by Ardrich
June 9, 2011 in News Roundup
North East based app developer Soluble Apps has launched a production scheduling app for the iPhone.
Titled ‘ShotList’, the new app brings the production stripboard system used for many years in the film industry to mobile devices for the first time.
by Ardrich
May 26, 2011 in News Roundup
If you can’t afford to buy real flowers, hate the hassle of finding the right vases for them or simply don’t think there’s a flower beautiful enough out there, there’s now an app for you!
Real-time 3D designer Carlos Ulloa demoed one of his company’s creative iPhone and iPad apps, ‘helloflower’, at the Thinking Digital Conference.
“Out of all of the projects I’ve worked with, this one is the most creative”, he said.
by Ardrich
May 24, 2011 in Events
Date: 16 June 2011, 17:30-20:30
Venue: Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Cost: Free
Event website
Generator invites Plugged In members to attend an exclusive Mobile Marketing Masterclass.
Learn everything you need to know about mobile marketing from the experts and get the opportunity to win a free mobile APP developed specifically for your music courtesy of Mobile Roadie.
by Ardrich
May 23, 2011 in News Roundup
A new gaming app from a North East company challenges iPhone owners to take photos in agent-like missions.
Titled ‘Appysnap’, the free app has a simple idea and great prizes.
Players are sent ‘missions’, where they are simply asked to take a photo of a particular item, place or theme within a set time limit.
Missions can be sent at any time of night or day. If a player completes the mission quickly, they can win iPads, Kindles and Amazon vouchers, as well as other incentives.
by Ardrich
May 11, 2011 in News Roundup
The digital world will never be same after the supremely annoying Apprentice teams created their very own apps.
(By ‘created’ we mean they came up with the brilliant ideas. The apps were made a reality by the leading development company Grapple.)
The winning app came from the girls team. AmpiApps featured a series of annoying sounds such as baby’s screams and animal shrieking. Of course they missed out on the most annoying sound of all – their own conversation.
by Ardrich
April 21, 2011 in News Roundup
A free half-day mobile games conference and networking event Go Go Games is taking place in Gateshead this May.
Organised by The Hub, Gateshead’s Business Collaboration Network, and GameHorizon, the conference is set to help games developers to focus on the right platforms, content and business models.
Local games developers and students will get the chance to learn from experts as well as network with a national audience of games developers, publishers and aggregators.
by Ardrich
April 12, 2011 in News Roundup
Angry Birds continued its domination of the app world by picking up two awards including ‘app of the year’ at a London ceremony.
The Finnish-designed app also collected the ‘best game app’ at the Appy Awards last night while Facebook won the ‘best time waster app’ and Spotify took the ‘best music app’.
Among the other winners across 10 categories was Google Maps, which was named the ‘best time saver app’.
by Ardrich
March 31, 2011 in Features
2010 might have been the eagerly anticipated ‘year of the mobile’, but the huge potential of mobile technology is still being left untapped in the UK, says digital marketing specialist Simon Clayton.
“Mobile is still a small market in the UK”, Clayton told NMM.
In terms of tapping into the mobile potential, we’re a few years behind the US.
“Things are really tight at the moment and companies are focusing on what they consider to be the ‘most important’ things to invest in”, Clayton said.
“Search market and social media are prioritised to come first, mobile is lagging behind.”
by Ardrich
March 21, 2011 in News Roundup
A mobile shop app-builder, MobiCart, has secured $500,000 new investment from the Finance for Business North East Angel Fund.
The North East company, which launched at the prestigious DEMO conference in Silicon Valley last year, helps online retailers create their own m-commerce apps using a simple tool.
CEO and founder Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, a Sunderland University graduate, said the new investment will enable the company to make their vision for the mobile commerce a reality.
by Ardrich
January 6, 2011 in Events
Date: 27 January 2011, from 9:00am – 5:30pm
London, UK
Cost: Free for senior marketing budget holders
Event Website
Uncovering how to plan and execute successful value generating digital campaigns
Marketing Week’s Digital Strategy Summit 2011 brings together 12 leading brands that will showcase the top digital marketing tactics and discuss how the ‘social media revolution’ influences consumers’ behaviour and affects the way marketers work.
