How to Pre-optimize Your Mobile App Before Launch
This guest-post is courtesy of our partners at Gummicube. While preparing for an app’s launch, it’s key to consider how it’s going to be marketed. Pre-optimization is one way to do just that. Pre-optimization is an App Store Optimization practice where you research and build out the app’s metadata and creative sets in an effort […]
iOS 12 Shortcuts & Deep linking: Developers Should Consider Siri’s Apps During Development
Virtual assistants from Cortana, to Alexa, to Google Assistant are becoming more integrated in our lives each and every day. From dictating and sending text messages through our smartwatch, to telling our smart home device to change the temperature, AI is a bigger part of our digital lifestyles. Now with the release of iOS 12, […]
Hackers Wreak Havoc Using IoT Exploits
This past Friday, much of the United States’ internet access came to a crashing halt. Services like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and Netflix were rendered inaccessible because of a Mirai botnet attack on servers owned by Dyn (the source code was actually released a few weeks ago and the creator of the code, a hacker dubbed […]
How To Keep Data Harvesters Away From Your App’s API
Your app is a vault, filled with valuable data. Custom content. User emails. Images. Videos. Losing any of these things could be “game over” for a mobile app developer. The bad news is, all this data is readily available via your app’s APIs. API data harvesting is surprisingly common as a “growth hacking” tactic — […]
Department Of Defense Approves IOS6
A report earlier this month indicated that the U.S Department of Defense was preparing to approve Apple devices running IOS6 for us on military networks. It’s now been confirmed that the department has issued official authorization for IOS6 allowing Apple products to be used more freely on their networks. The reported stated that out of more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the Defense […]
Apple Sued Over Faulty iPhone Button
Debra Hilton from Florida filed a class action suit against Apple alleging that the power button on the iPhone 4 has a manufacturing defect that Apple was a aware of and chose not to fix. The suit claims that the iPhone 4’s flex cable is defective and designed to cause the power button to malfunction shortly after […]
Amazon Gives Away Millions In Coins To Lure Kindle Users
The celebrate the launch of its new coins Amazon is giving away “tens of millions of dollars” of the virtual currency. The hand out is going Kindle Fire users as part of its latest bid to lure IOS and Android users to the platform. The retail giant launched its new currency with the promotion that will see all Kindle Fire owners gifted […]
Home Monitoring And Control: Nest Acquires MyEnergy
The arena remote home monitoring and control is gaining momentum and that might well be accelerated by the acquistion of MyEnery by Nest. Originally called Earth, MyEnergy launched its online dashboard in 2009 as one of the first energy monitoring solutions. They provide users with information on how much electricity, water, and natural gas they use and how much they spend on these. “Giving our customers […]
More Apple Crack Downs On Discovery Apps
A few weeks ago we reported how discovery App AppGratis had its app removed from the Apple App store then its push messages stop to its 12 million users. This looks like it’s part of a much bigger crackdown confirmed by PocketGamer.biz after Apple began rejecting apps that feature tools for “filtering, bookmarking, searching, or sharing recommendations.” We’ve been contacted by one […]
So What Does Apple Do With Your Siri Data?
According to a new report on Apple’s siri privacy policy Apple can hold the data for up to two years, however the data is anonymized to ensure peoples privacy isn’t infringed. So what does happen when you hold down the button and talk to Siri? Apple generates a random number to represent the user and then […]