What exactly is gamification? Wikipedia says it’s the use of game design techniques and mechanics to solve problems and engage audiences. Typically gamification applies to non-game applications and processes in order to encourage people to adopt them. Long story short, it’s an integration of game dynamics to make boring things (like work and exercise) more ...

In order to improve data infrastructure and analytics capabilities, Clearspring, provider of the largest social sharing and analytics platform, acquired data science company XGraph. Clearspring has a proprietary data processing infrastructure that enables real-time processing of up to 10TB/day of data gathered together through AddThis Platform. With XGraph’s multi-graph technology, Clearspring will be the largest ...

Everybody loves the idea of mobile. As people and businesses continue love smartphones more and more, the mobile application development market and other smartphone-reliant industries keeps on improving and intensifying.

It doesn't matter who you are, what you do, and whether you are rich or poor-- financial management is common to everybody. Most of us are suffering from the peril of overspending because we don’t keep track of our expenditures. Ever bought an item because it's on sale only to end up paying 150 percent ...

It had always been just for Android, and despite tackling just this one particular demographic, social gaming network Papaya Mobile managed to grow to 25 million users earlier this summer. It’s a 940 percent increase since early last year. Now, it managed to yet again grow to 30 million users, and we can’t help but ...

The world is evolving. Gone are the days when the only way to retain the teacher’s lecture is to arduously take down notes. I’m seriously not a fan of manual writing, even to the point of paying a classmate to write notes for me for compliance purposes. Most teachers from the school I went for ...

Everybody likes technology, including disabled people. However, technology is rarely designed with their convenience in mind, and it has always been difficult for them no matter how much they like a certain product. Trevor Prideaux, for example, has always loved smartphones but he finds them difficult to use with one hand.

Back in early 2009, Android was the epitome of nobody. Apple was sitting prettily on top of the industry with barely any competition. Today, however, Android’s got everything in line, and it stands as the fiercest rival to everything iOS. We can’t help but wonder how a nobody rose to the number one spot in ...

The growing number of smartphones paved the way to the proliferation of mobile applications, even organizing competitions encouraging thinkers and innovators to create something that will change the way we do things.

The mobile technology world currently has its eyes on the recently released quarterly report of Millennial Media, one of the largest remaining independent ad networks on the planet. As expected, Google’s Android towers above the area of the mobile ad network, accounting 56 percent of the impression on Connected Device and Smartphone OS Mix. It ...