Low code tool adoption to increase in 2021 Infragistics predicts
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Richard Harris
Driven in part by COVID-19, the continued rapid pace of digital transformation across enterprises is creating enormous innovation opportunities while at the same time significantly increasing demand on IT to deliver new mobile application experiences.
Development teams were already seeing overloaded backlogs in 2020 and we predict that in 2021 more organizations will...
Teladoc mobile doctor consultation app is now available
Thursday, January 11, 2018 by Austin Harris
Teladoc has announced the commercial availability of its integrated mobile app experience. Members can now benefit from a single, patient-centered point of access to answers for a wide array of medical needs, as the app combines the high frequency care services traditionally provided by Teladoc, along with the expert specialty medical and second opinion services of Best...
Is this the age of the singlepurpose App
Monday, December 11, 2017 by Ronnie Rios
Any time there is more than one way to do something, there will be debate about which way is best. The topic of building apps for mobile platforms has been subject to such discussions for years now. Systems architects, industry experts, developers and others have verbally tussled over whether it makes more sense to build multiple single-purpose apps or one multi-purpose...
Travel app users will not put up with many problems
Sunday, September 10, 2017 by Richard Harris
1 in 4 users of mobile apps for travel say that they’ll abandon their bookings and use a competitor’s mobile app instead when faced with a network error such as a timeout or missing image, according to a new study of US & UK consumers conducted by Neumob. The company’s exclusive consumer research study is captured in a new paper called "Mobile Apps for Tra...
Mavin says that social media is an untapped user engagement tool
Friday, May 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
In the race to engage and retain consumers, the app industry continues to lag behind social media, where trending topics and memes continue to win mind share for brands. Today, that changes with the launch of Mavin Motion, the only end-to-end platform enabling apps to capitalize on events and trends as they happen to better engage their audiences over the long-term. Alo...
How app developers are failing in user engagement
Thursday, May 18, 2017 by Paul Brody
Editors note: Paul Brody is the Chief Product Officer at CleverTapIn the app world, do or die comes down to how well you engage your users, and if abysmal click-throughs and open rates are any indication, most apps aren't doing that very well. But it's not the fault of the product developers, nor is it an issue with the marketing department. It's how the two work, or to...
Why search has become the backbone of mobile apps
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full text search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. We recently connected with Gaurav Gupta, VP of Products for Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch to chat about how search is being used to significantly boost both user adoption and improve the bottom line. He also shared with us what he believes are the thr...
Realm explains the benefits of realtime collaboration for mobile apps
Monday, October 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Realm is a mobile platform company, with a focus on helping developers build better mobile apps, faster. Launched in 2014, the Realm Mobile Database is the most popular third-party database in the world, and the mobile database enabling high-performance, highly engaging end-user experiences for more than a billion users of mobile apps. The Realm Mobile Platform, which c...
Dolby's Narrate app lets you add voiceovers to videos
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
The new Narrate app by Dolby will amaze iPhone users the way the renown sound quality lab has delighted cinema fans and home audiophiles for years. Narrate allows iPhone users to become storytellers by adding their own voice to videos on mobile devices.Here's what Narrate can do:- Add personalized narration so you can tell your own story.- Remove background noise, when ...
Google Play, Mobile Ads and AdBlocking: The Macro View
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 by Janis Zech
Google quietly rolled out an update to the Play Store a few months ago, but the change sent ripples through the entire mobile developer community: the company started clearly labeling the apps that include ads. It’s a small change, but one that has greater implications for every participant in the mobile app ecosystem - from developers and end users, to mobile ad platfo...
Microsoft to Acquire the Xamarin Mobile App Development Platform
Thursday, February 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire Xamarin and its mobile app development platform. The two companies have a history of working together as the companies collaborated in building Xamarin integration into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility SuiteIn conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a mobile develop...
Drew Burns of Adobe Weighs in on Mobile Marketing for 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
As the app market continues to explode (see our recently published article “App Usage Grows by 58% in 2015 and Shows No Sigh of Slowing Down”) app publishers will have to continue to improve and update their app marketing tactics as competition continues to increase. We visited with Drew Burns who is the senior product marketing manager for Adobe Target and wo...
Orasi Extends Expertise to Kony's CrossPlatform Enterprise Mobile Solutions
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has partnered with Kony to expand its software, support, training and consulting services to provide a complete suite of services for the application lifecycle. With the partnership, Orasi will provide sales, implementation services, training, consulting and support for Kony’s mobile development solutions. The partnership is part of Orasi’s expansion...
Mobile Marketing Insights with Adobe Target's Drew Burns
Monday, July 20, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Drew Burns, senior product marketing manager for Adobe Target, who works to evangelize the practice of iterative testing and content targeting in the digital marketing world. The subject of our chat was how to unlock the full potential of A/B testing to help mobile developers with their marketing efforts.ADM: What exactly is A/B testing? We know...
Microsoft's New Azure Service Fabric Helps Developers Scale Cloud Services
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has announced a new PaaS solution - Azure Service Fabric - to enable the ability for developers to build cloud services with a high degree of scalability and customization. The announcement follows on the heels of last month’s announcement of the Azure App Service, a PaaS solution for developers who need to create enterprise-grade web and mobile app exper...
Convert Windows Applications To Android Apps With hopTo Work 2.0
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
hopTo has announced the launch of hopTo Work 2.0, which offers a non coding option to evolve current Windows applications into touch friendly iOS and Android mobile apps.The new release offers a feature set called MAX - Mobile App eXperience - a mobile technology allowing users to transform their existing Windows based applications into touch-friendly, useable mobile ap...
Lifestreams Technologies Beta Testing New SaaS Private Label Timeline Service for Web and Mobile Apps
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A new SaaS private-label timeline service has been launched in beta by Lifestreams Technologies. The company has announced the Timeline SDK for web developers and content providers to integrate cloud-based timelines (activity streams) into web and mobile app experiences.The SDK helps developers integrate Lifestreams’ timeline cloud service and includes RESTful, JavaScri...
New Kony Visualizer Offers Multi user Collaboration for Creating Cross Platform Apps
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kony’s new Kony Visualizer is a new mobile app design solution that enables business users, designers and developers to collaborate and create native and Web mobile app experiences for iOS, Android, Windows and the Web. The next generation Kony Visualizer 2.0 will be available for limited release next month. It provides a single solution that enables coll...
Adobe Launches New App Marketing and Monetization Solutions with PhoneGap Enterprise and Support for Apple iBeacons
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Developers can now create and deliver mobile apps while marketers manage, measure and monetize the content, all from within Adobe Marketing Cloud through the launch of new PhoneGap Enterprise and support for Apple iBeacons which help companies create, manage and deliver mobile app experiences to their customers and prospects in real-time. The ne...
Everything.me, can it really bridge HTML5 and Native apps
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that more open HTML5-based mobile web services will ultimately win the day. In the meantime, those who can straddle the two worlds beautifully and effectively may end up the winners.One example comes in the form of Eve...
