3D geolocation capabilities for Widow Games apps
Thursday, April 28, 2022 by Richard Harris
NextNav has partnered with Widow Games, a gaming development company closing the gap between the physical and the digital worlds. Through the partnership, Widow Games will bring NextNav's 3D geolocation capabilities to their applications, enabling more immersive virtual experiences tied to the real environments of users, and leveraging location verification to valid...
Web development platform Vercel acquires Turborepo
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Vercel has acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos that makes it easy for teams to scale their codebases and accelerate build speeds. Existing Turborepo customers will have a seamless migration path to move from Turborepo's cloud-based caching infrastructure to Vercel, and Turborepo CLI is now open source unde...
Dropping the gloves with hockey and SPE
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Shaun Walker
This is my favorite time of year -- the NHL playoffs and the sprint to hoist the Stanley Cup. Now, I recognize I’m biased, and with all apologies to football and futbol fans, the Stanley Cup is easily the most prestigious trophy in all of professional sports and the toughest championship to win. In the vein of a true hockey fanatic, I’d say ‘fight me&r...
ABBYY updates machine learning library
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
ABBYY announced a major update for NeoML, its cross-platform open-source machine learning library that allows developers to build, train and deploy machine learning models. The update adds support of the Python programming language, the most popular language for machine learning and AI. The framework also offers 5-10x speed improvements as well as 20+ new ML method...
Developer edition of Incognia fraud prevention solution has launched
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Incognia announced the launch of its Developer Edition, a free version of Incognia’s mobile fraud prevention solution for mobile app developers. The offering allows mobile developers to add frictionless fraud prevention to fintech and mcommerce apps, enabling superior UX design and account security within their apps. Developers benefit from Incognia’s rapid ...
Cost to develop mobile apps
Friday, November 1, 2019 by Richard Harris
According to SmartBrain.io, the average cost to develop a mobile app in Eastern Europe is $23,000 versus $171,450 in the U.S.
SmartBrain.io analyzed data from more than 400 deals between Eastern European contractors and international startups and found out that developing a new app in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, or another Eastern European country requires, on average,...
The accuracy of AI necessary to solve problems
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
We recently had a conversation with Aaron Edell, Director of Applied AI at Veritone who says data scientists are going about building AI/ML solutions wrong when they try to achieve 100% accuracy. They can spend hours building, testing, and rebuilding until the solution is 100 percent accurate until deploying. When data scientists spend this extra time perfecti...
ABBYY enhances machine learning technology
Monday, October 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
ABBYY announced FlexiCapture 12 has enhanced machine learning (ML) technology to further improve the accuracy and speed of processing enterprise content. The modern intelligent document processing (IDP) platform delivers a unified platform whether deployed on premise, in the cloud or called by developers using SDK or RESTful APIs.
FlexiCapture meets the needs of orga...
Data Catalog is now available in public beta
Tuesday, July 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
At Google Cloud Next '19 San Francisco, Google introduced Data Catalog, a fully managed, data discovery and metadata management service that allows you to quickly discover, manage, and understand your data in Google Cloud. We're announcing that Data Catalog is now available in public beta.
Simple and powerful data discovery
Data analysts can now use Data C...
Improved SDK from GIPHY
Monday, July 1, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
GIPHY has announced a new and improved SDK. This latest SDK from GIPHY brings new customization features (such as light and dark UIs), integrates impressively fast, gives developers first access to exclusive GIPHY features, and much more.
Some of the main features of the GIPHY SDK:
SDK GIFs: Four GIFs demonstrating the dark/light UI customization, GIPHY Emoji i...
Mobile web capture SDK announced by ABBYY
Monday, June 24, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
ABBYY launched ABBYY Mobile Web Capture, a new SDK enabling developers to add real-time image and data capture to their mobile web-based onboarding scenarios. Suitable for iOS and Android, the SDK will help companies to dramatically accelerate onboarding processes, decrease client dropout rates caused by manual data entry, and create a better customer experience.
Tod...
Anomaly detection by Instaclustr processes 19 billion events per day
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Instaclustr announced it has successfully created an anomaly detection application capable of processing and vetting real-time events at a uniquely massive scale – 19 billion events per day – by leveraging open source Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka and Kubernetes container orchestration. Get the source code on github.
Anomaly detection is the identific...
Watson Ads Builder announced from IBM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
IBM announced the launch of Watson Ads Builder, a self-service advertising solution that harnesses artificial intelligence (AI) designed to empower creative agencies and developers to help them build engaging, one-on-one conversations between brands and consumers across any digital property.
Watson Ads Builder is designed to enable agencies and developers to ingest a...
Artificial intelligence in business needs Manageable AI
Thursday, May 30, 2019 by Ramesh Mahalingam
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the enterprise today is as challenging as it is beneficial. The automation of machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can accelerate most workflows for greater business value, yet many organizations incur considerable delays during the implementation phase.
The problem is the enormity of resources and eff...
Artificial Intelligence meets television
Saturday, May 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
3 Screen Solutions (3SS) recognized specialists in the use of AI technology to understand what’s inside a video, says they have joined forces to launch and co-commercialize a new pre-integrated AI-based end-to-end platform which enables unprecedented TV service personalization and a range of benefits for operators and their subscribers.
The AI-based soluti...
Digital intelligence just got a jolt by ABBYY acquiring TimelinePI
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
ABBYY announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based TimelinePI. TimelinePI provides a comprehensive process intelligence platform designed to empower users to understand, monitor and optimize any business process.
The global process analytics market size is expected to grow to USD 1,421.7 million by 2023 according to Research and Ma...
AI enabled mobile capture SDK from ABBYY lands
Monday, May 6, 2019 by Richard Harris
ABBYY has introduced ABBYY Mobile Capture, a software development kit (SDK) to enable end-to-end point-and-capture mobile experience where the user data is instantly captured via the camera to be used within an app or extracted and sent to back-end processes for self-service scenarios. The AI-enabled SDK frees the mobile user from manual data entry, which improves custo...
Tunity launches SDK to let developers build TV audio streaming apps
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tunity announced the debut of Tunity SDK for Audio. An SDK that gives any customer-facing business, from restaurants to gyms, airports, and universities, the ability to implement a white-labeled version of Tunity’s deep learning TV audio streaming technology. This allows users to hear live audio from muted televisions directly on their existing mobile devices. Tun...
ABBYY text scanning software reports revenue growth in 2017
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
ABBYY has announced the results of 2017. The company achieved a total revenue growth of 25%, the highest rate in five years. Throughout 2017, ABBYY completed a number of large-scale projects for its corporate clients in the United States, Europe, Australia, and other countries around the world. Licensing technologies to partners like Fujitsu, Epson, Hewlett Packard Ente...
ABBYY announced their new realtime recognition SDK
Monday, December 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
ABBYY has announced the release of the new version of the ABBYY Real-Time Recognition Software Development Kit (RTR SDK) with added livestreaming video data capture functionality on iOS and Android mobile platforms. The Real-Time Recognition technology is capable of instantly pulling text information from on-screen objects and automatically converting it into digital da...
Neural processing engine inside new app provides driver assistance
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Nexar has launched the first driving safety application leveraging the Qualcomm Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE) SDK. The Nexar app will now be able to provide advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), including unprecedented real-time forward-collision warnings and other life-saving features, to hundreds of millions of vehicles whose drivers own Android phone...
IBM proves commitment to Java and Scala communities
Tuesday, July 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
IBM is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, a creator of the Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise. The resulting joint solutions will be designed to provide a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers to easily build and dep...
MFiles integrates AI tech from ABBYY
Monday, June 26, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
M-Files Corporation, an intelligent information management company, has announced a partnership with ABBYY, a global provider of intelligent capture, optical character recognition, language-based and artificial intelligence technologies.M-Files is integrating ABBYY technology into its intelligent information management platform to further simplify and improve the way in...
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...
Customer experience is becoming critical and needs revamped
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Organizations need to rethink traditional approaches to customer experience management according to a new study sponsored by Axway in partnership with industry analyst firm IDC. The study, The Role of Customer Experience Networks in Delivering Value-Based Digital Transformation, found that despite customer experience being the top digital initiative for organizations, 6...
WhatsApp went down last night: How pushing updates can be risky
Thursday, May 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Last night's WhatsApp outage freaked out users of the globally popular app. Dynatrace's Dave Anderson sheds some light on the issue, and shows just how fragile the process of continuously releasing new features is, when millions rely on your service.You’ve got to feel for WhatsApp today - they’ve got one of the toughest jobs in the world. One in seven people on the plan...
Instart Logic brings Helios AIDriven security out into the open
Friday, April 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
In ancient mythology, Helios was the Greek god of the sun streaking across the heavens in a chariot shining much-needed light onto a dark and dangerous world. That’s exactly what Instart Logic, is doing with their latest announcement of Helios - "using artificial intelligence to illuminate and solve today’s most challenging digital security issues."Web application attac...
The ABBYY realtime recognition SDK for mobile app support
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
In a consumer driven markets, it is all about customer experience. Brands and developers who can deliver a consistently smooth and enjoyable CX have a greater chance to get ahead of the competition. That is why streamlining the input of information is so important - it makes the user’s life easier and your app’s performance - better. Bruce Orcutt, the vice president of ...
