Piracy for streaming admitted by 44 percent of Asian consumers
Monday, October 23, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Faced with a cost-of-living crunch, half of Asian consumers (59%) say they can no longer afford all of their subscription services. As a result, 44% now access content via illegal piracy sites. That’s according to a new Bango study, exploring subscription trends and the rise of Super Bundling in Asia.
Bango’s study incorporates data from over 6,000 consum...
Denuvo has joined the PlayStation 5 Tools and Middleware program
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
As security and innovation collide, Denuvo by Irdeto announces it has joined the exclusive PlayStation®5 Tools and Middleware program. Denuvo offers its Anti-Cheat solution through this program to publishers and developers whose games are available on PlayStation®5.
Denuvo is at the forefront of games security with over 2 billion unique game installs pro...
FFTF to expose Senators who are voting to allow ISP's sell your information
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Digital rights group Fight for the Future, known for organizing massive protests against SOPA and for net neutrality, has announced that - if the bill passes - they will unleash billboards with the names of every member of Congress who votes to gut the FCC’s Internet privacy rules that prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast and Verizon from selling their...
President of 360 Games Alex Xu Discusses Chinese Game Publishing Opportunities
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
To learn more about the growing Chinese gaming market and the opportunity China presents for game developers, we spoke with Alex Xu is president of 360 Games. The company is a leading Chinese game platform and publisher which recently released initiatives to attract global game developers to China, including the formation of the SUPER360° Strategy, a mobile ad revenue r...
Five Common Mobile App Security Vulnerabilities And How to Fix Them
Saturday, April 30, 2016 by Seth Jaslow
Mobile app security leaves much to be desired. That was the conclusion of a 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) study which found that a staggering 96 percent of 36,000 mobile apps failed at least one of 10 privacy checks. Three years ago, a similar HPE study found that 97 percent of 2,000 apps reviewed held insecure private information. As mobile app usage conti...
SEWORKS to Release AppSecu.re SaaS Security Service for Mobile Apps
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
SEWORKS is releasing AppSecu.re, a SaaS security service for mobile apps. An SDK-based version of AppSecu.re is available to iOS developers now; a cloud-based version is currently in production.With AppSecure, developers can track each individual install of an application to detect for tampering, unauthorized changes, or attempts at app piracy. AppSecure gives clear vis...
MetaIntelli and Arxan Technologies Partner to Identify and Mitigate Mobile Apps Security Threats
Sunday, November 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
MetaIntelli and Arxan Technologies have partnered together to provide mobile app developers with a comprehensive approach to identify and mitigate mobile apps against security and privacy risks with nonstop protection. The two companies bring together complementary technologies that leverage MetaIntelli’s intelligent, autonomic cloud based mobile app risk identific...
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...
Don't Miss the App Developer Weekly News Roundup
Saturday, October 5, 2013 by Richard Harris
Top Stories for the week of 10/5/2013App Marketing 101; Crush the Competition and Rule the App StoreWhen you’re wrapped up with writing code or testing your app one last time, thinking about marketing it might be the last thing in your mind. After all, building an app is a big accomplishment. But it is just step one on your path to achieving your goals. Whether you’re b...
App Developers Conference Survey Finds Piracy and Discoverability are Big Problems
Monday, September 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Piracy and discoverability are the top issues facing app developers today, according to new research conducted by the organizers of the inaugural App Developers Conference (ADC). In order to paint a picture of the app development landscape as it stands right before ADC, more than 250 app creators were surveyed on topics ranging from targeted platforms and app stores to...
Developers remove game from iOS store after piracy
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 by Richard Harris
The game "Battle Dungeon" by Hunted Cow Studios was in the iOS App Store for less than a week when it was removed by the developers citing their servers were overloaded with sign-ups coming from pirated copies – 90% of sign-ups that is!They said the hacked installs were coming from rouge versions somewhere on the web which allowed it to be installed on any iOS device th...
