Scaling applications for COVID-19 spikes
Thursday, July 23, 2020 by Nikita Ivanov
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shelter-in-place and lockdown orders that are dramatically changing both business and consumer behavior. Online activity is soaring, and many businesses, such as those in food delivery, ecommerce and remote access and collaboration services, are experiencing exploding demand for their services. Many of these businesses have struggled to ...
Amazon Interactive Video service announced
Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the general availability of Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019, giving customers live content with latency (the time video takes to go from the camera to...
PubMatic has announced OpenWrap OTT
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Digital technology company PubMatic announced the launch of OpenWrap OTT, a header bidding solution that centralizes 100% of direct and programmatic demand while preserving a seamless TV-like viewer experience. PubMatic has delivered more than 8 years of header bidding technology, and Prebid Server-based OpenWrap OTT helps both publishers and advertisers realize the ful...
Edge computing has a need for speed
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Edge computing is projected to grow at a cumulative annual growth rate of 46% over the next four years to over $6 billion by 2022.1 With this growth has come a readjustment in planning strategy on the part of CIOs and other IT managers. “For nearly a decade now, large, computer-intensive enterprises have been looking at IT investment in terms of moving virtually all app...
CoachGuitar teaches you guitar and lets us look under the hood
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
CoachGuitar is a five-year old, France-based company that offers a unique method of teaching guitar enthusiasts of all skill levels how to play their favorite songs. Using the visual guitar teaching app, millions of students from around the globe download video tutorials and learn to play along. With a typical traffic of 2,000-3,000 downloads per day - and even reaching...
Visbit nabs $3.2M for new mobile UHD VR streaming service
Friday, December 9, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Visbit, the virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video streaming company, has raised $3.2M in seed funding with participation from Presence Capital, ZhenFund, Colopl VR Fund, Amino Capital, and Eversunny Limited. The company has also announced the closed beta version of the industry's first cross-platform streaming service for VR, which enables 360-degree video and VR co...
Why Nearshoring is the solution to retaining your DevOps team
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Alejandro Vasquez
DevOps used to be in the domain of Silicon Valley innovators. But now the concept, which emphasizes tight integration between software developers and IT infrastructure professionals, has exploded into the mainstream. In fact, Gartner predicts approximately 25 percent of Global 2000 companies will have adopted DevOps in 2016, meaning more and more teams are now...
New Index from Perfecto provides intel for building our testing plans
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
A new index released from Perfecto Mobile provides critical intel for developers building testing plans. It's a tell-all index that maps out exactly what developers need to be testing for in certain markets - popular apps that users will likely be running, what OS's are being used on different devices, etc.This is the first time that App Annie rankings have been include...
Orange is the New Black, Still Buffering Don't Blame Your Network Blame Your App
Thursday, July 21, 2016 by Jeff Kim
Apps are winning the mobile video streaming wars. A mere 18% of users stream on mobile web, with the majority watching their favorite videos on apps like Netflix, YouTube, and HBO GO. Yet despite the popularity, video loading remains frustratingly slow - between the constant buffering and lost connections, it’s becoming increasingly tempting to throw your phone out the ...
Why Fast Loading Apps and Mobile Websites are Totally Different Beasts to Tame
Friday, March 11, 2016 by Jeff Kim
It’s becoming somewhat passé to trumpet the gentle fading of the mobile web, as defined by browser-based activity, while simultaneously heralding the clear-cut triumph of apps as the dominant center of mobile user engagement. Certainly the facts bear it out: separate studies by comScore, Flurry Analytics and Forrester Research have found that mobile users spend bet...
Interlude Releases Video Streaming Capabilities for HTML5 Development
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Interlude has released a new version of its HTML5-based video player that allows developers to utilize streaming video through HTML5 compliant browsers. The platform integrates rich media including video, audio and motion graphics into interactive videos that play in both apps and mobile browsers. The company recently upgraded its video player from Flash to HTML5, ...
New Google APIs Expands Mobile Developers Ability to Leverage Gaming and More on the Big Screen
Monday, June 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has released a number of new developer tools for Google Cast specifically designed to help mobile app and game app developers to bring new experiences to the TV.The new Google Cast Remote Display APIs in Beta helps mobile developers to bring graphically intensive apps or games to Google Cast receivers with APIs for Android and iOS. Casting an Android screen has b...
Kwicr Helps App Publishers Increase Mobile App Performance Across Networks
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kwicr is helping developers overcome issues of app performance with its new Mobile Delivery Network (MDN), recently released out of beta. Delivered as a cloud-based service, Kwicr’s MDN provides mobile developers with the ability to directly impact the performance of their apps across any cellular or Wi-Fi network on iOS and Android devices. Designed to complement ...
Developers Can Now Improve an Apps Connectivity Through Public Beta of Kwicr Platform
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I was chatting with the team at Kwicr this morning at the Appnation conference and they let me know their platform is now in public beta. We reported earlier this year about the launch of the private beta of the company’s mobile delivery network.In a nutshell, the Kwicr platform helps publishers provide faster download speeds, higher quality media playback and analytics...
Make Your Apps Run Faster By Improving Mobile Delivery
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
You spend long hours researching, coding and debugging, because you want the mobile apps you build to function no matter the user’s device or platform. But what do you do to ensure that your apps will run smoothly when network conditions are less than optimal? Odds are, nothing at all.That’s too bad. It’s precisely because you work hard that the performance of your apps...
Control the Performance of Your App With Kwicr: The Worlds First Mobile Delivery Network
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to slap your head and shout “How smart is that!” We did that after visiting with the people behind Kwicr. They solve a common problem, offer a unique and easy to integrate solution, all backed by very complicated science.The ProblemThere are a broad range of network impairments that normally inhibit the reliable del...
