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In this highly competitive world, the biggest challenge faced by businesses is regarding inventory management. It is serious problem when employees are unable to answer customer problems properly. If…

There is no doubt that mobile apps have become a potential medium for businesses of all kinds and sizes for the acquisition of users. The market is flooded with so many business apps out of which a…

Across the globe, numerous businesses are facing rising pressure to compete and grow their operations to the next level. The way of doing business is evolving today with the transformation in the tech…

What a year it has been, time has definitely flown by. Now we’re at the business end of 2016 and about to welcome 2017 in a few days. Truly, 2016 was a turning point for most mobile app vendors . The…

There is no doubt that mobile is changing the world. Everyone has smartphones with them, for instant communication and look for required information with a single touch. With such an exponential…

IT services market growth will be largely driven by offshoring organizations throughout 2016. Countries like India leads the statistics in offshore business services worldwide in 2014. ‘Silicon Valley…

Xcode is Apple‘s integrated development environment (IDE) for Mac OS X. It contains everything you need in order to create amazing apps for iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, Mac etc. Thus, Xcode is an…

Today the way of doing business is evolving with the revolution in the tech arena. Businesses are grabbing eyeballs and delivering quick services to customers through mobile apps. But what if you don…

There is no doubt that mobile apps have evolved as a potential medium for businesses of all kinds and sizes over last three years. Mobile apps have become a major platform for the acquisition of…

Are you still running an old website that is not responsive? You REALLY need a responsive website. The time is gone when smartphone users were exceptions. It is no surprise that mobile internet usage…

We all know that mobile apps continue to flood the market. According to Statista , Google Play Store has around 2.2 million apps whereas Apple's App Store has around 2 million apps. By year 2016, the…

Have you ever wondered what exactly goes into designing a custom website? An end user just browses the website. They do not know what goes into website development . We will tell you each and every…

You are only as good as your last app. We’ve framed this quote and hung it on the wall for more than 5 years now. In a nutshell, this is what our real strategy is. We’ve created a lot of mind-blowing…

How long can you ignore an elephant in your room? A day. Two days. A month? A year? How about 3 years? Hmmm I guess after 3 years the elephant would have pretty much made itself a nice comfy home and…

Microservices 'Microservices' is the latest of the buzzwords to arrive at software architecture right now. Microservices is a distant cousin to Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). This sort of…

Welcome back to Aquevix Dev News! As promised last week, the Aquevix team tested out an exciting new gadget and I'm going to tell you what we're so excited to have laid our hands on. We checked out…

Guess what? Aquevix is gearing up for app development for a whole new realm: Virtual Reality. Keeping up with our road map, we've begun exploring app development for virtual reality devices.We got…

Over the last 7 years, Aquevix has helped several entrepreneurs build applications for their brand. We've been lucky to have worked with a diverse set of innovators across diverse verticals and formed…

You may have heard the phrase, "API is the plumbing that connects the Internet". At least we like to think so. When it comes to mobile app development, API is definitely the plumbing that connects…

Ignorance is bliss. However not so for developers or for business men trying to optimize their web presence. Recently one of our very esteemed clients wanted to get their systems running very fast…

Having a mobile solution for serving your business' needs better isn't as much a luxury anymore as it is a necessity. Think about it, almost everyone you know today has a mobile device. Everyone is…

Finally, our last part 7 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development. Do you really have the experience you think you "may" have? Myth #7: Developing for…

Part 6 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development. Trust the experts. Myth #6: Our existing backend can support mobile apps REALITY: Most likely your backend…

Part 5 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development. Be clear. Myth #5: If we outsource it, we don’t need to do much work REALITY: For the best mobile app…

Part 4 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development. Experience matters. Myth #4: If we outsource building our mobile app, we are stuck with that company…

Part 3 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development. Don't fall into the trap! Myth #3: To save cost we should not build native apps per platform Reality: If…

Here we go. Part 2 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development and try to address them. Myth #2: You can build your mobile app internally as fast as others can…

This is part 1 of our 7 part series where we look at most common myths about mobile app development and try to address them. Myth #1: Mobile Apps will make us lots of money Reality: Most apps fail to…

We broke into the TOP 100 mobile app vendors club! Being in top 100 is not a marketing fad. It is our effort of continuous struggle with ourselves to evolve ourselves and the way we work. We invest in…

When developing software it is important to choose the right technologies. With recent projects we have been working with various NoSQL databases namely MongoDB, RavenDB, Couchbase, Redis and of…

Aha. I didn’t catch the soap last night on TV. I didn’t watch the late night sky shopping show either. And I didn’t watch any of the matches of the Euro Cup or the NBA on TV either. But that doesn’t…

‘Appeal’ is something that mainly stems out of utility and appreciation. Any technology that you find appealing is invariably one which you find to be of very high utility or of a certain appreciative…

Apple recently unleashed the era of 64 bit computing in mobile devices with introduction of A7 CPU (ARM v8 architecture) in the new iPhone 5S. Why 64-bit? That begs the question to be asked, why 6…

A new revolution is brewing. The time where a business can compete uninhibited is here. The rules are the same for all: Find the API that does exactly what you need it to and use it! The tools: Build…

James Bond had one and so did every other spy who stayed abreast with cutting edge technology. Now you can have one too. Even better, James bond never heard of Push Notifications. So what took them so…

Often the result of a tussle between giants to claim the top spot ends with neither really emerging on top and a third lesser known entity emerging from a place where we were just too busy to look…

Last night I was watching Live streaming of Apple WWDC 2013 on my Apple TV. It was like a kid in the toy store where the manager was announcing the new toys they are going to bring in. I shared my…

Providing Full Stack development When developing software it is expected that the provider (like us) provides a Full Stack engagement; meaning someone with familiarity in each layer, if not mastery in…

This time the outsourcing battle will be between man and the machine. Bring it on! Kurzweil claims that whenever technology hits a limit, “a paradigm shift (i.e., a fundamental change in the approach…

When you want a serious CMS development platform, don't choose drupal, wordpress, silverstripe or joomla. All these come with a complex set of popular but difficult to customize modules. They require…

Aug 8, 2010: I finally got away from Windows XP on my Dell Latitude D630 . 80 GB of data, firmly archived, saved on 2 external hard drives in 2 different formats. Then sanitized the disk with mhdd…

As I have blogged before, Windows mobile has never really been a true business phone. It seems like I am not alone. Windows mobile is really losing ground. With Android and iPhone on the shelves, and…

I have been a software process practitioner for a greater part of my professional life. I have managed project that are very large in scope, change and complexity. I have tried all approaches, Scrum…

Those who know me already know that Aquevix is a Linux based Infrastructure. Our mail servers, virtualization, thin clients, firewalls, application servers, database servers, monitoring servers, all…

As scary as this may sound, I kind of have the same opinion. Microsoft is simply trying hard to cash in on their successes. I do not see major innovation coming from them. They may have a huge…

I have used Microsoft Mobile phone for past 5 years. Used iMate, O2, Asus, HTC. The speed increased from 64Mhz to 200 Mhz to 524 Mhz. Then I got fed up with hangs, slow opening applications, dying…

Is it only my feeling or is it that all business leaders those are not offering Cloud are commenting against cloud. Although what's said is common sense, still I do not understand why businesses fail…

Last Thursday I was at Microsoft ISV day. To my surprise, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) was there for keynote. I was expecting a virtual Steve Ballmer on a screen. That was nice of him to show up. Anyway…

Apparently Montbanc missed the flight when God was distributing brain. That's why they do not understand even the single principle behind Mahatma Gandhi's struggle. Just to re-iterate, Gandhi ji…

Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world's nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,00…

When Nokia releases a Business Phone, what exactly do they mean by Business Phone? Does it means a business person can use the phone? Or does it really means it has all the features typically needed…

Houston, TX. – Ad Astra Rocket Company has successfully demonstrated operation of its VX-200 plasma engine first stage at full power and under superconducting conditions in tests conducted today at…

IBM is one of those companies that I admire. Through the years, IBM has done quite lot to promote Open Source and provide quite a big list of projects in the community. "IBM just released Milepost GCC…

I've been always fascinated by the possibilities of mimicking quantum computing and artificial intelligence in everyday computing. It won't be far that the face of major computing will change to…

According to German Foreign ministry: 'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'.F Open source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says…

Actually there may be many more, but here's a short list: 1: Equipment still wears out As bad as an economic recession becomes, one fact doesn’t change. Power supplies, hard disks, motherboards…

Space explorers, ready your virtual engines — three game developers have signed on to create NASA's massively multiplayer online video game (MMO), called "Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond." NASA plans…

It's ironical and damn humorous, but it's true. When you are in cloud, the lighting could strike. Why didn't we think of this earlier. Maybe its the almighty telling us to be careful with the " cloud…

When its comes to force users to upgrade, Microsoft seems to have found a way. As per the reports Microsoft's new OS comes with compatibility insurance policy (sort of): Microsoft is adding a "Windows…

When considering server performance, Raid is the most common way to achieve disk subsystem performance. When you are on a budget, the choices are very limited. But isn't that when your creativity hits…

XenServer from Citrix is one sweet piece of software. It kicks all the others free Virtual Machines servers to shame. We have been using XenServer 5 for a while now and we get absolutely…

With ever increasing need for computing, IT industry has once again created a new buzz word. Its called computing in the cloud, or more clearly, cloud computing. I wonder why cloud? Why not phantom…

Business Landscape of US economy is changing rapidly. Skilled workers are finding better jobs in their own countries. The proof is the change in demand for H1-B (temporary work visa's issued by US…

Mono project has recently introduced Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) for analyzing issues when migrating your applications to Linux. From MoMA website : The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool helps…

Some court rulings are just rich with irony. Today, April 8, a jury found that Microsoft infringed on Uniloc patents for product activation. Microsoft uses the technology to protect its software from…

We at Aquevix believe very strongly in energy conservation. Virtualization of various servers is a sure shot way to achieve this. Currently we have most of our servers as virtualized instances on…

With technology touching new frontiers and business at speed of thought, Dell ships its servers in 10 days and it can take upto 25 days. What's up with that? We used to buy all Dell servers. But with…

When it comes to server virtualization there are several options. However small businesses not only need server consolidation but the ability to run multiple operating systems with best server…