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How much does it cost to develop an app?

By Rick Strom That amusing image has been popping up in my LinkedIn feed more and more lately, which tells me that clients are starting to feel the effects of the “me too” rush into app development. A recent flood of low-bidding, questionable developers...

Why Your Own Internal Business Apps Can Boost Productivity

By Laura Tolentino When a lot of businesses think about getting their own mobile apps made, they often consider this as a means of customer engagement. Apps can be very effective marketing tools, and can also allow your customers access to your services...

Young lawyers seek to shake up legal profession with mobile apps

By Samar Warsi William Palin is a 32-year-old lawyer who passed the bar exam in 2013. But it didn’t take him long to wonder why, when the rest of the world is increasingly conducting business on cellphones and tablets, the legal profession is so tied...

Going Mobile

By Megan Totka Mobile is the new digital frontier for any business looking to succeed. With more smartphones than people in the United States, and a greater percentage of your customers searching for businesses like yours on mobile devices, you can’t...

The Influence and Lucrativeness of Mobile Apps

By Ilana Greene It goes without saying: cell phones have come a long way since Richard Gere suavely answered his state-of-the-art mobile in the 1990 classic Pretty Woman. In just two and a half decades, cell phones have evolved from weighty bricks that...

7 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Mobile App

By Melanie Haselmayr 1. Be Visible to Customers at All Times Statistics show that the average American spends more than two hours a day (!) on his or her mobile device. While probably only a handful of applications make up the bulk of this total usage,...

Virtual reality as a visualization tool for structural engineers

With the advent of the Oculus Rift headset, virtual reality seems to be the next logical step in visualization for architectural companies. Among an architect’s greatest challenges is conveying their designs to a client. Due to the ineffectiveness...

PocketCake partners with 360 Architecture at Scouting 500

Virtual Reality

At Scouting 500, Saturday, May 17 at the Kansas Speedway, more than 600 scouts took a virtual tour of a stadium being designed by 360 Architecture that won’t be built until 2017. The simulation, developed by PocketCake, was part of the Careers and Education...

The rise of the internet on mobile

Mobile web browsing has doubled since 2009. By the end of this year, more Americans will access the internet via a mobile device than a laptop or desktop. The underlying factor behind this trend is smartphone ownership. As more Americans own smartphones,...

Simulating virtual reality for BNIM

Virtual Reality

What kind of impact can virtual reality have on architecture? Just ask Casey Cassias, a principal at BNIM, a Kansas City firm specializing in sustainable architecture. “This changes everything,” he said, wearing an Oculus Rift headset featuring a...