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20/09/2018

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)

Recently, the hegemony of native mobile apps got swayed. Blame the new-gen Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that take the best from the web and marry it into the best of mobile apps. PWAs saw their inception back in 2015. It took two years for the pioneers to transform PWAs into one of the major web programming trends.
PWAs are web-based applications that have the feel and UX similar to mobile apps. They utilize the latest web technologies to bring users app-like experience in a browser tab. To better grasp the essence of a Progressive Web App, go through the list of its features
• Firstly, PWAs require no install. Users can open a PWA in a browser by simply entering the URL.
• Secondly, PWAs match the latest standards of responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility.
• Thanks to the work of service workers, PWAs don’t depend on network state. With pre-caching, PWAs are available to users even offline.
• Most importantly, PWAs bring users an app-like experience, ensuring that users spend more time on your website.
• Moreover, HTTPS protocol serves PWAs, ensuring secure data transfer.
• Last but not least, users can pin PWAs to their Home screens.
So, PWAs are the happy medium between casual websites and mobile apps. They take the best from the two and bring you the dual benefits.
Similarly to websites, PWAs have URLs for every page for trouble-free linking. You can access them in every modern browser without installation. Next, Search engines index PWAs’ content. Moreover, PWAs deliver top-lever full-screen experiences regardless the viewport.
Similarly to mobile apps, PWAs load when the network connection is bad or absent. Next, PWAs are identifiable as apps, so that more users can discover them. Then, users can add the PWAs’ shortcuts to their Home screens to keep coming back in one tap. Furthermore, the progressive web apps are capable of sending users push notifications and re-engaging them. Last but not least, PWAs are fast, reliable and engaging thanks to the UI and UX borrowed from mobile apps.
This being said, PWAs bring their owners sizeable benefits, such as increased engagement, higher conversion rates, and improved reliability. Currently, PWAs have not entered the mainstream. This predetermines high PWA development cost and a lot of effort that goes into its creation.
Source: motocms
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19/09/2018

Mobile apps have been the center of innovation for many years. With the ever-growing market and modern technologies coming up it is tough to stay relevant and competitive. With the largest market pe*******on and flexibility, mobile devices prove to be the best device to be targeted by businesses. While all these statements are true, it should be noted that moving to mobile isn't something new for a company especially in 2018.
If you want to get decent engagement from mobile then you’ll need to step up your application and provide a unique user experience.

1. Augmented Reality:
It seems like the year 2017 was earmarked by both Google and Apple for banking on the development and accessibility of augmented reality. With Apple launching ARKit and Google’s ARCore hitting the market, we now have two rock-solid platforms for the development of augmented reality apps for mobile devices. With most marketers seeing augmented reality as a way to provide a compelling user experience we will soon be seeing a lot of creative AR apps.

2. Wearable Apps:
Smart watches and other connected wearables have created an altogether new technology market. While many of these devices can provide standalone features they still require some support from mobile for instance before the WatchOS 4 the Apple Watch needed iPhone’s network for calling. Except for this, users prefer wearable devices to be synchronized with their mobile phones for easier access to data.

3. Instant Apps:
At the Google I/O 2016, Google launched a new feature in Android devices called the instant apps. The aim is to make it easy for users to use an android app without actually downloading it. The user can try the mobile app using the play store and download it only if they feel the need and have the requisite storage. Wish, Viki, Buzzfeed and Periscope are the pioneer apps to take this initiative. Soon there will be more additions to the list.

4. Lazy Loading and AMP:
AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a project undertaken by Google in association with Twitter. Using AMP, a mobile version of the web page is created that is comparatively a lot faster and responsive. As an alternative, the webpage can be displayed simultaneously while it is loading instead of making the user wait for the whole page to load - it is called lazy loading. Both these techniques can be used to speed the performance of mobile apps when content is syndicated through the web.

5. IoT:
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows the use of sensor technologies in non-IT devices to enable remote control, automation, and monitoring. With a boom in IoT applications, it is obvious for developers to opt for the most noticeable choice when it comes to remote devices. A majority of IoT devices already rely on mobile devices to syndicate data, especially in case of consumer IoT. With the surge in overall uses of IoT, we will see more mobile apps meant for management of these devices.

6. Artificial Intelligence:
Artificial intelligence has enabled many exciting features in mobile apps like recommendation engines, personalized experience, behavioral targeting etc. Apart from these features, it has also enabled the use of chatbots in mobile apps. Chatbots are AI-powered tools that can stimulate human conversations. Though very few apps actually included a chatbot, we will definitely see more applications doing this in future or at least they will synchronize their app with a Facebook Messenger Bot.

7. Cloud Computing:
The rise of mobile cloud computing has a lot of benefits backing it. With the use of cloud computing in mobile apps it easier to store data and process heavy tasks in mobile. This increases the reliability, speed, and security of mobile apps and allows for the maximum collection, storage, and analysis of user data.

8. Blockchain:
Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the Blockchain, gave rise to a whole new type of currency - Cryptocurrency. Do you think that he thought that his irreversible endless ledger could possibly redefine mobile payments? Well, considering that this is a pseudo name, we’ll never know. What we do know is that there is a rise in blockchain based payment apps like BitPay, Gliph, and Fold and there will be more in near future.

9. Mobile Payments:
The blockchain is not the only way to revolutionize mobile payments. With the rise of eCommerce, there is also a complimentary rise in the number of mobile payment apps and mobile banking. Also, more and more mobile payment mechanisms emerging. Consider the recent initiative of scan and pay system leveraged by VISA cards and Samsung. Soon there will be mobile payment apps leveraging that and more.

10. Security:
The enterprise mobile security is the new zone of focus for mobile app developers. With the increase in popularity of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, there is a substantial risk of enterprise mobile apps being affected by personal devices of employees. Developers are taking more rigorous initiative to secure the app’s code from the ground up. There is also an increased awareness towards better use of authorizations and encryption.
Source: newsgenapps.com

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13/04/2017

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11/12/2016

The Next Big thing?
The memristor, a microscopic component that can "remember" electrical states even when turned off. It's expected to be far cheaper and faster than flash storage. A theoretical concept since 1971, it has now been built in labs and is already starting to revolutionize everything we know about computing, possibly making flash memory, RAM, and even hard drives obsolete within a decade.

The memristor is just one of the incredible technological advances sending shock waves through the world of computing. Other innovations in the works are more down-to-earth, but they also carry watershed significance. From the technologies that finally make paperless offices a reality to those that deliver wireless power , these advances should make your humble PC a far different beast come the turn of the decade.

In the following sections, we outline the basics of 15 upcoming technologies, with predictions on what may come of them. Some are breathing down our necks; some advances are still just out of reach. And all have to be reckoned with.

Memristor: A Groundbreaking New Circuit

32-Core CPUs From Intel and AMD

Nehalem and Swift Chips Spell the End of Stand-Alone Graphics Boards

USB 3.0 Speeds Up Performance on External Devices

Wireless Power Transmission

64-Bit Computing Allows for More RAM

Windows 7: It's Inevitable

Google's Desktop OS

Gesture-Based Remote Control

Radical Simplification Hits the TV Business

Curtains for DRM

Use Any Phone on Any Wireless Network

Your Fingers Do Even More Walking

Cell Phones Are the New Paper

Where You At?
Ask Your Phone, Not Your Friend
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28/10/2016

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21/07/2016

Global customer relationship management software market grows 12.3%: Report

Worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software totaled $26.3 billion in 2015, up 12.3 percent from 23.4 billion in 2014, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

"The merger and acquisition activity that began flowing through the market in 2009 continued in 2015, with more than 30 notable acquisitions, Julian Poulter, research director at Gartner. "This has resulted in increased competition at the top end of the CRM market, with the continued focus of global vendors' sales forces driving good growth worldwide in all CRM subsegments but only for cloud or software as a service (SaaS) applications."

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19/07/2016

Which are the ?

1) Android Apps

If you want to see where Java is used, you are not too far away. Open your Android phone and any app, they are actually written in Java programming language, with Google's Android API, which is similar to JDK. Couple of years back Android has provided much needed boost and today many Java programmer are Android App developer. By the way android uses different JVM and different packaging.

2) Server Apps at Financial Services Industry

Java is very big in Financial Services. Lots of global Investment banks like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, Standard Charted and other banks use Java for writing front and back office electronic trading system, writing settlement and confirmation systems, data processing projects and several others. Java is mostly used to write server side application, mostly without any front end, which receives data form one server (upstream), process it and sends it other process (downstream). Java Swing was also popular for creating thick client GUIs for traders, but now C # is quickly gaining market share on that space and Swing is out of its breath.

3) Java Web applications

Java is also big on E commerce and web application space. You have a lot of RESTfull services being created using Spring MVC, Struts 2.0 and similar frameworks. Even simple Servlet, JSP and Struts based web applications are quite popular on various government projects. Many of government, healthcare, insurance, education, defense and several other department have their web application built in Java.

4) Software Tools

Many useful software and development tools are written and developed in Java e.g. Eclipse, InetelliJ Idea and Netbans IDE. I think they are also most used desktop applications written in Java. Though there was time when Swing was very popular to write thick client, mostly in financial service sector and Investment banks. Now days, Java FX is gaining popularity but still it is not a replacement of Swing and C # has almost replaced Swing in Finance domain.

5) Trading Application

Third party trading application, which is also part of bigger financial services industry, also use Java. Popular trading application like Murex, which is used in many banks for front to bank connectivity, is also written in Java.

6) J2ME Apps

Though advent of iOS and Android almost killed J2ME market, but still there is large market of low end Nokia and Samsung handset which uses J2ME. There was time when almost all games, application, which is available in Android are written using MIDP and CLDC, part of J2ME platform. J2ME is still popular on products like Blu-ray, Cards, Set top boxes etc. One of the reason of WhatsApp being so popular is because it is also available in J2ME for all those Nokia handset which is still quite big.

7) Embedded Space

Java is also big in the embedded space. It shows how capable the platform is, you only need 130 KB to be able to use Java technology (on a smart card or sensor). Originally Java was designed for embedded devices. In fact, this is the one area, which was part of Java's initial campaign of "write once, run anywhere" and looks like it is paying up now.

8) Big Data technologies

Hadoop and other big data technologies are also using Java in one way or other e.g. Apache's Java-based HBase and Accumulo (open source), and ElasticSearch as well. By the Java is not dominating this space, as there are technologies like MongoDB which is written in C++. Java has potential to get major share on this growing space if Hadoop or ElasticSearch goes big.

9) High Frequency Trading Space

Java platform has improved its performance characteristics a lot and with modern JITs, its capable of delivering performance at C++ level. Due to this reason, Java is also popular on writing high performance systems, because Though performance is little less compared to native language, but you can compromise safety, portability and maintainability for more speed and it only takes one inexperienced C++ programmer to make an application slow and unreliable.

10) Scientific Applications

Nowadays Java is often a default choice for scientific applications, including natural language processing. Main reason of this is because Java is more safe, portable, maintainable and comes with better high-level concurrency tools than C++ or any other language.

In 1990s Java was quite big on Internet due to Applet, but over the years, Applet's lost its popularity, mainly due to various security issues on Applet's sand boxing model. Today desktop Java and Applets is almost dead. Java is by default Software industries darling application development language, and given its heavy usage in financial services industry, Investment banks and E-commerce web application space, any one learning Java has bright future ahead of him. Java 8 has only reinforced the belief that Java will continuing dominating software development space for years to come.

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18/07/2016

malware affects 85 million

Android users beware, according to a security firm called CheckPoint, almost 85 million devices running on Google's mobile operating system have got infected by a malware called HummingBad. The security company further claims that the majority of the HummingBad victims are in India and China.
The malware affects most almost all Android OS versions, however, the most affected are devices running on Android KitKat and Android Jelly Bean.

In layman term, the HummingBad malware is a "drive-by download attack" that users face when they visit certain websites. It includes two components: First component tries to gain root access on the Android device to exploit vulnerabilities. This could give hackers full access to the device. If the first component is not able to root the device, the second component shows a fake system update notification, tricking users to unknowingly grant system-level access to the HummingBad malware.

CheckPoint warns that the malware can not only be used to generate fake ad revenue, but with access to handsets the hackers can also sell the information inside them to other companies.

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