Use the procedure explained here to help your clients find the Points of Interest (POIs) near your place of business, just like a GPS device would!

Written by Rafael Victória-Pereira

While the previous tips of this series have been focused on retrieving information relevant to your company, this time it'll be a bit different: this one is for your clients.

Knowing beforehand that there's a nice restaurant or bar near your car dealership is useful when you go in for a small repair that won't take long. You can either find out for yourself or, if your dealership has a really nice service, its Web site or customer support line will be able to tell you. From a company's point of view, having additional information available about its locations (stores, offices, branches) might provide an edge over the competition.

Zend Technologies and Adobe Systems integrate a pair of Eclipse-based tools, giving developers a single interface for building both Web and mobile apps.

Written by Chris Smith

If you've been waiting to figure out a strategy to handle native mobile applications, then your wait may have paid off.  A new tool developed by Zend and Adobe that is built on Eclipse and leverages both PHP and Flash technologies may be the light out of the darkness.

PowerTech Compliance Monitor 3 adds automated security and compliance reporting.

Written by Robin Tatam

Remember the humorous MasterCard commercials from a few years ago? In my mind, I see one of them going like this:

State-of-the-art, 64-bit, multi-core Power7 hardware: $225,000

Highly securable IBM i operating system: $100,000

Discovering you can generate and distribute audit reports automatically: PRICELESS