Mobile Tech Helping Hurricane Relief Efforts
Image Source: Lockheed Martin Deep down inside, mobile technology creators want to believe that they’re contributing value to the world. Mobile app developers want you to feel secure and in-control when using their interface. E-commerce app designers make the process of purchasing something as simple as possible. But as recent events have shown, mobile technology can […]
Tech and Politics Meet at Innovations in Silicon Beach Event
With technological innovation accelerating at an astonishing pace, it can be hard to tell the opportunities apart from the dangers. Humanity is poised to make some big strides in the years ahead. But headlines about things like the Equifax hack and Elon Musk’s warnings of an AI apocalypse stir the public’s anxieties about tech. Our […]
Machine Learning Turns Drones Into Literal Inspector Gadgets
We have written already this week about Amazon’s advances in automation, which could eventually replace the thousands of entry-level warehouse positions the company has created. When mobile app developers consider the issue of robots taking human jobs, they often think of this kind of warehouse or factory work. But as innovation in artificial intelligence and […]
Tech Execs Lean Left, But Can’t Stand Regulations
Over the past several months, we have written a lot about the tech industry’s disdain for right wing politics in the era of Trump. Whether its the Muslim ban, the FCC’s rollback of net neutrality protections, the exit from the Paris Accord, or the moral equivocating about the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, tech leaders have not […]
Medium-Cost App Subscriptions May Be the Way to Go
One of the most nagging questions that faces mobile app developers is how much to charge for a subscription for an app. Set the subscription fees too low and you may go into the red; set them too high and you run the risk of scaring away potential users. Obviously mobile app developers have to […]
FCC Hopes to Crack Down on Scams in the Lifeline Program
It’s been pretty easy to vilify the FCC under Trump-appointed Ajit Pai because, well, so much of what it plans to do is bad for the American people (and good for the telecommunications companies). But mobile app developers are split over Pai’s crackdown on Lifeline, a federal program that provides cheap phone and broadband service […]
Amazon Sheds Profits to Fuel Its Incredible Expansion
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos got the opportunity to be the richest man in the world for a brief period of time this Thursday. As Amazon shares hit a record high of $1,083.31 yesterday, he pushed ahead of Bill Gates for a little while, before the shares took a 3.2% tumble in after hours […]
Zuckerberg Listens to America (But Isn’t Running for Office)
Before he was elected president, Donald Trump was just a businessman (by many accounts, a corrupt and failed businessman) and celebrity with no real experience in the political realm. According to his supporters, what qualified him for office were his willingness to play outside Washington’s established rules and his prodigious deal-making skills — after all, […]
Facebook’s Original Streaming Content Is In the Works
The San Francisco mobile app development community has long known about Facebook’s interest in launching streaming content, but until now details were scant. Plans to showcase original content at the F8 developers conference in April and the Cannes Lions advertising festival earlier this month fell through, leaving the tech industry to wonder if the social […]
We Can Expect 8.3 Billion Mobile Broadband Users by 2022
Smartphones seem so ubiquitous at this point that it’s easy for mobile app developers to forget that not everyone in the world has one. The good news is that we seem to be heading in that direction. Last year marked the first time that smartphone subscriptions surpassed that of traditional cell phones. As it stands […]