Metaverse experience from the Billionaire Zombies Club
Friday, December 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Billionaire Zombies Club has released its official white paper, a preview of their upcoming metaverse experience, and has empowered their community to mint "Skeleton King" NFTs which will eventually have DAO Governance and significant ingame utility. As of this writing, the BZC Collections across Open Sea have aggregated more than 600 ETH in volu...
Huawei helps global developers get access to Chinese market
Monday, November 9, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Huawei underlined its commitment to helping global developers tap into the lucrative Chinese app market at the Huawei Developer Webinar – Grow in China, Win with AppGallery. At the Webinar, global developers had exclusive opportunity to learn a range of Huawei’s initiatives, from policy consulting, product localization to user acquisition and monetizati...
To encrypt or not encrypt legacy devices no longer a choice
Thursday, March 19, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
Encryption forms a strong layer of protection for our data and a last line of defense against cybercrime. By deploying encryption, users can render their data unreadable if it is compromised. Whether that means hackers intruding into the network, or an employee unwittingly exposing sensitive information, the data will be useless to any unauthorized agents who happe...
Red Hat OpenShift now available for IBM and LinuxONE
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is generally available for IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE™.
“Containers are the next generation of software-defined compute that enterprises will leverage to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives,” says Gary Chen, Research Director at IDC. “IDC estimates that 71% of organizations are in the proce...
COBOL at 60
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus commenced its COBOL60 activities, celebrating the continued relevance of information technology’s most enduring business language. Known for its innovation, portability, readability, and business-centricity, COBOL has continually expanded and adapted to support new technologies and business demands.
COBOL at 60
Created in 1959 as a U.S Department...
Push notification value increases with intensity
Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
Marfeel has released the results of an extensive study that measured the value of push notifications to publishers and identified optimized strategies for increasing the value of push notifications by up to 40 percent.
The research defined a new metric, Subscriber Lifetime Value, or SLTV, to evaluate push notification strategies for customers using Marfeel’s au...
Software architecture in 2019
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Software is increasingly becoming more complex, and dealing with the changes happening in the software industry every day is something all developers, especially software architects, need to pay attention to.
While software architecture isn't anything new - the speed of mobile undoubtedly has put critical elements of creating software outside of the main focus fo...
Preventing bad app reviews according to Poq
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Poq has released information to developers to help them understand the impacts of negative app reviews, and how to handle them, through a new white paper titled "The Ultimate Guide to Preventing Bad App Reviews". While it's aimed more towards retail-based apps, there is insightful information any developer can use inside the paper.
Poq points ...
A designer's guide to mobile AR and VR
Thursday, August 16, 2018 by Paul Reynolds
When most people think of 3D user experiences, their mind goes straight to headsets - Oculus Rift for VR, for example, and Hololens for AR. But for designers and developers, that mindset changed dramatically last summer when Google and Apple released their mobile AR platforms - ARCore and ARKit, respectively. Almost overnight, these platforms swung the center of gravity...
Data Transfer Project wants to make switching platforms easy
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 and was initially designed to create a data transfer protocol that would make data more portable across the web. Recently the organization has released a new white paper named, Data Transfer Project Overview and Fundamentals, on how readers can build a platform that lets individuals port data between app services. The open so...
SophiaTX brings blockchain to pharmaceutical
Thursday, November 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
SophiaTX has announced its intention to facilitate a holistic ‘track and trace’ solution for the transportation of products and medicines in the pharmaceutical industry. Each of the current top twenty prescription drugs (amounting to 10% of the global market in 2016) is produced by a company using SAP software products within their sourcing, manufacturing, or supply cha...
Mobile mesh networking apps via new SDK from RightMesh
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
A big hurdle for software developers is how to reach the estimated 4 billion people, who currently lack Internet access. Without an Internet connection, huge swaths of potential users are unable to discover, download, and use their applications. The majority of these unconnected people live in developing countries, but approximately 96% of the global population live in ...
Lantronix intros MACH10 for OEMs to build webscale IoT apps
Thursday, January 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Lantronix, Inc. has announced the next step in filling out the Company’s IoT strategy with the introduction of MACH10, a multi-dimensional management software platform designed specifically to enable OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to quickly and profitably deliver web-scale IoT applications and services. “With more than two decades of experience as an OEM...
The drive for agility is fueling key transformations in IT
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by Eduardo Cruz
IT has a crucial role to play in the UK’s future prosperity. Britain must have the right level of skills, competencies and abilities to compete globally and sustain economic potency, especially now that it has decided to leave the European Union.
From local start-ups to global enterprises, companies are in dire need of data scientists, talented...
How cloud platforms are revolutionizing enterprise apps
Friday, December 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
A new ecosystem of innovative robust enterprise applications has grown up around cloud platforms and companies that exploit these apps report achieving significant competitive advantages, says a new white paper from The FactPoint Group and ICIX. In particular, forward-looking businesses are using these new solutions running on the Salesforce App Cloud platform to replac...
What an advanced threat approach for cloud security must address
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Headlines about hacking and malware prove that traditional security methods are not up to the task of protecting organizational infrastructures and data from theft and ransomware. As more organizations embrace cloud-first platforms for everything from customer relationship management (CRM) to enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms and beyond, they place themselves...
Big Data and Mobility: How Enterprise Resource Planning Is Being Reinvented
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 by Aymen Alaghbri
Although both mobile apps and big data analytics have become pivotal to business operations on a broad scale, one area of software development—enterprise resource planning (ERP)—has not historically been part of the revolution. Today, that is changing, as ERP developers recognize that their systems are perfect candidates for mobile-centric, big data analytics....
Cloud Security Alliance Issues Mobile Application Security Testing Report
Monday, August 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Cloud Security Alliance has released a new report surrounding its Mobile Application Security Testing Initiative. The purpose of the report is to provide the Alliance’s insight into building out a roadmap for establishing a more secure cloud ecosystem to protect mobile applications.The Alliance’s Mobile Application Security Testing (MAST) Initiative offers...
Mobile App Greatness: It Matters
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Joe Schulz
Mobile user expectations are an interesting thing. We all hear that they are through the roof, and that users expect app behaviors and responses to occur in near-nanoseconds. What most of us don’t hear is that the features and functions that matter to users do not necessarily align with what developers are giving them - or what developers think they want.As a result, ev...
Consumers Want Mobile Loyalty Programs But Industry Lags Behind in Offering Them
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
3Cinteractive (3C) has released the results of a new mobile-enabled loyalty program study which shows a disconnect between what consumers want and what mobile infrastructure brands are investing in for 2016. The full analysis is available in a new white paper, “The Disconnect Between Brands & Consumers in Mobile-Enabled Loyalty Programs”.3C presented a mobile l...
Web and Mobile Application Development Developers On Application Performance
Saturday, April 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dimensional Research and AppDynamics recently partnered in a survey to capture trends and data about web and mobile application development as it relates to monitoring and analyzing tools, including the ability to capture data in real-time, measure performance and business impact.Anand Akela, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) at ...
Meeting the Challenges of DevOps Implementation in the Enterprise
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 by Andrew Phillips
The growth of DevOps has been rapid in the last few years and it’s having a pronounced impact. More than 40% of Fortune 1000 companies have a DevOps practice and another 40% are actively evaluating it, according to IDC research.DevOps is an approach that, in simple terms, can enable you to ship better software faster. The 2015 State of DevOps Report found that...
Security Brief Protecting Against the OWASP Mobile Top 10
Thursday, January 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
There are over 1.6 million Android apps in the Google Play store. Over 1.5 million apps are in the Apple App Store. For mobile app hackers, today’s mobile environment has never offered a more fertile landscape to phish for user information or implant mobile malware. And never in history has more information been available to exploit.To understand how mobile application ...
What Web Development's History Can Tell Us About the Future of Mobile Apps
Friday, September 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It would be nice to say that web development has gotten easier over the years but that’s just not true. Technology keeps moving forward and web app developers continue to face more challenges than ever. Case in point - the new reality of responsive web design as a requirement, not an option, and the always changing web browser code interpretation argument (hence the lat...
Productivity Hacks for Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
In the case of mobilizing the enterprise, the nonstop introduction of new mobile technologies is placing more and more pressure on development teams as they struggle to update and transition legacy systems.And while mobile provides an opportunity to significantly increase the efficiency of a company’s workforce and engagement with customers, the mobilization of the ente...
SecureRF Offers Next Generation of Asymmetric Security for the Internet of Things
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
SecureRF offers a family of Algebraic Eraser public key cryptography cores that offer increased performance while requiring low power and a small footprint. The AE Core is a Diffie-Hellman like authentication protocol that utilizes SecureRF’s Algebraic Eraser algorithm, a linear-in-time method, to enable higher levels of security to low resource devices without altering...
The best app marketing channels that actually help
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
At the beginning of each year, we all read articles with predictions on pretty much any subject - mobile is no exception. Famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky once said, “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
As a guy who has been a part of an app marketing agency for the last 5 years...
Demystifying Location Analytics: A Brave New World of User Engagement and Monetization Opportunities
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
I still don’t think that we truly realize the power of the smart phone – a device that has become ubiquitous in virtually every society across the globe. I’m talking about everyone – not the people using this technology nor the manufacturers, connectivity providers, app publishers – and the list goes on. It is a technology that has changed our world in a tenth of a...
How Next Generation Technology is Going to Drive Future Mobile Enterprise Initiatives
Thursday, January 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
If there is one truth out there for the mobile enterprise, it is that there is no one real truth out there. The rate of growth and transformation associated with the smart technology ecosystem is simply growing too fast for companies to keep up with. The advice a specific approach to preparing for changes that will happen tomorrow differs profoundly based on who yo...
built.io Offers Flow Early Access Program to IoT Platform
Thursday, December 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
flow.built.io is offering sign up now for early access to the unveiling of it's platform. Developers and businesses can access the developer tools which lead to the future of Internet of APIs (IoA). The company’s developer tools are letting users utilize sophisticated IoA workflows which are unique to monetizing IoA use cases. The Internet of APIs may even be ...
New CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and Operations Center Announced
Saturday, December 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center was announced to extend and meet continuous delivery requirement of enterprises. Following the release of Cloudbees’ Jenkins Workflow last week, the company unveiled the two product enhancements which are both related to Jenkins.The new product releases provide more Jenkins Workflow features to vi...
Educating Consumers on iBeacons and Other Location Aware Mobile Technology
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Earlier this year I was writing about location based marketing, specifically iBeacon technology and in that article I mentioned that my wife had no idea what an iBeacon was or how it worked. When I told her that it would allow a retail establishment like Target to let her know about special offers while she is in the store, she said, “I want that!” And then she said, “M...
Learn How Mobile App Developers Can Cash in on the Coming Wave of Internet of Things (IoT) Initiatives
Friday, October 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Recently we reported on the first of several app developer centric whitepapers covering of the Internet of Things (IoT) by the Application Developers Alliance. The first entry in the series released in August is titled “Internet of Things: A Developer's Mandate” and if you haven’t read it yet, you can do so on the Alliance's website.
An...
The Ultimate App Marketing Strategy: The Right Message to the Right Person at the Right Time and Place
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Advertisers are closer than ever to the Holy Grail of consumer app marketing: Reaching a customer who is on the verge of making a purchasing decision and sending them a personalized appeal to sway the purchase behavior in the advertiser’s favor. And this is not future sci-fi, it is happening today. And if you aren’t leveraging this type of mobile marketing, your co...
Jailbreaking: Valuable Shortcut or Dangerous Practice for Mobile Developers
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 by Joe Schulz
Jailbreaking - exploiting vulnerabilities in the iOS to thwart technological protections instituted by Apple and gain root access to the iOS operating system - has been a tool for developers and testers (and savvy users) almost as long as the mobile iOS has existed (since 2007, according to publish reports). Its popularity has risen and fallen (based largely on how well...
