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AI automation to simplify developers roles in 2025

Friday, January 3, 2025 by Richard Harris

As we look ahead to 2025, Sacha Labourey, co-founder of CloudBees, predicts that AI automation will revolutionize developer roles. Shifting from task automation to full workflow management, AI will simplify developers' workloads, streamline security and compliance tasks, and reduce inefficiencies caused by fragmented tools. Labourey emphasizes the importance of unif...

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 ...

Ontology partners with bloXmove

Tuesday, November 23, 2021 by Richard Harris

Ontology, the project bringing trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions, has announced a partnership with bloXmove, a business-to-business mobility blockchain platform designed to simplify travel across multiple forms of transportation by connecting mobility apps and reducing the need for users to switch between them. The...

Cloud and the future of work

Saturday, January 9, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Transformation is inevitable. CDOs who can build a factory of data products and bring value in digital transformation to their shifting businesses will be heroes. They will be the people who extend an olive branch to technical audiences because data products cannot be built without technical support. The CDO will have a dual role in their company, fostering a good relat...

HeadSpin acquires performance testing company and launches new tools

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 by Richard Harris

In an email to ADM, HeadSpin said they have acquired application performance testing company NimbleDroid. Effective immediately, HeadSpin will integrate the NimbleDroid functional performance testing tools into its core platform and all employees will join HeadSpin including NimbleDroid co-founder and CEO Junfeng Yang, who has been named Chief Scientist of HeadSpin...

Running applications directly from Cohesity now possible

Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris

Cohesity announced new capabilities that empower enterprises to run applications from Cohesity as well as third parties directly on the Cohesity DataPlatform. This milestone is a big step forward in empowering enterprises to derive insights from their most valuable business asset, their data. This is the first time that enterprises are able to run applications ...

How to make testing apps easier using HeadSpin

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 by Richard Harris

New device launches are exciting for consumers, but a lot happens behind the scenes. New devices mean new device-OS configurations. App developers have to scramble to understand how their apps will perform under new circumstances. This cannot be taken for granted, because a few seconds of additional app load time means millions of lost revenue. New device launches put a...

Common mobile app testing mistakes to avoid

Friday, December 7, 2018 by Rob Mason

Consumers downloaded more than 175 billion mobile apps in 2017. The cost of developing a mobile app can exceed $1 million, with the median cost falling in the range of $100,000 to $500,000. Multiply those numbers together and it’s apparent that a startling amount of resources are spent yearly on mobile app development. The bad news? Most of those resources are ...

IoT security standards to come with Sprint Curiosity IoT

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Richard Harris

Sprint has unveiled the Curiosity IoT platform, a new standard in how IoT is managed and secured. Enterprises will now be able to manage IoT devices and connectivity over the air across multiple SIM profiles. Intelligence from device data will be generated instantly through the dedicated, distributed and virtualized core, built together with the new operating system. An...

The Twilio API for WhatsApp is now available

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Austin Harris

Twilio has announced the Twilio API for WhatsApp that lets Twilio customers message with their users via WhatsApp for the first time. Twilio removes the operational overhead of managing and scaling WhatsApp for developers, making it a fast and reliable way for businesses to start communicating with the more than 1.5 billion users of WhatsApp. With one API, develope...

For gaming companies data unification is critical

Monday, March 19, 2018 by Dan Schoenbaum

When it comes to understanding the entirety of player behavior, one thing that often gets in the way is data fragmentation. Gaming companies often have customer data stored across multiple systems, platforms, and software, resulting in a “siloed” model that fails to create a complete picture of the player journey.The good news is that behavioral analytics technology is ...

The battle of biometric security coming in 2018

Friday, November 3, 2017 by Kevin Tussy

Fingerprint sensors first appeared in smart devices in 2007 and then gained momentum as a 4-digit PIN code replacement in 2013's Apple iPhone 5S. Hailed as the future of authentication by some, fingerprint's security weaknesses were quickly exposed by the children of sleepy dads, cats' paws and gummy bears. Still, the lure of convenience today and the promise of securit...

Investing in websites instead of apps

Thursday, October 26, 2017 by Shioupyn Shen

Since the dawn of the first iPhone, Apple has been shaping the mobile narrative to suit its interests. Apple is able to maintain its dominance over the mobile market by brainwashing much of the technology industry into thinking that businesses need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars creating and maintaining mobile apps to reach their target audiences. In fact, up...

How to choose an Android HTTP Library

Monday, June 5, 2017 by Leanid Vovk

Today almost every Android app uses HTTP/HTTPS requests as the main transport for transferring data. Even if you're not using HTTP directly, you may be using multiple SDKs that rely on HTTP for networking, such as analytics, crash reporting and ads. So it’s fair to say that HTTP is the ubiquitous, and perhaps even obvious, choice for data transfers. But choosing HTTP in...

Apps will soon have to be compatible with over 100 devices

Friday, February 24, 2017 by Richard Harris

The Mobile World Congress 2017 has prompted AppFutura to release a report with keys to create a mobile app with the collaboration of development companies worldwide. Main conclusions show that apps will have to be more dynamic and adapt to the increasing number of devices and technologies available, still far from the mobile market full potential.Mobile applications hav...

Unified Experience Design: Solving XD's blindside

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 by Demian Entrekin

Any of us would be hard pressed today to find a consumer-facing brand that doesn’t espouse to “design thinking,” putting the consumer experience at the center of product development. Most people are on board with the concept that quality user experience, particularly for -- but by no means limited to -- digital experiences, drives sales and customer retention. This is w...

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...

How The Linux Foundation's ODPi Initiative is Advancing Apache Hadoop and Big Data

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 by Richard Harris

The ODPi initiative focuses on promoting and advancing the state of Apache Hadoop and Big Data technologies for the enterprise. It is a collaborative project of the Linux Foundation, which hosts a number of collaborative software projects and provide the organizational, promotional and technical infrastructure needed to make the projects successful.We recently visited w...

Testing Processes within App Development Agencies

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Martin Poschenrieder

Over the past couple of years I have worked with both traditional “in-house” app development teams, and with several app development companies that focus on client projects, which I will call ‘app agencies’. From my experience and dialogue with both parties, I have seen that app agencies have their own development and testing challenges, compared with in-house developme...

The Top Emerging Trends for Mobile Programmatic Advertising

Thursday, January 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

We recently visited with Josh Stivers, a mobile strategist for AerServ, to get his insights for mobile programmatic advertising in 2016. ADM: What are the biggest trends you expect to see in programmatic for 2016?Stivers: Video will continue to be the big story in 2016, as more consumers switch from TV and desktop to mobile and connected devices for their favorite ...

AppDynamics Weighs In with PostCES Insight

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson

To get insight into how trends at CES will impact the app development community, we reached out to Prathap Dendi, General Manager for Emerging Technologies at AppDynamics, who has been active in implementing ways to increase the software footprint in the Internet of Things. Dendi most recently was Vice President, General Manager at Electric Cloud, where he helped i...

Choosing Your Next Industrial Mobility OS

Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Mark Kirstein

With Windows Mobile and CE About to Sunset, Android and Windows 10 are Tomorrow’s Top OptionsToday’s mobile operating system landscape presents choices for industrial enterprises when it comes to selecting the platform upon which their applications should be built. When you think about a global enterprise distributing internal mobile solutions, you’re talking about...

A is for Alphabet and Android M is for Marshmallow

Friday, August 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson

Following on the heals of its announcement of a corporate restructuring and new Alphabet name, Google gets back to more mundane technical pronouncements with the release of the official Android 6.0 SDK and reveal of the Marshmallow designation as the company opens up Google Play for publishing apps that target the new API level 23 in Android Marshmallow.For most develop...

Android Fragmentation Continues to Challenge App Developers

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by Richard Harris

Is your Android app ready to take on over 24,000 different devices? According to its most recent report on Android fragmentation, OpenSignal tracked the downloads of the OpenSignal app over the last two months and found over 24,000 distinct devices have access to a developer’s Android app, making optimization a nightmare. The company reports that in two years Android fr...

Cisco, AirWatch and Others Lead ACE Tech Consortium to Create Industry Standards for Enterprise App Deployment

Monday, March 9, 2015 by Richard Harris

AirWatch, Box, Cisco, Workday and Xamarin are leading a consortium of companies who are attempting to create an industry standard for enterprise app deployment. The new App Configuration for Enterprise (ACE) consortium is attempting to create a standard, scalable way to configure and secure enterprise apps.ACE leverages the latest APIs available from Android and Apple i...

Lessons From the Consumer App Gold Rush: How Enterprise Mobile App Developers Can Succeed

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by David Lavenda

Developers continue flocking to mobile applications, and for good reason; according to investment bank Digi-Capital, mobile app revenues could reach $70 billion by 2017. On the other hand, most of these developers are struggling and need to accept that the consumer app Gold Rush is over. Some apps continue to defy reason and explode seemingly overnight (think&...

50 Percent of CIO's Say App Development Takes Too Long

Friday, November 21, 2014 by Richard Harris

Kinvey, an enterprise Backend as a Services (BaaS) provider shared its latest report revealing that over half (56 percent) of companies spend 7 months to 1 year developing a single app, and close to 20 percent spend more than $500K on each app developed. The main challenge identified is that CIOs believe that app development is too time consuming. The report reveal...

Sencha Expands JavaScript Tools that Leverage Cross Platform HTML5 Mobile App Development

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

Sencha has released Sencha Space 1.2, an application management platform to deploy, audit, and secure cross-platform HTML5 applications on supported desktop, tablet, and smartphones.Sencha as a company provides and supports JavaScript tools and platforms that leverage HTML5 to deliver solutions for desktops, smartphones, tablets and more. Sencha Space 1.2 provides addit...

Someone Actually Created a Developer Checklist of Which SDK's To Use

Friday, September 12, 2014 by Richard Harris

Remember back in 2007 when mobile app development was easy? At least it seemed that way because there was only one platform (mainstream anyway) and few choices to actually code and publish an app with.Today is another story. The tools available to developers grows daily, and sometimes it seems there are as many developer resources as there are apps in the app stores. Th...

Google and Android Are Not the Same... and That’s a Good Thing

Monday, July 28, 2014 by Terry Hughes

Android and Google may seem synonymous with each other, but they are actually quite different. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is an open-source software stack for any device, from smartphones to tablets to wearables, created by Google. Google Mobile Services (GMS), on the other hand, are different. GMS are a range of Google-branded services that Google want...

Creating a Rich Second Screen Experience

Saturday, July 19, 2014 by Sean Bowen

We've reached the point with “second screen” viewing where the term itself may even be outdated. Most U.S. consumers today use a mobile device while simultaneously watching television – only 12 percent of tablet users and 14 percent of smartphone users are the exception, according to Nielsen. Is it time to just accept that there's no longer anything "secondar...

Asia is a Gold Mine for Android App Developers and Here's Why

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Paolo Rizzardini

The Asian consumer and the smartphoneThe Asian market has a strong affection for smartphones, tablets and all manner of other internet-enabled devices, more so than any other region in the world. In a recent survey (Milward Brown AdReaction: “ the daily distribution of Screen-Minutes across countries” published in KPCB report) that analyzed the time consumers spend...

New Version of Ludei CocoonJS Provides PhoneGap Alternative for Developers to Compile HTML5 Apps

Saturday, April 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson

Ludie has announced CocoonJS 2.0, the latest version of its platform which allows developers to compile HTML5 apps.With CocoonJS 2.0 developers can compile their project in the Canvas+, Ludie’s accelerated canvas to accelerate a game, or WebView+, the Chromium-based WebView able to run DOM-based games and apps. This allows developers to take advantage of each ...

Hybrid Web Applications: The Best of All Worlds for Mobile Application Development

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Tuukka Ahoniemi

Mobile application developers face a dilemma. The mobile device landscape is fragmented and fast-moving. To be sure of covering as much of the market as possible, applications need to support multiple operating system environments, such as Android, iOS and BlackBerry OS. But these environments have different architectures and application programming interfaces (API...