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Over 125 students attended our annual hackathon at Notre Dame to create IoT apps over the course of a weekend. Many of the apps utilized IBM Watson to show how a little computer intelligence can change the way we go through the day.

Unlike web apps, hybrid apps can access some system resources, and while the overall experience might not be as smooth as a native app, advancements in the frameworks used to develop hybrid apps have improved the experience over the last few years.

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 AT&T SHAPE in Los Angeles, cyber illusionist Marco Tempest demonstrated how magic and AR can merge to create fascinating tricks at his talk on “Inventing the Impossible.” He also shares his thoughts on collaboration, technology, and the role the magician plays in foretelling the future.

For app developers, the question isn’t whether or not to send push notifications, but rather when is the right time. This guide from Ian Naylor, Founder and CEO of AppInstitute, walks you through when to send push notifications, the type of information it should include, and best practices.

L.A. won the bid for the Summer Olympics in 2028. The Futurecast at SHAPE featured Casey Wasserman and California state officials discussing their plans for the event and how technology will change the way the world experiences the games. See what they had to say.

We’ve been hard at work adding many useful features to the latest version of Video Optimizer. Discover how the latest release of our open source tool to profile iOS and Android applications and their associated video has great new features to help improve network performance of mobile services.

Over 450 people spent 24 hours making some amazing entertainment-centric apps at the SHAPE hackathon in Los Angeles. Find out which teams won and learn about their innovative projects that bring some unlikely characters into the real world.

Over 300 hackers attended our Indiana event and among other things developed an app that lets farmers know when to harvest fruit, a dating app for animals, and an app that lets you monitor checking out expensive company equipment. Can you guess which of these apps was the big winner at our IoT Civic Hackathon in Indiana?

The world is converging. Well, maybe not every single piece of the world, but consider the cultural and corporate landscape of the past decade or two. In this post, we’ll take a look at examples of all the types of convergence happening across the current cultural landscape.