Archive : Technofile

Websites can be a significant investment and can draw huge attention to your organisation. Despite this, usability is a frequently neglected aspect of both small and large Web developments. Ultimately, if visitors can’t use your site, they will leave and never become customers/clients. This article will focus on providing helpful common sense tips for making a web page usable – in short though [...]

Google has recently released an Android software development environment that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones. The free software, called Google App Inventor for Android, has taken 12 months to develop. User testing has been done mainly in US High Schools. The aim of the initiative, Google believe that with mobile phones increasingly become [...]

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

~Article as originally posted on the digitaldesign.co.uk 20/07/2010 The number of users browsing the Web from a mobile device continues to rise, yet most web developers still don’t design versions of sites targetted specifically for devices such as the iPhone,Blackberry, or other smartphones. to offering a pure service approach based on perfect competition rather than monopolisitc markets. The [...]

In the past month alone, I have been ‘friended’, ‘followed by’ or asked to be a ‘fan’ of various politicians from across the UK & Ireland. Just as brands battle it out for internet audiences, so do politicians. The UK’s online audience is 39m – the potential for engagement is clearly enormous – do UK politicians ignore the social web at their peril? Activists, young [...]

Like the advent of Mr Gutenberg’s first bible, the Net has revolutionized the way we humans develop, process and consume information. If printing represented the beginning of the information revolution, the internet has offered us our second instalment. While liberating, the Net has also eaten away at the domain of the traditional media. This article discusses its future. Moving back to the island [...]

Take that iPhone! That’s right, Stuff Magazine has named the HTC Hero Gadget of the Year as part of its 2009 Stuff Gadget Awards event. The revolutionary touchscreen smartphone, which is based on Google’s Android system, received the honour for its innovative take on social networking, slick multi-touch interface and superior multimedia skills. Editor and expert judget Fraser Macdonald [...]

Locale App for Android Phones “Wouldn’t Even Be Possible on the iPhone,” Says Winner of $275K Developer Challenge | Xconomy: “Last week’s unveiling of the first phone running the Android operating system—the T-Mobile G1, which will be available to consumers on October 22—suddenly”

Google’s Chrome OS: A ‘Nuclear Bomb’ or Just Noise?: ” The blogosphere’s response to Google’s announcement late yesterday about its plans to release an operating system in the second half of 2010 was swift and strong. ‘Google Drops a Nuclear Bomb’ on Microsoft crowed TechCrunch. ‘Google Launching OS, Firing Torpedo Into Microsoft (and Apple),’ [...]

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