Presidential Alerts and the future of mobile communication
Thursday, October 4, 2018 by Richard Harris
FEMA has sent their first emergency test message to all of the mobile devices throughout the United States. They reported every American who owns a smartphone - which is about 75% of the population, should have received the test alert. In total the message went out to a total of 225 million devices right around 1:18 PM CST reading "Presiden...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
Pusher launches Chatkit API and SDK
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Pusher has released their latest product, Pusher Chatkit, a specialized Chat API solution that makes it easy for developers to add cloud-hosted messaging services to their mobile and web apps. Chatkit is the first product the company is launching separately from its core product since its inception in 2011.The Pusher Chatkit API and SDK are flexible enough to let develo...
KamaGames reports huge growth in their mobile casino games audience
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
In a year that has seen overall growth across the industry, as well as new entrants into the space, KamaGames has continued to grow through a combination of strategic partnerships, a strong recruitment drive, the launch of several new products and the expansion into a number of emerging markets.Daniel Kashti, Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer at KamaGames said “It’...
Connect Apps, Data, and Devices Anywhere With the New Azure Logic App Service
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released into general availability Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft’s Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that provides hybrid application connectivity to connect traditional on-premises systems and cloud-native applications. Logic Apps makes it possible to complete projects faster and iterate more efficiently by offering a set of out-of-the-box conn...
MuleSoft Extends Anypoint Connectivity Platform for SOA, SaaS and APIs
Monday, December 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
MuleSoft has announced the latest release of its Anypoint Platform integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs which provides the ability for companies to connect applications, data, and devices, both on-premises and in the cloud with an API-led approach. With Anypoint companies can deploy their integrations in a hybrid environment, connecting to both SaaS applications...
Google Expands Beta for the Android Based Brillo Connected Device OS
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google is expanding the access for developers to preview its Brillo and Weave solution for building connected devices. In May, Google opened up the Brillo operating system (OS) and Weave communication platform to early access partners and now is extending that availability to more developers as part of an invite program. Brillo offers a lightweight embedded OS base...
AMASE Analogy: This Is What a Profitable App Looks like
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Josh Cline
Mobile-app development, marketing, and monetization are all extremely difficult to do well – it’s why very few mobile apps end up being successful.In this article from The Cline Group (I’m the President and CEO), my goal is to provide end-to-end insights into the mobile-user lifecycle. Let’s start by defining a successful mobile app as one that has achieved sustained pr...
Bit6 Offers Beta Cloud Based Communication Platform for Mobile App Development
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bit6 is offering in beta its real-time, cloud-based communications-as-a-service platform that allows developers to add voice/video calling, texting, and multimedia messaging capabilities as a feature to their apps.In addition, Bit6 also provides a suite of application integration modules including Identity Management, Social Map, and Virtual Wallet to help int...
Amazon Provides App Developers New Monetization Opportunities with Changes to Amazon Device Messaging (ADM)
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
At its simplest, the current app markets concept provides a platform for developers to write applications and market them directly to consumers. In reality, monetizing apps in a cluttered marketplace has become increasingly difficult. So the owners of app markets (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.) who do the best job of greasing the wheels for developers will ultimately garn...
Google Babel: What Is It
Monday, April 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
It's a messaging service by Google that when fully released, could change the way we all communicate across our devices. It's is rumored to be available on Android, Web, iOS, Blackberry, and others.Messaging so far has a fundamental flaw and that is fragmentation. We get messages on our mobiles in many ways, SMS, MMS, Email, Skype, then on the desktop there are an entir...
