, not performing appropriate analysis, not taking effective actions on the findings.
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By Eric Byron, Director, Client Services
It is tough enough to figure out what devices to test your app on and which versions of the Android OS to support but then you go to publish your app in China and realize that Google Play gets you nowhere and there’s literally dozens of app stores to try to evaluate and most have no English language version. How do you determine how to get your app in the correct app stores for the maximum exposure to you target market? Add to that the security concerns around some of these apps stores and worries that your app with be    replaced with a hacked version or something that doesn’t even resemble the app you intended to distribute.
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