by Hanna
October 27, 2011 in News Roundup
Newcastle apps and games developer Fluid Pixel has hit 5 million downloads in the Nokia Ovi store.
Since its launch in 2007 Fluid Pixel has enjoyed consistent growth and has featured on the Ovi Store’s top developer list for a while now.
“Part of our success has been targeting the whole range of Nokia devices, from legacy S40 devices to the latest and greatest smart phones”, Fluid Pixel wrote on their blog.
by Ardrich
September 29, 2011 in News Roundup
A new app is set to put all your awkward holiday communication problems in the past.
Vocre, developed by translation company myLanguage, enables iPhone users to translate their speech into a foreign language.
“It’s like asking your friend down the street ‘How would I say this in Spanish?”, founder and CEO of myLanguage Andrew Lauder said.
Vocre includes colloquialisms and slang to make communication as authentic as possible.
by Ardrich
September 7, 2011 in News Roundup
Georgij Cernysiov, a top student on a training course for aspiring games developers, has managed to publish his own original title during a placement.
While working for Sunderland-based educational software company Caspian Learning, Georgij created and published a humorous mobile app ‘Euro Destruction’ for iPad and iPhone.
by Ardrich
September 2, 2011 in News Roundup
North Shields based creative agency Armadillo has developed a new TV exercise app.
The first service of its kind in the world, HealthClubTV app allows users to download a full range of professional workouts and tuition videos on demand to mobile devices and computers.
by Ardrich
August 12, 2011 in Features
The fast-growing practice of citizen journalism has been given another shot in the arm after user-generated news service Blottr launched its first smartphone app for iPhone devices.
‘Paparappzi’ allows registered users to capture and report news from their smartphone which can be sent live directly to Blottr.com.
As the first app of its kind, it is hoped it will encourage more people to document local news.
by Ardrich
July 22, 2011 in News Roundup
Retailers will be able to set up a mobile web or ‘App’ version of their eCommerce store across all mobile platforms thanks to a new system.
DAMcart, which completely integrates with retailers’ eCommerce platforms, is unique in that it is available across iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPad and iPad2.
The system was developed by business telecommunications provider DAMtel.
by Ardrich
July 12, 2011 in News Roundup
More and more companies are realising that a ‘killer app’ is a fantastic way of engaging people in their business or product.
However, a new survey complied by Deloitte and featured in the Sunday Telegraph, shows that many of these companies are yet to find a winning formula in creating apps.
The survey found that 45% of smartphone owning consumers downloaded an app at least once a week but less than 1% of apps published by global consumer and healthcare companies were downloaded more than a million times.
by Ardrich
July 7, 2011 in News Roundup
A Sunderland-based entrepreneur is in search of new ideas and collaborators to explore the huge market of internet-enabled office phones.
Al Yong, Managing Director of unified communications firm Affinity Systems, is looking to work with software developers with innovative ideas for exploiting the unused market.
“Most offices these days are equipped with internet phones which are only ever used for making calls, when they could be used as a new platform for apps”, he said.
“We’re talking about tens of millions of handsets, on every desk in every office in the land, so there’s huge market potential, and the possible applications of this technology are effectively endless.”
by Ardrich
June 22, 2011 in Events
Date: 25 June 2011, 9:00am – 11:00pm
Venue: Tech Hub, 76-80 City Rd
London, EC1Y 2BJ, UK
Cost: free
Are you a software developer or designer? Are you a product manager, marketer or startup enthusiast?
If so, come build a website or smart phone app at: TechHub on 25th June from 9am-11pm. It’s a day of hacking where you will be brainstorming and creating ideas in teams of up to 10 people.
by Ardrich
June 21, 2011 in News Roundup
Awkward moments at the end of a romantic meal could be a thing of the past in Pizza Express.
The restaurant chain has launched an app for the iPhone which allows customers to pay their bills with miminal fuss – and with minimal possible contact with a waiter.
No need for the irritating inconvenience of human interaction then.
