Exactly a week ago, Apple made a revolutionary announcement around the textbook market for Education.  Apple formerly announced the launch of the iBook Author tool (http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/) and the iBooks 2 app for the iPad.  iBook Author allows textbook publishers to create interactive, rich, and dynamic educational content at ease and doing away with traditional books and the push to digital textbooks.  Publishers already creating digital textbooks for the iPad ... [More]

When developing mobile applications, developers must choose a script format that they know and that will reach the largest possible audience... [More]

Last month my team did rankings on cell phone Buyback programs across the top four wireless providers... The net-net of the research is that Sprint has the highest-ranked buyback program in the industry according to our research results.  It comes down to three things: easy, valuable and important to be a leader in this space (in this order). The reason Sprint ranks so high because it makes it so easy for customers to trade-in devices in any Sprint-owned or dealer store.  They ge... [More]

Small businesses are using many cool applications and tools to run their business.  These new tools are helping out in operations, project management, web content, collaboration, communications, and other areas of the business.  Our little firm, Compass Intelligence, uses a wealth of tools for our business. I wanted to share a few of them that you too might find interesting:   Basecamp - We use basecamp for project management, sharing, and collaborating on projects for our client... [More]

ITEXPO West - Stephanie Atkinson, co-founder and managing partner of Compass Intelligence, LLC, discusses trends in the industry and her anticipations and involvement in the upcoming show. [More]