Predictions for 2023 in software and app development
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 by Richard Harris
Got a software industry prediction? Something you want to shout out about the app world? Whatever it is, we want it!
We are working on our predictions issue for January 2023, which should be our biggest yet!
This will be our 7th annual “predictions” issue.
Last year’s globally hit over 12 million views + our 100,000 subscriber readership....
ABBYY updates machine learning library
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
ABBYY announced a major update for NeoML, its cross-platform open-source machine learning library that allows developers to build, train and deploy machine learning models. The update adds support of the Python programming language, the most popular language for machine learning and AI. The framework also offers 5-10x speed improvements as well as 20+ new ML method...
Blockstack to increase monthly payouts
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 by Richard Harris
Blockstack PBC plans to increase monthly payouts from its developer reward program up to $1 million worth of Stacks tokens per month by May 2020. Payouts from the App Mining Program, which rewards developers who create the top-ranked applications within the Blockstack ecosystem, are set to increase gradually over time, starting in August and building up to a monthly tot...
Bitcoin donations helping software students
Friday, January 11, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Holberton School New Haven, a two-year program training software engineers, announced a $10,000 Bitcoin donation from Scroll Network’s co-founder Nathan Pitruzzello which will be used to help qualifying students offset living expenses while attending the two-year program. Holberton is among the first schools using Blockchain to store academic certifications to ass...
Developer collaboration tools and tips from someone who knows
Thursday, August 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Lots of organizations claim to prioritize transparency. And there are certainly plenty of tools out there that make it easy for coworkers to share information and communicate, but does that always equate to transparency? Why are people often dissatisfied with their companies' approach to developer collaboration and team collaboration in general?
We connected...
1 year after Atlassian acquisition Trello unveils new platform
Friday, January 26, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Atlassian has unveiled a redesigned directory for Trello integrations (or as Trello calls them “Power-Ups”) for users to discover the 80+ partner apps available on the Trello platform. The revamped Power-Up Directory is the latest in a series of updates to the Trello ecosystem one year after its $425M acquisition by Atlassian.After officially launching the Power-Up...
Is this the age of the singlepurpose App
Monday, December 11, 2017 by Ronnie Rios
Any time there is more than one way to do something, there will be debate about which way is best. The topic of building apps for mobile platforms has been subject to such discussions for years now. Systems architects, industry experts, developers and others have verbally tussled over whether it makes more sense to build multiple single-purpose apps or one multi-purpose...
The top print enabled apps for business
Thursday, December 7, 2017 by Brent Richtsmeier
Every year, we make our mobile devices a little bit better than before, bringing them to a point where we can’t imagine existing without X, Y and Z new features - imagine buying a smartphone without a camera or a tablet without long battery life.As mobile devices improve, users need apps that can keep pace, bringing the full functionality of a desktop or laptop to the t...
Are app store subscription models right for your app
Friday, October 6, 2017 by Mark Rosner
While advertising and in-app purchases are the methods of monetization app marketers are probably most familiar with, subscription-based models may be the most overlooked. But subscriptions offer publishers benefits like a predictable, long-term revenue stream, and higher average revenue per user (ARPU) versus ads or IAPs. Subscriptions can also be deeply engaging for u...
Freemium sales tips from an expert in SaaS
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 by Chris Rothstein
Does the no-sales-team approach really work? Many organizations have relied on the "viral" nature of their products to scale their businesses, all supposedly without a sales team. But there is something these multi-billion dollar companies aren't telling you - all-star sales teams sit at the core of their success.Freemium has been billed as a way to generate new revenue...
The HBO hack reveals how vulnerable data is to black hats
Thursday, August 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
The HBO hack is the latest in a string of high-profile hacks over the last two years (Dropbox, Yahoo!, UK Ministry of Health) where a handful of vulnerable servers were compromised and used to take down and steal information. Studies have shown the next year represent a turning point in the digitization of enterprise content. A recent Forrester study commissioned by Alf...
PagerDuty expands into APAC regions along with new Australia IT report
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
PagerDuty, a provider of digital operations management, has announced the launch of its local team in Sydney, Australia. The global expansion will help the company further grow its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and address the increasing need for digital operations management software. The company also announced the appointment of David Wall, former head of APAC s...
Net neutrality day set to be the largest online protest in years
Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Urban Dictionary, Bandcamp, Automattic (who run WordPress) and Discord are among latest major web platforms to join the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality scheduled for July 12th to oppose the FCC’s plan to slash Title II, the legal foundation for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation. Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Amazon, Kicks...
How NGINX could overpower Microsoft soon
Thursday, April 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
In 2016, NGINX experienced their largest gains as a web server vendor, having increased by 4.8 million active sites and 2.85 percentage points. Netcraft believes that if these trends continue in 2017, NGINX could possibly overtake Microsoft as the second largest vendor in the second half of the year.In a recent conversation with Faisal Memon, Product Marketing at NGINX,...
Gamifying an app can help it stand out along with these ideas
Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Hunter Jensen, Founder and CEO of Barefoot SolutionsWith more than 4.2 million smartphone apps in the Apple App and Google Play stores, there’s a lot of software that will never pick up the steam needed to become the next Angry Birds, YouTube, or Snapchat. There is good news, though. If you’re considering building an app from scratch or...
HTML to PDF gets even easier with PhantomPDF 8.2
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
Foxit Software has announced the availability of PhantomPDF 8.2, an enterprise-ready PDF solution offering powerful new collaboration, sharing and self-help tools.PhantomPDF, which replaces more expensive and less innovative solutions in the enterprise, also comes with ConnectedPDF technology, providing a range of cloud-delivered capabilities to improve document se...
Five indispensable tools for your agile projects
Sunday, December 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Agile project management methodologies have become increasingly popular for software development—especially among development teams making video games. Perhaps developers are attracted by the cool name which brings to mind animators and game designers in ninja outfits nimbly scampering over once insurmountable project deadlines. Or maybe it resonates with programmers wh...
LogDog now lets you protect your Slack and LinkedIn accounts too
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
LogDog, an app that is guarding user's online accounts against hacking, announces the addition of Slack and LinkedIn protection to its Android app. LogDog alerts users as soon as there's any suspicious activity on their online accounts, as they occur, providing valuable information for users to mitigate the threat.Just how real of an imminent threat is professional acco...
Cambium Networks jailbreaks first wireless broadband network
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Cambium Networks has announced ePMP Elevate, a software solution allowing outdoor wireless broadband networks to gain the signature capabilities of Cambium Networks’ ePMP platform, including frequency reuse enabled by GPS Synchronization and Smart Beamforming, even on non-Cambium Networks 802.11n-based hardware. As it becomes increasingly important for wireless ne...
Why developers should consider collaboration tools
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Ulas Karademir
Software development is a game of teamwork. In the ideal scenario, autonomous teams tackle separate objectives while remaining engaged with the functions of every other team. Teams methodically track their individual goals, record their progress, and remain aligned with the overall work plan. Then these teams come together to produce a final product. Sometimes, this ide...
Realm explains the benefits of realtime collaboration for mobile apps
Monday, October 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Realm is a mobile platform company, with a focus on helping developers build better mobile apps, faster. Launched in 2014, the Realm Mobile Database is the most popular third-party database in the world, and the mobile database enabling high-performance, highly engaging end-user experiences for more than a billion users of mobile apps. The Realm Mobile Platform, which c...
BitTitan and Dropbox Aim to Make IT Service Providers More Profitable
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
BitTitan has announced its go-to-market alliance with Dropbox is now globally available to IT and managed service providers. While most cloud migrations are complex and time consuming, BitTitan and Dropbox have formed a strategic alliance to simplify and accelerate the process of data migration into Dropbox Business. Available now, current BitTitan partners can enh...
Universal API Now Available for Swift Developers
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudRail now makes it possible for Swift developers to integrate multiple APIs via a single API in iOS with its Integration Solution and Swift library.The goal of the company is to increase the speed to integrate a service into apps significantly. The core of the solution is a software library which abstracts over multiple web APIs and bundles them ...
ReportPlus Desktop for Windows Launches
Monday, July 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Infragistics has released ReportPlus Desktop for Windows, a cloud-based or on premise self-service BI and data visualization solution. Also new are updates to ReportPlus Mobile apps which now ship with new features for iOS and Android, along with the just released ReportPlus Embedded for ISV’s looking to create desktop, web and native mobile applications.ReportPlus othe...
New Tools Help App Designers and Developers Work in Sync
Saturday, June 18, 2016 by Max Ignatyev
Building apps takes a team. And for a team to be effective they need to work well together. Unfortunately, UI designers and developers often have a hard time communicating with each other since, in some ways, they speak a completely different language.Because of this disconnect, the application development process typically hits a snag when the time comes to handoff des...
How to Accelerate Your DevOps Application Workflow
Thursday, April 21, 2016 by Val Bercovici
In today’s digital economy, cloud platforms enable startups to disrupt any business, no matter how established. It’s also the key technology driving innovation within enterprises.Innovation is solving new problems that companies don’t even know exist, and DevOps is an increasingly popular organizational structure which lets you optimize both your innovation and operatio...
CodeLathe's FileCloud Adds Microsoft Azure File Storage as Storage Option
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
CodeLathe’s FileCloud has added support for Microsoft Azure File Storage as a backend file storage option. The FileCloud platform allows businesses and managed service providers to host their own end-to-end file sync, share and mobile access solution with the ability to deploy the high available, redundant and scalable FileCloud on Azure Cloud infrastructure.Azure File ...
Wake's Cool Tool to Share Work Through the App Design Process
Thursday, August 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. And in recent startup Wake’s case, the idea is pretty straightforward – allowing designers to share work and discuss ideas with their team throughout the app design process.Why create the tool? Here is what Chris Kalani, co-founder and CEO of Wake says, “The benefits of allowing your team to passively follow your process are im...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
CloudRail Offers Enhancements to Universal API Platform
Thursday, February 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
CloudRail has released new features to its Universal API platform which offers a “one-to-many” approach allowing developers to use CloudRail’s interface to download special API definitions that automatically adapt to other systems.Among the new platform features is the addition of Box.com integration to CloudRail’s cloud storage solution, providing developers with the a...
Three HIPAA Safeguards You Need in Place When Building An App Today
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Jason Wang
If you’re building the next mhealth or wearable technology, you’ve no doubt grappled with the challenge of determining whether you need to be HIPAA compliant or not. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal law that mandates how patient data is stored, handled and utilized. With changes to the legislation in September ...
The Mobile Developer’s Dilemma: Do It Yourself Storage or Surrender Your Data
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Brian Taptich
With more than 1,600 new apps debuting daily and almost three million fee-based applications currently available in leading app stores, it’s clear that the mobile app economy has exploded. The staggering success of app-based services such as Uber Technologies and Snapchat are prime examples of the massive opportunity mobile app developers have to build an industry-disru...
Why 2015 will be the year of Microsoft
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 by Ravi Bhatt
Over the past decade, Microsoft has developed a reputation for being slow and out of touch. They come up with a cool idea ahead of anyone else but let others get to market faster or execute better (the iPad, Google Docs, etc. ). Things weren’t always so bad for Microsoft. In the 90s, the company built a gigantic business by using smart tactics. Microsof...
Coding Books for Kids Sale Ends Today
Thursday, December 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
O’Reilly Media is offering 40-50% deals on its children’s “Gift of Code” learn-to-code ebooks, videos and print books. The selection is available on sale until December 18, 2014. Children can learn through being taught to code with this outstanding selection of video training, e-books and print books to master code. The e-books and video training from the...
MagnifyMoney To Release Its First Annual Mobile Banking Satisfaction Study
Friday, December 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
MagnifyMoney is planning to release its first annual Mobile Banking Satisfaction Study. The founders of the company are former bankers turned consumer advocates. The study is a compilation of ratings of both Android and iOS banking apps.The study featured over 100 banks and credit unions. This also included 50 largest credit unions and 50 largest banks along ...
