Emerging features to consider for mobile app development
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 by Richard Harris
In an era where mobile applications are ubiquitous, with a staggering 8.93 million apps vying for attention across various app stores, distinguishing your app from the competition is paramount. While aesthetics undoubtedly play a role in user attraction, it is the functionality and features of an app that truly captivate and retain users. Whether you are embarking on yo...
AR glasses market on the rise
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
AR glasses are a type of wearable technology that connects people to computers. Many functions of smart glasses enable users to examine data pertinent to their environment. Technology for AR glasses has advanced tremendously in recent years. Several sectors, including manufacturing, shipping, field service, inspection, and operation, are already expanding with smart gla...
Apple watch app from Trainerize brings the coach to your wrist
Friday, September 11, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Since its inception, Trainerize has been on a mission to make fitness accessible—and with their newly-released Apple Watch App, they’ve progressed to a whole new phase of accessibility. Fitness businesses and personal trainers can now deliver coaching straight to their clients’ wrists, transforming the way wearables are utilized in personal health and ...
Women Who Tech announce 10 finalists
Thursday, September 5, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Women Who Tech announced the 10 finalists for the European-leg of its flagship Women Startup Challenge. The HealthTech startups will pitch their ventures to top investors and compete for an equity-free $50,000 cash grant on 7th October at Paris City Hall, Hôtel de Ville.
"By 2040, $25 trillion will be spent annually on healthcare, yet only 9.7% of investor...
Mobile app testing market to be valued at $13.3B by 2026 report says
Monday, May 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The mobile application testing solution market is anticipated to witness significant revenue growth during the forecast period, owing to rising demand across commercial and corporate sectors. Requirements for regression testing, the need to tackle issues caused due to device diversity, and increasing mobile applications such as m-commerce are the major drivers for the r...
The Taiwan Tech Arena returns to CES 2019
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 by Richard Harris
A new epicenter of advanced consumer technology research and development will take center stage at CES 2019 when the Taiwan Tech Arena returns to CES 2019 to introduce the world to 44 of the most promising Taiwanese technology start-ups in the Taiwan Tech Arena located in the Eureka Park Marketplace in the Sands Expo & Convention Center at Booth #52443.
According...
The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
Why search has become the backbone of mobile apps
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Elasticsearch is an open source distributed full text search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. We recently connected with Gaurav Gupta, VP of Products for Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch to chat about how search is being used to significantly boost both user adoption and improve the bottom line. He also shared with us what he believes are the thr...
How Emotion AI is becoming a real opportunity for developers
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently spoke with emotion artificial intelligence (AI) company, Affectiva, about how Emotion AI is emerging as a new opportunity for developers. Affectiva recently announced that its emotion recognition SDK has been integrated with Unity. Developers in a range of industries from gaming, education, robotics and healthcare, to experiential marketing and more ar...
IBM Security Channels Its Inner XMen with Launch of IBM XForce Red Security Division
Friday, August 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Someone in charge of naming divisions at IBM must have been a big Sci-Fi fan as is evidenced with IBM Security’s name for the a news security task force - IBM X-Force Red. Yep, that’s the name for a new group of IBM security professionals and ethical hackers whose goal is to help businesses discover vulnerabilities in their computer networks, hardware, and software...
How The Weather Company is Helping IBM Expand its Developer Footprint
Saturday, July 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently chatted with Chris Huff, Vice President, Mobile & Consumer Application Development - The Weather Company, to talk how the company approaches application development and the role it has with helping IBM work with the development community.ADM: How are developers at The Weather Company aiding consumers’ ability to receive weather updates in real time?Huff:...
Pebble Core is Built on Top of Android And Will Integrate Amazon Alexa
Sunday, June 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Pebble has announced that it has integrated Amazon Alexa with its upcoming Pebble Core wearable, bringing Amazon’s voice services to the 3G-connected wearable device. Pebble Core is the company’s first foray into a non smartwatch wearable device featuring 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an accelerometer, two programmable buttons, a headphone jack, and a hardware expansio...
Wearable Technology Adoption is Higher in the US than in the EU4
Friday, May 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Kantar has launched a new quarterly report for the wearable technology market. In the first report Kantar examined baseline data which shows significant differences in wearable adoption when comparing the US and the EU4.Kantar reports that, as of March 2016, around one in ten consumers in the US own a fitness band or smartwatch (12.2%), basically twice the penetration w...
Hacking into Health Wearables
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 by Eugene Jorov
Today’s wearable market is dominated by a handful of large companies whose narrow focus on fitness is preventing the public from reaping the potential health benefits of wearable technology. Currently, only engineers that work for industry giants, such as FitBit and Apple, have the opportunity to fully tap into wearable technology’s capabilities. Moreover, the sens...
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...
Developers Win Over $100K in Connect Ability Challenge
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AT&T and New York University’s ABILITY Lab, through the Connect Ability Challenge, have awarded over $100,000 in prizes to developers of high-tech solutions to improve the lives of people living with disabilities. The Connect Ability Challenge was a three month long technology challenge to spur innovation for people with physical, social, emotional and cogniti...
Silicon Labs Releases New Line of Energy Friendly USB enabled Microcontrollers (MCUs) for IoT Instances
Friday, May 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Silicon Labs, a provider of microcontroller, sensing and wireless connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), has released a new line of energy-friendly USB-enabled microcontrollers (MCUs). This latest addition to Silicon Labs’ EFM32 32-bit MCU portfolio, the new Happy Gecko MCUs are designed to deliver the lowest USB power drain in the industry, enabling l...
Enterprise Mobile QA with Ranjeet Vidwans VP of Marketing for Mocana
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Ranjeet Vidwans, VP of Marketing for Mocana, to discuss challenges facing companies with the implementation of an enterprise mobile strategy.ADM: What do you see as the major differences between an enterprise mobile app and a consumer mobile app? Vidwans: Interestingly, there are probably more important fundamental similarities ...
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 ...
AMASE Analogy: This Is What a Profitable App Looks like
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Josh Cline
Mobile-app development, marketing, and monetization are all extremely difficult to do well – it’s why very few mobile apps end up being successful.In this article from The Cline Group (I’m the President and CEO), my goal is to provide end-to-end insights into the mobile-user lifecycle. Let’s start by defining a successful mobile app as one that has achieved sustained pr...
Intel Curie Module Taps into the Wearable Device Gold Rush
Thursday, January 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
At CES Intel introduced its Curie module, the first platform of its kind from Intel offering a complete low-power solution designed for companies interested in developing wearable technology solutions. The Curie module offers big features into its tiny size and is designed for "always-on" applications such as social media, sports, and fitness activities. Intel is p...
In Advance of CES, AT&T Announces Drive and AT&T Drive Studio Connected Car Initiatives at Its Developer Conference and Hackathon
Monday, January 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
AT&T’s Developer Conference and Hackathon had a decidedly connected slant which explains the company’s announcements on Monday as it moves forward with its AT&T Drive and AT&T Drive Studio connected car initiatives. These two programs are evolving to facilitate the ability for developers to work with automotive manufacturers to integrate apps.Highlights of t...
2015 Predictions from 4 Mobile Advertising Thought Leaders
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
MobFox worked with a few companies in the industry to gather their thoughts on predictions for mobile advertising in 2015. Monetizing an app is hard work and no doubt, the forecast of what to expect in 2015 is something we all need to be watching for. Native advertising is here to stay, more winners than losers, programmatic buying, and added value are just a few highli...
Todd Anglin from Telerik Offers Insights for 2015
Saturday, December 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
Todd Anglin, VP of Product Strategy of Telerik's Platform, Progress Software has written his personal insights on some of the latest trends we are expected to see in 2015. Anglin points out growing areas such as Wearables, IoT, Cloud, aaS (as a Service), Developer languages and more will become further adopted by mobile users and enterprises. Wearables: Apple ...
Ads Go Wearable with FitAd's Advertising Platform
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
FitAd has unveiled a new mobile and wearable advertising platform. The platform is now available for fitness and health publishers and brands. FitAd is a mobility ad network that offers advertising for health and fitness brands for tablets, smartphones and wearables. The company has target ad offerings which reach nearly 50 million monthly mobile site and app...
Mobile Health, HIPAA And Health Technology Predictions For 2015
Saturday, December 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
TrueVault's CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Wang recently shared his predictions on health technology, mobile health and HIPAA for 2015. Maintaining HIPAA compliance for healthcare applications is frustrating and time consuming for developers. TrueVault is known as the first company to make HIPAA compliance convenient for healthcare apps.Concerns in areas suc...
Move Over Dr. Dre, Black Eyed Peas Frontman will.i.am Introduces Untethored Smartband Wearable Device
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
Taking a page out of Dr. Dre’s book, Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am has launched a new smart wearable called i.amPULS. The PULS wearable is untethered and has the ability to make/receive calls operating independently of any other device, unlike many wearables which use Bluetooth and require close proximity to a smartphone.Dr. Dre turned his association with headphon...
Samsung Gear S Gets Opera Mini Web Browser
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Opera Software has announced that the Opera Mini browser has become the first web browser on Samsung’s Gear S smartwatch which runs on a Tizen-based wearable device platform. With more than 250 million monthly users around the world, Opera Mini uses compression technology that shrinks the size of webpages to as little as 10%. The result is a faster and more energy-...
O Brother, Where Art Thou How New Laws Are Governing the Collection and Use of Geolocation Information Inside Apps
Saturday, September 20, 2014 by Adam Grant
Trying to find out where someone is located is valuable information for businesses and attorneys, but there are new laws winding their way through Congress which directly impact how this information is obtained. In 2000, George Clooney appeared in the Joel and Ethan Coen comedy titled O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen brothers’ movie created the story as a modern...
Intel Introduces Heart Rate SDK Program for Mobile Development of Wearables
Monday, September 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has announced a new SDK to enable mobile developers to make use of the sensors and capabilities found in wearable devices powered by Intel technology. The first of these SDKs will expose APIs to enable developers to make use of the heart rate sensing capability in headphones powered by Intel's heart rate technology. This will allow developers to add value to their...
Beyond the Hype: Why Smart Wearables Need More Heart
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Liz Dickinson
The hype around the wearable tech industry has steered many consumers straight to Amazon in search of a fitness gadget that will tell them how healthy or unhealthy they act on a regular basis. Some feel they can’t become healthier unless they are tracking their progress every step of the way. But as we begin to see through the hype, the wearable tech industry seems to b...
Mobile Developers Can Put on Their Boogie shoes With Boogio Wearable SDK for Footware
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Boogio is a recent startup that plans on turning any shoe into a smart shoe. For developers who want to get involved, the company is offering preorders of the Boogio Beta developer kits priced $189.00 USD. Boogio is promoting its new platform as the world's first wearable device that can sense gravitational forces, inner balance, and 3D movement of the feet in real...
Superpowered Audio SDK for iOS and Android Mobile App Development
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
As the folks at Superpowered point out, when considering audio, desktop software and mobile are different animals. Aside from the many UI/UX concerns, the low-power mobile environment is a full of unique obstacles for apps and software with high-quality audio needs.Resource-hungry audio transformations and algorithms which can run effectively unconstrained on high-power...
How an App Developer Chose a Wearable Platform for Monetization
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Unlocking the secret to developing an app for a wearable platform and monetizing said app is a question that a number of developers are asking themselves.Tencent Games has decided to stick to its gaming roots to expand to the wearable front. It has announced plans to launch its popular Timi Run Everyday app on Razer’s Nabu smartband that offers smartwatch and fitness ba...
Microsoft Releases Developer Updates for Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone 8.1
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Windows Phone 8.1 Update emulator package are both now available for mobile developers. Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, is the latest full-featured update to the Visual Studio toolset. It contains many new features, including Application Insights updates, Git repository support in CodeLens and Release Management support for Windows Desi...
