Who would you choose as a contractor for your software project: a company or a freelancer? Let's say that both variants offer you skilled professionals, who value reputation and know their job. You'll most probably say that the final choice hugely depends on the project: it can be design, development, can be testing services or support; but more often it's everything in one, and then people usually turn...

The practice of outsourcing is widely discussed today; it's used in many industries and branches of business. And if you know the time has come to start or enhance business with mobile software, outsourcing may be the most obvious choice in terms of quality and costs. But this choice must be deliberate; just like any other business, outsourcing bears inevitable risks, which can be ignored, prevented, delegated, or subdued (after an undesirable scenario occurs). Let's outline five such scenarios...

Nobody wants bad apps. App owners don't want to have bad outcome of their projects. Users don't want to have bad apps on their devices. But what hides behind the vast meaning of the word "bad"? And most important, how can software owners avoid building and getting "bad" mobile software? Today we are interviewing Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev Corporation.


Q: Hello Oleg! What is your opinion on the definition of a "bad" application?

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In daily life we seem to spend more personal time on our mobile devices rather than desktops. We shop online, and the most attractive device for that purpose is a tablet. We browse for products and services, buy and sell them through mobile devices, which now have become at least as important as desktops. This means the shift from e-commerce to m-commerce. Business people who sell products and services now have...

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