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Imagine Publishing gives an iPad to every employee

By Ewan on January 27, 2011 in Applications, News, Opinion

That’s one way to get the team engaged in new technology, right? Kudos to the management team at Imagine Publishing, one of the brightest sparks in the publishing marketplace. They’ve decided to make sure their team are right there in the fast lane when it comes to digital interactivity. That’s right! Every employee has been [...]

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Rightmove: 1 million iPhone downloads; 100k iPad downloads

By Ewan on January 5, 2011 in Applications

Congratulations to the team at Rightmove who, today, celebrate achieving 1 million iPhone application downloads and 100,000 iPad application downloads. Rightmove is one of the UK’s leading property aggregation sites and, for a long time, I’ve been a regular user whenever the topic of property has arisen. My wife regularly sits back on the sofa [...]

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LogMeIn Ignition is £11.99 ’til 4th Jan!

By Ewan on December 29, 2010 in Applications

I’m a huge, huge fan of LogMeIn Ignition, the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application that lets you control your PC/Mac remotely. Almost every computer I own is hooked up to LogMeIn so I can access it wherever I am. When I was in Hong Kong and Miami recently, I used the facility daily. Yes I’ve got DropBox [...]

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How many users only download free apps?

By Ewan on October 17, 2010 in Applications, Opinion

There’s a chap I know thatdo a lot of work with called Barnes. He’s a splendid chap, friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and although he’s a big, big Microsoft fan, he owns an iPhone 3GS. I’ve known the guy for a few months and we talk ‘mobile’ regularly. The subject of mobile applications has come up regularly [...]

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Bango have a 3-5 day application project available

By Ewan on September 3, 2010 in Applications

I saw this note from Ray at mobile payments provider, Bango on the MoMoLondon list. It may well be of interest to any application developers reading. Bango is adding new capabilities to its “In Application” analytics service. Info is sent from the App to Bango using an “open” protocol that any developer can implement with [...]

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157 App Stats You Should Know About

By Ewan on August 19, 2010 in Applications

Some fascinating insight into the mobile applications marketplace, courtesy of the uber-productive Stuart Dredge of Mobile Entertainment. This is one of those slide decks you’ll probably want to favourite and send around the office. Excellent work Stuart! 157 Mobile App Stats You Should Know About View more presentations from stuartdredge.

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Episode 4 of LadyGeek’s App Show is live

By Ewan on August 4, 2010 in Applications, News

Episode 4 of our LadyGeek TV App Show is live and rocking going out now to hundreds of thousands of women every week. If you haven’t come across it before, it’s aimed at the smart, professional female and aims to show off a few smart, useful and relevant apps in each episode. In this week’s [...]

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Mobile App = iPhone

By Ewan on August 2, 2010 in Applications, News

How depressing. I was walking along the road yesterday and came across this Hamptons sign for a (no doubt) highly overpriced property in Marlow. You’d have seen me visibly wilt as I saw the new addition to the Hamptons signs: It reads, “Find me on the Hamptons app for iPhone”, complete with a nice little [...]

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How many iPhones/iPads can I activate on one account?

By Ewan on July 26, 2010 in Devices

Another question for you, dear reader. This time it’s about iPhones and iPads. Right now I have 5 iPhones and one iPad each syncing beautifully. I plug them into my Mac Pro and sync. Job done, all is fine. If I buy an application on my iPhone 4, and then try and download it on [...]

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Endomondo: Wicked GPS sports tracking app

By Ewan on July 20, 2010 in Applications, News

It was reader Kip Hakes who suggested I check out Endomondo, the GPS sports tracking app a few weeks ago. Well, on Saturday it was my turn to take baby Archie out for a stroll. My instructions were to exit at 930am and not to return until 11am. He was supplied fed and sleeping. All [...]

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Evernote: Your BlackBerry client is an embarrassment

By Ewan on July 20, 2010 in Applications, News

I can’t believe it even qualifies as to be called a ‘client’. Sort it out Evernote. I’ve been patient for a long time. Developing on BlackBerry isn’t a sodding black art. Three times I’ve gone to look something up with the piece-of-shit 1995 BlackBerry client and had to stand about while the app loads the [...]

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