Network API development in 2025
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 by Mikko Jarva
There is a shift occurring in the telecommunications sector as network operators develop network-as-a-service (NaaS) offers—essentially, offering the extensive capabilities of their wide-area wired and wireless networks as programmable platforms to support public cloud and private enterprise applications.
How a holistic approach can drive higher-value net...
API Summit 2024 speakers announced by Kong
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc., a developer of cloud API technologies, has announced the speaker line up and agenda for its seventh annual API Summit on September 11-12. The virtual event will feature speakers from companies like Siemens Energy, Ubisoft and Rabobank as well as representatives from financial services, banking, e-commerce, healthcare and other industry influencers leveraging ...
GSMA Open Gateway and CAMARA initiatives
Friday, August 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia is pursuing a strategic commitment to leverage the broader B2B digitalization ecosystem and drive new business models that unlock the potential that network APIs can deliver from the perspective of innovation, sustainability, collaboration, and productivity.
By making network programmability monetizable, the company’s flagship API solution, the Netwo...
Network exposure platform from Nokia
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Nokia announced Network Exposure Platform, a new software offering that will expand and simplify the number of APIs available to operators, their partners, and customer channels to enable the creation of network powered applications for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
Nokia Network Exposure Platform (NEP) is the first implementation of the&...
Automate native app testing with Applitools new test cloud
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Applitools announced the most revolutionary advancement in automated testing for native mobile apps in over a decade at Future of Testing: Mobile event. Applitools previewed its Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile, which provides the ability to run functional and visual tests faster, more reliably, and more securely via its unique Visual AI powered Ultrafast Test Clo...
Low power cellular IoT chipset launched by Sony
Thursday, February 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony) announced the launch of the Altair ALT1255, a new low-power NB2 chipset. The ALT1255 is 5G ready, designed with an integrated SIM (iSIM), user MCU, rich application layer, and GSM/GPRS fallback modem.
The ALT1255 chipset empowers device manufacturers to develop low-power, cost-sensitive connected devices at a global scale to mo...
Mobile edge computing predictions for 2021 from FogHorn
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Today, many warehouse and logistics operations are under pressure to significantly reduce order-to-delivery timelines, driven by increasing consumer demand and expectations. To help organizations meet these vastly accelerated timelines and improve operational visibility, industrial mobile devices, equipped with specialized applications, will make it possible to track an...
5G meets IoT with Telit's New ME310G1 and ME910G1 modules
Monday, July 1, 2019 by Richard Harris
Telit announced the ME310G1 and ME910G1 modules, designed for mass-scale LTE-M and NB-IoT deployments that feature hundreds of thousands or millions of devices. Based on the new Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem and featuring optional 2G fallback, the modules also provide a future-proof foundation for IoT deployments that span legacy networks, 4G and 5G.
The ME310G1 and M...
Edge computing solution for industrial mobile devices arrives
Friday, March 29, 2019 by Richard Harris
FogHorn released Lightning Mobile, an edge computing solution built specifically for industrial mobile devices.
According to GSMA Intelligence, Industrial IoT connections will overtake consumer IoT connections in 2023, increasing more than five-fold to 13.8 billion in 2025. This is driven by a number of factors, including the emergence of LTE-M, NB-IoT, and...
How the US Government shutdown could effect your app
Friday, January 11, 2019 by Richard Harris
The impacts of the US Government being offline are obvious to the daily operations of the National parks, security agencies, and other federally funded offices. But it doesn't stop there. Techcrunch recently reported how this shutdown (close to the longest running in history), is affecting IPO ready companies, and Karen Hao, a reporter for MIT Technology Review rece...
Mobile game developer help is coming to Barcelona
Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Austin Harris
Tilting Point has opened a studio in Barcelona to better serve Europe’s robust mobile game development community, "as part of its mission to help quality games reach their potential scale." The move builds on the company’s momentum on the heels of its recent commitment to invest $132M annually to help developers scale great games to success. The Ba...
Device API access control gets easier with new MNO tool
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 by Austin Harris
GlobalPlatform has defined a specification that enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to access certain aspects of the mobile device operating system (OS), which are by default not accessible for security reasons. The specification has received input and support from MNO industry body GSMA and device manufacturers, who recognize that MNOs need this advanced access to ...
Carriers team up to provide better mobile authentication
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Austin Harris
Mobile users are faced with the challenge of managing dozens of difficult-to-remember passwords for many applications. Even with the best user practices, hackers can social engineer passwords from users, leaving consumers and enterprises vulnerable to identity theft, bank fraud, fraudulent purchases and data theft.To help tackle this issue, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile an...
PacketZoom expands its offerings to SEA
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Slow app speeds are a major problem for Southeast Asia, where a recent Digitimes report found that 3G/4G mobile broadband Internet access was expected to reach just 60% in Southeast Asia in 2017, compared to 81% for the United States and more than 90% for countries such as Japan and South Korea. PacketZoom’s own Mobile Observatory report also found a high number of netw...
AdaptiveMobile Adds SS7 Cat 3 Detection Capabilities to Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
AdaptiveMobile has announced advanced SS7 “Cat 3” Signalling Protection detection capabilities to its Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform including Network Memory, Location Plausibility, and Remote Intercept. The Company’s advanced threat detection is based on continuous data and analysis with all rules validated with information from across five continents. Adapt...
Qualcomm Releases New Snapdragon Wear 1100 Processor for Smart Wearables
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Qualcomm has released a new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 1100 processor for the targeted-purpose wearables segments such as connected kid and elderly watches, fitness trackers, smart headsets, and wearable accessories. The Snapdragon Wear 1100 processor joins the Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor, which is designed for multi-purpose wearables.Snapdragon Wear 1100 provides the ...
New NBIoT Consortium to Promote Narrow Band Internet of Things
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Yet another IoT play is in motion as a new NB-IoT consortium has been announced by a group of telecom industry heavyweights including Huawei, Qualcomm, Vodafone and others.The formation of the new NB-IoT forum is aimed at promoting the ecosystem around Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology. NB-IoT is a solution for deployment of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) n...
WyzBee Offers a New End to End IoT Platform for Device Makers
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Redpine Signals has launched the WyzBee platform, a new IoT platform for device makers that includes a flexible hardware platform, development environment and cloud software and services framework. The WyzBee IoT platform provides the opportunity to reduce the time it takes to develop and bring to market new IoT devices by providing integrated sensing, computing, c...
GSMA's Mobile IoT Initiative Wants You to Develop Using LPWA Solutions
Sunday, August 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The GSMA announced that it has established the ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’, a new project backed by a number of mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies, whose goal is to address the use of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum. The GSMA is a trade organization representing the interests of nearly 800 mobile operators inc...
MediaTek Labs Releases IoT and Wearable Development Platform
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
MediaTek Labs has released the MediaTek LinkIt Assist 2502 development platform designed for advanced developers looking for a professional environment in which to design and prototype software and hardware for consumer-ready wearables and IoT devices. The LinkIt Assist 2502 consists of four components: a Software Development Kit (SDK) plug-in for the Eclipse IDE, ...
Arduino IDE 1.6.0 Released Plus Arduino Day Events to Be Held On March 27
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Arduino, an open-source electronics platform based on hardware and software interactive projects, has released IDE 1.6.0 after two years of development. The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) facilitates writing code and uploading it to Arduino board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux and the environment is written in Java. You can see the complete rundown of upda...
Happy Birthday SMS Messaging!
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
December 3, 2014 is the anniversary for the first SMS text message ever sent. SMS was created in the 1980s and didn’t take off until user experience was improved in the later part of the 90s and early 2000s. It was developed as part of the GSM standard. The growth of SMS today is predicted to drive A2P (application-to-person) messaging for both users and enterprises bei...
MediaTeck Labs Launches Platform to Allow Developers to Create Wearable and IoT Devices
Monday, September 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
MediaTek has launched MediaTek Labs, a program that allows developers to create wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The new platform provides developers, makers and service providers with software development kits (SDKs), hardware development kits (HDKs), and technical documentation, as well as technical and business support.The MediaTek Labs develo...
Load Impact Releases Cloud Based App Load Testing Software as a Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Load Impact has released its cloud-based load testing Software as a Service for mobile apps, APIs and websites that can simulate traffic generated from a variety of mobile operating systems, popular browsers, and mobile networks including 3G, GSM and LTE.According to the company only about half of companies with mobile sites or apps today currently test their mobile cod...
Want To Make a High Quality App Avoid These Top 10 App Fails
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Martin Wrigley
As the app stores become more crowded than ever, making money from apps
is increasingly difficult for developers. In fact analyst house Gartner is
predicting that through
to 2018 less than 0.01% of consumer mobile apps will be
considered a financial success by their developers. Consumers are spending mere
seconds deciding on which app to download and reviews are ma...
Will the Newly Announced Blackphone Be the Secure Answer for Enterprise (And Consumer) Mobile
Monday, January 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
NSA concerns, Target data breaches, and the list goes on. Concerns about the security of information for consumers (at least at the individual level) might be a relatively new phenomenon, but security for enterprise has been around as long as IT has been in existence. Is now the time where privacy concerns are so great that consumer demand for secure data might eclipse ...
Firefox for Android Included on Two New Devices
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Mozilla has announced that Firefox for Android will be preinstalled on two new mobile devices this year. Firefox for Android will be included on the new Kobo Arc Tablets and the GIGABYTE GSmart Simba SX1 smartphone.
Firefox for Android will be preinstalled on the new Kobo Arc 7, Kobo Arc 7HD and Kobo Arc 10HD tablets from Kobo, an eReading company. The Kobo Arc tablets...
MWC 2013 Nokia highlights and awards
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
If MWC were the Oscars, no doubt Nokia would be one of the most talked about winners of the night! They had many new announcements at the show, and walked away with several awards. Here are the highlights.AnnouncementsOn Monday they introduced the Nokia Lumia 520, the Nokia Lumia 720, the Nokia 301 and the Nokia 105. They also announced the HERE suite (HERE Maps, H...
