Developer relations teams in 2022
Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
As the Director of Developer Relations at Mindee, Frederic Harper helps developers merge the physical and digital worlds using the magic of machine learning coupled with the ease of APIs. He’s helped build successful communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit, and is the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Harper di...
Why blockchain is the future
Friday, January 15, 2021 by Richard Harris
The fears from the pandemic have naturally placed more focus on wearables helping us monitor our health, fitness, and keeping us better connected.
Companies such as Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and others are flooding the market with health and fitness devices to help mankind to stay healthy and happier. I believe we will see even more companies entering this space and mo...
Code Cube can teach coding concepts to kids
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
The cube you see attached to students' wrists with LED images scrolling across the screen and beeping a little ditty? Oh, the students coded that themselves.
Pitsco Education's newest creation, Code Cube, is perfect for presenting coding concepts to boys and girls at the upper-elementary level. The wearable tech learning tool offers teachers and students a tr...
Gamification can transform your software security program
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Pieter Danhieux
No matter the organization, or indeed their individual circumstances, there is one problem I have identified time and time again over the course of my career: AppSec managers, CISOs, CIOs and cybersecurity experts all over the world are rarely able to positively engage their dev teams on security best practice and training. It’s a source of conflict between teams,...
IFTTT report shows we love talking to connected devices
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
Almost everything is connected, or wants to be. Taking a stroll down the isles of any electronics store and it’s not so much about the device can do by itself anymore, but what it can do online. I can testify personally that 80% of my own home is connected now. My electric source has two amp-clamps on it that report live power usage back to me. Most of our lighting...
The smart home effect on IIoT facilities
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 by Saar Yoskovitz
The backbone of many science fiction plots just a few short years ago - smart machines, homes and cities - are now all around us thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). Fitbits track and analyze physical attributes from stairs climbed to quality of sleep. By simply saying “Alexa,” Amazon Echo can deliver you with today’s weather forecast or play your favorite music as y...
Virtual reality gambling expected to grow 800 percent by 2021
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by Paul Swaddle
How virtual reality will transport casino players and their friends to exciting locations for their online gambling experience.With the advances in technology and the corresponding growth in interest from major key players, VR is now in a position where the market can finally take off. Juniper released its study late last year into augmented reality across multi platfor...
Predictions for Apple Watch, ObjectiveC, Google, and the rise of Snapchat
Thursday, December 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Predictions by Alexander Stigsen, the CEO and co-founder of Realm
By the end of 2017, the Apple Watch will still have a very small and uninteresting ecosystem of apps. It won’t be until the next generation of Watch - Series 3 in maybe late 2017 before the Watch platform is sufficiently powerful to attract significant third-party applications...
New app records your snoring then gives you a report to help you stop it
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Snore Metrics has launched Snore Report - an iPhone app aimed at monitoring sleep and snoring. Snore Report will allow FitBit integration, and is available for download in the Apple App Store for free right now, with Android launching in the spring of 2017.
The app works by recording your sleep overnight. In the morning, the app provides a "Snore Score" as...
Why Hasn't the Internet of Things Taken Off and How Can It
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Manav Khurana
Nest thermostats, Hue light bulbs, Fitbit fitness trackers – these and a number of competing devices are the kinds of Internet of Things applications to reach the general public. That’s solid progress if you compare today’s IoT to where it was 5 years ago, when it was primarily the domain of enthusiasts, but it’s a long way from the kind of ubiquity we see in the m...
Wearable Technology Adoption is Higher in the US than in the EU4
Friday, May 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Kantar has launched a new quarterly report for the wearable technology market. In the first report Kantar examined baseline data which shows significant differences in wearable adoption when comparing the US and the EU4.Kantar reports that, as of March 2016, around one in ten consumers in the US own a fitness band or smartwatch (12.2%), basically twice the penetration w...
Built.io Adds New Updates to its Flow Enterprise Application Integration Platform
Saturday, February 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io has introduced new functionality for its Built.io Flow Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) which creates workflows and automates business processes for connected sensors, devices, systems and applications across mobile, web and IoT.Built.io now has over 400 integrations to Built.io Flow’s library, enabling drag-and-drop automation for services ranging fro...
Hacking into Health Wearables
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Eugene Jorov
Today’s wearable market is dominated by a handful of large companies whose narrow focus on fitness is preventing the public from reaping the potential health benefits of wearable technology. Currently, only engineers that work for industry giants, such as FitBit and Apple, have the opportunity to fully tap into wearable technology’s capabilities. Moreover, the sens...
Apple Watch Rapidly Moving to Dominate Wearable Market
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple’s first foray into the wearables market is just more proof of the company’s dominance in mobile technology as it is now second in total worldwide wearable sales in the latest the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. According to the IDC, Apple shipped a total of 3.6 million units in the second quarter of 201...
EMM Report Says There Is A lot More Wearable Android Tech Being Used
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Wearables may help identify power mobile app users according to a new study from Nielsen. The findings from the analysis shows that owners of Android-powered wearables are highly engaged smartphone users who access a variety of apps and use significantly more data than average Android users.The analysis used Electronic Mobile Measurement (EMM), Nielsen’s on-de...
Salesforce Offers Enterprise Developers New Salesforce Wear Developer Pack
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
The new Salesforce Wear Developer Pack is a collection of open-source starter apps that lets developers design and build wearable apps that connect to the Salesforce1 Platform. The Wear Developer Pack is now generally available and is included with all user licenses of Salesforce CRM and the Salesforce Platform.Salesforce Wear is building in support for devices which ca...
