Most time demanding video games revealed
Friday, May 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
New research has shown the top games that take the longest to complete, with many taking hundreds if not thousands of hours.
The study by Cribbage Online analyzed a database of completion times of over 60,000 games across PC and all consoles in order to determine which took the longest to gather all achievements, unlocks, secrets, and collectibles resulting in 100% c...
The expansion of open source software is coming this year
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Richard Harris
2022 was a year of mixed feedback, particularly for the software industry. Despite many macroeconomic warnings, cloud services continued to grow, and the open-source model was embraced.
Coming in 2023 for the Open Source World
2023 is looking positive for the expansion of open-source software. Here are a few trends that will impact our industry next year.
The J...
Why app modernization projects fail
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 by Richard Harris
Rafalin, the CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder at vFunction, discusses the data results from the new vFunction survey that analyzed why app modernization projects fail from developers' and architects' points of view. Rafalin also goes over the major trends that you should prioritize when modernizing an application, the key elements of successful modernization a...
Female UFC fighter to be paid in Bitcoin
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Bitwage went into futuristic mode again by working with the #15-ranked strawweight Luana Pinheiro (10-1-0 record) to allow her to become the World’s first UFC female fighter and the World’s first-ever Latin American athlete, in general, to get her paycheck in Bitcoin. By utilizing Bitwage, Pinheiro, the Brazilian phenom on an eight-fight winning streak is ab...
Elon Musk and finfluencers are changing investor behaviors
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 by Richard Harris
The Investor Index, an annual survey of investor behaviors conducted amongst 1080 UK adults (18+) with £10,000+ invested, was launched in April 2020 to assess the immediate impact of Covid 19 on the UK investment marketplace. Conducted jointly by London-based communications agency AML Group and the research and planning experts, The Nursery, th...
LUNA investors show fighting spirit
Thursday, June 2, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
The success of Terra Luna's new token, LUNA (with the former LUNA being renamed LUNC, for Terra Luna "Classic") is a testament to the risk appetite that will always exist in crypto. The fact that this token, which comes from a project that spawned one of the biggest, if not THE biggest crypto crash in history does not seem to have put investors off. On its...
Apple gaming studio predictions for 2022
Monday, December 20, 2021 by Justin Welter
If Apple were a person, it would seem they are (still) living on top of the world. Still flush with cash, flexing those privacy muscles with the final rollout of iOS 14.5 and then benching more with iOS 15, and up 29% year over year. But like a senior year quarterback with three championships already to their name, expectations are high and when they’re not m...
Mobile action genre games revenue increases
Wednesday, July 28, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
The Action genre is one of the most popular categories in mobile games. According to data presented by Safe Betting Sites, the Action genre experienced the highest YoY growth in the US among mobile game genres from H1 2020 to H1 2021 – 103.8%.
Action Genre Generated $436M In H1 2021 – 104% Increase From H1 2020
Mobile games are the most lucrative segme...
5 trends that will shape the future of mobile apps
Thursday, January 14, 2021 by Jon Hudson
COVID has rewritten the rules of user acquisition campaigns for app developers. It has favored specific categories of apps, driving massive boosts in mobile usage and install volume. App marketers had to pivot in a heartbeat, optimizing their marketing mix and responding to volatility with few guideposts available to them. The volatility won’t go away in 2021, and...
eiPaaS value as seen from Jitterbit's CTO
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Fragmented technologies have the power to stop an enterprise dead in its tracks. However, there is one secret weapon every business needs to give themselves a fighting chance to quickly grow to the levels of those other major companies. Enterprise integration has become the great growth enabler for today's enterprises. We spoke with, Manoj Chaudhary, CTO and VP...
Using eye tracking for UX design and testing
Friday, January 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
For UX designers working in fast-paced, agile environments, it is often difficult to make quick, informed design decisions. Many user testing tools and methods help to reveal the "what" behind user actions but fail to reveal the "why", subjecting decisions to opinion and bias. This makes it difficult to keep stakeholders and members of the desig...
Developing video games that work for everyone
Monday, January 14, 2019 by Matias Nicolas Rodriguez
Video games are interactive experiences – as the player, you can live many different lives racing fast cars, fighting great creatures and going on exciting, magical adventures. For as long as video games companies have existed, the focus has been largely on games that are fun to play.
Of course, though, we’ve all had to sit out a round and wait for a free...
AR app from The Red Cross shows the devistation of war
Thursday, March 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has unveiled “Enter the room,” an augmented reality experience for iOS app users. In a narrative told through the eyes of a child, the free app provides a visceral, first-person experience of war at a family’s doorstep. Entering through a portal on the screen of their device, users see the brutal impact of years of fig...
Headway joins elite mobile ad fraud coalition CAAF
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
Headway has announced its acceptance as a member of the Adjust Coalition Against Ad Fraud (CAAF). Headway’s dedication to stemming the tide of mobile ad fraud has earned them this position within the orginization.Coalition membership is exclusive to companies who have passed a rigorous vetting process and agree to follow a set of guidelines, including performance and la...
This API api security solution to use AI
Thursday, February 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
To protect global organizations against ever-increasing security threats, Axway has announced a global partnership with Elastic Beam. Together, the two companies will help organizations achieve optimal security and ecosystem engagement by leveraging an AI engine, integrated with Axway API Gateway, that automatically detects and blocks new attacks on APIs. The Elastic Be...
How to protect IP communications from telecom fraud
Thursday, December 28, 2017 by William King
Software-based IP communications continue to grow in popularity because of the added reliability, reach and control they allow businesses to have over their telecom resources. However, as more developers continue to transfer enterprise communications from legacy telcos to cloud-based service providers, the threat of telecom fraud and cyber-attacks also rise. Accord...
DeviceID reset fraud is now top ad fraud method
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
AppsFlyer has introduced the general availability of a holistic, integrated solution - Protect360 - that helps immunize advertisers against the cost and loss of mobile install fraud. In beta testing with select clients, Protect360 revealed DeviceID Reset Fraud was more widespread than previously known, and will cost advertisers an estimated $1.1-$1.3 billion in 2017 whi...
Freemium sales tips from an expert in SaaS
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 by Chris Rothstein
Does the no-sales-team approach really work? Many organizations have relied on the "viral" nature of their products to scale their businesses, all supposedly without a sales team. But there is something these multi-billion dollar companies aren't telling you - all-star sales teams sit at the core of their success.Freemium has been billed as a way to generate new revenue...
Russian mobile markets showing good signs for growth
Friday, August 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
With just $1.4 billion in revenues last year, the Russian gaming market looks rather modest when compared to the $24-billion Chinese market and the nearly $4-billion British market. However, a multitude of factors make the Russian market highly attractive to international investors and game publishers, says a report published by mobile marketing agency Zorka.Mobi and bu...
Fighting mobile ad fraud with new Active Protect program
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
A mobile monetization and marketing company, ironSource, has announced the launch of the Active Protect program, a program for mobile advertisers which aims to prevent the most frequent types of fraud on non-SDK traffic - primarily attribution and device manipulation - by blocking fraudulent or manipulated traffic detected by the program in real-time and automatically r...
IT cloud be holding your business back
Friday, April 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Logicalis US Asks CIOs: Can Your IT Infrastructure Support a Bimodal IT Model on the Same Platform at the Same Time?Organizations of every size in every vertical market are grappling with one universal challenge: Defining what “digital transformation” means to them and mapping a strategy that is flexible and dynamic enough to achieve it while simultaneously support...
Stop wasting the cloud!
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Some people think about the public cloud is as a “utility” - you can buy services on demand, just like electricity, or water, or heating. Each of these utilities are consumable - as you grow you can consume more, as you shrink you can consume less. In the case of the public cloud, you are consuming IT-related infrastructure and services to build, test, and run ente...
Check intrusive ads at the door: How app marketers can use native
Monday, January 16, 2017 by Barak Aviad
The mobile app space isn’t an easy place to be these days. With more and more apps filling the stores, it’s getting harder to find consumers to download your app – and even more challenging to retain them. App marketers are struggling to drive downloads from traditional display advertising with paltry results and budgets are wasted on impressions that yield no...
Five women who are destroying gender stereotypes in the gaming world
Sunday, November 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
The online gaming industry has largely been dominated by men as there were very few women playing the game competitively. Today, all that has changed with the entry of women in the gaming arena who have been open to experimenting with all forms of gaming. New research shows that women prefer to play online slots machines games. We take a look at the top five w...
Intel Security Enhances Unified Defense Architecture
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Intel Security has announced an enhanced unified defense architecture designed to empower organizations to more effectively protect a new digital economy of trust, time and money. No longer is our economy a physical one, but one of connected networks and systems where cybercriminals have put us on the defensive. This new second economy, has put us in a world where ...
What the mobile AR phenomenon has taught us about security
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Aaron Lint
The extraordinary success of Pokémon Go has been surprising, even in the rapidly changing paradigm of the mobile application space. The game, which allows users to hunt down and capture virtual monsters, uses Augmented Reality (AR) technology to display the creatures in real world locations such as parks, homes, and offices.Pokémon Go has already broken five Guinness Wo...
Programmatic and Mobile: Whats to come in 2017
Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
Programmatic and mobile is an ever growing hot topic, Tim Koschella (CEO and Co - Founder of AppLift), has been at the helm of this industry since it began and has seen the state of the mobile industry rapidly transform into rich opportunities for today’s marketers. Tim believes that with more than 2 billion smartphones and nearly $400 billion in-mobile-triggered transa...
Developers Experiencing Apple App Store Upload Trouble With App Thinning: Tech Note 2432
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
If you’ve been experiencing issues trying to get your app to Apple in the past couple of days, you aren’t alone. We are hearing rumbles from around the Internet that Apple engineers might be fighting an issue surrounding bitcode (enabled or disabled) during app thinning. It’s something that I experienced myself over the past 24 hours.The message most are receiving looks...
How StreamSets Simplifies Setting Up New Ingest Pipelines
Friday, March 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Girish Pancha, CEO of Streamsets, to talk about how the company’s open source software is used to build and operate reliable ingest pipelines. StreamSets’ Data Collector is a low-latency ingest infrastructure tool that provides the ability to create continuous data ingest pipelines using a drag and drop UI within an integrated development enviro...
True App Personalization Is a Powerful New Engine for Customer Engagement
Thursday, April 9, 2015 by Dan Sines
Apps and a mobile-first world have put engaging user experiences at the top of the priority list for today’s smart, successful businesses. If your company doesn’t offer an intuitive, user-friendly app that delights the consumer based on the time, the place, and just as importantly, the person using it, you’ve lost a huge opportunity to build brand loyalty.Over the last ...
Every CIO Should Cross the App Delivery Chasm in 2015
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Gottfried Sehringer
Across all industries, companies are transforming their business with more multi-channel and customer facing apps. This trend is increasing pressure on IT teams to deliver more applications, quicker than ever before.A recent survey of nearly 500 IT and business professionals found that the business demand for custom applications is far greater than IT’s ability to deliv...
Why 2015 will be the year of Microsoft
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 by Ravi Bhatt
Over the past decade, Microsoft has developed a reputation for being slow and out of touch. They come up with a cool idea ahead of anyone else but let others get to market faster or execute better (the iPad, Google Docs, etc. ). Things weren’t always so bad for Microsoft. In the 90s, the company built a gigantic business by using smart tactics. Microsof...
GREE Launches Rage Of The Immortals Game Exclusive To Android
Saturday, March 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
GREE announced the release of Rage of the Immortals this week, an all-new
free-to-play role-playing game where winning means becoming the toughest
fighter on the block. Available exclusively on Android devices, Rage of the Immortals takes players to a
dark universe where people have superpowers and must use them to fight Hyperion,
Inc., an evil enterprise focused on...
Strategy Games Get Invaded with X Mercs: Invasion from Game Insight
Monday, March 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Game Insight has announced their latest title coming to mobile platforms in 2014, X-Mercs: Invasion. An epic turn-based strategy game that puts players in control of a military corporation intent on fighting off a vicious alien attack and saving humanity, X-Mercs: Invasion will deploy on iPad later this year. X-Mercs: Invasion takes place in 2040, at a time wh...
App Marketing, Stop Throwing Your Money at the Problem
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Inbar Chap
The value of marketing for app developers is undeniable. So
why do so many app developers find it tough to get on board the marketing train
early? It’s natural for the development process to take precedence, but as
competition between apps is strikingly high (Gartner says that 102 billion apps
were downloaded globally in 2013), developers should be fighting harder a...
