Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021
Monday, August 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Organizers of the 21st annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of this year’s Pioneer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. Tom Fulp, creator of Newgrounds and trailblazer of the Macromedia Flash games that helped define a generation of indie developers, will receive the Pioneer Award, while influential game designer with 28 years ...
Two strategic advisors join Findora
Friday, August 16, 2019 by Richard Harris
Findora, the cryptographically transparent public blockchain for building decentralized financial applications, has two new strategic advisors; Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase, and Professor Dan Boneh, Head of Stanford Cryptography.
Prior to joining Coinbase, Srinivasan was General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and co-founder of Earn.com,&...
SendGrid enhances API sending experience
Monday, April 9, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
SendGrid, Inc. has announced enhancements to its API sending experience, providing customers with a historical view of their email delivery and engagement data. SendGrid’s new email activity feed and history enables customers to easily pinpoint a specific email message and troubleshoot email delivery issues quickly. Data insights derived from advanced search and multipl...
How to protect IP communications from telecom fraud
Thursday, December 28, 2017 by William King
Software-based IP communications continue to grow in popularity because of the added reliability, reach and control they allow businesses to have over their telecom resources. However, as more developers continue to transfer enterprise communications from legacy telcos to cloud-based service providers, the threat of telecom fraud and cyber-attacks also rise. Accord...
BLOCKv grants $500K to Science Blockchain during their ICO
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Science Blockchain has announced that it was selected as the first developer-pool grant recipient by BLOCKv, a blockchain-based development platform for the creation of smart, secure and dynamic virtual objects.BLOCKv developer-pool grants were created to incentivize the developer community to utilize the technology and proliferate the digital goods economy, unleashing ...
Diffusion 6.0 messaging platform launches
Friday, October 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Push Technology has announced the release of Diffusion 6.0 - Push Technology’s data streaming and messaging platform is available on-premise, in-the-cloud, or in hybrid configurations. Speed, resiliency, and ease of scalability are the fundamental requirements for Mobile and IoT application development. Challenges created by unreliable and congested networks stand in th...
Mobile mesh networking apps via new SDK from RightMesh
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
A big hurdle for software developers is how to reach the estimated 4 billion people, who currently lack Internet access. Without an Internet connection, huge swaths of potential users are unable to discover, download, and use their applications. The majority of these unconnected people live in developing countries, but approximately 96% of the global population live in ...
Sending out an S.O.S. for SMS
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Will LaSala
What a difference a year makes. Just one year after the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued guidance that found SMS is insecure and no longer suitable as a strong authentication mechanism, it has walked all of that back.At the time the original draft was published, it was highly unusual for any US government agency to get out in front of the security i...
Codeless security integrations by Blackberry and Appdome announced
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
BlackBerry Limited and Appdome, a cloud hub for mobile app integration, announced they are enabling codeless integration of secure voice, video and messaging capabilities. Available under Appdome’s newest service category, Secure Messaging, the BBM Enterprise SDK (software development kit) offers a growing set of secure communications capabilities that mobile app develo...
PayStand customers can now certify and notarize payments on the blockchain
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
PayStand customers now have the option to certify and notarize payments (from request to receipt) on the blockchain to ensure that the history of payments is secure, independently verifiable, and free of tampering.Typically, certifying payment records are the domain of third party notaries or auditors. The blockchain, however, enables an independent, dec...
Appboy Now Offers Android Push Notifications in China through Baidu Cloud
Monday, June 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With China adding 460 million smartphones in 2014, app publishers are going to find it’s a market that they really can’t afford to ignore. To help developers penetrate the market, Appboy has announced support for Android push notifications in China through Baidu Cloud Push. In a statement released recently, the company commented, “In most of the world, apps sending...
How to Use Traditional Marketing Channels to Propel Your App Marketing
Monday, April 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Traditional marketing channels have been getting a bad rap in the last few years as mobile marketing opportunities have continued to explode. However, as most app publishers will tell you, it continues to be more difficult and more expensive to market your app with mobile marketing strategies. To grow your app you need to leave no stone unturned. And many app publi...
How to Use Traditional Marketing Channels to Jumpstart Your App Engagement and Installs
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Traditional marketing channels are dead right? If that is true, why did three mobile games - Clash of Clans, Game of War, Heroes Charge – run ads for this year’s Super Bowl? The answer is because there was a huge audience available and these companies have the financial ability and scale to pay for the ads to reach out to a new crop of users.In fact, I defy you to...
BluBox Games Launches Feed My Alien in Select Territories
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
BluBox Games and Promineo Studios have announced that the new, original IP Feed My Alien is now available in select areas on the App Store and Google Play.Feed My Alien follows a stranded extraterrestrial, Munchee, as players are treated to a unique new take on the tile-matching games. By finding paths between fixed points on the game board, players will be able to feed...
Parse Now Offers Push Experiments to Allow App Developers the Ability to AB Test Push Notification Marketing Campaigns
Friday, November 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse is launching Push Experiments, a new feature to help developers evaluate push messaging ideas to create the most effective notifications for an app. With Parse Push Experiments, developers can conduct A/B tests for push campaigns, then use the app’s realtime Parse Analytics data to help decide on the best variant to send.For each push campaign sent through the Par...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
Riley vs. California: A revoltin development or recognition of the importance of digital privacy
Saturday, June 28, 2014 by Adam Grant
On June 25, 2014, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in David Riley vs. California 573 U.S. ___ (2014) which addressed the question of whether the police properly searched Riley’s mobile phone as part of a traffic violation stop. The officer accessed information on the phone and noticed the repeated use of a term associated with a street gang...
41 percent of US Mobile Business Users Have Used Unsanctioned Enterprise Services
Friday, May 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
Enterprises continue to struggle with security issues as IT departments fight what seems to be a losing battle as they struggle to protect data.On specific problem is unintentional data compromises caused by sloppy employee mobile practices. A report by Harmon.ie outlines this ‘Rogue IT’ phenomenon, which occurs when workers circumvent organizational controls by exploit...
Track App Events with New Apsalar Self Service Postback Tool
Thursday, May 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apsalar has launched a self-service tool for creating and managing postbacks, providing the ability to send notifications to any recipient when a user completes an install, revenue event, or any other custom event tracked with Apsalar. With the new tool, developers can make changes on the fly to update postbacks at any time and the changes will take effect immediately.C...
MYO Wins PopMech Breakthrough Award
Friday, October 11, 2013 by Richard Harris
Hats off to the MYO team (programmable bracelet that tracks arm motion and finger movement to allow for gesture control of almost any computer or mobile device) for being a recipient of The POPULAR MECHANICS "Breakthrough Awards"!They announced the winners of its ninth annual Breakthrough Awards today, which recognize the innovators and products that have adva...
NARR8 Announces A Cross Platform Publishing Application For Interactive Content
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 by Richard Harris
NARR8, a digital publisher of interactive motion books, announces today the launch of its free-to-use, cross-platform publishing application on the Facebook App Center, bringing its explosive interactive content to the world's most popular social network. NARR8's motion comics, graphics novels and educational periodicals will be available to read on Facebook via the App...
Google Play Removes Low Quality Apps from App Store
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 by Richard Harris
In February Google removed over 60,000 apps from their play store that they deemed as low quality, which is a surprising number considering their total app count is 700,000, that is almost 10% of their inventory! So why did they clean house? Some say it was about time they got rid of the junk, while others are saying they were 'trimming the fat' from the overr...
