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How Well Does NFC Work on iOS with Flutter?

Flutter  is an open source cross-platform application framework created by Google used to create applications for mobile, desktop and web from a single code base. It sounds like a very interesting proposition: write once, run everywhere. The question though is how Flutter behaves when we need to…

Best Practices for Securing Your Private Network in the Cloud

A private network is where your business logic lives, including your data and your customer’s data in the form of servers, disks, databases. For this reason it is of utmost importance to secure your private network accordingly. This goal can be achieved using subnets, firewalls, private endpoints,…

Support Cloud Data Encryption with Foundational AWS

The importance of encryption in today’s computing environments is self-evident. You can — and most often should — encrypt your data in the cloud. The goal of encryption, which turns data into an unintelligible scramble or cipher, is to prevent secrets from becoming known to unauthorized people and…

Cloud Reliability: Disaster Recovery Strategies You Need to Know

IT disasters and attacks can be really expensive. Preparedness is the key to recovering with minimal (or none!) of the following: lost revenue, business disruption, damage to reputation, data loss and downtime. Developing an understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, recovery point…

5 Rules for Creating Crowd-Pleasing Interactive Games

At Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), we create a lot of games for our clients for use at trade shows and conferences, and for sales teams to show off products. We’ve built a wide variety of game types, including target games, races, puzzles and 3D-immersion games. Most-often requested are trivia…

Code Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Development

With the acceleration of technology, being a web developer today is like being inside Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. If you’re not familiar, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was an absurdist look at the end of the world. More specifically, a…

Building Cross-Platform Software is Easy

That’s right, I said it. And I stand by it. Building cross-platform software can be easy if you know how to do it. Sure, it used to be impossible. You had to decide on your platform upfront and build to that platform. Or build two completely different platforms. But these days, you can build your…

Ruin a Hacker's Day by Securing Your Application Layer

Business today is digital. Software-dependent. That means nearly every company is exposed to a growing number of potential vulnerabilities. Major system hacks — anxiety-inducing and costly to fix — regularly make the news. Hacker's preferred target: the application layer. Fortunately,…

Trade Show Win: How Boston Scientific Used an Interactive Journey Through the Small Intestine to Engage Physicians

Have you ever watched the DVD extras where you get a peek at how a film was made? See a camera on a dolly moving in synch with the actors as they walk down the street? Or glimpse the behind-the-scenes process as a make-up artist transforms a regular guy into a cyborg? That’s what this blog is…

Is It Easy to Interact with Your Content?

You only have a few seconds to connect with customers in a meaningful way. So how do you lower the barrier so it’s easy for them to interact with your content? By employing the interface on the device the user is on. But, how do you do it across many platforms? You build a digital ecosystem for…