How far do Antair engineers go to track down a BlackBerry bug? All the way to the bare metal … Seriously, though, we do not condone taking apart your BlackBerry device for any reason. Not if you ever expect to use it again. The device above is one of our lab testing devices — par [...]

Antair is looking for a mobile phone developer — specifically someone who has at least a few years of experience writing software for the RIM BlackBerry line of devices. Candidates with experience with other mobile devices, as well as overall strong developers, will be considered as well. This is a full-time position for our New [...]

One of the more interesting projects in development at Antair right now was originally intended to be a desktop application. But due to technical issues (dynamic IPs and firewalls), we’ve changed the design to implement it as a rich-client application with Antair acting as the middle-man in the cloud. This required us to put on [...]

Since one of the last positions to be filled in a growing company is a dedicated office manager, we all pitch in when it comes to restocking the office. For food and drinks, we get a weekly delivery from FreshDirect. With two vegetarians in the office (and a dog), our dietary needs are all over [...]

Want to work for Antair? Well … how good of a gamer are you? The thing is, we’re getting a little tired around here of having our butts handed to us every single time someone is dumb enough to challenge Ania in a video game. Me vs. Ania – Halo 3 – Several matches in, [...]

This week, as I walk into the office each morning, the project planning board shows me this: It could be Antair’s next big application which will take the world by storm … OR … it could be a way to make ordering lunch much more efficient. You decide

In an office full of programmers, it’s clear that mental work is favored over physical labor. Take a look at our back office intranet system — beautiful, clean, a pleasure to use. Now take a look at the machine that the back office intranet is running on. It’s been two months since that machine was [...]

If you are servicing customers, a good help-desk solution is one of the most important investments you can make in your business… An excellent one is Helpspot. Everyone at Antair does support, and everyone has a Helpspot license — it’s part of our new-hire checklist.

My favorite time of the day — 8 AM, Antair offices before anyone else arrives. Have a cup of coffee, catch up on some news, and get ready to start the day making great software.

Software is software, bits are bits, and development tools are easily available. Why should a customer prefer to purchase a comparable piece of software from a small software shop rather than from a massive, international software company? An example from earlier this week: >>> Tuesday (8:30 AM EST) — TRIAL USER BOB: “Hello there Antair. [...]