Web3 map app to launch from Illust and partners
Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Illust is proud to announce a partnership with BUIDL Week and the ETHDenver Web3 Festival (along with amazing artists, DAOs, local businesses, and musicians), to produce the very first official web3 city map of Denver. This revolutionary "application" will feature a channel for Denver designed to capture its history, culture, and inhabitants. Newcome...
Metaverse experience from the Billionaire Zombies Club
Friday, December 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Billionaire Zombies Club has released its official white paper, a preview of their upcoming metaverse experience, and has empowered their community to mint "Skeleton King" NFTs which will eventually have DAO Governance and significant ingame utility. As of this writing, the BZC Collections across Open Sea have aggregated more than 600 ETH in volu...
Label recognizing software updates from Dynamsoft
Monday, October 18, 2021 by Richard Harris
Dynamsoft updated its software development kit used to scan and extract content digitally from physical labels, like price and inventory tags to passports, to add automatic dictionary-based spelling correction and new image processing modes. The SDK is ideal for application developers to expand data capture capabilities of printed labels and tags in industries like auto...
Videoselfie authentication tool launches
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by Richard Harris
Jumio announced the launch of Jumio Authentication, a new video-selfie authentication that uses biometrics for user authentication, that could be ideal for account logins and high-risk scenarios (e.g., logging in from a foreign IP address or authorizing high-risk transactions such as wire transfers and online purchases). Secure selfie authentication can also be use...
Coinsource attempts to stop Bitcoin fraud
Monday, April 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Coinsource has announced a partnership with Acuant, a multi-factor KYC / AML authenticator working to improve customer experiences, increase conversion rates, and mitigate fraud at all of Coinsource’s Bitcoin ATM machines around the world. Acuant’s API and patented technology will now authenticate IDs and passports by applying 50+ forensic and biometric tests, in second...
A Peek Inside Ireland's Largest Games Developer, DIGIT Game Studios
Friday, September 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
DIGIT started in 2012 and based it in Dublin, Ireland. Not the usual gaming capital, however it's had a great impact on the company today. Their focus is on building strategy games for mobile and browser. They spent the first couple of years of the company's life focused on the underlying technology and believe they are probably the most advanced GaaS (Games as a Servic...
OAuth vs SAML for Developers Needing to Implement Single Sign On (SSO)
Monday, February 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli reached out to us to provide his thoughts on OAuth vs SAML as a single sign on (SS0) option for developers needing to implement an SSO solution. Inversoft’s Passport platform leverages OAuth to provide a user management system for registration, login and single sign-on.ADM: Why do you feel OAuth surpasses SAML?Pontarelli: The main advantag...
Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli Discusses New Passport SSO User Management Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli to talk about his company’s new Passport single sign on (SSO) user management solution that goes beyond standard single sign-on to support messaging in the user’s localized language, built-in analytics, and the ability to discipline/reward users (e.g. mute, ban, suspend, reward) based on activity.Brian is the found...
Oracle Offers New Cloud Products for JavaScript and Java Developers
Sunday, November 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released new cloud offerings that extend its product line with new services, toolkits and updated frameworks for JavaScript and Java developers. The new offerings are designed to facilitate application development, delivery and deployment for polyglot software development ecosystems.Oracle’s new cloud products offer a set of services, toolkits and development...
IBM Releases New Bluemix Services Including First Commercial Watson Service
Friday, February 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM has released new Bluemix services that enable developers to connect apps, data and services across an open and flexible environment of traditional systems, cloud platforms and any device, weaving data and services with APIs to compose new apps and services. These new services include:- Secure Passport Gateway: Allows self-service to developers to securely connect da...
BlackBerry 10.3 Devices Are Now Preloaded with Amazon Appstore
Thursday, September 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Amazon Appstore is now preloaded on BlackBerry 10.3 devices starting with BlackBerry Passport. This means that those people that are lucky (?) enough to be Blackberry Phone customers can access all of the apps in the Amazon Appstore.For developers who are interested in publishing their app on BlackBerry devices via the Amazon Appstore and are an existing Amazon Apps...
Get Serious Swag for Attending the Tizen Developer Conference 2014 Including a Samsung Gear 2 Smart Watch
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
They are throwing out the stops to make sure developers attend the Tizen Developer Conference which has just announced that all attendees of TDC 2014 in San Francisco will receive a free Samsung Gear 2 smart watch and an Intel NUC. The Giveaway is being sponsored by the Tizen Technical Steering Group, and hosted by the Linux Foundation, and is intended to...
Is there going to be an iWatch
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
Mobility comes in all flavors and it might just be coming to your wrist in the form of a new watch by Apple deemed and (rumored) the "iWatch".Former Apple employee and human interface developer Bruze Tognazzini posted a recent blogthat covers what he thinks the watch would have in the way of functionality." The watch can and should, for most of us, elimin...