iPad 2 – Will it Replace my Laptop?

By Dean Whittaker The iPad is becoming a constant companion for the mobile economic development professional.  It is providing the platform for a wide range of applications that allows us to respond to our clients needs faster and do our work more efficiently as well...

Mobile Computing: Changing Players and Trends

By Vidhan Rana This article is a follow-up to the post the author wrote in last month’s Whittaker Report. To read that article please click here. Until a few years ago, BlackBerry was synonymous to smartphones and was the ‘it’ device that everyone dreamed of owning....

What We Can Learn from Kids

By Jami Miedema Even though I’m only a twenty-something, my friends and I still reminisce about the “good old days” (so what if that was only 10-15 years ago!) when each day felt like an exciting adventure as we learned new things, made new connections, and looked...

Whittaker Associates Goes Mobile

By Vidhan Rana Starting in June, Whittaker Associates went mobile, i.e. our website is now mobile browser friendly. Users who visit our website on their smart-phones will automatically be re-routed to the mobile version of our website. Since we began using Google...