Apple Wants You to Unlock Your Phone with Your Face

  Expectations for the iPhone 8 are almost ridiculously high as Apple fanatics try to guess what the company has in store for its tenth-anniversary phone. Miami iOS app developers are hoping for radical design changes and features, the kind of thing that will remind people that the iPhone is the king of smartphones, the […]

Apple Buys German Startup That Will Make Its AR Unstoppable

“The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Independent back in February. “I think AR is that big, it’s huge.” By June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the company put its money where its […]

MIT to the Rescue with the New Jungle Hawk Owl Drone

It should be no surprise that MIT — you know, that school that’s basically synonymous with innovation — is doing amazing work with drones. Boston IoT app developers may already be aware of the autonomous, AI-assisted camera drones being tested by researchers at the school’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Now the brilliant engineers […]

OneWeb’s Broadband Satellite Network May Launch Next Year

It’s easy for Boston iOS app developers to take a consistent high-speed internet connection for granted, but not everybody has it so lucky. As of last year, 39% of Americans in rural areas did not have access to 25 Mbps/3 Mbps service, with 20% of rural Americans unable to connect to 4 Mbps/1 Mbps service. […]

Google and YouTube Team Up for a New Virtual Reality Format

It seems like the virtual reality hype has subsided somewhat these days, replaced by a surge of enthusiasm for augmented reality. Apple, Google, and Facebook are placing their bets on AR as the next world-changing tech innovation, pushing their VR aspirations to the back-burner. The general public just isn’t sold on VR yet, perhaps in […]

Tech Leaders Talk Big Changes at the Start of Tech Week

President Trump’s “tech week” kicked off Monday with an unusual scene: leaders of the tech community, usually ambivalent or downright outspoken on the president, saying nice things about his tech policies. This buttering-up unfolded in front of cameras, but the real work was accomplished in private sessions where tech leaders such as Apple CEO Tim […]

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 […]

Py Offers a Class Not in Most American Schools: How to Code

Here at Dogtown Media, we’re passionate about computer science education reform. It’s not just that we want to prepare the next generation of mobile app developers — it’s much bigger than that. Without more access to computer science education, Americans risk falling behind as innovators and major players in the world economy. There are currently […]

The Russian Hack of the Election Was Worse Than We Thought

Like most Americans, Chicago eHealth app developers have been watching with their mouths agape as the Russia investigation intensifies. With each new revelation, it seems more and more like the stuff of great fiction, or at least like the kind of conspiracy theory a kooky uncle would dream up. It would be entertaining if the […]

Trump Invites Tech Leaders to White House for “Tech Week”

President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating currently hovers at around 60%, and in the tech industry it’s likely even higher. For a man who has presented himself as a master businessman for the entire duration of his public life, he’s certainly done a lot to alienate the major tech businesses that drive growth and innovation in […]