Standards based operator cloud demonstration at Network X
Friday, October 27, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
The CloudCO demonstration to be led by the Broadband Forum at this year’s Network X will show how network operators can unlock network efficiencies and new service delivery from a disaggregated and virtualized software-defined broadband network.
CloudCO’s service delivery automation focus is fundamental for operators to help reduce their operational costs...
$338B mobile gaming market projection
Friday, July 29, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Mobile Gaming is defined as playing and enjoying interactive video games on several platforms, such as computers, mobile phones, and game consoles. The rising access to broadband connections, especially in developing countries, has made digital gaming more accessible to a larger population. Mobile gaming has overtaken console and computer gaming as the most popular...
Red Hat Summit 2022 kickoff
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
This week we’re kicking off Red Hat Summit. With nearly 19,000 people registered, we’re excited to speak with experts about your technology questions, discuss how open source is innovating the future of the enterprise, and share our latest news and updates.
You can find all of the announcements in the Red Hat Summit newsroom and on the Red Hat Summit...
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the Moon
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Nokia Bell Labs’ pioneering innovations will be used to build and deploy the first ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardened, end-to-end LTE solution on the lunar surface in late 2022. Nokia is partnering with Intuitive Machines for this mission to integrate this groundbreaking network into their lunar lander and deliver it to the lunar surface. The network will se...
Creating apps that work without the Internet
Friday, May 3, 2019 by Richard Harris
We've become a bit lazy in the United States when it comes to developing apps. It's nothing for us to stuff in a healthy dose of remote content downloads for our games, mobile ad networks for our full-screen videos, analytics so we can track user activity, and other fat-pipe code that works well in the land of gigabit connections.
But did you know that a...
Zinier gets $22M to transform field service management with automation
Monday, March 11, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Zinier has raised $22 million in Series B funding to accelerate global growth and expand its platform to meet the growing needs of field service organizations. Returning investor Accel led the round, along with Founders Fund, Nokia-backed NGP Capital, Qualcomm Ventures LLC and returning France-based investor Newfund.
The investment coincides with the field service in...
Twitter and KaiOS take on KaiOSpowered smart feature phones
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 by Joyce Shen
Imagine you’re a seasoned designer for smartphones working with ever-expanding resources, including memory, CPU speed, and screen resolution. Then, one day, your manager gives you an assignment to work on a device that has less of all this and doesn’t even have a touchscreen!
This is what happened to some of the designers at Twitter and KaiOS, all of whom...
Fortnite to finally release for Android!
Monday, July 30, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Over one year from its a initial launch data, and nearly half a year from its iOS launch, Fortnite has finally announced the list of Android devices that will also soon support the popular video game. A full list of supported platforms is provided at the bottom of this article, but suffice it so say that a majority of newer Google, Huawei, Sony, Samsung, and Motorola ph...
KaiOS talks smart feature phones and app developers
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
KaiOS is a Linux-based mobile operating system built on a fork of Firefox OS that first appeared in 2017 and was developed by KaiOS Technologies Inc. in San Diego. We recently chatted with Tim Metz, Marketing Director at KaiOS Technologies, about KaiOS' emerging operating system for smart feature phones. We discuss why these devices are becoming relevant again, what...
The Linux Foundation launches LF Deep Learning Foundation
Friday, March 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation has launched the LF Deep Learning Foundation, an umbrella organization that will support and sustain open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning while striving to make these critical new technologies available to developers and data scientists everywhere.Founding members of LF Deep Learning include Amdocs, ...
5G network speeds getting closer with new 5G LaaS
Saturday, March 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Spirent and Nokia announced the 5G Lab-as-a-service (LaaS) - a new platform for Nokia’s Oulu-based network infrastructure testing labs. The first of its kind, the 5G LaaS features a self-service portal - through which it allows for global accessibility to simultaneous users so Nokia engineers can rapidly spin–up, tear down and reuse 5G hybrid test beds from any loc...
All eyes on Mobile World Conference 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
As all eyes turn to the Mobile World Conference (MWC) in Barcelona this month (27 February - 4 March, 2017), Ovum’s analyst team have gathered their views regarding what they expect to see at the world’s largest and most highly regarded mobile industry event.A key theme, which recurs throughout the report is the belief that MWC 2017 will mark a further shift in the evol...
Oulu 5GFWD solidifies status as global 5G hub
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
Can you go to school in a park through VR glasses after the speed of data transfer is no longer an issue? What will a digital Nokia factory of the future be like? How can superfast mobile technology make people’s hospital visits safer, quicker and more comfortable? 5G can make all this happen - and the Oulu 5GFWD Hackathon challenges the world’s greatest coders and ente...
Predictions for Apple Watch, ObjectiveC, Google, and the rise of Snapchat
Thursday, December 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Predictions by Alexander Stigsen, the CEO and co-founder of Realm
By the end of 2017, the Apple Watch will still have a very small and uninteresting ecosystem of apps. It won’t be until the next generation of Watch - Series 3 in maybe late 2017 before the Watch platform is sufficiently powerful to attract significant third-party applications...
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...
There is Still Time to Enter the AutoMobility LA Top Ten Automotive Startups Competition
Friday, July 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
There is still time be a part of the LA Auto Show’s AutoMobility LA Top Ten list of the newest, most innovative startups with the greatest potential to shape the automotive, transportation and mobility sectors. Registration is available here through August 31, 2016. The Top Ten finalists will be selected by the AutoMobility LA Advisory Board, which is comprised of ...
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 Will Turn Expo Floor Into a Smart City
Sunday, June 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
CTIA Super Mobility 2016 will be transforming its show floor into a Smart City with approximately 1,000 companies exhibiting products and services for mobile-first businesses and connected consumers.The conference will be held September 7-9, 2016 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., USA. A projected 30,000 technology and business professionals wil...
VoltDB's SQL Solution Combines Streaming Analytics with Transaction Processing
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
VoltDB offers an in-memory SQL database solution that combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Companies use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions providing the ability to receive real-time in-transaction analytics.V...
New NBIoT Consortium to Promote Narrow Band Internet of Things
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Yet another IoT play is in motion as a new NB-IoT consortium has been announced by a group of telecom industry heavyweights including Huawei, Qualcomm, Vodafone and others.The formation of the new NB-IoT forum is aimed at promoting the ecosystem around Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology. NB-IoT is a solution for deployment of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) n...
Choosing Your Next Industrial Mobility OS
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Mark Kirstein
With Windows Mobile and CE About to Sunset, Android and Windows 10 are Tomorrow’s Top OptionsToday’s mobile operating system landscape presents choices for industrial enterprises when it comes to selecting the platform upon which their applications should be built. When you think about a global enterprise distributing internal mobile solutions, you’re talking about...
GSMA's Mobile IoT Initiative Wants You to Develop Using LPWA Solutions
Sunday, August 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The GSMA announced that it has established the ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’, a new project backed by a number of mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies, whose goal is to address the use of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum. The GSMA is a trade organization representing the interests of nearly 800 mobile operators inc...
Qt 5.5 Release Includes Windows 10 Support and New IoT Functionality
Friday, July 3, 2015 by Richard Harris
Qt has released Qt 5.5, the latest version of its cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework. Qt offers a C++ based framework of libraries and tools that enables the development of interactive and cross-platform applications and devices. This latest version extends support for multimedia and graphics creation with 3D capabilities as well as...
Ads Go Wearable with FitAd's Advertising Platform
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
FitAd has unveiled a new mobile and wearable advertising platform. The platform is now available for fitness and health publishers and brands. FitAd is a mobility ad network that offers advertising for health and fitness brands for tablets, smartphones and wearables. The company has target ad offerings which reach nearly 50 million monthly mobile site and app...
Mobile App Privacy Demanded By Twenty Four Global Privacy Authorities
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
National data protection had been the recent focal point by twenty four worldwide authorities on mobile app personal data processing. An open letter had been proposed from a group of data protection authoritiesThe Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) had carried through a “mobile app privacy sweep” last year. The GPEN is made of 40 national and regional data p...
Nokia Unveils First Ever N1 Tablet After Speculations Of A Sequel To Its TV Streaming Product Release
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Nokia's new N1 Tablet is the company's first-ever Android tablet. The N1 Tablet was released just days following speculations that an additional TV streaming product release would be launched. N1 delivers simplicity, clean design and a personalized experience which is a competitive offering compared to uniform complex devices. The company’s tablet was released...
Vserv.mobi and Microsoft Woo App Developers on Nokia X
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Vserv.mobi and the Nokia X Developer Relations team at Microsoft UK have announced a new competition as part of their ongoing global DVLUP collaboration, to boost the efforts of the Nokia X developer community in Europe.The competition is designed to help and encourage app developers expand their Nokia X development efforts and maximize their monetization opportuni...
Microsoft Announces New App Developer Opportunities at Build, Along With Windows Phone 8.1
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continues to woo the app development community and announced several new new developer opportunities at Build 2014. The emphasis was on the Windows platform as a common platform across devices, a single toolset, a common infrastructure across the Windows and Windows Phone stores, and a clear commitment to interoperability. The company also annou...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
Microsoft Offers Unity Game Developers New Incentive Program to Develop Windows Apps
Saturday, February 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
In an effort to continue to populate its Windows app market, Microsoft is incentivizing Unity developers to create Windows apps. Developers who qualify will receive complimentary Windows store registration, a Microsoft Windows 8 license, a Windows device (phone/tablets), a promotional package and technical assistance.Any Unity developer using Unity 4...
Design and Advertising Awards Organization Mobile Marketing Award Snapshot
Friday, January 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Design and Advertising awards organization D&AD have commissioned a series of info graphics to showcase the winners of their various awards categories. The series has been designed by Information designer Tiffany Farrant-Gonzalez. The Mobile Marketing graphic is based on data collected from the five-year history of the Mobile Marketing category. It shows the various...
App Development Industry 2013: Winners and Losers (And Somewhere in Between)
Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
One of the reasons we launched App Developer Magazine was to help bring some clarity to the big picture of the mobile industry as it relates to app development. And while we feel that we have provided many valuable insights in our first year of publishing, it’s been a lot to wrap our heads around and we plan on doing a better job in 2014. So looking at the big pic...
Nokia DVLUP Program Offers Window’s App Developers Chance to Win Swag
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Weird name, cool prizes. If you developing for Windows Phone you might as well get as much swag as possible and you might just do so with new announcements from DVLUP, the developer loyalty program from Nokia.
DVLUP uses a gamification model to create a competitive environment to build Windows Phone apps. Developers can earn badges and experience points (known as “XP”)...
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...
Watch Out! Windows and Nokia Phones Making Serious Inroads in Europe
Monday, November 4, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
If you like competition, this news has made things a lot more interesting in the smartphone trenches! According to the latest data form Kantar Worldpanel ComTech from July – September 2013, Windows and Nokia now represent one out of every ten sales in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Even more amazing, the company reports that Windows has overtaken iOS in Italy. A...
New Nokia Phones and Tablet Take Advantage of Windows 8.1 HD
Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
On the heals of Microsoft’s announcement of its available 1080p resolution made available to developers through the Windows Phone 8 Update 3, Nokia goes HD in a big way with the Lumina 1520 and 1320 phones with 6-inch full HD 1080p HD screens.
The new HD display offers a new opportunity to super size the Windows phone start screen with room for three large or six small...
