As AI and AR slide into our modern day reality, video games are also high scorers among software developers. The Entertainment Software Association announced that in 2017, 65% of American households contain at least one member who plays video games for 3+ hours per day. 2/3rds of Americans are immersed in the Video Game Software and the figures are steadily growing each year. Continue reading “Video Games and AWS Software”
As the warm April season begins, it might be time to dust off your Fitbit, eat a cool salad, and treat yourself to a shopping spree. And of course, what is a new spring outfit without the accessories…
Here are the top 3 future wearable technology apps which could be scorching your summer style.
Well you know what they say, “everyone looks nice in a good pair of jeans.”Google certainly seems to think so and is testing out theirLevi’s CommuterTrucker Jacket with Jacquard. Thishightech wearable data designed for the urban commuter will access music, navigation, and, of course, communicationwith just a simple brush of the sleeve. The technology is literally woven into the fabric of theclothing. In thenext year you might want to thinkabout trading in that olddenim jacket of yours for the latest in wearable technology.
Sleek and stylish, the apple watch has been a top seller for wearable technology. But what will the apple watch series 4 look like when it hits stores? Well Tim Cook is looking into the health and wellness benefits of apps on the new line of apple watches. Our future watches will be able to detect posture and gestures as well as face recognition and picture/video taking abilities.
Amazon Smart Glasses will be keeping you trendy in the future. Each pair of smart glasses will contain your personal assistant Alexa to help withnavigation and notification. Amazon will begin to mingle with third party tech giants like Facebook andGoogle to bringcustomers new augmented reality and artificial intelligence apps. No earbuds necessary, the audio will move through bone-conduction technology right intoyour ears.
In the future, our fashion runways could be more like technology runways. If you are interested in the future of app technology Sunvera Software can work with you to make your chic app design become an iconic fashion statement.
“With great power comes great responsibility” this iconic quote should come to no surprise for Mark Zuckerberg after last weeks Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal which broke in headlines recently. In a Tuesday Facebook post, Zuckerberg commented on this massive cyber security breach: Continue reading “Did Facebook Get Hacked?”
What your business needs to know about BIG DATA.
When it comes to Big Data it is tough to know exactly where to begin. Every article and blog post you read discusses Big Data like it is an inexplicable ocean of information, impossible to fathom and essential to the life of your business. But what exactly is Big Data? Continue reading “Spring Cleaning for BIG DATA”
Long gone are the days when cell phones were deemed a distraction in the classroom. Today’s learning is enhanced by SMART boards, tablets, and most importantly Artificial Intelligence. A new generation of young people raised on technology will enter the marketplace in the coming years. Is your business prepared to meet the challenges of AI in a world of tech giants?
But what exactly is Artificial Intelligence? Continue reading “AI and Why Your Company Should Be Prepared”
Would you rather invest in Mobile Game Apps or Healthcare Mobile Apps (also called mHealth) to be successful. While game mobile apps are a big draw for all user age groups, healthcare mobile apps have a focused niche user base with higher utilization factor.
Let’s define Game mobile apps and healthcare mobile apps:
Mobile Game Apps – from Wikipedia, “A mobile game is a video game played on a feature phone, smartphone/tablet, smartwatch, PDA, portable media player or graphing calculator.”
Healthcare Mobile Apps – from Wikipedia, “mHealth (also written as m-health) is an abbreviation for mobile health, a term used for the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices.”
Mobile games apps allow a greater participation of user base and allows for all sorts of people to enjoy a mobile experience. This fuels two different engines – economic and user-engagement. Both can become huge. If a game is simple to understand, rules are easy to comprehend, game is easy to play with increasing levels of difficultly, then and only then can a game become successful.
It is not necessary to have blockbusters like Pokemon Go. Instead there are millions of simple apps that are played by millions of people every day.
However, the biggest benefit in my eyes is the increasing participation by people. They get familiar with the devices, start trusting them and ultimately will try non-game apps like Healthcare apps. Without the initial early-adopter technology, there will be no opportunity for other industries.
If you are considering a game app, this is the right time to launch into developing it now.
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Secure Mobile apps should be a top priority for every mobile app developer. While security is often overlooked in mobile app design, every developer believes their app is most secure, and at the same time are afraid someone is going to hack their mobile app platform.
In either case, as a mobile app developer we need to ensure that adequate precautions are programmed, sufficient vulnerability testing for mobile app is performed and allow security to be an integral part of the design. Here are some simple and yet highly useful steps to follow.
To give you some context, many of the below items are essential for HIPAA compliance and SAX/PCI compliance.
Step 1: Make mobile security an integral part of your design. Think wholistic end-to-end mobile security, starting from the user to the backend infrastructure. Consider authentication, password complexity, data transmission, data storage, data processing, third-party integration, storage of images, videos, documents and infrastructure setup.
Step 2: Authentication and password complexity protects your mobile app at the end-user level. This makes the process easier for users while making sure there are no loop-holes if a device is being used. If critical data is not protected, devices can be lost.
Step 3: Storing data including username and passwords locally on the device. This is a situation that seems so easy to overlook while being the easiest to protect. Make sure authentication credentials are stored in either “Device KeyChain” or “Managed Storage.” Both these methods encrypt critical information when they are stored on mobile devices. For other app data, determine if they need to be encrypted before being stored locally.
Step 4: Sending data back and forth from the server aka mobile transport layer needs to be fully secure. The easiest way to achieve this is to setup https (secure http) using a SSL certificate. Make sure the certificate is properly created covering all ciphers schemes.
Step 5: Server side code vulnerabilities are one of the easiest to make but very difficult to find. You need specialized vulnerability tools to identify and fix such issues.
Step 6: Data storage is probably already secure. The best way to secure data is to encrypt it during storage. This is called data-at-rest encryption. This increases the server resource requirements in order to encrypt and decrypt at run-time. But it’s still worth it.
Step 7: This is the one area that involves people and therefore most risky if you don’t have good procedures. All admin credentials need to be changed at periodic intervals. When an employee leaves, make sure to delete their credentials. And finally document all processes.
If you follow these seven steps, you can stop the hack or at least greatly reduce your chances of getting hacked.
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Choosing the best Mobile App Development Tools is always a challenge. Apart from the straight forward basic development tools like XCode for iOS development from Apple, there are a number of other tools to consider if you are serious about mobile apps.
Continue reading “Top 5 Mobile App Development Tools For iOS”
Why is it so hard to get an accurate cost on a mobile app project? After all, most mobile app development cost are pretty straightforward.
Say, if you need to price out a new website, you can simply estimate the number of pages, hours and cost per hour. Done.
But pricing out mobile app development cost is more challenging. People ask me, “why is that?” The short answer: there is a lot going on “behind the curtain” that you never see. Only your developer does. And I’d like to share the key pieces you should know about.
The actual mobile app that your users will install on their iPhones and iPads. Instagram or Yelp app.
A browser based web portal to administer your system. Tasks such as locking users out or unlocking them, financial reporting, usage reports, uploading content including images, videos etc. to make them available to your mobile user. For example: Instagram or Yelp support teams use to manage the entire system from their desktop browser.
In some cases, your users will want to administrate some functions from a desktop browser. This then becomes very critical. A client portal is also needed when you have a tenant-landlord model of apps. For example: Yelp desktop browser access for businesses to manage their accounts.
Cloud based storage of data, images, offers, information, bills, invoices, etc. Your mobile app will need to access this data for everything it does. For example Instagram or Yelp stores all pictures, business information and user info in a data store on their servers.
Most (90%) of apps have some hosting component. Even basic simple apps will want to store registration information including emails to do some email newsletter marketing. This cost can run into millions depending on how much traffic you are targeting.
Specialized apps like in healthcare or fintech will need extra layer of security for app, app transport and data-storage.
Sendgrid, MailChimp for email sending, Salesforce, Zoho, Microsoft Dynamics, SilverPop for CRM, Stripe, Autorize.NET, PayPal for Payment processing, etc. Each of these services have a setup/service fee that you will have to budget for.
The diagram below shows how they connect.
If you are truly interested in estimating your true cost, multiply 3x of whatever your mobile app developer or mobile app development company tells you.
Additionally, you can check out more info on the price of developing an app.
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iPhone 6 vs iPhone 7: What’s the Future?
If you have an iPhone 6 right now, you probably want to make a switch. Whether you have purchased it two years ago right at the time it was released in the market or later on, the gadget world actually moved on. However, how can we be sure that iPhone 7 is a good enough upgrade to make this worthwhile or are you better off waiting for the succeeding year or changing to Android?
iPhone 6 vs iPhone 7 – Tell the Difference
It cannot be denied that many users just want to have something that is shiny and new. There’s nothing wrong with that. But, iPhone 7 does not look too different to iPhone 6. For the iPhone 7, Apple has decided to ditch the ugly antenna lines on the rear, but since you have had your phone for several months, this might not be a problem to you anymore.
The new thing has something to do with the colors that include the limited-availability piano black and the fetching “black” option. The latter has replaced the Space Grey choice and it might not be appreciated by everyone. Truly, iPhone features do change for the better in every new model to be launched by Apple. These features may be the same as the iPad features. Moreover, the iPhone application development services are also taken into account.
Also, there are quite a few changes in the style and display between iPhone 6 and the new iPhone 7. Users are given the chance to switch to a much more lovable and stylish design they want for a phone. So far, iPhone 7 is running on the same iOS 10 operating system as iPhone 6. But, everyone is waiting for any news about upgrading the OS to iOS 11. And, hopefully, iPhone 7 can taste that.
There’s a slight split with iOS 10 and that can be seen in terms of 3D touch. Apple used touch-sensitive technology that it introduced with iPhone 6s much better in the newest mobile operating system. iOS 10 has been found to be more helpful and advantageous the moment it has been added in iPhone 7 compared to how it works on iPhone 6.
For instance, you could preview emails and the messages on the lock screen simply through pressing firmly the notification. You may also jump to the additional options through pressing hard on the app & on the control center icons. Switching to iPhone 6 after you used iPhone 7 may be a bit strange, as if something is missing.
When you take more photos, iPhone 7 would be a great upgrade with its 12 megapixel camera and six-element lens built. You can also locate optical image stabilization and the bigger f/1.8 aperture lens. All of these mean that photos that are taken with iPhone 7 are sharper, brighter, steadier and much more colorful. It is a significantly better and improved performer in the low light, as well, even before you consider the enhanced True Tone flash system that uses double the quantity of bulbs that an iPhone 6 camera has.
These are just some of the features you can expect to see in iPhone 7. There are more things that we can expect from the iPhone 7 and the future.
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