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TechPitch 4.5

February 3, 2011 in Events

Date: 10 February 2011, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: TechHub, 76-80 City Road
London, EC1Y 2BJ, UK
Cost: £27.50+VAT
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Sponsored by Bootlaw, Eden Ventures & UKTI

TechPitch4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the tech startups, which have been taking part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months. TechPitch4.5 will be held at TechHub on 10th February 2011, with TechCrunch Europe’s editor Mike Butcher as the MC for the evening.

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Marketing Week 1-2-1 Digital Strategy Summit

January 6, 2011 in Events

Date: 27 January 2011, from 9:00am – 5:30pm
London, UK
Cost: Free for senior marketing budget holders
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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.

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Talking Friends app generates 41m downloads

December 24, 2010 in News Roundup

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Publisher Outfit7 says this represents just nine million fewer than Angry Birds, in half the time.

Taking Friends’ paid downloads were six million units, with prices ranging from $0.99 to $2.99 each. The apps are out on iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

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iPhone/iPad iOS Mobile Platform Developer

December 23, 2010 in Jobs

Location: 
Cramlington
Salary: £18k – £40k
Closing date: Apply ASAP, interviews in January 2011

We are proud to be working with a Client based in the North East who has developed an award-winning rich messaging network, which enables you to send text, voice or photo messages to your contacts for free no matter whether they use services like Facebook, Yahoo, MSN or through their own fully fledged Instant Messaging service.

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Java J2ME Blackberry Developer


December 23, 2010 in Jobs

Location: Cramlington
Salary: £28k – £40k
Closing date: Apply ASAP, interviews in January 2011

We are proud to be working with a Client based in the North East who has developed an award-winning rich messaging network, which enables you to send text, voice or photo messages to your contacts for free no matter whether they use services like Facebook, Yahoo, MSN or through their own fully fledged Instant Messaging service.

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Companies to watch in the region

December 19, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized

The North East enters the new year in good stead with numerous start-ups and digital companies booming. We listed some to keep an eye out for.

Share My Playlists

The Sunderland-based social network for music lovers has had a cracking year. smp

Share My Playlists was shortlisted for the Best Music Startup 2010 in TechCrunch’s ‘The Europas’ awards as well as for The People’s Choice award in The Good Website of the Year Award 2010 by The Good Web Guide.

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Colour-blind? There's an app for that

December 19, 2010 in News Roundup

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A security researcher Dan Kaminsky has created an augmented reality app ‘DanKam’ in his spare time to compensate for colour-blindness.

Available for the iPhone and Android, DanKam uses several unique and configurable filters to images and video to enhance the difference between colours, making them visible to the colour-blind.

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New app translates text in real-time

December 19, 2010 in News Roundup

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Word Lens, a new iPhone application uses augmented reality to translate text from Spanish to English and vice versa.

Through an iPhone camera, the app displays a translated version of the text being shot. The original text is replaced by translated words sized to match the space of the original.

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High street goes mobile

December 15, 2010 in News Roundup

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Amazon has launched a new iPad app, called Windowshop, which aims to create a high-street-like shopping experience on the web.

The free app shows a menu of shopping categories allowing users to browse the top-selling products of each.

Amazon’s effort at recreating a sense of in-shop browsing is something retailers have tried to capture since the early days of the mobile.

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Crosssover Collections and Archives

December 9, 2010 in Events

Date: 16-22 January 2011, from 9:55am – 6:00pm
Venue: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BE, UK
Cost: FREE
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How can the stories and histories, the hidden gems and treasures contained within archives, museum, library and gallery collections inspire innovative uses of digital media? Do you have the skill and imagination to devise crossplatform or transmedia projects that can engage new audiences, making archives and collections accessible using IPTV, the web, mobile or other platforms?

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