Why MedGemma 1.5 matters more than the headlines
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 by Richard Harris
When Google announced MedGemma 1.5 earlier this month, the tech press lit up with speculation about healthcare AI revolution or seismic shifts in diagnostics. I've spent decades watching tech buzz evolve into real tools and real pain points in the field, and the truth is simpler: this is a solid, practical step in the long road of building useful AI for healthcare. ...
UK app developers file class action lawsuit against Apple
Thursday, December 19, 2024 by Richard Harris
A class action lawsuit has been launched in the UK against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has abused its dominant position in iOS app distribution to charge excessive commission fees. The case, Ennis v Apple, is being brought to the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal and seeks up to $970 million USD in damages on behalf of UK-based app developers. What you need to kn...
Apple lawsuit filed by UK developers
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 by Austin Harris
A leading competition law expert pursuing a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of UK app developers has been told his case can go ahead, with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) certifying his claim for £785m (just over one billion US dollars) on behalf of UK app developers. Today, the CAT made the collective proceedings order, confirming it...
Acumos AI Challenge sponsors to give out $100k in prizes
Thursday, July 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
AT&T and Tech Mahindra have announced that they will be sponsoring the Acumos AI Challenge, an open source developer competition that seeks innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
Working with The Linux Foundation, the companies encourage students, developers and data scientists to submit their ground-breaking AI solutions for the chance to win prize m...
Unity game developers Christmas event returns
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
After less than two weeks, the 2nd edition of the yearly community sponsored Christmas event for Unity game developers organized by Unity Asset Store publisher Devdog and analytics suite GameAnalytics, has already attracted over 5000 participants and created quite the social media buzz, with 4000+ shares on social media.At over 1200 Unity-related game development presen...
Chupamobile Announces Winners of 2013 Developer Competition
Saturday, February 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Chupamobile has announced the winners of its 2013 Developer Competition. The winners were chosen from a number of submissions to Chupamobile’s online marketplace where developers buy and sell app source code packages and components for a variety of mobile development languages and frameworks.Winning the top prize of $20,000 was PWD – Password Manager. An iOS projec...
Chupamobile Launches a $45,000 prize App Developing Competition
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
The 2013 Chupamobile App Developer Competition begins today and will finish on January 28th.
In our September issue, we talked about Chupamobile: a marketplace where developers can buy and sell iOS and Android apps source code. And to celebrate the growing mobile developer community, Chupamobile is launching a competition.
What about? Chu...
Stick to just one platform most developers say
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
Android, iOS, Amazon, Windows Mobile, HTML5 - how do you pick! Each has a unique advantage and associated challenges! Lets break it down by comparing some known facts about each market.There are Android and iOS, with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure -- and the fierce developer competition that comes with it.On the other hand, there is the Windows 8/W...
