Marty Khan’s Stroke Your Genius for the iPad, the Barnes & Noble Nook or the Android Marketplace. It’s a funny guide to Management Consulting with insights into the characters of Showtime’s new tv series House of Lies.
A cutting edge app for a company at the bleeding edge of technology. Seven and BDM launch Medtronic’s innovating for life comms app.
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Hooray, our latest iPad app went live today in the US. It a Guide to Management Consultancy for a new series featuring Don Cheadle as an unscrupulous Management Consultant (is there another kind?). Out on the Nook before Christmas too. Perfect yuletide reading on your freshly…
Riverside London is an innovative guide to the cultural heart of London. It’s great for tourists and Londoners alike and you can download it for free.
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I love shiny new gadgets and probably buy more of them than I should, so I was really excited to get the latest PlayBook for free and before its UK launch. BlackBerry is going all out to tempt developers with free devices and I like it. There was even a lovely thank you letter that accompanied it which was a really nice touch. The only thanks you’ll ever get for writing apps for apples platform is a new TOS to read.
A couple of weeks ago at Seven, I had the opportunity to play with a beta device but it was running an older OS that was full of bugs and lacked any useful apps to test. I’m glad to say the retail version with the latest update has so far been a much better experience. With all the recent less than glowing reviews, I thought I’d try and write up my unbiased opinion about my free device that I never paid a penny for. It’s brilliant! There’s the full web with Flash. You can build apps using Adobe AIR or Web Works. The multi tasking is smooth. But the thing I like most about the PlayBook is its size. I can see myself carrying this and actually using it out and about which is something I’ve never felt comfortable doing with my iPad.
The less technical reviewers and the apple fan boys are quick to point out the lack of an email client but that detracts from a unique feature that’s sure to impress those who handle corporate emails. Average Joe consumer will soon be inundated with third party email apps as well as RIM’s native one but there’s a real use case for only syncing certain apps via Blackberry Bridge. I’ve personally seen iPads swapping hands around an office and even being sent to clients with sensitive emails still on them. It’s a slick professional device and if RIM made a smartphone that looked just like it based on the same QNX OS then I’d be the first to buy it.
Right now, it’s the only competition to the iPad as the first batch of honeycomb tablets were less than impressive. Until manufacturers redesign and sell tablets without honeycomb’s horrible default theme, it’s never going to appeal to the mass consumer market. It’s no threat to the iPad but RIM has delivered something true to its brand and professional/enterprise roots where I suspect it’s going to dominate the market over the more expensive, more restrictive and less functional iPad.
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TravelBook is my first venture into the BlackBerry App World. Built for the upcoming PlayBook, it’s a series of maps and status updates covering the world’s largest subway systems. The New York Subway and London Tube will be first and available on the 19th of April when the PlayBook officially launches.
Richard Branson unveils Project for the iPad. A joint venture between Virgin and Seven – It’s currently No.1 in the US, UK and Canadian app stores. Take a look at the positive reviews and buy a copy to support our work.
The Mill Group are working on an innovative new project to help people priced out of the London housing market. It’s like the Government backed FTBI but for the private housing sector. If you’re a first time buyer then I highly recommend taking a look and following the blog that I helped them with.
