Apple's new education focused tablet seems dead on arrival
Monday, April 16, 2018 by Ilan Kaps
Apple as a company are used to dominating a market, if not in terms of sheer numbers than in terms of visibility and branding. Just think of how many macs you see in coffee shops, or in TV shows or on University campuses, yet they are massively outsold by windows computers. The iPad is usually the first tablet people can name and ditto for the apple watch and smart watc...
Wifi vs Bluetooth vs BLE, choosing the right IoT tech
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 by Yuri Brigance
Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are increasing in popularity and availability - think Amazon Alexa, smart thermostats & light bulbs, Internet-connected garage door openers, GoPro cameras, and so on. One thing these products have in common is that they communicate wirelessly with either a mobile device, the Internet, or both. As these devices become smarter and gene...
Blockchain, IoT, chatbots, and connected finance: Built.io predicts 2017
Saturday, December 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
Blockchain will play an integral role in improving IoT securityIn 2016 we saw multiple hacks and data breaches, including the massive DNS attack that caused widespread internet outages. This latest attack was a wakeup call to start thinking about security in terms of the Internet of Things (IoT). Because of that, in the next year we’ll start to see more securi...
3 approaches to end user experience monitoring
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Sridhar Iyengar
The volume of transactions running through websites and mobile apps make customer-facing applications crucial to online businesses. If these applications perform well for their users, they generate revenue for the business. If they don’t, they affect the credibility of the business, which in turn affects the overall revenue. It is therefore imperative that bus...
Tad Johnson Discusses JAMF Software's Focus on Apple Devices
Thursday, May 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Tad Johnson, marketing campaign manager at JAMF Software, reached out to us to discuss why the company has focused solely on offering solutions for Apple devices and how that strategy has evolved.ADM: Who is JAMF Software and what does the company do?Johnson: Since 2002, JAMF Software has been solely focused on helping organizations succeed with Apple. In fact, we offer...
Apple Watch Rapidly Moving to Dominate Wearable Market
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple’s first foray into the wearables market is just more proof of the company’s dominance in mobile technology as it is now second in total worldwide wearable sales in the latest the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. According to the IDC, Apple shipped a total of 3.6 million units in the second quarter of 201...
Sense360 SDK Expands Mobile Location Aware Technology Capabilities
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sense360 offers an SDK that provides the ability for an app to automatically and in the background detect when and what users are doing in the real world. Using this capability allows developers to build automated experiences that react to where users are and what they are doing. The platform can help app publishers monetize and market their mobile apps.The SDK manages ...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
New Wearable Payment Solutions SDK To Be Released By Wirecard AG
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Wirecard AG has announced that it will be releasing a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for wearable payment solutions at the end of February. This will include a dedicated developer portal that will provide access to a range of programming interfaces (APIs), tools and simulators, to simplify the integration of payment functions into various different applications and ...
Apple Watch Programming Guide Offers Tips on Leveraging This Year's Hottest Wearable
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
A look into the Apple Watch Programming Guide, which provides a “preliminary” overview, tells you all you need to know when taking a developer-centric look at Apple’s upcoming wearable as they say: Rather than pull an iPhone out of a pocket, a user can glance at Apple Watch and get important information quickly. Apps written for Apple Watch support these brief interacti...
Random Thoughts as I Leave CES International
Monday, January 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If I can sum up CES and Las Vegas as a whole, I have to say one word – walking. I have walked more in four days that I did the past month. Next time I’m bringing more comfortable shoes.Of course, I was there to see the event from an app development perspective. I kicked off my trip with the AT&T Developer Conference on Sunday/Monday, APPNATION VI on Monday...
Apple Announcement Goes As Predicted With iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, New Apple Watch, iOS 8 and Apple Pay
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
As most pundits predicted, there were no shocking developments with Apple’s news announcement as the company introduced two new iPhone 6 models, a new smart-watch, dates for the availability of iOS 8 and a new payment system, Apple Pay.We’ll have more coverage of each aspect of this announcement, however here we are providing exerpts from the Apple press announcements f...
Android Wear to Offer Music Playback and GPS Support
Monday, September 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has announced that Android Wear users will now have the ability to listen to offline music via Bluetooth headphones as well as having access to GPS support for watches with a GPS sensor. Users will now also be able to download custom watch faces.Current Android powered watches that are commercially available include the LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live and the Moto ...
Broadcom’s New WICED Development Kit Lets Mobile Developers Dive Into IoT App and Hardware Creations
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Broadcom Corporation has introduced a new development kit into its Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) family of offerings to enable developers to rapidly prototype ideas and concepts for IoT devices and applications.The Broadcom WICED Sense development kit is an all-in-one IoT prototyping kit that includes Broadcom's newest Bluetooth Smart chip,...
MediSafe Becomes the First Mobile Health App Android for Wear Smartwatches
Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
MediSafe has become the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches. The app offers users the ability to automatically receive two-way sync medication reminders and provides the ability to record medication doses.Users wearing either the LG Android Wear, Samsung Gear Live or Moto 360 smartwatches, who also have the MediSafe...
Moto360 Smartwatch Looks Like a Watch, Will That Turn Off Techies
Friday, May 30, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It's easy to imagine a Star Trek engineer wearing Google Glass as he/she walks through the Starship Enterprise virtually checking the ships systems as they go. It’s not so easy to imagine doing the same with the Moto360. Unless they go back in time to 1983, then they probably would fit right in.I’m not knocking the Moto360, I’m just wondering how early adopting tec...
The Key to Developing Apps for Smart Wearables
Thursday, May 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
I’m a golfer and recently received a catalog by mail from one of the national US golf retailers (yes companies still use the mail for marketing).As I was leafing through the catalog, I came across a number of GPS golf watches (priced from $149 to $300) that can be used on the golf course to calculate yardages so that you know what club to hit with. I am familiar with th...
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...
Developers May Have Opportunity to Launch Apps with Android or Windows Device OEMs
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SweetLabs has launched a new app install platform consisting of cloud-based services and client-side software to help manufacturers of any Android or Windows device (“OEMs”) better monetize and differentiate their products through apps.The app install platform is a product of the app solutions SweetLabs has provided to users and developers over the years. Thei...
Explore the Possibilities of Using Handwriting Recognition in Your App With MyScript's Superimposed
Friday, May 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
My Script's new SDK (Software Development Kit) allows third-party app developers to leverage handwriting recognition technology for natural human machine interface development on small surface devicesMyScript®, the acknowledged market leader in accurate, high-performance handwriting recognition and digital ink management technology, announces the release of MyScript Sup...
Game Developers Conference Wrap up: Five Things We Learned
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
As the Game Developers Conference (GDC) comes to a close, what are the big picture thoughts we can take away?1) Console gaming still has legs – A number of new titles from game publishing titans in the industry were rolled out. Sony announced its new Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) system for the PlayStation4, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 and...
New Google android wear smart watch OS
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google likes to be front and center during major developer events and so after announcing new Google Play Services on Monday, on the second day of the GDC they have announced their new Android Wear OS for smartwatches and other wearables. And if you want to know everything about the Android Wear from an app developer standpoint, you’ve come to the right place.
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Google Believes it Will Rule Smart Wearable App Market With New SDK
Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Sundar Pichai with Google has dropped the news that Google will release an SDK for the wearable’s market in a couple of weeks. He discussed the SDK during a presentation at SWSX on Sunday.It’s the latest salvo in the war for app domination by the two biggest players in the market. Last week Apple launched CarPlay with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyunda...
Top Mobile Predictions for 2015 and Beyond
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you had a crystal ball and looked at 2015 and 2016 to see what will be the driving factors for mobile what would you see? Garnter analyst Nick Jones provides his top 10 predictions in a recent report.And what where they? Drumroll please:1) Multiplatform/Multiarchitecture AD Tools2) HTML53) Advanced Mobile UX Design4) High-Precision Location Sensing5) Wearab...
Wearable Tech’s Hottest Names Converge for SXSW Panel
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
AUSTIN, Texas— Rocksauce Studios—an Austin, Texas-based mobile design and app development studio responsible for SmallCall, TickTalk, Brewski Me, and Tripini — will be presenting SXSW’s most blush-inducing panel to the 2014 Interactive Festival. Tech Off Your Clothes: Naked Truths of Wearables, will be an exciting looking into the tech industry’s most burgeoning sc...
StartApp Provides 2014 Predictions on Mobile Industry Trends as They Relate to App Developers
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
This is the time of year app development industry insiders put on their prognosticator hats and give their opinions on what app developers can expect for the upcoming year. Cassidy Smith, Social Networks Manager at StartApp, recently posted the company’s insight into 2014.Following is an excerpt of her predictions.In the year 2013, we saw several mobile markets mat...
Introducing Pebble Steel and the New Pebble App Store
Monday, January 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Today, Pebble announces Pebble Steel, and the Pebble App Store along with several new partners.Pebble Steel is a new, premium smart watch that takes everything users know and love about Pebble -- the same e-paper display, 5 to 7-day battery life and waterproof design -- and wraps it into a smaller, sleeker package. Starting today, you can order your watch from...
Omate Smartwatch Promotes Steaming Music Through New Partnership
Friday, December 27, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Admittedly, small startups like Pebble and Omate are going to have a tough hill to climb battling behemoths like Samsung and its Galaxy Gear which push the technology with massive ad campaigns.However, a recent notice we received about Omate and its TrueSmart smart watch makes us think they really get the concept that its not just about gee whiz technology, its about ge...
2014 Smart Watch Market Could Fractionalize Between Offerings With High Tech Functions and Those With Emphasizing Lower Tech Style
Thursday, December 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Is 2014 going to be the year of the smart watch? The consumer market is an iffy one and who knows what market will see traction and explode on the scene (who would have thought old school earphones would become mainstream again?).Koru Labs, which provides software for smart wearables, has issued its predictions for smart wearables for 2014 and their outlook is a fractio...
App Developers to See Another Fractionalized Market for Smart Wearable Apps
Thursday, December 26, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Here we go again @#$!4! Another market, another plethora of operating systems, SDKs, app markets, and more. Of course, you’ve read our headline and know we are talking about the smart wearables market, specifically the smart watch market, which is rapidly becoming much more mainstream that current glasses options.We recently posted an article commenting on a recent Koru...
Pebble Launches New SDK, Announces iOS7 Compatibility
Thursday, November 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Pebble has launched SDK 2.0 as it continues to woo developers to its smartwatch platform. Unlike Samsung, who has severely limited developer access to its smart watch offering, Pebble is banking on developer support to drive revenues and ultimately make the usefulness of the device desirable enough to increase unit sales. The new SDK 2.0 introduction adds...
Is Microsoft Making a Smartwatch
Monday, July 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
Microsoft could be stepping up to the smartwatch ring with a new contender said to have a 1.5" screen with removable band that will come in a variety of colors. An interesting note is the watch said to be made of oxynitride aluminium, a sort of transparent polycrystalline ceramic with cubic spinel crystal structure composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen.The rumor is...
Sony Opens SmartWatch Project to Developers
Monday, July 8, 2013 by Richard Harris
While developers have been able to create apps for the SmartWatch using the Sony Add-on SDK for a while now, the new Open SmartWatch project allows advanced developer to take control of Sony's SmartWatch as a hardware peripheral in new ways by creating and flashing their own alternative firmware. According to Sony's Tobias Nilsson, "Openness towards the developer c...
Busy, Busy, Busy App Developers
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Summer of 2013 is in full swing now and with the closing of the WWDC, and the Google Developer Conference (I/O), and the starting of the Build Microsoft Conference - we app developers are finding it a bit difficult to keep up with all of the happenings around the globe. From changing API's to new OS's, all the way to enhanced hardware support and 3D game engines, it...
Amazon smartphone Watch out Google!
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
As with Amazon's other forays into the hardware market, the initial product run will be limited, suggesting that, like with the Kindle, the phones will only be sold in the US to begin with.Although refusing to comment on the smartphone story, on Tuesday Amazon did release a typically bullish statement claiming that new records had been set for the sales of its Kindle de...
