Archive for January, 2012

iBooks and the Future of Learning

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Apple made a couple of key announcements this week regarding iBooks 2.0 and their attempt to disrupt the textbook publishing market through partnerships with the major textbook publishers and the release of iBooks Author software.  Having played with the new iBooks Author software, and the new iTunes U iPad App I’m pretty excited about the [...]

Custom Push Notification Server

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

My mobile app control server is turning into a bit of a powerhouse.  The latest and perhaps most exciting addition to the server has been support for sending Apple Push Notifications and registering devices for those notifications. The goal of this is to make use of the push notifications for updating the apps, and cross [...]