SWORD attached smartphone device can detect weapons and explosives
Thursday, June 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
The urgent challenge for security personnel to noninvasively scan people in real time and in public to detect and “see” if they are carrying weapons or explosives without physically searching them could soon be solved with the launch of SWORD by Royal Holdings Technologies Corporation (Royal Holdings).
SWORD attaches to a Google Pixel 2 XL smartphone and ...
Android devices fail twice as much as iOS devices says new report
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Each quarter, mobile experts compare the features and performance of iOS and Android smartphones. In the third quarter of 2017, Apple’s iPhones came out victorious in the battle, with the Android device failure rate (30 percent) being nearly double that of the iOS device failure rate (16 percent), according to the Q3 2017 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health re...
Androids failing at double the rate of iPhones
Thursday, September 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the two main players in the mobile space, the Android and iOS operating systems are at constant odds with one another for market share and performance. In the second quarter of 2017, Android devices struggled to keep pace with the performance of iPhones. In fact, Android devices had a failure rate worldwide of 25 percent - that is more than double the failure rate of...
What the iPhone X and iOS 11 mean to app developers
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
The excitement of Apple launch day always reminds me of the Willy Wonka “opening of the gates”, you know - where the public gets a peek inside Apple's secret factory for a brief moment. But this year the Apple event feels a bit different. Maybe it’s the recent leaks, maybe it’s because we all know Apple is facing a ceiling of innovation they have to punch through - and ...
Newzoo offers insight into the app market with new survey report
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Global market intelligence firm Newzoo has announced the release of its first Global Mobile Market Report, a unique publication on the global mobile ecosystem, including global app revenues and forecasts, device brand market share, smartphone penetration, and consumer profiling.
According to the report, global app revenues will reach $44.8 billion in 2016...
Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Allows Developers to Build Delphi and C++ iOS Apps
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Hot on the heals of its recent release of version 9 of the RAD Studio Seattle rapid application development platform (offering support of iOS 9), Embarcadero Technologies has released RAD Studio 10 which allows developers to build Delphi and C++ iOS applications that will run on iOS 9 32-bit and 64-bit devices, with debugging support for both.RAD Studio offers a softwar...
Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio Now Supports iOS 9
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has launched the latest version of its RAD Studio 10 Seattle cross platform application development platform now offering support for iOS 9. Using RAD Studio 10 Seattle, developers can build Delphi and C++ iOS applications that will run on iOS 9 32-bit and 64-bit devices, with debugging support for both. RAD Studio provides the ability for ...
innerexile’s Self Healing Cell Phone Case is Best Tech I’ve Seen in a While
Saturday, May 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Self healing technology? Who thought I would want that in a cell phone case. Yet anyone who gets one of innerexile’s transparent self-healing protective cases is going to do the same thing I did – scratch it to see it heal itself! It’s pretty remarkable to watch and it happens so quickly you have to do it over and over again just to believe what’s really going on.So how...
Phablets Owners Are Overtaking Android Says New Flurry Report
Monday, May 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
A recent study into the impact of the iPhone 6 Plus by Flurry has shown that Phablet owners are becoming a dominant category for app consumption, but the big impact has been on Android device ownership. Flurry recently examined 1.6 billion devices it tracks every month to explore usage by screen size. Flurry focused on the top 875 devices which accounted for 87 per...
iPhone 6 Plus Gains in Market Share in US and China Could Boost App Downloads
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The iPhone 6 Plus is starting to flex its muscles and prove that bigger is better as it gains market share in the US and China.Applovin has released its latest Data Desk figures, concentrating on the impact of the iPhone 6 Plus market share in the two countries. They point out that there are a couple of interesting trends that happened: 1) iPhone sales in the December q...
Google's New YouTube Show For Developers
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google just introduced its new YouTube series for mobile app developers. Its new Route 85 series is just for developers who are looking to learn about developing using iOS. There are even a Dev.Bytes shows featuring the Google Cast introduction to the SDK. Dev.Bytes series on YouTube also feature shows such as Developing an Android Wear Watch Face, Android Wea...
Americans Think iPhone 6 Will Not Be Available For Holiday Shopping
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Americans are in belief that hot gift items such as the iPhone 6 will not be available for this holiday shopping season. Among a recent survey conducted, 42% of Americans believe the iPhone 6 will be unavailable, 33% of Americans believe the iPhone 6 Plus (33%) will be unavailable as well as other results for devices such as the Xbox One Console (24%), Samsung Galaxy S5...
iPhone 6 Plus Versus iPhone 6: Why iPhone 6 Plus Wins While iOS 8 Adoption Still Lags
Friday, November 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
The results are in! AppLovin conducted a recent Data Desk report of the iPhone 6 versus the iPhone 6 Plus usage and the iOS 7 adoption versus iOS 8 adoption percentages for the first 45 days of consumer use. AppLovin processes over 25 billion ad requests daily. The findings were discovered based on this data. The report revealed key usage insights in...
App Developers In High Demand As Custom App Development for Enterprises Grows 731 percent Over Last Year
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Companies are creating more and more custom apps, fueled by demands from internal and external audiences. The result? This insatiable demand for custom apps is taxing the resources for companies as they search to find developers to write all of that code. Good Technology’s Q3 2014 Good Mobility Index Report reports this dramatic rise in custom app development as pa...
Smartphone Market Grows 25 percent While Samsung Loses Grip on Android Market
Monday, November 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the third quarter of 2014, increased emphasis on emerging market smartphone releases drove global smartphone shipments above 300 million units for the second consecutive quarter. According to preliminary data, vendors shipped a total of 327.6 million units during the ...
Educational content apps for children
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
Remember when apps were just a grown-up thing? Well, those days are long gone and kids are now using mobile apps. At first, it was just for gaming, now many companies are introducing educational apps for children. Apple has taken notice of this trend and back in iOS 7, Apple introduced the ‘Kids’ category in their app store. Before this category was i...
Macy's Store To Be One Of the First Retailers To Support Apple Pay
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Macy’s recent announcement that Apple Pay and iBeacon technology are a primary part of its marketing stratagy is just another example of how Apple is setting itself up to dominate the mobile e-commerce payment landscape.The Macy’s announcement outlined its latest advancements in omnichannel strategy and technology as the company continues to add new dimensions for attra...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
