Who will own the Metaverse and why
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 by Christian Hargrave
The Augmented World Expo moves back to in-person and VRdirect is looking forward to connecting with many of the movers and shakers of the VR/AR industry this week.
For those there, or even those of you who aren’t, here’s why VRdirect should be on your radar screen.
Who will own the Metaverse and why
1) Facebook’s Meta, Microsoft, and Apple. Th...
PayPal to roll out direct sales of cryptocurrency
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Recent reports indicate that Fintech giant, PayPal, plans to roll out direct sales of cryptocurrency to its 325 million users within the next few months. Currently, PayPal can be used as an alternative means for withdrawing funds from exchanges such as Coinbase, but this would be a first in terms of offering direct sales of crypto. Industry sources reported that the com...
Freedom and Growth plans for Kubernetes from Platform9 lands
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Platform9 announced the availability of new Freedom and Growth plans for their Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Service. Users can sign up online for free with the Freedom plan and instantly deploy Kubernetes clusters of up to 20 nodes (800 vCPU’s). The Growth plan starts under $500/month, including an option for month-to-month payments, and provides 99.9% SLA a...
5 rules of monetizing like a mobile game developer
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 by Sean Webster
Mobile game developers are some of the most successful monetizers and marketers in recent history. Need proof? Mobile gaming revenue accounted for nearly 82% of all app revenue in 2017 and will surpass $100 billion by 2021.
The formula for success for mobile game developers is simple: easy payments, a finely-tuned monetization strategy, and great customer support. Bu...
RAPIDS data access acceleration comes to MapR
Friday, October 12, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced support within the MapR Data Platform to accelerate data access and production deployments for data science through the RAPIDS open-source software. MapR helps data scientists accelerate the access of required training data by focusing on easing the issues of on-boarding, cleansing, cataloging, and feeding data at high performance t...
Pair programming with two brains and one keyboard
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Programming is usually not a team sport. I like my headphones, my lights a certain way, and my space! But pair programming is the software development technique in which two programmers work in tandem at one workstation - ugg, I know. While at first blush it would seem to be more time consuming, Roger Neel, CTO and Co-Founder, Mavenlink says it’s actually a much m...
Software engineering interview preparation
Monday, May 21, 2018 by Tigran Sloyan
Preparing for a software engineer interview can be a daunting task. Not only do you have to prepare answers on standard questions about strengths, weaknesses, and why you want a particular job, but you also have to demonstrate proficiency in specific skills - you have to prove your coding chops.This isn’t easy when you don’t know what types of problems you will be asked...
Urban Airship powers mobile wallets with Google Pay
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
Urban Airship unveiled a digital customer engagement platform to support Google Pay tickets - a new capability announced on the mainstage at Google I/O 2018. Urban Airship worked with Google Pay to create streamlined and engaging ticketing and boarding pass experiences. The combination of Google Pay’s new ticket support and the Urban Airship platform now make it easy fo...
Why developers should add mobile print to apps
Friday, May 4, 2018 by Patrick Chen
Printing has been a major part of history for thousands of years, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia, and despite the rise of digital technologies, it’s not going anywhere - in fact, the demand for printing continues to grow, for four major reasons:Despite digital advancements, printing is still the standard. Printed materials such as contracts, government forms and har...
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...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
SimpleOrder chats about their Restaurant Management Software
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Restaurant inventory management software platform SimpleOrder was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2012 by restaurant industry veterans who saw a critical need to bring back-of-house operations into the 21st Century. SimpleOrder’s restaurant industry management software platform provides restaurant operators with an automated inventory system that provides counts an...
The mobile printing six best practices for developers
Monday, August 14, 2017 by Patrick Chen
When creating apps, a developer works hard to ensure optimal functionality and a great user experience - so it's critical that an app is truly the best it can be for its audience. These days, ensuring functionality and engagement means adding mobile print to an app. Mobile printing is an unmet need in many apps: According to an InfoTrends study, 95 percent of consumers ...
New enterprise cloud platform analyzes unstructured data
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
A new version of ABBYY FlexiCapture has been released. The scalable and universal enterprise capture platform enables organizations to automatically classify, extract, validate and direct business critical data from incoming customer communications and operational processes - such as customer requests, queries and transactions. Utilizing a range of automated machine lea...
Keeping your free to play games and apps profitable
Friday, April 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Free-to-Play isn't a new concept, it's still a very popular business model for many software companies, game and enterprise alike. But although a F2P platform looks very attractive to prospective customers, the downside is the wager that is made on whether or not enough customers will make the leap to actually pay for the premium items on your platform. It's this consta...
Driver only operated and driverless trains
Friday, March 24, 2017 by Greig Duncan
The global rail industry has gone through a number of positive changes in technology and safety since 1967 when London Underground's Victoria line was the first line operated with Automatic Train Operation.Despite automation and technology being tried and tested for the last 30 years then, the issue of Driver Only Operated (DOO) - also known as One Man Operation (OMO) t...
Mashape gets $18M in series B funding to help further the API revolution
Friday, March 24, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Mashape has announced that they have achieved a company milestone as they close a $18M Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm, with previous investors CRV and Index Ventures participating. The funding round, according to Mashape, "represents all the hard work by the team, our dedication to building the best and most open API Gateway f...
The first data modeling tool for Couchbase NoSQL databases is here
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hackolade has introduced the first data modeling software tool for the Couchbase NoSQL database community. This software is compatible with Couchbase versions 4.0 through the latest 4.6 release. Standard features of Hackolade, already popular with NoSQL database users, have been adapted to support the specifications of Couchbase. Users for the new release of Hacko...
Explaining what AIOps is and why it matters to developers
Monday, March 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
We recently spoke with Phil Tee, CEO of Moogsoft to learn more Algorithmic Intelligence, (the “AI” in AIOps). What is AIOps you say? It's a new category defined by Gartner research that is an evolution of what the industry previously referred to as ITOA (IT Operations and Analytics).It seems we have reached a point where data science and algorithms are being successfull...
Mopria provides Samsung Galaxy phone users the ability to easily print
Friday, November 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Mopria Alliance just announced that the Mopria Print Library will be a part of the Samsung Print Service. Mopria will provide Samsung Galaxy phone users the ability to easily and intuitively print content from their mobile devices to more than 88 million1 printers, regardless of printer brand. Mopria will power the Samsung Print Service to enable user...
Axway just released AMPLIFY so you can run and scale APIenabled services
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Axway, a catalyst for transformation, has introduced Axway AMPLIFY, a new data integration and engagement platform that empowers organizations to unlock business value from a vast array of data sources to transform the customer experience. Developers, architects and administrators can use AMPLIFY for everything they need to power their unique inventions, from apps, conn...
The evolving technology of chatbots
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chatbots are revolutionizing the way customers interact with businesses. While chatbot technology is nothing new to the enterprise, many current solutions that bolster the service experience difficulties like unresponsiveness or imprecise interactions when trying to connect with their customers. To avoid this, Conversable and Mindtree have partnered to standardize ...
Apigee Releases New API Management Platform for Digital Commerce
Thursday, August 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apigee has released the Apigee Commerce APIx platform, a software accelerator designed to help companies that are selling products online facilitate their API-powered digital commerce initiatives. The Commerce APIx offers a set of open-source, ready-to-use digital commerce APIs and a developer portal to help companies build a modern digital commerce program. ...
Unity Developers Will Soon Be Able to Publish Directly to Facebook
Friday, August 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Facebook and Unity, just announced a strategic partnership that gives Unity developers new ways to reach and engage Facebook’s audience of 650M+ gamers.They are joining forces to build new functionality into Unity that will allow developers to publish their games directly to Facebook, including a new Facebook PC gaming platform currently in development. Unity's known fo...
Ciena Adds New DevOps Toolkit for Virtualized Services
Saturday, May 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ciena has added a new DevOps Toolkit to its Blue Planet network and service orchestration platform that helps companies with the creation and delivery of new on-demand, virtualized services within their SDN and NFV enabled networks.The DevOps Toolkit features a set of software development tools that can be utilized by network operators’ in-house personnel, and in collab...
Six Steps to Increased App User Engagement
Thursday, February 25, 2016 by Anton Tyrberg
Driving and increasing app user engagement is a challenge for every app developer, but there’s a fine line between bombarding users with ads and messages and providing them what they need, when they want it. Mobile device proliferation in the past several years puts the smartphone at the center of the technology universe. For many, smartphones are the go-to device ...
Drew Burns of Adobe Weighs in on Mobile Marketing for 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
As the app market continues to explode (see our recently published article “App Usage Grows by 58% in 2015 and Shows No Sigh of Slowing Down”) app publishers will have to continue to improve and update their app marketing tactics as competition continues to increase. We visited with Drew Burns who is the senior product marketing manager for Adobe Target and wo...
Google DoubleClick Team Publishes Mobile App Monetization Bootcamp Series
Monday, January 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Google DoubleClick team recently published a four part Mobile Bootcamp series to help provide app publishers create strategies for reaching, engaging, and monetizing app audiences.Part 1 offers advice on how to grow an app audience. Presented by Cheney Tsai, a Mobile Solutions Consultant at Google, who recommends five steps to help developers connect with audie...
Cisco Releases APIs for its Cisco Spark Collaboration Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Cisco unveiled the initial set of APIs for its Cisco Spark collaboration platform (in preview) which is designed to make IT teamwork simpler by bringing teams together instantly in virtual rooms where members can send messages, share files, and meet face-to-face, all in one place. In Spark, conversations take place in virtual meeting rooms. Some rooms are live for ...
Your New App is Missing a Basic Function Printing
Monday, October 5, 2015 by Frank Fu
So you’ve made an app. It lets users collaborate on documents easier, book flights, buy concert tickets, or edit photos without having to boot up the laptop. It’s even got a few thousand positive reviews in the app store.We’ve come to rely on apps to provide value faster than ever before. So much so, that they are transforming industries. Developers understand this inti...
The Impact of iOS 9 on User Searches
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently discussed the impact of iOS 9 on how users will find and consume information with Richard Forsythe, the co-founder and CTO of NoteStream, a mobile learning app that encourages personal growth and exploration through the presentation of enriching content in snackable form written by expert contributors on a wide range of topics. NoteStream was launched in...
5 MustHaves When Deploying Apps in the Cloud
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Congratulations, you’ve decided to move into the cloud. Now what? Things get easier from here right? Not so fast. Not every organization is “cloud fluent” and can seamlessly harness the technology themselves to propel their business forward with minimal effort. The fact of the matter is, the cloud is hard, the cloud is complex. Unfortunately, many cloud ...
Twitter Offers New Official Partner Program for Marketing Services
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Recently Twitter launched the Twitter Official Partner Program, a new initiative combining industry product and service partners that help developers achieve better results on Twitter and beyond. The launch of the Twitter Official Partner Program combines strategic partners from the Twitter Certified Program and the Twitter Marketing Platform Partner Program.Twitter Off...
Hired.com Reinvents the Recruiting Process for Software Developers and DevOps Engineers
Thursday, February 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It sounds like a simple idea - matching top developer talent with top companies - curating both sides so that each is assured that they are getting exactly the match they are looking for. And it’s interesting that no-one has come up with an approach in the way that Hired.com has done. So what is unique about their platform? Before discussing how Hired.com matches c...
Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy with Oracle, Provides His Predictions on the Future for App Developers and the Mobile Enterprise
Thursday, January 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently had a Q&A session with Oracle’s Suhas Uliyar, who serves as the company’s Vice President of Mobile Strategy. During the talk Suhas provided insights into what app developers can expect as it relates to the mobile enterprise. Richard: Will there ever be a standard development approach for the enterprise or mobile in general? Suhas: In general, no...
