This week the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) vowed to scrutinize mobile apps to see if games put unfair pressure on children to pay for additional content. The BBC came to our studio to interview us for BBC News about what we felt the issues were and what could be done about it. Inevitably, they were ... more
Just over a year ago we released our first app into the App Store and Android Market under our own brand. Since then we have released many more and at one year we can report downloads of 2,114,510 with roughly 5% conversion on iOS and 2% conversion on Android. We’ve also seen month on month g ... more
A fascinating new 175 page report by agency Dare, takes a look at a load of research from a variety of sources and gives a snapshot of how we, as Britons, behave digitally. We thought it would be helpful to pull out some of the key themes and what this might mean for the industry – just i ... more
The appetite for people to create companies around products is certainly seeing an uplift: both in terms of ‘Software as a Service’ type offerings and mobile apps. As well as working with clients on their own start-ups, we’ve been doing it ourselves for a couple of years and a ... more
It's the Third Thursday of the month and we are both in the office! A focus group for our Clever Kids iPad Puzzle Game Other links referenced... Our 'Responsive' Learn Apps Website Clever Kids First Puzzles Learning Game Buildi ... more
Is user verification an essential part of your business? Many websites rely on their users' identity to be verified in order to create trust, especially when it comes to the exchange of money or even to ensure physical safety. If you follow any of the major tech blogs you will ha ... more
It's the Third Thursday of the month and continuing the theme of exotic locations I am in Italy. Links referenced... Codegent selected for the BBC Digital Design Roster The new 4Music site Our Learn App Series (table below) ... more
In creating the new 4Music site recently we ran into the age old problem of how to best crop uploaded images. Traditional cropping tools tend to be clunky, especially when you need to crop a single image in different ways as we did. We hit upon the idea of just allowing editors to pick a ... more
It's not the Third Thursday of the month but there is a good reason: 2 major exciting launches today! The team in Singapore at the Echelon2011. launching Dash Other links referenced... Echelon Get Dash 4music ... more
Research by eBay recently revealed that mobile shopping could receive a £4.5bn boost in the UK by 2016, rising to as much as £19bn by 2021, if nurtured correctly. The rapid growth in smartphone penetration has clearly helped mobile commerce to gain increasing acceptance amongst both ... more