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Amadeus Consulting Discusses New Android Market Content Ratings
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Android™ announced last week that it was going to be rolling out new Content Ratings for its app market. It will be requiring all current and future apps to select a content rating of: "All, ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Rich Internet Application Database Development: Project Crescent
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
In the past seven years or so, websites and online applications have shifted from static to extremely interactive and beautiful and the bar is continually being raised. We can attribute much of this shift to ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Using Minimal Content to Drive Mobile User Experience Design
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
As we discussed in our previous post "Using Content Strategy to Drive User Experience," we talked about the importance of content in driving user experience design. But what does one do if you are talking ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Evaluating Software Systems
By Steve Loper · 13 years ago
Evaluating Software Systems As technology managers, we are often tasked with finding the right software system for our company. This may be a small-scale or limited distribution system, or it may be a wide-scale system ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Technology Perspective on Facebook Social Inbox
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
What Facebook Social Inbox Means For Email Facebook announced this week that it will be launching its own "not email" email service to mixed reviews. This will be slowly rolled out over the next few ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Using Content Strategy to Drive User Experience
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
The conversation around user experience design is a big one. A large portion of that conversation centers on design elements of user experience (wireframes, user experience audits, graphic considerations), but something often missing from the ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Potential for Windows Phone 7
By John Basso · 13 years ago
Last week we talked about a couple of bold predictions for technology trends of 2011. There is one more bold prediction that we’d like to make that we intentionally reserved for its own blog. By ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Its 2011 Technology Forecast
By John Basso · 13 years ago
John Basso’s 2011 Technology Forecast and Predictions In 2011 we will continue to see many technology trends grow and develop. Even though technology grows and changes extremely quickly, growth is somewhat organic – forming new ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Best Practices in System Performance
By John Basso · 13 years ago
My fridge broke. It wasn’t cooling food. I was slammed that week at work so I didn’t even try to fix it and instead I called for a repair person. They pulled out the main ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Tablet War: Android Joins the Fight
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Within the last few days you probably saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, what some are calling the first real competition to Apple®’s iPad™. The Samsung Galaxy Tablet will be released on all ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Silverlight in the Wild
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
So this will be the blog where I espouse the greatness of a product that our software developers use every day. While waiting for my flight back to Denver, I was watching Dexter through Netflix® ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Generating Sales Through Pay-Per-Click Marketing
By Monica Valdez · 13 years ago
Generating Sales through Pay-Per-Click Marketing Search engine marketing is turning into a major source of lead generation for many companies, and outpacing traditional forms of advertising. Search Engine Marketing is often described as a combination ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Mobile App UX Priorities: Budget vs. Innovation
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
One of my favorite times in the mobile application development cycle is when the team does a client technology preview. This occurs after the first mobile app development sprint, and presents the core functionality of ...
Amadeus Consulting Explains SmartScreen Filter Issues
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
As you many IE8 users noticed recently there was an error with SmartScreen Filter that caused many legitimate sites to be reported as phishing/malware websites. Normally SmartScreen Filter acts as a passive protection that can ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses How The Emergence of The New Android Stores Creates a Different Type of Competition
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
This last week the Android™ Market hit a major milestone; it can now tout it has 100,000 Apps and counting. This is a major increase and achievement in comparison to its app numbers at the ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Designing Impactful Business iPhone Apps
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
I was browsing the Design Observer the other day, (as I tend to do daily), and I noticed that they have just released an iPhone™ app, a pretty sharp one at that. This got me ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Balancing Images and Text on Your Website
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
It can be quite a challenge to design and create custom websites that are both informational and graphically appealing; it is something that our company is always reviewing. As we have discussed, each of these ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Putting the "Custom" in Customer Service
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
Based in Boulder, Colorado, Amadeus Consulting has extensive experience creating all types of custom software solutions. Specifically, these are software systems that do not exist anywhere else, and are built to solve a specific need, ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses Graphic Design on a Budget
By Lisa Calkins · 13 years ago
The balance between good design and budget allocation is a classic struggle. As critically important as it is to any custom software development project, it can be difficult to allot portions of the budget to ...
Amadeus Consulting Discusses the Launch of Windows Phone 7
By Todd Mcmurtrey · 13 years ago
It is Official-Windows Phone 7 is here The official launch date has been announced and Windows® Phone 7 will launch in Europe and Asia on Oct. 21st and the first US handset will be available ...