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...
Route the Internet faster with Argo from Cloudflare
Monday, May 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare has announced Argo, a service that intelligently routes traffic across the Internet for a faster, more reliable, and more secure online experience.The Internet is inherently unreliable. Its massive collection of networks from different providers experiences delays and outages all the time. Internet users experience these problems as slowness reaching websites...
Why Fast Loading Apps and Mobile Websites are Totally Different Beasts to Tame
Friday, March 11, 2016 by Jeff Kim
It’s becoming somewhat passé to trumpet the gentle fading of the mobile web, as defined by browser-based activity, while simultaneously heralding the clear-cut triumph of apps as the dominant center of mobile user engagement. Certainly the facts bear it out: separate studies by comScore, Flurry Analytics and Forrester Research have found that mobile users spend bet...
Neotys Updates Performance Monitoring Platform for Web and Mobile
Saturday, June 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
Neotys offers load testing and performance monitoring tools for web and mobile applications and had released NeoSense 1.1, offering the latest update to its synthetic monitoring solution for application performance and availability.The release of NeoSense 1.1 adds new capabilities for web and mobile applications to create realistic monitoring profiles even for complex b...
PacketZoom Launches Platform to Allow Mobile Apps to Access Cloud Content Up to 10 Times Faster
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
PacketZoom is launching what it calls a Mobile Speed as a Service (MSaaS), with a new platform that addresses problems mobile app users experience with app performance.The service is designed specifically for mobile app publishers and has the potential to speed up app content download time from the Cloud by up to 10 times. PacketZoom moves beyond the 40 year-old TCP pro...
Kwicr Helps App Publishers Increase Mobile App Performance Across Networks
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kwicr is helping developers overcome issues of app performance with its new Mobile Delivery Network (MDN), recently released out of beta. Delivered as a cloud-based service, Kwicr’s MDN provides mobile developers with the ability to directly impact the performance of their apps across any cellular or Wi-Fi network on iOS and Android devices. Designed to complement ...
Intel’s Meshcentral to Support Microsoft Windows for IoT
Saturday, March 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Intel’s Meshcentral is an open source and is both a peer-to-peer technology with a wide array of uses and web service that is targeted for remote monitoring and management of computers and devices. Users can manage all their devices - from large servers to tiny IoT devices - from a single web site, no matter the location of the computers or if they are behind routers or...
Developers Can Now Improve an Apps Connectivity Through Public Beta of Kwicr Platform
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I was chatting with the team at Kwicr this morning at the Appnation conference and they let me know their platform is now in public beta. We reported earlier this year about the launch of the private beta of the company’s mobile delivery network.In a nutshell, the Kwicr platform helps publishers provide faster download speeds, higher quality media playback and analytics...
Facebook Now Offering Bandwidth Targeting for Mobile Ads
Thursday, August 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Building on its ability to target by device, Facebook is now offering bandwidth targeting to advertisers via the Facebook Ad Create tool, Power Editor and the API. The new mobile network targeting tool will allow the ability to target ads based on the speed of the network the ad is being served on.As ads become more ubiquitous in mobile apps, the potential to ...
Make Your Apps Run Faster By Improving Mobile Delivery
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
You spend long hours researching, coding and debugging, because you want the mobile apps you build to function no matter the user’s device or platform. But what do you do to ensure that your apps will run smoothly when network conditions are less than optimal? Odds are, nothing at all.That’s too bad. It’s precisely because you work hard that the performance of your apps...
Control the Performance of Your App With Kwicr: The Worlds First Mobile Delivery Network
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Have you ever had one of those moments when you wanted to slap your head and shout “How smart is that!” We did that after visiting with the people behind Kwicr. They solve a common problem, offer a unique and easy to integrate solution, all backed by very complicated science.The ProblemThere are a broad range of network impairments that normally inhibit the reliable del...
OnLive Releases New Cloud Based PaaS for Cross Platform Deployment of Graphics Intensive Apps
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
OnLive, a cloud gaming and computing services company, has launched CloudLift Enterprise, a new cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which offers businesses the ability to stream latency-sensitive Graphics Intensive Applications (GIAs), such as high-definition interactive demos, simulations and 3D programs, from the cloud to virtually any device instantly. OnLi...
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...
