Microsoft Re-Enters Smartwatch App Market with Band
Microsoft unveiled an update to the Microsoft Band this week, including some new features that make it an intriguing alternative to the more expensive Apple Watch. The device is surprisingly feature-heavy at the $249 price point, giving smartwatch developers at the New York launch event plenty to talk about. Microsoft arguably “almost” created the smartwatch […]
Postmates Launches 15-Minute Delivery Service
Popular delivery service Postmates has launched a new service specifically for users in the South of Market Street (SoMa) area of San Francisco that promises to deliver lunch items within a blazing-fast 15 minutes. Users interact with the new service, called “Pop,” via a branded icon within the regular Postmates app, choosing from selections of items pre-stocked […]
Fighting Churn: Localytics Solves Problem for App Industry
Getting users to download an app is notoriously difficult for San Francisco mobile app developers. Getting them to stick around for the long haul is even trickier. Even an enthusiastic user has dozens of other apps competing for their digital attention span, and the average app loses around 80 percent of signups. The “churn” in […]
Twitter Adding 8 New Services to Fabric Platform
Since Twitter launched Fabric in fall of 2014, the platform has grown to reach over 225,000 developers and over a billion devices. Needless to say, the announcement of eight new services caused quite a stir among mobile app developers in San Francisco. Developers at Fabric commented that they’ve been “blown away” by the response to Fabric by […]
Apple Now Accepting Apps for Apple TV Platform
Apple TV, Apple’s new television device, is a hot item this year — so IOS developers will be pleased to hear that the company is now accepting app submissions for the new platform. Apparently they don’t want consumers to have to wait for a thriving app ecosystem, so anybody with an idea for a game […]
Major Update brings iWork Apps for iCloud out of Beta
Apple has just rolled the iWork suite out of beta and added some major upgrades to all three core mac apps in OS X, iOS, and iCloud. Included in the updates are some highly-anticipated features that put the apps on-par with major competitors in the cloud-based productivity suite market like Google Drive apps and Microsoft […]
USA Giving Away Governing Control of the Internet
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an American-controlled non-profit entity that manages the names and addresses of websites. Since 1998, ICANN has been the sole holder of a contract to administer and manage domain names. It is led by a consortium of technology experts, academics, advocates, government and private industry representatives, […]
Facebook Using Drones to Blanket the World in Internet Connectivity
Facebook recently unveiled the specifics of the company’s plans to launch a series of solar-powered drones that will broadcast wireless Internet signals to remote areas. The laser-connected drones are expected to bring Internet access to people who live too far from existing wireless infrastructure to get a wireless signal. Estimates suggest that approximately 10 percent […]
Ad-Blocking Software: A Threat and an Opportunity for Mobile App Developers
Apple ruffled some feathers at the 2015 Developers’ Conference when the company unveiled an upcoming “content blocking” feature aimed at blacking out unwanted ads. The conference schedule used the following wording to introduce the session: “Safari in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan delivers new ways for your app to extend Safari’s behavior. […]
Medical App Development Industry Not Yet Producing Results
While medical app development has often been cited as one of the major growth areas of the mobile software industry, recent figures suggest there is a great deal of room for improvement. A recent global survey from Kentico Software found that 50 percent of users are not happy with the current generation of mobile health […]