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Celebrating Zebra DevCon 2025
Zebra DevCon 2025 wrapped up in Amsterdam, and we’re still buzzing from the excitement. Thank you to everyone—attendees, sponsors, panelists, and speakers—who made it truly unforgettable.
Voices That Inspired
The energy was electric from…
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New PC SendTo Shortcuts for Enhanced Productivity When Configuring Zebra EMC DevicesNew SendTo Shortcuts for Zebra Devices v1
Overview
This document describes a revised collection of shortcut files located in a PC (Windows 10 or later) SendTo folder in order to allow quick ‘right click’ access to commonly used utils and file…
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Android 16 Beta 3 APIs Locked, Loaded and Ready to GoIN THIS ISSUE: Android 16 Beta 3: APIs Are Locked; Native HTML Holds Surprises; 7 Ways to Be a Better Engineer; 'Wasm' Did You Say?; Web Design Face-off: Human vs. AI; DeepSeek: Unsafe at Any Speed
Android 16 Beta 3: APIs Are Locked…
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Microsoft Copilot Reportedly Exposes Private GitHub ReposIN THIS ISSUE: Copilot Exposes Private GitHub Repos; Pew: 80 Percent of Workers Snub AI; Writing Effective Error Alerts; Android 16 Beta 2.1 Fixes Doze Mode; Tips on Thread Usage in C#; Note to Hollywood: Stay in Your Lane
Copilot Exposes Private…
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Apple is Pondering Humanoid Robots? It's About TimeIN THIS ISSUE: Apple's Robot Plan; RWD Turns 15; OpenAI Roadmap Has No Open Source; Windows Copilot Runtime Test-drive; MIT Uncovers "Oreo" Hardware Protection; Android 16 Gives More Camera Control
Apple Rumored to be Thinking Robot
When…
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Trump Tech Directives Are a Cause For Concern, CelebrationIN THIS ISSUE: Trump Tech Directives Cause Concern, Celebration; Chinese AI Model DeepSeek Shakes Up Industry; Mistral in the Gallery; Is it Time for JavaScript Temporal?; Android 16 Takes Measure of Surroundings; Report: 88% of Java Users Want Out…
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New Zebra Basic Interpreter (ZBI) Activation ProcessAvailable as an optional Zebra printer programming language, ZBI 2.0 allows Zebra printers to run applications, prompt users through control-panel commands and take input from scales, scanners, and other peripherals – all without a PC or network…
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New Google AI Tools Keep LLM Data Separate From YoursIN THIS ISSUE: Google Throws RAG at AI Devs; Microsoft Gives Copilot for Free; Running a 'Tight' Browser; Biden Criticized for AI Policy; Thieves Fess Up to Robbing Motorola IP; Linux Foundation All-in On Chromium
Google Throws a RAG at AI Devs…
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Android XR SDK Preview Works with Kotlin, OpenXR, WebXRIN THIS ISSUE: The Android XR SDK Preview Released; The Seedy Underside of Memes; New Year, New Front-ends; Microsoft Simplifies OpenAI Integration; Malware Creates Unwitting Crypto Miners; An Elementary Look at Concurrency
The Android XR…
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Using a local HTTP server to stage large files from a PC running StageNow DesktopOverview
This blog details how to use a simple freeware HTTP server PC app to act a file server for StageNow profiles e.g. an OS update profile. This has two main advantages over using the integrated FTP server in StageNow Desktop:
There is no file size…
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AI Models Obey When Watched, Then Do What They Want: ReportIN THIS ISSUE: AI Models Do What They Want: Report; Android 16 Preview is Here; Is Willow the Next Big Leap?; The Do's and Don'ts of AI Usage; Software Dev Predictions for 2025; The Year in Search - 2024
Is AI Just Pretending to Comply? …
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Federal Trade Commission to Block Location Data SalesIN THIS ISSUE: FTC to Block Location Data Sales; ChatGPT Programmed to Conceal; Amazon Nova Enters AI Space; TypeScript Over JavaScript: Making the Case; The Art of Graceful Degradation; Android 15 Does Windows, Sorta
FTC to Block Location Data…
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The Zebra Kiosk Platform
What's being covered in this blog
Introduction
Variants
Developing with the LED Lightbar
The KC50 Android Kiosk
The KC50 Android Kiosk Computer is the heart of the versatile Zebra Kiosk System — a comprehensive, flexible and modular solution…
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Auto-grant Android Dangerous Permissions on Zebra devicesOverview
When Android Marshmallow (6.0) was released, Google introduced the runtime permission system. This change aimed to give users more control and transparency over how apps receive permissions during runtime.
Before Android 6, apps requested…
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Google Monopoly Fix: Break Up or Break Down?IN THIS ISSUE: Google Monopoly Fix: Break Up or BreakDown?; Incoming FCC Head Vows to End Big Tech Censorship; Legal Brief: Breakup Alone Won't Stop Google Monopoly; Meta Refuses to Reveal News Blocking Activities; Chrome OS to Become Android; Android 16…
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StageNow XML Export Tester WebAppOverview
This web-browser hosted applet will allow XML exported from StageNow Desktop to be easily loaded, optionally combined and/or modified and deployed for testing on a Zebra device using ADB to push the XML file to the device in the path /sdcard/…
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