Average NFL fans visualized by Midjourney for each team
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
With playoff season coming to a close, AI has delved into the world of the NFL, imagining the "average" fans of each playoff team. Online gaming site FlashPicks used the AI art program MidJourney to envision the “typical” fan for each of the eight teams from round two of the playoffs for the Super Bowl, providing a unique take on NFL culture within...
Digital clock app Flexy Clock launches
Friday, August 26, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Flexy clock is a digital clock app with animated flexible digits. The digits’ shape is from a specially developed font. Each digit represents a continuous, not self-intersecting line composed of segments connected by movable joints.
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HotPlay in game advertising updates from NextPlay
Thursday, August 25, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
NextPlay Technologies, Inc., a digital native ecosystem for finance, digital advertisers, and video gamers, updates shareholders on continuing progress made by its HotPlay in-game advertising group and game studio towards commercial launch.
Progress includes the expected commercial release of HotPlay 2.0 in calendar 2022, which, when released, will off...
NFT partnership to create fashion pieces
Friday, May 6, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ready has announced a new partnership with SmileyWorld, the lifestyle brand from Smiley that revolutionized Smileys in technology, and EPIK Prime Team, a licensing agency putting brands into video games. The brands will collaborate together to create virtual fashion pieces for Ready Games' app ICON Avatar Fashion Universe. This will be Ready and Epik's...
nCode release highlights
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
HBK’s latest version of nCode 2021.1 provides a new way to easily transform power measurements on electric motors into actionable insights and improves techniques for test-CAE correlation, visualizing engineering data, and frequency-based fatigue analysis.
nCode release highlights:
• In the latest release of nCode 2021.1, engineers can achieve a greater...
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...
WordPress MarfeelPress plugin gives power to the publisher
Thursday, November 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Marfeel announced that it has launched MarfeelPress, their first all-in-one plugin that enables publishers of all sizes using the WordPress content management system (CMS) to enhance the mobile version of their content while boosting engagement and ad revenue. In the first stage of its official launch, Marfeel will be releasing the plugin to select publishers by invitat...
Retro gaming talk with Matthew Thomas of Storytellers Entertainment
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
Storytellers Entertainment, an emerging game studio, seeks to revive fantasy retro gaming with its serialized fantasy based, solo-RPG. Matthew Thomas and Bill Munns are the creative heads behind their game “Imperium Omni”.
Matthew grew up in Southern California, where he went to college at age 16 later on, and earned a degree in Computer Programming ...
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures app launches by Mattel
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Barbie is giving an inside look into her famous Dreamhouse with the launch of Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, a brand new app based on the animated Netflix series by the same title that’s now available on Android devices. The popular iOS version, which debuted on the App Store last month, has already hit the #1 spot for Top iPad Kids App in 100+ countries.
Just i...
Looney Tunes is back in a fun mobile format
Monday, August 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem development has been announced by Scopely. The new mobile multiplayer role-playing game, with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, that brings an entire world of Looney Tunes characters together to do battle on your mobile screen with anvils, boulders and other ACME devices of destruction. Packed with player vs. player insanity, the mayh...
Grom acquires Bonnie Boat and Friends
Thursday, May 31, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Grom Social Enterprises announced that it had acquired the preschool entertainment and consumer products brand “Bonnie Boat & Friends.” Grom will work closely with Top Draw Animation, for enhancements in the production of the Bonnie Boat & Friends animated series. The brand will also appear in the Company’s centerpiece Grom Social website as an ecology education...
CARU refers Musical.ly to FTC
Monday, April 30, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit has referred The Musical.ly Inc., operator of the Musical.ly mobile application, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after the company said it would not comply with CARU’s recommendations regarding children’s privacy.CARU is an investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation. CARU monitors websites and...
Facebook starts testing for playable ads
Monday, April 23, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Facebook has recently announce that they have begun testing playable ads to let users get a better feel for the app they are about to download. Video ads are constantly growing and will continue to grow with 79% of consumers preferring to watch a video to learn about a product than read text on a page. On mobile, the momentum with video is predicted to by some to increa...
Mim hits 1M downloads in 24 hours
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mīm (pronounced “Mime”) has announced a record-breaking achievement just 24 hours after releasing in the App Store. Mīm, which hosts contests for user-submitted funny videos, launched their first challenge yesterday, gaining over one million users. In fact, the app received so much traction that it caused complications on their servers. Mīm gives users the ability to sh...
Business messaging engagement platform released by 3Cinteractive
Monday, February 12, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
3Cinteractive (3C) has announced their A2P Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging engagement platform. This platform is an extension of 3C’s existing mobile engagement platform, enabling brands to orchestrate and deliver A2P messaging created by RCS capabilities.3C’s platform enables users to build comprehensive RCS workflows that leverage new feature-rich function...
Umajin Immerse just launched
Monday, November 20, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Umajin Immerse has announced the launch of Umajin Immerse, a development platform that includes 3D, Digital Agents, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), offline mapping and simplified and secure provisioning of enterprise data resources. The platform is used to drive innovation and digital transformation for enterprises, allowing rapid deployment of digital pro...
infltr on iOS 11 lets you edit depth photos
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
iOS 11 is here and ompanies are preparing around the world to quickly utilize and feature all the latest technology that was announced at the Apple Keynote. One such set of features that many are excited about, including me, is the new camera functionality. The ability to split the foreground from the background is due to be a captivating new offering, giving the iOS ca...
What the iPhone X and iOS 11 mean to app developers
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
The excitement of Apple launch day always reminds me of the Willy Wonka “opening of the gates”, you know - where the public gets a peek inside Apple's secret factory for a brief moment. But this year the Apple event feels a bit different. Maybe it’s the recent leaks, maybe it’s because we all know Apple is facing a ceiling of innovation they have to punch through - and ...
Stop masking your crappy apps
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Omed Habib
This may come as a surprise, but the “close door” button in an elevator does absolutely nothing to make the door shut faster. It’s purely a psychological ploy to ease the minds of impatient riders. It tricks them into thinking that they’re speeding up their ride when in reality it is solely designed to calm their nerves during unwanted seconds spent waiting.Developers h...
Make 1 minute GIFs on Gfycat now
Thursday, July 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Gfycat, a user-generated GIF platform, has announced the launch of support for minute-long GIFs. Previously, GIFs on Gfycat were limited to 15 seconds or fewer.Support for longer GIFs is part of Gfycat’s larger vision for the future of short content, said Gfycat CEO Richard Rabbat. “We’re witnessing a shift in how consumers use GIFs and short videos. In addition to usin...
10 years after the iPhone launch here is how people feel now
Thursday, June 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the launch of iPhone, Axway has published results from a survey that examines the role that smartphones play in enhancing consumer lives with improved services and experiences, and how consumers would like to see the smartphone evolve in future. The survey of 1,200 U.S. consumers found that consumers value data security and priva...
Explaining RCS and how it could kill the need for some apps
Friday, May 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
Throughout the past 20 years, we've become well acquainted with the traditional text message. We've seen it evolve from a method of communicating with friends and family, to a way for consumers to interact with businesses in order to receive updates and relevant information. As 4 billion people worldwide use SMS, this traditional method of communication continues to evo...
How animated GIFs have evolved into a messaging staple after 30 years
Monday, May 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
As short mobile messages come to dominate our daily communications - with friends, family and coworkers - many find it increasingly difficult to effectively get their point across. Typing everything out is annoying. Emojis no longer cut it. And the tone often gets lost. Tenor is creating a new visual language that solves this problem, empowering people to express their ...
Cloudenabled attendant console at Enterprise Connect 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
At Enterprise Connect 2017, Enghouse Interactive has announced that its TouchPoint Attendant for Microsoft Skype for Business Online is generally available. TouchPoint Attendant is an operator console solution that natively integrates into Microsoft’s Skype for Business. This makes them one of the first consoles to market with support for Skype for Business Online and O...
Following Joking Hazard: New emoji and avatar creator app launches
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
After entertaining fans with their super-popular card game Joking Hazard, Cyanide & Happiness just debuted their custom Emoji and Avatar Creator app on iOS and Android. Packed with the same dark and offensive humor that made Joking Hazard the second most-successful card game in Kickstarter history, the app is the latest release from Explosm - Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wi...
The frontiers of messaging and chatbots
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Eloise Bune
The appetite for chat can’t be satiated. Facebook recently announced 1 billion users on Messenger and WeChat continues to dominate the app universe in China. Messaging apps are forecast to hit 2 billion users by 2018. Way back in 2015, the monthly active users of the top 4 messaging apps overtook the top 4 social media apps, leading many to believe chat is the new socia...
NeoFur is now available for the Unity game engine
Saturday, December 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Neoglyphic Entertainment, a story company building advanced entertainment technologies, announced the release of its award-winning 3D graphics technology NeoFur for the Unity game development platform. Previously available only on Unreal Engine 4 and in closed beta for Unity, NeoFur is an easy-to-use, in-editor tool that simplifies the creative process for developers. T...
Unreal Engine brings virtual character to life onstage
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Doors opened in London for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s bold new production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in collaboration with The Imaginarium Studios and Intel. For the first time in history, a digital character driven by live motion capture performance will be featured onstage in a major classical production - and it’s all rendered in Unreal Engine, Epic Ga...
The Growing Benefits of Cross Platform App Development With VPlay
Saturday, August 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Christian Feldbacher, co-founder and CEO of V-Play, to discuss the growing benefits of cross-platform development and how V-Play aims to make it easier than ever for developers to bring their apps to market.ADM: Who is V-Play? What does the company do?Feldbacher: V-Play provides a cross-platform development tool for mobile app and game developer...
Windows App Studio Release Includes New REST API Data Source
Sunday, June 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has added several updates to its Windows App Studio platform including a new REST API data source.The new REST API data source continues to be open ended, providing the ability to connect it to most open REST API services. With this initial version of the release Microsoft is supporting GET commands for REST APIs (meaning it only pulls information) and include...
RealTimes Stories SDK Allows Mobile Developers to Integrate Video Stories
Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
RealNetworks has released the RealTimes Stories SDK that will allow developers to integrate RealTimes Stories platform into native mobile apps. Android and iOS developers can use the SDK provide users with the ability to create video montages and add functionality when organizing and share images.The RealTimes platform provides the ability for an app to automatically pi...
Unreal Engine 4.9 Release Offers Game Developers 129 Improvements
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.9 offering 129 improvements to its gaming engine which is designed to accelerate developers’ productivity for creating high-quality games and applications, training simulations, 3D visualizations, digital films and animated entertainment. Improvements span across PC, mobile, console and VR.For mobile devices, new additions include...
Interlude Releases Video Streaming Capabilities for HTML5 Development
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Interlude has released a new version of its HTML5-based video player that allows developers to utilize streaming video through HTML5 compliant browsers. The platform integrates rich media including video, audio and motion graphics into interactive videos that play in both apps and mobile browsers. The company recently upgraded its video player from Flash to HTML5, ...
What the Research Says About User Preferences and Perceptions for In App Advertising
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
There are infographics and there are knockout infographics. While the use of infographics has grown in the last couple of years as a way to visually provide a large amount of information in a small area, when viewed on a smartphone most infographics produce text so small that it’s just impossible to get anything constructive out of it.Not so with a new interactive infog...
New Pebble SDK 3.0 Coincides With the Success of the $15 Million Pebble Steel Kickstarter Campaign
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With the news that Pebble’s Time Kickstarter campaign has reached over $15 million in revenue, developers may want to start noodling with the new Pebble SDK 3.0 launched last week. Pebble is way north of 400,000 units sold and the number should shoot up when the Pebble Time starts shipping in May and the Time Steel starts shipping in July.So about the new SDK:- Apps bui...
