To make a progressive web app or not
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobile users are spending 80 to 94 percent of their mobile use time in apps, so you’d think the mobile web would be a thing of the past right? But the average mobile user also visits 100 different websites each month, and only half of all mobile users don’t download any new apps during that same period.
In order to achieve the speed and ease of use p...
Apperian announces new security capabilities
Monday, July 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apperian, an Arxan company and provider of mobile application management (MAM) and security solutions, has announced several platform enhancements, which increase the security of enterprise mobile app data. These updates take advantage of native device capabilities, multiple industry protocols and additional password controls, to provide a solution for distributing secu...
VMware AirWatch 8.3 Release Includes Enhanced Security Functionality
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
The latest rendition of the VMware AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform, AirWatch 8.3, has been released now providing support for the VMwareWorkspace ONE app to help organize app access and eliminate the need for passwords. It also expands the AirWatch Privacy First program with a user-facing website and visual privacy notice to mitigate concerns thro...
Google Play Updates Offer New Opportunities for Developers to Acquire Users
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At Google I/O new tools to help developers monetize through Google Play were announced including those to help grow an app business, improve decision making based on smarter insights, and better engage user bases with more relevant content.Among the announcements were:App Install Ads: With the new app install ads developers will be able to quickly set up ad campaigns fr...
HP To Shut Down webOS Services, Shutting Out App Developers From the Operating System
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
The final death knell of the HP webOS platform is finally here, at least as far as HP will be involved, as the company has announced that it is shutting down webOS cloud services as of January 15, 2015. For the few devices left running webOS like the HP Touchpad, developers will be left out in the cold in terms of providing any new updates. webOS is not dead howeve...
VMware Workspace Suite Offers New Integrated Development Platform
Friday, August 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
VMware has launched VMware Workspace Suite, a new integrated platform for managing applications, data and devices. VMware Workspace Suite offers a single, integrated portal to access AirWatch by VMware mobile and content management solutions, and VMware Horizon. For end-users, the result is a unified experience across mobile and desktop devices, while IT gains a co...
IBM to Offer iOS Enterprise Solutions Plus They Will Sell Enterprise Enabled iPhones and iPads
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
My, my how the world has changed. Remember the 80’s when IBM led the PC charge and Apple’s Mac was the little engine that could. General sentiment was that PC’s were for serious work and Macs for the more artistically slanted.Not anymore as the iPhone and iPad reign supreme and PC sales continue to plunge like a flaming meteor. And now IBM and Apple are teaming up in a ...
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Are Updated
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is now available to download. The March 2014 Update ships with a number of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013 RTM. It also allows developers to build new types of apps for Off...
Latest Window Store Trends Show Developers Best App Monetization Opportunities
Friday, February 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released a report detailing its latest findings as part of a recurring series that provides details about recent trends in the Windows Store across categories, markets, and more. The report was provided by Bernardo Zamora, Senior Business Manager, Windows Store and Windows Phone Store.Included are statistics about the categories, country differences, ...
Windows Dev Center Eliminates “Explore Store Trends Section” to Emphasize Blog Summary Posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 by Richard Harris
Sometimes the best intentions don’t pan out. In the past the Window’s Dev Team has been sharing information in the Explore Store Trends section of the Windows Store Dashboard, including some user demographics and catalog information.
As they very diplomatically said in a recent blog post, “Very few developers used these reports, and we received feedback that the presen...
CEO of AppGratis Speaks Out
Friday, April 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
Last week the AppGratis app promotion and discovery app was yanked from the Apple Apple store shortly after it's ipad debut, which came as a surprise because pre-launch negotiations with Apple had cleared the app for launch. Apparently most of this can be attributed to a rouge Apple employee that maybe "didn't get the memo". CEO of AppGratis, Simon Dawlat has rele...
