Fake app reviews impact developers more than you think
Thursday, June 29, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Developers are well aware that a significant portion of online reviews for products and services, including those on popular platforms like Amazon, eBay, and TripAdvisor, are in fact fake. The issue of fake app reviews has become an increasingly pressing concern. These deceptive reviews have wide effects on both developers and consumers alike, significantly impacting th...
No code mobile app developer lands from Pocketfied
Thursday, January 20, 2022 by Richard Harris
Welcome to the seamless new world of mobile app development. Pocketfied is live, offering no-code mobile app development in record time, just one day.
Pocketfied is not a standard mobile app builder. It creates your app quickly with a flawless design and offers full integration with Shopify’s online stores and it handles AppStore and Google Play registrati...
Lawsuit from US developers sways Apple
Friday, August 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity for developers while maintaining the safe and trusted marketplace users love. Apple appreciates the developer feedback and ideas that...
Low code platforms evolve beyond application development
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Edge computing, which pushes "computational" work as close as possible to the point of data collection, will attain critical mass in 2021. Already, more than 50% of new enterprise IT infrastructure will adopt edge computing as an alternative to massively centralized data centers, for proprietary data or in situations (such as transportation or defense) that ne...
Tracing serverless Node.js functions
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Christian Hargrave
Instana announced the ability to trace serverless Node.js functions running on AWS Lambda. The new capabilities, which require zero code modification, deliver superior native serverless tracing automatically, providing performance metrics beyond, and independently from, X-Ray.
“As companies continue to push the envelope in creating smaller, more dynamic service...
Next generation low code platforms snub citizen developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Sumit Sarkar
Analysts have touted the growth of high productivity application development platforms which are attractive to many enterprises unable to find the necessary digital talent. These evolving platforms, also described as no or low code, focus on increasing productivity over traditional software development by expanding the pool of talent that can deliver apps. Many professi...
Marketing your app on Snapchat just got a little easier with Tenjin
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tenjin, the mobile marketing infrastructure company, has announced that it has been named an official Snapchat Mobile Measurement Partner. The partnership enables app marketers to optimize their install campaigns through Snap Ads, Lenses and Story Ads using extremely detailed user-level data through Tenjin’s attribution and analytics platform.
“With...
Citizen developers are on the rise
Thursday, December 7, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Kintone has announced the results from a new report on low-code application platforms, “The Rise of the Citizen Developer: 2017 Low-Code Adoption Survey.” Partnering with Unisphere Research, business and IT leaders from organizations of all sizes and across many industries, including the public sector, technology, banking/finance, healthcare, and more, were surveyed on ...
CircleCI 2.0 now available for Apple crossplatform apps
Monday, November 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Apple developers using CircleCI can now access all the benefits of CircleCI 2.0 when building for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Watch. Rolled out to cloud customers in July, CircleCI 2.0 is the company’s most significant redesign since inception and marks a major advancement for the platform.Apple developers can build faster thanks to advanced caching strategie...
$100M in app developer funds available to build Cloudflare apps
Friday, June 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare, an Internet performance and security company, is introducing the all-new Cloudflare Apps, a free platform that enables developers to build applications that leverage their global infrastructure and distribute them to the more than six million users on their network. As part of this new platform, the company is announcing the $100 million Cloudflare Developer...
3 reasons low code software is helping IT departments be superheroes
Thursday, December 1, 2016 by Eduardo Cruz
Although we’ve long since entered the digital age, many organizations remain saddled with legacy IT systems, unable to keep up with the growing and ever-changing demands of the business. Not only that, with resources stretched, many IT departments are left with no choice but to prioritize day-to-day management over business innovation. And yet despite considerable chall...
All you ever wanted to know about lowcode software development
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
A "low-code" revolution is sweeping through the development industry. Enterprise companies increasingly opt for solutions that involve little to no code over conventional development tactics and the trend is going upwards. Agiloft, a low-code enterprise solution, is helping mitigate the transition towards this new industrial fad, cutting development times for companies ...
The growing gap between the speed of business and the pace of software development
Monday, October 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
The rapid pace of business today is only increasing, which means companies need quick access to effective, flexible and scalable technology in order to succeed. IT organizations are simply struggling to keep up with this growing demand for business applications, which can’t be developed fast enough, updated often enough, or maintained well enough. It’s a com...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
InterConnect 2016 Delves Into Cloud & Mobile Technologies
Friday, February 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Over 24,000 people will gather together to take a deep dive into cloud & mobile technologies at InterConnect 2016 which will be held at the MGM Grand & Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV on February 21 – 25.The IBM sponsored event will offer tutorials and courses on cloud & mobile tools and open standards technologies for all phases of the app development lifecyc...
Building A Developer Centric Platform Is Critical for Application Industry Providers
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
We reached out to David Lee, VP of Platform Products at RingCentral, to talk about the why it is important for companies that offer products in the application development industry to host a robust developer platform. RingCentral launched a new developer platform last spring and Lee discusses what the company has learned in offering a “best practices” philosophy for dev...
Predictions for the World of Gaming in 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Nikola Cavic
To understand the top opportunities for mobile gaming for 2016, we turned to Nikola Čavić, Head of Business Development at Nordeus, an award-winning European games and technology company and publisher of Top Eleven, one of the most popular social sports video game in the world. Here are his predictions for 2016.Google’s return to China will see potential opportunity for...
Linux Foundation Creates New Open Source Initiative for Blockchain Technology
Thursday, December 31, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative effort to advance blockchain technology, which is the backbone that powers Bitcoin transactions. The goal of the project is to develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework to help developers build industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions...
Apple Releases Open Source Swift Community at Swift.org
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced the availability of an open source Swift community, including the new Swift.org which is dedicated to open source Swift. The website hosts resources for developers that want to contribute to Swift, offer fixes, and interact with other developers.Swift.org allows any Apple developer to download the Swift code and in-development builds. More advanced d...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
Trifecta Events Coming to Santa Clara Convention Center in September
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Santa Clara Convention Center will be a busy place on September 28 – 30 as it hosts three conferences in one - API World, Integrate 2015 and DataWeek. In addition to activities surrounding each event’s focus, there will also be an expo hall, hiring mixers and a hackathon.DataWeekThe DataWeek 2015 Conference and Festival focuses on data skills including Data Science,...
Red Hat Releases Three Different Studies on Mobile Development, Digital Leadership and OpenStack Adoption
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has recently published three different studies focusing on: mobile development trends, OpenStack enterprise adoption, and digital leadership.Mobile Trends SurveyA new mobile trends survey by Red Hat shows that - while mobile plays a role for 73 percent of organizations - nearly half of the respondents identify security (45 percent) and back-end integration(43 pe...
How IT Decision Makers and Business Executives Agree and Disagree on IT Investment
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
In the second part of a national two-part study on current IT trends and market opportunities, business executives and IT decision makers from companies across diverse industries, services, locations and work force size showed mixed opinions on the prioritization of and investment in enterprise technology solutions.The online survey was fielded for Appian by Harris Poll...
Mapping the Mobile App Platform RFP
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
Besides an organizational course-correction towards mobile-first strategies, we are seeing the mobile enterprise shift to agile and open technologies. As organizations mature from developing one-off tactical apps, they continue to evolve their mobile strategies to drive new revenue streams and business models.The increasing volume of apps, the complexity of connec...
Gazing into the Mobile Crystal Ball to Learn Predictions for the Enterprise in the Year Ahead
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
Across the mobile enterprise, 2015 shows no signs of slowing down. According to research firm Ovum, enterprise mobility is set to be at the top of the CIO agenda in the year ahead. We confirmed this in our own research, as more than 69 percent of respondents in a recent survey of Red Hat customers indicated that mobility would be a key IT initiative for 2015. Based...
Esri’s ArcGIS Runtime SDK Offers Online and Offline Mapping Functions for the Microsoft .NET Framework
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Esri has announced the release of its first commercial version of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This software development kit joins Esri's line of runtime products, including iOS, Mac OS X, Android, Java, Qt, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET has been built as a new, shared API across native app platforms ...
Opera Software Launches Opera TV Ads SDK for Mobile Development
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Opera Software has launched the Opera TV Ads SDK allowing developers to serve video advertising on any platform.Opera’s video advertising solution was previously available exclusively to apps distributed via the Opera TV Store application platform and developed through the Opera TV Snap technology, which transforms online video channels into apps for connected-TV device...
Report Shows Mobile Developers Are Still Struggling Monetizing Apps
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
Vision Mobile’s 7th Developer Economics surveyed more than 10,000 developers on the app economy, tracking developer experiences across platforms, revenues, apps, tools, APIs, segments and regions.Highlights from the report Include:Platform Wars- On a global level the platform wars are ending with iOS claiming the majority of the high-end device market and Andr...
App Promotion Via Podcasts
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
It was the summer of 2005 when Apple introduced iTunes version 4.9 to support a new phenomena of that day - Podcasts. The novelty of Podcasts gave people an entirely new channel to listen to. It covered various topics in order to satisfy their hobby of recorded radio broadcasts without having to listen to them at a specific time.Suddenly, people could subscribe to a spe...
ABO Data announces the US availability of PLAT.ONE Enterprise Grade Internet of Things Application Platform
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
ABO Data has announced the US availability of PLAT.ONE, an enterprise-grade Internet of Things application platform. PLAT.ONE has already been available in Europe supporting Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. PLAT.ONE provides the ability for enterprises to create scalable and secure, multi-tenant, cloud-ready application ...
How to Make Business Apps Without the Need to Code
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Alex Bakman
Today over 90% of Americans who own a smartphone while close to half own a tablet. These mobile devices have become the de facto standard devices used in virtually all aspects of our lives today displacing our dependence on laptop and desktop computers. There is, however, a major dilemma taking place in this transition which we have witnessed before. When the IBM ...
Guide: Using Facebook To Get App Installs
Friday, April 4, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
Writing a
marketing plan is a crucial step in app development. There are several types of
advertising/influence making that go into a good marketing mix - media buying,
a strong press release, traffic generation, media coverage and social media
exposure.
Facebook has
become the platform that allows a single solution, combining social media
marketing and tr...
Liferay Releases SDK to Speed Up Custom Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
New developer toolkit helps Liferay’s customers develop and manage sophisticated mobile appsLiferay, Inc., which makes open source portal software, has released a mobile software development kit. The Mobile SDK is part of Liferay’s commitment to being a mobile-ready platform, which began with making responsive design work out of the box in Liferay Portal 6.2. The M...
Smart TV App Market: Fragmentation Rules
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
This is the time of year where TV manufacturers, console manufacturers and others with a vested interest in the consumer TV industry launch and announce new products and services. This is the result of the domination of CES, where anything and everything in consumer technology is rolled out for the year.And you might have noticed a recent flurry of news relating to the ...
The Future of PhoneGap
Saturday, December 28, 2013 by Marko Lehtimaki
Adobe, the
current owner of the popular HTML5 hybrid app framework PhoneGap, has
traditionally focused on the creation of multimedia and creativity software
products. In more recent years, Adobe has been betting heavily on HTML5. It
remains that creative professionals are Adobe’s bread and butter, and this
focus sometimes requires product decisions which might not ...
