Tom Brady NFT sale sparks warning to consumers from experts
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
An expert has warned those considering purchasing an NFT off the back of the Tom Brady $40.7k sale, as NFT marketplaces saw $38 million stolen by scammers last year.
The findings, pulled together by Smart Betting Guide, analyzed a database recording crypto scams and exploits to identify the most vulnerable platforms and blockchains over the last year - with NFT marke...
SBOM mandate to improve cybersecurity in the US
Friday, March 17, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
The number of cyberattacks waged against government sectors worldwide increased by 95% in the second half of 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021. (1) The global cost of cyberattacks is expected to grow exponentially from $8.44 trillion in 2022 to $23.84 trillion by 2027. (2) To support the nation’s critical infrastructure and Federal Government networks,...
Celebrities promoting NFTS warned by TINA
Friday, August 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
An increasing number of celebrities are jumping on the NFT bandwagon, showcasing their digital assets on social media for the world to see. But are they just showing off or do they have a personal stake in the NFT and/or NFT company that they aren’t properly disclosing? Ad watchdog truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) is seeking answers.
TINA.org has sent letters ...
Bitcoin tops $60k for the first time
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
With Bitcoin hitting a record high over the weekend, topping $60k for the first time, please find the below commentary from Jesse Cohen, senior analyst at Investing.com
"It’s been a blockbuster year so far for Bitcoin, whose gains have left other assets in the dust. Bitcoin has seen its price more than double already through the first three months of ...
App Store commission cuts to 15 percent for some
Thursday, November 19, 2020 by Richard Harris
In a move that is echoing througout the dev community, Apple has finally taken mercy on small developers, startups, and others making less than $1,000,000 a year by cutting the commision rate from 30% down to 15%. Accourding to the post made by Apple on their blog, if you are a developer or business earning less than $1M, you just got a raise!
About 28 mil...
Guest Post: It's Not a Web App, It's An App You Install From the Web
Monday, January 7, 2019 by Richard Harris
We received an email…
"I heard about Forecast, but I couldn’t find it in the App Store. How do I get it?"
"You don’t get it from the App Store: just go to http://forecast.io/ on your phone, and you’ll be given instructions on how to download it."
"Wow, this is great! I didn’t know you could get apps outsid...
Bitcoin exchange apps are risky claims new report
Monday, January 29, 2018 by Austin Harris
RiskIQ claims that the app stores are hosting 661 blacklisted Bitcoin apps which leave users open to hackers. They analyzed 18,408 apps across 20 app stores (mostly Android based), but including Apple, Google Play, SameAPK, and APKPlz.Fabian Libeau, EMEA VP of RiskIQ, warned anybody considering downloading such software to be extremely cautious and to research eac...
What the end of Net Neutrality does to app developers
Friday, December 15, 2017 by Gil Regev
With a 3 - 2 vote splitting neatly along political party lines, as expected, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday struck down the controversial net neutrality regulations enacted just two years ago by the previous administration. It’s the happy outcome mobile operators and cable companies were hoping for, since it now frees them to completely control th...
Sending out an S.O.S. for SMS
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 by Will LaSala
What a difference a year makes. Just one year after the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued guidance that found SMS is insecure and no longer suitable as a strong authentication mechanism, it has walked all of that back.At the time the original draft was published, it was highly unusual for any US government agency to get out in front of the security i...
App Monetization Data Science at Flurry Makes My Brain Hurt
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
We all just assume that the inner workings behind companies that are the backbone of the app development industry just work. So naturally we just a assume company like Flurry, that provides mobile analytic data and app marketing/monetization services, knows what its doing to provide its services.However, recently I stumbled across a blog post by Soups Ranjan, Ph.D. disc...
Apple now enforcing no UDID usage in apps
Friday, March 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
It's official. Apple posted this to developers that Starting May 1, the App Store will no longer accept new apps or app updates that access UDIDs. They are asking developers to no longer use the UDID in the UIDevice Class Reference and to start using the Vendor or Advertising identifiers introduced in iOS 6.There was no word of Apple removing any app...
Australian CCA warns app developers targeting children
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 by Richard Harris
Are there app developers out there abusing the system to try and lure people into buying more products - you bet there are. With any good system also ushers in the people that will learn to take advantage of it.The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network feels that some app developers are becoming greedy and cashing in on young smartphone and tablet users by t...
Apple Starts Rejecting Apps Using Cookie Tracking Methods
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
If you use cookie tracking in your apps for iOS be warned, Apple might reject your next update! Basically - if you use Safari in anyway (uiwebview or other web controllers) to initiate storing information into the browser cache (cookies) for advertising use or even app retrieval use (again using a web view) your app might be in danger of rejection. Alot of developers tu...
Should I try to design and illustrate my app myself
Thursday, January 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
As app developers we all suffer from "multi-hat syndrome". We wear the designer hat, the developer hat, the troubleshooting hat, and on and on.. With all things being equal it's no doubt that overall, design and illustration takes the bulk of time when developing apps.
Even if you are just developing utility apps that aren't graphically intense like games, it c...
Ad networks want mobile game developers traffic
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 by Richard Harris
Executives from Tapjoy, ChartBoost and others discuss their different and sometimes controversial approaches to app monetizationIf this hasn't happened to you yet, it will soon: you're playing a mobile game and you see an in-app ad for another game inside it. Normally you might ignore such things, but this one is offering a reward--free virtual currency, perhaps--for th...
Tough gig making a living as an app developer
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by Richard Harris
ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.THE iECONOMYA series examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.More in This Series »GraphicJob Prospects for App WritersRelatedWhat It Takes to Be an Ap...
.jpg)
