Apple WWDC 2022 announcements
Thursday, June 9, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
"The release of iOS 16 promises the ability to customize the phone’s lock screen to an incredible degree, allowing users to change every aspect of the look of their screen. The new Live Activities feature also helps to avoid being bombarded with notifications.
Letting users have different lock screens for different purposes like work or personal is an inte...
App developer's salary in 2021
Monday, March 1, 2021 by Richard Harris
Economic uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic brought forth new challenges, drastically altering the needs and expectations of businesses on the IT front. While a tumultuous year for many industries, proprietary data from Hired and Vettery, the largest AI-driven hiring marketplace, found that the tech industry is highly resilient, with continued demand and job growth ...
New demo shows 5G and 3D structured light technology
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by Austin Harris
OPPO Global Research Institute announces the company successfully demonstrated the World's First 5G Video Call Demo Using 3D Structured Light Technology. The demonstration reproduced a 3D portrait image on a remote receiver using portrait information collected structured-light 3D camera of an OPPO phone and 5G NR terminal prototypes from Qualcomm Technologies. The succe...
WebRTC AI solution wants to Optimize your calling experience
Thursday, March 15, 2018 by Austin Harris
callstats.io has announced availability of the first artificial intelligence solution for WebRTC, called Optimize. Optimize helps improve call quality by applying AI and ML algorithms. Optimize works in the background estimating the optimal quality for each user, using insights from the previous sessions. The insights are created in real-time for each individual end-use...
Voximplant tells us about their cloud communications platform
Friday, December 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Voximplant, a communications cloud platform for mobile and web app developers, has been working to improve audio and visual communications in real time. They provide the tools for developer to create their own web and mobile communication applications. We've sat down with Alexey Aylarov, the CEO of Voximplant to talk more about what their company is about and where the ...
Cisco Releases APIs for its Cisco Spark Collaboration Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
Cisco unveiled the initial set of APIs for its Cisco Spark collaboration platform (in preview) which is designed to make IT teamwork simpler by bringing teams together instantly in virtual rooms where members can send messages, share files, and meet face-to-face, all in one place. In Spark, conversations take place in virtual meeting rooms. Some rooms are live for ...
Salesforce Announces New IoT, Analytics and Cloud Services at Dreamforce 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It’s hard to overwhelm San Francisco with a software conference, however with over 150,.000 people attending Saleforce’s Dreamforce conference, the city was at busting at its seams with technology representatives from across the globe.During the conference, Salesforce announced several new initiatives to help strengthen its position of offering companies an ever expandi...
Your Favorite Apps Reimagined
Thursday, August 6, 2015 by Eric Bilange
80% of companies say that they deliver “superior” customer service and experience, but only 8% of consumers agree, according to recent research from Lee Resources. In order to meet customers’ expectations in today’s hi-tech world, it’s crucial that businesses go the extra mile and look to new technology to offer innovative and great customer experiences.The most popular...
Trends In BYOD Allow PanTerra Networks To Take Cross Platform Reality To The Next Level
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
PanTerra Networks is pushing cross-platform reality forward through its SmartBox communications-enabled content management and file-sharing platform. The platform enables collaboration and call center services, audio and video calls and IM/SMS. The company is working to provide such workers and managers more flexibility allowing them to remain connected anyti...
Create and Run Your Own Real time Communication Infrastructure with Open Source Matrix.org
Saturday, September 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Matrix.org has launched a new basis for open, distributed, real-time communication between connected devices, services, and people. The goal is to make real-time communication over IP as seamless and interoperable as email. And Matrix.org has recently revealed its first steps in providing open, distributed, real time communications tools.Matrix is a new open standard fo...
OnSIP Allows Web App Developers to Add WebRTC
Thursday, May 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
OnSIP, a provider of business communications services, has announced the OnSIP Network, a Platform as a Service that allows developers to add WebRTC to their web apps. The OnSIP Network solves a similar problem for WebRTC over the Internet that phone numbers have for calling over Public Switched Telephone Network: How does one user find another user over the n...
Bit6 Offers Beta Cloud Based Communication Platform for Mobile App Development
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bit6 is offering in beta its real-time, cloud-based communications-as-a-service platform that allows developers to add voice/video calling, texting, and multimedia messaging capabilities as a feature to their apps.In addition, Bit6 also provides a suite of application integration modules including Identity Management, Social Map, and Virtual Wallet to help int...
Skylight SDK Lets You Create Smart Glasses Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Skylight is a software platform from APX Labs that can be used to create smart glasses applications for scenarios where it is desirable for hands-free, in-context, real time information right where work is getting done.It is a complete system managing the user experience on the smart glasses itself and it is the back end platform which powers the business...