RooflineAI SDK offers new edge AI models and hardware
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 by Austin Harris
With the field of artificial intelligence evolving at lightning speed, the agility to adapt to emerging models and disruptive hardware solutions is a significant competitive advantage. Traditional edge AI deployment methods, mainly based on TensorFlow Lite, can’t keep up with the pace. Low adaptability, limited performance, and a painful user experience make them ...
Mobile ads SDK Vungle updates to deliver a better experience
Thursday, July 18, 2019 by Austin Harris
Vungle unveiled updates to its software development kit with new features including Cache Optimization, which aims to deliver Vungle's creatives faster than ever. Additionally, the company also announced support for a new medium sized rectangle (MREC) ad format that adds Vungle's quality video ad content while maintaining the in-app user experience.
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Application performance monitoring and cloud migration
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Nik Koutsoukos
The IT organization is becoming more and more strategic in helping companies reach their business goals. Companies are using technology as a means to not just expose new opportunities and tap into new markets but find ways to relate to their customer base and drive loyalty. As most of us are well aware, the primary choice for businesses today is to move as much of their...
Kony gauges the state of apps in the enterprise
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
More businesses are realizing the importance of mobile apps, but are discovering deploying and managing apps in their business is not as easy as they had thought. To gauge the state of apps in the enterprise, Kony, Inc., an enterprise mobility and digital applications company, partnered with Wakefield Research. The global survey of more than 1,000 line-of-business execu...
Box Elements for developers powers content experiences in their apps
Friday, July 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Box, Inc., a cloud content management company, has introduced Box Elements, a new set of tools for businesses of all sizes to bring their content experience into any application built with their Platform. The first set of tools, UI Elements, is generally available and includes four pre-built, customizable components of their user interface. The company also announced th...
PacketZoom speeds up Photofy app by nearly 2x
Friday, June 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Performance is a crucial contributor to a dependable mobile app user experience. While stunning visuals attract customers by making a great first impression, a long-lasting relationship depends on the quality of each encounter, which is heavily influenced by how an app performs. According to Compuware research, most consumers expect mobile apps to launch within two seco...
AppOnboard raises $4M in a seed round
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
The app economy is larger than ever - mobile revenues grew 40 percent in 2016 with app developers grossing $37 billion, excluding any advertising revenue. Roughly half of that goes back in the ecosystem for User Acquisition (UA) - or paying for downloads.AppOnboard Inc, mobile app demo maker, has raised $4M from Troy Capital Partners, London Venture Partners (“LVP) and ...
7 hurdles in IoT mobile app development
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Daniel Myers
For manufacturers interested in developing connected products for the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile app development represents entirely new and unknown territory. And even experienced mobile app developers find that the IoT poses all kinds of new challenges.Before embarking on any connected-product project, it’s crucial to understand why IoT mobile apps are different...
From installs to value: three trends in the age of app marketing
Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Brendon Kraham
Mobile apps are ubiquitous. We live in a world where there are over four million apps to choose from and where attention spans are shorter than ever before. As a result, it is becoming increasingly more important for marketers to understand the critical moments of engagement that are happening in the palms of users’ hands.Over the past decade, app developers banked on t...
How to attract more premium brands to inapp programmatic advertising
Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Maggie Mesa
Marketers are finding great success with in-app programmatic advertising - most notably, those pushing app installs - yet many brands are hesitant to invest in the data-driven buys. A lack of education on the incremental value (or even concerns over brand safety) is holding brands back from investing fully in one of the most engaging environments available in advertisin...
Which Operating System Keeps Users More Engaged
Monday, July 4, 2016 by Momchil Kyurkchiev
Google and Apple are locked in an incredibly tight race for mobile dominance. A lot is up in the air with upcoming Android N and iOS 10, but one thing is clear: right now, Android is winning, not only in market share, but also in app engagement. However, all that could change with announcements from Google I/O and WWDC.Keeping users engaged is more important than ever a...
Connecting Mobility Dots From Conception to Inception
Thursday, June 2, 2016 by Leonid Antsfeld
It’s clear that our cities are expanding, but with this comes challenges, such as more people, more construction, and more congestion. Getting from point A to point B will only become more difficult as populations grow and demographics change. However, we shouldn’t have to wait. There shouldn’t be obstacles to movement through urban environments.Nowadays, almost every o...
Don't Expect Apple and Google to Do App Security for You
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Sinan Eren
The appetite for mobile apps with an appealing user experience shows no signs of slowing – even in closely regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. In fact, according to Gartner, by the end of 2017, IT organizations will be hard-pressed to meet market demand for mobile app development services as it grows at least five times faster than IT’s abili...
Converting Classic Windows Apps to Web, Mobile and Cloud
Friday, November 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mobilize.Net’s WebMAP3 converts classic Windows apps into modern web applications with responsive UI that scales across form factors from PCs to Macs to iPhones, iPads, and Androids.The company has recently announced that its WebMAP3 tool for mobilizing Windows applications now targets AngularJS/Bootstrap. In conjunction with the AngularJS framework, WebMAP3 uses Bootst...
PacketZoom Launches Platform to Allow Mobile Apps to Access Cloud Content Up to 10 Times Faster
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom is launching what it calls a Mobile Speed as a Service (MSaaS), with a new platform that addresses problems mobile app users experience with app performance.The service is designed specifically for mobile app publishers and has the potential to speed up app content download time from the Cloud by up to 10 times. PacketZoom moves beyond the 40 year-old TCP pro...
Windows 10 Developer Tooling Technical Preview Released
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Windows developer team has released to the Windows Insiders community the first technical preview of the Windows 10 developer tooling.As a preview, do not expect a completely finished product, instead you get the opportunity to experiment with the new platform capabilities while Microsoft continues working to finish Windows 10.Here are some of the top features of th...
Communicate to Your Mobile Users Relevantly: Use Personalization App Marketing Methods and See Your Bottom Line Grow
Friday, January 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We all know that it is hard to get new users to try out an app. Most people have around 25 apps on their phones (depending on the information source, it is a little higher or lower, but that is a safe number to work with). It cost money, time, and more to convince someone to add your specific app to their group of apps on their device, and having done that, you need to ...
CA Technologies Stimulates App User Loyalty for Its Customers with Its APM Solution
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies just released its CA Application Performance Management (APM). The application benefits organizations that look to proactively manage the user experience of their apps. The experience in return develops loyalty-building interaction. The value of time and speed of delivery is important. CA APM’s elements are improved in areas such as m...
App Developers Who Personalize Their Mobile Apps See User Engagement Soar
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
People use mobile apps. It’s hard to keep that in mind sometimes when developing an app, because we can lose track of users as we concentrate on the specific purpose of the app. The reality is that the primary reason for any app to exist is for it to be used. And, individually, it will be used more often if that person accessing the app feels that it fits them and their...
New Kony Visualizer Offers Multi user Collaboration for Creating Cross Platform Apps
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kony’s new Kony Visualizer is a new mobile app design solution that enables business users, designers and developers to collaborate and create native and Web mobile app experiences for iOS, Android, Windows and the Web. The next generation Kony Visualizer 2.0 will be available for limited release next month. It provides a single solution that enables coll...
App Developers Should Consider Using a Soft Launch to Test App Market Readiness
Friday, May 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
We have to make a lot of assumptions in life, both in our business and personal lives. A lot of these assumptions are based on our experiences, however are you truly sure that your previous experience with app promotion and marketing is enough to successfully launch your app in a market that rapidly changes as quickly as mobile? And so you should consider conductin...
Sencha Space – Solving BYOD with Cross Platform Management to Build and Deploy Secure Mobile HTML5 Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Nicholas Harlow
With more and more enterprises adopting BYOD policies, the challenge for IT departments has become how to manage personal and professional applications on the same device, making sure company information is secure without infringing upon personal privacy. The importance of this issue will only grow as mobility becomes an even greater fixture in the enterprise.At Sencha,...
