Internet advertising continues to grow believe it or not
Thursday, February 23, 2023 by Richard Harris
Astute Analytica has found that internet advertising remains the largest and most rapidly growing sector in the digital marketing industry, reporting nearly $476.46 billion in revenue in 2022. According to their research, mobile advertising accounts for the largest portion of digital advertising spend, making up nearly half of the total revenue. Moreover, the study high...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
Omnichannel insights launch for phone call analytics platform DialogTech
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DialogTech, a provider of marketing analytics for phone calls, has announced the launch of Dashboard Insights. Businesses and agencies can now access and visualize DialogTech’s call analytics data however they choose to gain the right insights into how phone calls from digital advertising, website interactions and offline marketing drive appointments, customers and reve...
Kinetica launches indatabase analytics via userdefined functions
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Kinetica has announced the availability of in-database analytics via user-defined functions (UDFs). This brand new capability makes the parallel processing power of the GPU accessible to custom analytics functions deployed within Kinetica. This opens the opportunity for machine learning/artificial intelligence libraries such as TensorFlow, BIDMach, Caffe, and Torch to r...
Sean Carron tells us about Team Smiles and HappinessasaService
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Happiness-as-a-Service is an application that allows kids awaiting a transplant, or those who received a transplant, to request a wish, and then connects them with benefactors who can fund their wishes. It enables users to nominate a critically ill child, see a child’s wish in their local community, and donate - among other features. The users can create &ld...
Microsoft's Bing and HackerRank Offer Way to Play with Code
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft’s Bing and HackerRank have partnered to launch a new feature for Bing that allows programmers to find solutions to coding queries directly within the search engine. Instead of searching across multiple websites, developers can now find, edit, and play with coding solutions in real-time without needing an integrated development environment (IDE). The code ...
How Apache Kafka is Fundamentally Changing the Streaming of Big Data
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
LinkedIn, Netflix and Uber are just a few companies who are utilizing Apache Kafka, which facilitates realtime data streams and provides an open source messaging system. We recently visited with Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO at Confluent, which he founded with other members of the team that built Kafka at LinkedIn. Jay is the original author of several of open sour...
Java Still Top Programming Language Thanks to ObjectiveC
Monday, August 31, 2015 by Richard Harris
In its August Programming Community Index, TIOBE reports that Java continues to be the top programming language. In its analysis, the TIOBE team reports that Java is picking up market share from Objective-C.The index is intended to provide an indicator of the popularity of programming languages and is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of engineer...
The Impact of iOS 9 on User Searches
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently discussed the impact of iOS 9 on how users will find and consume information with Richard Forsythe, the co-founder and CTO of NoteStream, a mobile learning app that encourages personal growth and exploration through the presentation of enriching content in snackable form written by expert contributors on a wide range of topics. NoteStream was launched in...
Don't Settle When It Comes to Enterprise Search Platforms
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Mike Miranda
No company should try to operate for very long without an enterprise search platform. With so many options out there, though, you could be confused about which one is worth a spot in your organization’s budget. Let’s look at two very common workarounds some have tried, and then we will talk about why you must go with a reputable developer when you make your final d...
SVG Is the Future of Graphics and Here's Why
Friday, June 19, 2015 by Simon Wieczner
The enterprise is growing increasingly digital, with data visualization and GIS mapping just a few of the current drivers. In this environment, it’s more important than ever that companies have the ability to interact with images without loss of clarity or resolution issues. Scalable vector graphics, or SVG, coupled with an HTML5 document viewer, are critical to support...
Highlights from Day Two of Microsoft Build
Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continued to announced services for the developer community on day two of of its Build conference. On a blog post Microsoft Chief Evangelist’s Steve Guggenheimer had this to say about the second day of the event, “ Kicking off Day 2 of Build today, I had the pleasure of expanding on the news and vision that Satya, Scott and Terry shared yesterday. We buil...
Mozilla Releases New Trainspotting Blog Series to Track Firefox Releases
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Firefox team is hosting a new blog series called Trainspotting on Mozilla Hacks which is designed to help Web developers keep up with what’s new, what’s changed and what is coming soon in all of the Firefox's, the Web platform, and the Mozilla tools for building the Web.The Trainspotting name comes from the way Mozilla develops Gecko and Firefox on a “train model” a...
Tiobe Proclaims JavaScript as the Top Programming Language of 2014
Thursday, January 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
Tiobe, which is specializes in assessing and tracking the quality of software, has announced JavaScript as the top programming language for 2014, based on its Programming Community Index. JavaScript was named the top language because it was the biggest mover in the Index for the year. As it Tiobe points out, the JavaScript programming language has a long histo...
New Microsoft MSN Offers Enhanced Marketing Opportunities Across Windows, iOS and Android
Monday, September 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the launch of the new beta edition of MSN. The new MSN combines premium content from media outlets with personal productivity tools that help users better access the information.The new ‘Me Stripe’ at the top of the page that integrates both Microsoft and third-party platforms that people use both in and out of work. The new experience is availab...
Updates to Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio
Saturday, August 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio, currently in beta, combines the functionality of two popular Visual Studio extensions into one: Sample Browser and Bing Code Search. This updated feature enables developers to find and reuse millions of code snippets and code sample projects from within the Visual Studio IDE. New functionality with Bing Developer Ass...
AOL to Offer Native Mobile Ad Units for Techcrunch, Huffington Post and Other AOL Digital Properties
Sunday, April 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AOL has announced a new native ad unit that will allow marketers to run advertising across mobile sites and apps.The new native unit currently reaches 86 million users per month, via AOL owned-and-operated mobile properties and apps including TechCrunch, Huffington Post, DailyFinance, Engadget, AOL Mail and Autoblog as well as through third-party publishing partner...
Microsoft’s Bing Conversational Understanding Team Releases MSDN Voice Search App
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft’s Bing Conversational Understanding team has released a new reference app, the MSDN Voice Search App, that demonstrates how to integrate your app into the new contextual voice capabilities available in Windows Phone 8.1.The app itself is very simple and straight-forward, surfacing the MSDN documentation library from the Cortana experience. Once you have t...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
Corvette Named Car of the Year With Special Smart Technology Add ons Coming for 2015
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Chevy Corvette Stingray, this year’s winner of the care of the North American Car of the Year at the Detroit auto show, will get even sweeter next year as GM introduces an industry-first Performance Data Recorder for 2015. The fully integrated system enables users to record high-definition video, with telemetry overlays, of their driving experiences on and off ...
Microsoft Releases Bing Speech Recognition Control for Windows
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
The Bing Speech Recognition Control enables a Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows RT device to convert audio speech input to written text. It does this by receiving audio data from a microphone, sending the audio data to a web service for analysis, and then returning its best interpretations of user speech as text.
When you embed the Bing Speech Recognition Control in a...
