Connecting with people through remote contextual research
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 by Joy Wong Daniels
In product research and design circles, a contextual inquiry is a fancy term for doing research in a user’s natural environment while they go about their typical activities. It’s an essential research methodology product designers and user experience designers rely on, a type of field study that involves in-depth interviews and observations with a small samp...
Blockchain platform enters new development phase
Thursday, December 9, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Lisk, the blockchain network built for business adoption, will offer full interoperability with other layer 1 blockchain protocols. The company unveiled a raft of developmental milestones, culminating with the launch of Lisk Diamond, the ultimate phase of the Lisk interoperability roadmap, at its AmpliFire event in Berlin on December 2nd. Attendees were also a...
Huawei Developer Conference highlights
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 by Richard Harris
The annual Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (HDC 2021) recently returned, kicking off an eventful weekend filled with highly anticipated hardware and software launches, keynotes, and tech sessions.
The conference began with a bang, as five Huawei speakers affirmed their goal to forge a smart, safe and flourishing ecosystem alongside its partners in the opening keynot...
App tracking transparency and your API calls
Thursday, March 18, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature is billed as a win for consumer data rights, with Apple vying for leadership as a global defender of privacy. But regardless of whether it’s good for you or not, the move has the potential to seriously disrupt apps and APIs that depend on the Identifier for Advertisers or IDFA. What’s more, even if an app d...
Uncollateralized lending launched by TrustToken
Thursday, January 28, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
TrustToken launches TrueFi, the decentralized protocol for uncollateralized lending, hitting $35 million in total value locked within 24 hours of going live. The TrueFi protocol introduces a new approach to on-chain lending, letting TRU holders vote on incoming borrowers and uncollateralized loan requests; creating new ways for TrueCurrency users to generate stable, hig...
Real time engagement solution predictions for 2021 from Agora Inc
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
The need for enterprises big and small to take on a hybrid, custom-built brand identity – one rooted in the digital and the other in the physical – will continue to grow. Beyond the pandemic, it is crucial that businesses are able to maintain business continuity no matter what dive or turn the business landscape may take. More so, those still relying solely ...
Game development and Live Ops are evolving
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce.
While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...
Kadena announced a multi-protocol decentralized exchange
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Kadena announced a multi-protocol decentralized exchange (DEX) named Kadenaswap. Kadenaswap will utilize Kadena’s 20-chain sharded and scalable layer-1 public blockchain with 480,000 transactions per second capability. The company also announced community onboarding initiatives such as offering a free month of gas during October 2020, launching a developer en...
Escape the app launches live-gaming experience
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
A virtual reality-powered live video experience which allows gamers to participate in real escape rooms from anywhere in the world, will go live with its Kickstarter campaign to help the experience industry weather COVID-19 shutdowns.
Escape the App is an innovative mobile app which enhances the experience of playing real life escape rooms and virtual escape gam...
Self-learning technology for conversational AI from Boost ai
Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Boost.ai has released a self-learning technology for conversational AI. Developed and offered exclusively by boost.ai, self-learning AI overcomes the ‘cold start’ challenges of building and managing virtual agents with an automated system that intelligently analyzes and recommends both new conversational dialogs, as well as suggestions to improve existi...
Quras is now listed on BiKi
Monday, November 18, 2019 by Austin Harris
Quras has announced a partnership with BiKi. As of November 1st, Quras' native token (XQC) is listed and active on BiKi's trading platform. This strategic partnership strengthens Quras' position in the Asian market, expanding its market share through BiKi's large and growing user base of over 2 million people globally. Together, Quras and BiKi look to br...
Create dapps on Hedera Hashgraph platform through Open Access (OA)
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform, has announced Open Access (OA) to its mainnet beta. OA allows anyone from the general public to create accounts and any developer to build decentralized applications (dapps) on the Hedera Hashgraph platform. With hundreds of developers already building on the network over the last few months ...
Decentralized DevNet released into the wild from SKALE Labs
Friday, August 23, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
SKALE Labs announced the launch of the Fuji DevNet. The Fuji Devnet is a decentralized DevNet that is run by a global community of validators. It will go live with partnerships including top validators Blockware, Certus.One, Chorus One, Dokia, Figment Networks, Hashed, Staked, StakewithUs, and Stake X, as well as key infrastructure player Bison Trails.
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Bitcoin secured enterprise blockchain lands
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Komodo announced that Antara, an end-to-end “Smart Chain” development framework, has gone live. Antara allows developers to break away from the limitations of today’s single-chain blockchain platform architecture by enabling the creation of simple, scalable, modular, Smart Chains that are secured using the Bitcoin network through Komodo’s Delayed...
Apple is letting this app override devices on silent in emergencies
Thursday, April 4, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Hedge Tactical Solutions, a real-time emergency response technology, has reached an agreement with Apple Inc. to override the silent setting for its customers who have Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad. Just as all Apple devices emit a loud audible tone during specific events like an amber alert, all Hedge Tactical Solutions customers using Apple products will ...
Blockchain development with strong APIs
Monday, January 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
2018 was the year of blockchain “pilot” projects - where companies began to truly explore all of the possibilities of the technology. For example, in PwC’s 2018 survey of 600 executives, 84 percent said their organizations had at least some involvement with blockchain technology - but only 15 percent reported having gone live.
As we jump into 2019, ...
The Kin Foundation wants more app developers
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
The Kin Foundation, the nonprofit governance body for the cryptocurrency Kin, has announced the second Kin Developer Program, an initiative that awards Kin and fiat currency to select developers who successfully launch Kin-powered features in consumer apps.
Through the program, up to 100 consumer app developers will have the opportunity to integrate Kin using the new...
Vita finalizes secure NDA for public beta testers
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 by Austin Harris
Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. has announced the Company is finalizing its plans to begin public beta testing across the US. The Company has worked with its legal team to finalize a secure non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to be used with the select public beta testers. The VITA app has already been undergoing internal beta testing and utilizing large social media influencers a...
Live streaming your game to get paid
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobcrush has unveiled its new ‘Go Live, Get Paid’ platform, a set of free tools and features that enable any mobile gamer to reach and grow an audience, where they can earn anything from $15 to $2,500 an hour for live streaming their gameplay. A new survey conducted by an analyst firm DFC Intelligence and commissioned by Mobcrush found that while only 14 percent of game...
Triple T transport goes live with Trucker Tools
Monday, February 26, 2018 by Austin Harris
Triple T Transport has gone live with Smart Capacity, a freight matching and carrier connectivity platform from Trucker Tools. Over the past several months, Triple T conducted an evaluation of freight-matching and trucker connectivity portals as part of a strategic technology assessment. At issue was a decision of how to invest in or build technologies that would suppor...
Ethereum blockchain meets the real estate market
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
ShelterZoom has announced that its blockchain-based online offer and acceptance platform for the real estate industry has gone live in the U.S. Other major international markets - including Canada, Australia, Europe, and countries in the Middle East - are set to go live in the first quarter of 2018.Built to be Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) data dictionary-co...
ShopAdvisor introduces version 3.0 of its API
Thursday, September 7, 2017 by Austin Harris
ShopAdvisor, Inc, has announced the general availability of Version 3.0 of the ShopAdvisor API. Version 3.0 is faster, more efficient, and more accurate at returning the information needed to power campaigns that provide each consumer with a personalized shopping experience on their smartphone. Brands use the API to power campaigns that engage the shopper intelligently ...
Why Texas Humor selected the Shopgate mobile commerce platform
Thursday, July 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Shopgate has announced Texas Humor, a clothing brand that emphasizes Texas pride, selected their mobile commerce platform solution to develop an enhanced mobile shopping application for its customer base. The mobile app allows Texas Humor to further connect with customers through advanced features including push notifications, abandoned cart reminders and exclusive mobi...
Why brands will pay top dollar for your inapp inventory
Thursday, June 8, 2017 by Dan Laughlin
Ad fraud is expected to cost brands over $16 billion this year. The industry is on edge, and brand safety is a top concern. This is especially true after Fortune 500 advertisers discovered their ads appearing next to inappropriate content on Google’s Youtube.The industry has been working on solutions to curb ad fraud and increase brand safety, and yet the problem grows ...
Many fintech DevOps are not enforcing security
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 by Austin Harris
Venafi has announced the results of a study on the cryptographic security practices of DevOps teams in the financial services industry. Cryptographic security risks are amplified in DevOps settings, where compromises in development or test environments can spread to production systems and applications. This is a particular issue for financial services organizations, whi...
How Webscale's Application Delivery Platform Supports Rapid Deployment
Sunday, May 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Andrew Humber, Head of Marketing at Webscale, to learn about recent updates to the company’s application delivery platform. ADM: Describe Webscale’s technology.Humber: Webscale gives e-commerce and enterprise customers complete control over their web applications, delivering infinite scalability, high performance, security and monitoring in...
Cape Integrates Facebook Live API to Drove Video Technology
Saturday, April 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cape announced that it has integrated its drone video technology with the newly launched Facebook Live API to live stream high-quality aerial video directly to Facebook. Cape's enterprise iPad application controls drone flights and streams live footage to licensed pilots overseeing the operation.The integration with the Facebook Live API will allow Cape custom...
Latest Manage InApp Advertising SDK Optimized for iOS 9
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
In-app advertising platform Manage has released the latest version of its SDK (v.3.3) which has been optimized for iOS 9. It also extends an app publishers’ ability to serve and monetize in-app ads, including video and new Multi-Image ad units. The latest release cuts the size of the SDK by as much as 35 percent.The updated SDK provides access to Manage’s mobile supply-...
Why Application Performance Testing Fails
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by Steve Antonoff
Much has been written about the complexity of application performance testing. The breadth and scope required to effectively test application architecture and transaction flow can make it a daunting effort, especially with service-oriented architectures where hundreds or even thousands of third-party services and components are added to the mix. Nevertheless, while...
New XL TestView Offers Software Test Results Management and Analysis
Friday, June 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs new XL TestView offers a software test results management and analysis platform that enables users to collect results from a number of testing tools in a central location, providing the ability to aggregate test results across multiple testing tools, analyze results and execute automated test jobs from one central dashboard.XL TestView supports functional test...
Google Expands Mobile App Testing Options with New Cloud Test Labs
Monday, June 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has announced the upcoming release of its new Cloud Test Labs service as part of its cloud platform. Coming later this summer, the new service will allow developers to test on virtual and real devices worldwide.For virtual testing, Google provides almost every brand, model and version of devices in a variety of languages, orientations and network conditions aroun...
An Overview of Delivering Microservices Based Applications
Friday, March 20, 2015 by Andrew Phillips
Big apps may still have their place, but the software development landscape is shifting, presenting new opportunities and challenges to overcome. As the Internet of Things gathers pace, a service-orientated architecture (SOA) or microservices approach is starting to make sense for many organizations. Microservices is a software architecture that favors small, decoupled,...
Acision Releases New APIs and SDKs for Its Forge Cloud Messaging Platform
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Acision has announced several enhancements to be available in its newest release of the forge by Acision platform, which provides a suite of APIs and SDKs for enterprise cloud-based messaging, voice and video.Included is a new self-service developer portal providing access to the forge SDK, APIs and A2P messaging services. After signing up for an account, enterprise dev...
An Introduction to Performance Testing in a Continuous Delivery Environment
Monday, December 1, 2014 by Caleb Billingsley
Increasingly for all applications, but especially for mobile apps, performance is king. We have entered an era of near-zero user tolerance for poor or slow performing applications. Complicating matters, applications are becoming increasingly complex, and most rely upon multiple third-party components and services. In many cases, these services are interdependent upon on...
The Tug of War Between Responsive and Native Design
Friday, September 19, 2014 by Sawyer Bateman
Let me start by saying there will always be tension between native and responsive design. As long as native operating systems are pushing the bounds of what's possible on a specific device, there will be responsive apps trying to keep up with that functionality. However, deciding what's best for your business or project isn't so simple as picking the best technology.&nb...
