Weather apps have the highest mobile ad eCPM finds new report
Thursday, June 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
A new Q1 2017 report from Smaato was just released. Titled the "Global Trends in Mobile Advertising Report", data was analyzed from 300 billion mobile ad impressions served on its exchange each month and found that mobile ad space is more valuable than ever before as global eCPMs grew almost 50 percent year-over-year.Fueled by explosive growth in the Asia-Pacific ...
MeshKit launches so you can send data to apps even without Internet
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Open Garden, Inc. announced the release of MeshKit, a new platform for app developers. MeshKit is built on Open Garden’s technology in enabling peer-to-peer offline connectivity.The number of smartphones around the world is expected to reach over 6 billion by 2020. Yet many people are not able to use popular apps and services, particularly across Asia, Africa and Latin ...
Introducing the new Google Play Music
Monday, November 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Submitted by Elias Roman, Lead Product Manager, Google Play Music
Whether reminding you to leave to catch your flight, helping you find pictures of your daughter’s recital, or suggesting the right Smart Reply, Google builds tools that help you make the world of information more accessible and useful. And at Google Play Music, we strive ...
The Intersection of Big Data Analytics and Software Development: Why You Should Be There
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Don Vilsack
Despite the proven value of collecting raw software project data and analyzing it to create actionable, easily digested key performance indicators (KPIs), many firms still struggle to extract, analyze, and organize this data into reports—let alone dashboards or scorecards. If this sounds like your organization, don’t be surprised. In my experience, only a handful of fir...
Faster Music App Development with New Musikki API Launch
Saturday, February 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Online music platform Musikki has announced the launch of its Music API which will give app developers access to Musikki’s expanding catalogue of music data. The company’s goal with the API is to provide a music platform can be integrated into apps to provide new ways to discover music and learn more about artists and labels.CEO and co-founder of Musikki, Joao Afonso, d...
Fifty Three Launches Pencil Mobile App SDK, Announces Worldwide Product Availability
Monday, July 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Fifty Three, the creator of the Pencil graphic tool, has announced the availability of its Pencil SDK, to allow app developers to integrate the use of Pencil into their app to add creative features.Pencil was built to make creating on the iPad simple and natural with features like blend, erase, adaptive palm rejection, and Bluetooth pairing with Kiss-to-Pair. Now w...
Apple Posts iOS 7.1 Update
Monday, March 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apple has released iOS 7.1 to the public, which is the first major update to iOS 7 since its September release. The update (which is 269 mb) includes multiple visual enhancements, such as revamped shift and caps locks keys on the keyboard, refined icons for the Phone, FaceTime, and Messages apps, and a redesign for several aspects of the Phone dialer and shutdown screen...
