Why you should pace yourself with application modernization
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 by Snjezana Cvoro-Begovic
In business and in life, it’s natural to set goals. Like many of us, you probably establish goals based on what you can accomplish in the short term, while gauging what it will take in terms of resources, assets and time.
But you may also embrace the idea of stretch goals, which help with motivation and permission to be ambitious, sometimes enabling us to...
Free mobile maps and traffic tiles for developers from new TomTom SDK
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
When Google Maps increased the prices developers have to pay for the privlage of using them, many a developer went scurrying to find alternatives because even though there is a bit of "credit" they apply to your account, charges climb very quickly.
But at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TomTom has announced that it will offer free maps and traffic tiles on its ...
Predict the value of the user behind each new app install with RTP
Thursday, February 22, 2018 by Richard Harris
Winclap will be exhibiting its latest product, Real-Time Pricing (RTP), at the upcoming Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona, Spain on February 26 through March 1 at booth #8.1E60 in the App Planet Hall.RTP is a pricing tool introduced to the mobile ecosystem offering a new approach to the mobile user acquisition strategy. Unlike the fixed-rate CPI/CPA model,...
Build a mobile API ecosystem that is high performing and reliable
Saturday, September 2, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Application Program Interfaces (API's) represent an effective way to build and manage mobile services. By using API's - a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications - application developers no longer have to buy technology software or hardware. Instead, they can simply plug into a growing open ecosystem of API-driven services. It is simple t...
HyperLoop Lets You Access All Native Mobile API's Using Javascript
Saturday, August 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appcelerator has announced the GA release of Titanium SDK 5.4.0, Appcelerator CLI 5.4.0, and Appcelerator Studio 4.7.0. The highlight of these releases is the introduction of Hyperloop, which provides the ability to directly access 100% of all native APIs via JavaScript.Jeff Haynie with Appcelerator explains, “With Hyperloop, the need for OS-specific modules disappears....
Kony MobileFabric Release Offers New Microservices and Object Services Technology
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has released the latest edition of its MobileFabric platform, the company’s mobile middleware solution designed to be used to rapidly build mobile backend applications. This release, MobileFabric 7.0, offers a new model-driven approach to mobile app development using microservices and includes object services that make it easier and cheaper to develop, maintain and...
Don't Expect Apple and Google to Do App Security for You
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Sinan Eren
The appetite for mobile apps with an appealing user experience shows no signs of slowing – even in closely regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. In fact, according to Gartner, by the end of 2017, IT organizations will be hard-pressed to meet market demand for mobile app development services as it grows at least five times faster than IT’s abili...
Distil Networks Releases API Security Service
Thursday, April 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Distil Networks has released a new Distil API Security service that protects vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints from malicious traffic. The Distil API Security solution protects all types of APIs including those serving web browsers, mobile applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. Distil API Security defends against de...
Trifecta Events Coming to Santa Clara Convention Center in September
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Santa Clara Convention Center will be a busy place on September 28 – 30 as it hosts three conferences in one - API World, Integrate 2015 and DataWeek. In addition to activities surrounding each event’s focus, there will also be an expo hall, hiring mixers and a hackathon.DataWeekThe DataWeek 2015 Conference and Festival focuses on data skills including Data Science,...
Oracle Releases 24 New Cloud Services
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform offerings with more than 24 new cloud services for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ...
CA Technologies New API Management, DevOps, Security, and Management Cloud Solutions at CA World
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies kicked off its annual CA World conference this week in Las Vegas with the announcement of new security, API management, DevOps, and management Cloud Solutions. The annual event features over 5,000 attendees gathering together to learn about new CA products and other innovations in the new application economy.DevOps SolutionsCA Technologies announced new ...
Five Things to Consider Before Integrating e Signatures into Mobile Applications
Thursday, October 16, 2014 by Sherry Ghafarpour
Today’s consumers can do almost anything from their mobile devices, and they expect to be able to sign documents from those devices.According to Forrester Research, customers who are comfortable with web and mobile technologies are now driving e-signature adoption. By 2020 the majority of e-signature transactions will be launched from mobile devices. This will ensure se...
KidoZen Updates Capabilities for Mobile Backend Authorization, Privacy and Access Control at Data Level
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
KidoZen has made updates to its platform to offer a more complete security suite for the mobile backend including authorization, privacy and access control capabilities at the data level. Additionally, KidoZen has announced broader integration with industry identity federation providers include Microsoft ADFS, Okta, OneLogin, PingIdentity and others.KidoZen’s mobile ide...
Expect Labs Offers MindMeld API Voice Powered Search Results
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Expect Labs is adding to the smart shopper experience with a new turnkey solution for building voice-powered applications using the company’s MindMeld API. With the API, any developer can create a voice-driven experience for their app or website.The MindMeld Platform is a cloud-based service that analyzes contextual signals from users and automatically finds documents a...
Acumatica Releases New Enterprise Mobile Development Framework
Monday, August 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Acumatica has released a new Enterprise mobile development framework as part of the latest beta release of its cloud based ERP platform. The Acumatica xRP Platform offers a new UI look and feel, stronger business functionality, and a better web platform. The platform also now features Single Sign-On, MySQL and Amazon RDS support, multi-warehouse allocation and purc...
Whitepages PRO Provides Mobile Developers Access to APIs
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Whitepages PRO has launched a self-service developer portal opening access to new company APIs which includes a data platform that provides access to one of the largest database of people and businesses in North America. Through the Graph APIs, developers can offer in their apps the ability to include identity verification and validation elements, including those c...
Report Shows Large Enterprises Still Struggle to Launch Mobile Apps
Monday, August 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Being a large company with significant IT resources in play does not guarantee success in launching mobile initiatives, at least according to a new study by Apigee. The company reports that 45% of the large enterprises they surveyed are struggling with mobile.Analysis from the study is available from Apigee’s “Lessons from the App Masters: How Some IT Departments Excel ...
The World Wide Leader in Sports Leaves Developers in a World of Hurt as ESPN Closes Public API
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
ESPN has announced that it is closing its public API and will no longer be issuing public API keys. Developers utilizing the ESPN API with a public API key will continue to do so until Monday, December 8, 2014, at which point the keys will no longer be active.ESPN launched the ESPN Developer Center in March 2012 and according to the company has evolved, “the capabilitie...
Google Moves Forward On the Wearable Front with Google Fit Preview SDK
Friday, August 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google has now made the Fit Preview SDK available to developers, offering a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales). One of the impacts of the SDK is that developers, with a user’s permission, can get ac...
StrongLoop Node.js API Server Released for Developing, Securing and Scaling REST APIs
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
StrongLoop, a provider of solutions for Node.js, has released the StrongLoop API Server to facilitate the ability to develop, deploy, secure and scale REST APIs written in Node. The StrongLoop API Server is a set of components that work together to take an API project from development to production. The impact of the proliferation of mobile devices along with the r...
SOA Software Releases API Catalog for App Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
SOA Software has released its Enterprise API catalog, an enhancement to its API Management Platform to foster the creation of API communities inside the enterprise. The API catalog combines the collaborative, open practices of external API Portals with search, controlled visibility, selective provisioning, and integration with enterprise security for internal ...
PhoneGap Releases PhoneGap Developer App
Friday, April 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
PhoneGap has introduced the new PhoneGap Developer App, which can help lower the barrier of entry to creating PhoneGap applications. Users can now immediately preview an app on a device without installing platform SDKs, registering devices, or even compiling code. The app is available on iOS, Android and soon for Windows Phone.The app provides the ability to develo...
New SDK for Building In App Mobile Two Factor Authentication Solutions
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SecureKey is now offering a new developer program and online portal to make available its multi-factor authentication platform to developers of Android and iOS apps. The SecureKey Developer Program and its Developer Portal offers developers access to the briidge.netConnect Mobile SDK and security APIs, a sandbox testing environment, a developer forum, pl...
Apperian Opens API for Enterprise Mobile App Development
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apperian has announced the availability of an open API for its entire enterprise mobility platform. Apperian offers a fully extensible platform for users to integrate and extend their own solutions into their own or third-party IT infrastructures. Recently, the company launched a new mobile app policy engine for enterprises and business partners to develo...
Khronos Releases OpenGL ES 3.1 Specification
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification, bringing new functionality to its royalty-free 3D graphics API that is used on nearly all of the world’s mobile devices. OpenGL ES 3.1 provides access to state-of-the-art graphics processing unit (GPU) functionality with portability across mobile and embedded operating systems and ...
Parasoft API Testing Enhances Automation for Mobile API Testing
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parasoft has released the latest edition of its API testing solution which introduces enhanced support for testing RESTful APIs for mobile transactions.The latest release of Parasoft's enterprise-grade API Testing solution addresses the ongoing shift from XML/SOAP to JSON/REST focusing on ensuring that rich regression suites for JSON can be more rapidly constr...
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