This week saw the launch of Apple’s Mac app store, letting users buy more than 1,000 programs for download, including best sellers such as Angry Birds. As the site attracted over 1 million purchases on its first day alone, Adie Flute, founder of agency Deviate, asks if quality is being sacrificed for quantitiy when it … [Read more…]
Music recognition service Shazam is to integrate Spotify across the full range of Shazam’s free and premium Apps for iPhone, iPod touch and Android.
From February 28th this year, TV shows will be allowed to cash-in on displaying product logos in their content, following new rules from Ofcom. Roger Llewellyn, CEO at Kognitio, looks at the benefits for TV and the knock-on effect for video-on-demand services.
Organisations must improve web performance in 2011, says Site Confidence, which has listed the five worst web crashes of last year.
Social commerce sites LivingSocial has acquired a majority stake in LetsBonus, one of the original European social shopping sites.
Whilst 2010 saw the unveiling of hot new products like the iPad and iPhone4 as well as the widespread adoption of the Windows 7 and Android operating systems, 2011 looks set to offer more technology treats. Mark Seemann, the CTO at Outsourcery, takes a look at 12 trends that will play a part in shaping … [Read more…]
Second-year university student Matt Dempsey got a lot more than he bargained for when he put his design project online, highlighting the misuse of the ‘Comic Sans’ font, to be assessed.
An interactive social media experiment has been launched this week to map minor injuries and see which parts of the body Brits hurt most – the world’s first ‘Ouch Map’ has been launched by UK online health insurance provider Health365.com.
UK user experience design agencies Foolproof and Flow Interactive have joined forces, boosting their manpower to 70 staff with an initial turnover in excess of £5.5m per annum.
A growing number of US shoppers are voting with their keyboards. The latest insider figures show that more people than ever are realizing the benefits of the ‘consumer click’, with online buying in the US up 35% last year compared to 2009.