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Notifications Are Changing How Content Is Delivered and Consumed What drives you to specific pieces of content? For the longest time, we let homepages, search engines, or basic URLs decide our Internet activity. Today, a simple notification that flashes on your phone’s home screen is one of the most powerful forces leading you from app to app. |
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Fitness Applications Taking Over Your Personal and Professional Life Last year, Google discovered that the health and fitness section within its app store was the fastest growing category. Beyond the personal uses for fitness apps, some companies are putting a new emphasis on a healthy lifestyle by offering more tangible rewards. |
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In Mobile Usability Testing, Who Accesses Accessibility? As testers, we need to recognize our own biases and limitations. It is misjudgment to think that we can just close our eyes to be blind or to believe that we understand how someone with Parkinson’s disease functions. Recruit test users other than just a formal test team and learn who your users are. |
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How Technology in Sports Is Becoming a Game-Changer Sports is one discipline where technology adoption has been growing tremendously in recent years, and 2015 is shaping up to be an important year in building a pronounced acceptance for technology across many sports disciplines—for the teams, the leagues, and even sports fans themselves. |
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Google Loon Floating Toward Global Internet Access Google announced earlier this month that Project Loon—a plan to provide wireless connectivity via a network of high-altitude balloons floating in the stratosphere using only the wind for steering—is making progress. The project’s longest duration balloon was airborne for just over six months. |
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Mobile App Security Is a Problem, Even for Fortune 500 Companies A recent IBM/Ponemon study shows that mobile application development for a high percentage of large companies—which includes some Fortune 500 members—has significant weaknesses, leaving enterprise data susceptible to theft. These apps just aren’t being properly security tested before release. |
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New Concepts in Wearables—the Future at Your Fingertips There are some interesting wearables concepts out there on the verge of making our world more convenient, dynamic, and wondrous. These prototypes include wristbands with all the capabilities of your phone, micro projectors that can scan images, and a ring that can let you start your car with a snap. |
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Nintendo to Shake Up the Mobile Space Nintendo has shown an apprehension to change, but it’s finally decided to spread its games to one of the widest audiences possible—mobile users. Nintendo is teaming up with DeNA, a large Japanese mobile gaming group, in order to bring classic characters to your phone. |
