A designer's guide to mobile AR and VR
Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Paul Reynolds
When most people think of 3D user experiences, their mind goes straight to headsets - Oculus Rift for VR, for example, and Hololens for AR. But for designers and developers, that mindset changed dramatically last summer when Google and Apple released their mobile AR platforms - ARCore and ARKit, respectively. Almost overnight, these platforms swung the center of gravity...
Panasonic to Provide Royalty Free Access to its Internet of Things Technology
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Richard Harris
Panasonic has announced that it will provide royalty-free access to its software, patents and experience from its product ecosystem for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) software and service.The company plans to make available for royalty-free use its mature and tested device-to-cloud software technology, currently employed in home monitoring systems, solar en...
Microsoft Implementing AllJoyn Into Windows 10 to Support IoT Interoperability
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced that it is implementing AllJoyn into Windows 10 and that developers in the Windows Insider program can develop against in-box Windows AllJoyn bits. In implementing AllJoyn support in Windows products, Microsoft is contributing its proposed changes to the software framework back into the AllJoyn open source project. Microsoft Open Technologie...
Smart TV Alliance Offers App Developers New Version of Universal SDK
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Smart TV Alliance has released v4.0 of its universal SDK which is available through the Alliance’s Common Developer Portal providing a “build once, launch everywhere” system for Smart TV apps.The Smart TV Alliance was launched in 2012 by founding members LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba. One of the main purposes of the organization is to streamline smart TV app...
Smart TV Alliance’s New Common App Developer Portal is Now Available
Sunday, June 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers interested in creating apps for Smart TV’s can now use a single, integrated process to publish their apps to compliant Smart TV Alliance members’ smart TVs through the Smart TV Alliance Common Developer Portal.The Smart TV Alliance was launched in 2012 by founding members LG Electronics, TP Vision and Toshiba. The organization has worked to create a “bui...
Google Believes it Will Rule Smart Wearable App Market With New SDK
Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Sundar Pichai with Google has dropped the news that Google will release an SDK for the wearable’s market in a couple of weeks. He discussed the SDK during a presentation at SWSX on Sunday.It’s the latest salvo in the war for app domination by the two biggest players in the market. Last week Apple launched CarPlay with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyunda...
Panasonic to Adopt Mozilla Firefox OS Open Platform for Next Generation Smart TVs
Sunday, January 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mozilla has scored another win in its efforts to expand its Firefox Os with the announcement that it is joining with Panasonic to bring Firefox to the next generation of smart TVs. Here is what Panasonic and Mozilla has to say about the partnership:The development of the new Firefox OS platform aims to deliver more expansive access into smart TVs by...
Tizen Association Launches Partner Program
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
Companies from All Segments of the Mobile and Connected Device Ecosystems Become Tizen Association Partners to Collaborate on the Ongoing Development of the Tizen Project and PlatformThe Tizen Association announced the launch of a partner program aimed at broadening support of the Tizen Platform across a more diverse set of connected device manufacturers, operators, app...
Smart TV Alliance Releases App SDK, Offers Integrated Porting Across Manufacturers
Saturday, September 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Smart TV Alliance has announced a single app developer submission process to launch apps across a number of Smart TV formats. Also announced is the release a new SDK 2.5 that will facilitate multi-screen app development.
These new offerings are packaged into the Alliance’s Developer Support Program, which allows app developers to build once and run everywhere in th...
