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One of our biggest hackathon events of the year also happens to be our 200th hackathon. Join us for our third annual AT&T IoT Civic Hackathon in Indianapolis at the Indiana IoT lab on Friday, April 20th for a chance to win your share of over $15,000 in prizes. You’ll hear from amazing speakers, have access to a plethora of gear, and even have an opportunity to check out EMS vehicles and talk to responders who use this equipment daily.

Once your service is ‘in the wild’ with customers, it is important to monitor how your customer base is using your application. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of analytics tools that provide real user measurements (RUM) on crashes, performance, video streaming, and more. Find out how these tools affect your user experience.

AT&T collaborated with Frost & Sullivan on a whitepaper about the state of the messaging industry. While the industry has undergone a major evolution and will continue to do so, it is definitely far from static industry. Read about some of the key findings.

Over 350 people went to this ground-breaking event, see which of the 75 projects created were the big winners.

We just announced the winning student entry for the Entertainment Project. See how a high school rivalry, led to a winning team. You can learn more about the crew, the film, and their collective process.

With the emergence of Virtual Reality (VR) systems such as Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and Magic Leap, developers are beginning to increase their attention on VR technologies and solutions. For companies looking for early-stage funding support, there has been a surge in the number of accelerators for VR-focused startups. While we cannot endorse any accelerator, we wanted to call out a number of accelerators that you may want to research if you’re interested in VR.

Smartphones carry a wealth of personal data on them. Depending on the use of your application, you may need to transmit some of your customer’s private data to your server. The security of this data is important to your customers, and to your business. Learn best practices that can help keep data secure.

We headed to Los Angeles to host the first hackathon at Cross Campus’ new downtown LA location. Teams were encouraged to include video within their applications and we were not disappointed as eight teams came through with some interesting integrations. Find out which teams were the big winners

App Quality Alliance (AQuA) is launching an award for clear technical merit: the AQuA award for the Best Quality App. No sponsorship, no entry fees, no cash prize – simply merit recognized. Martin Wrigley of AQuA shares the details of the award and how to enter.

Referred to as an “Uber” for emergencies, meet Shape Challenge Smart Cities semifinalist ResSpot. The ResSpot aims to offer access to virtually all of the world’s emergency numbers, service providers, real-time alerts, and users’ personal health and insurance information in one place.