A recent online poll of consumers suggests that only a third knows what a QR code is, and have actually used one. When a Quick Response (QR) code is scanned by mobile phone, it directs information and messages to the device. The use of QR codes is increasingly popular among marketers as a low cost method Read more
Archive for September, 2011
A warm welcome to Nia!
Marketing & New Business is pleased to have a shiny new team member among our ranks – please welcome Nia Lonergan to the Coordinator role! Nia joins straight from graduating with a BA in Politics from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwhich. Not a ‘green’ grad- she has experience as a fundraiser for Read more
The Future of Augmented Reality
The Metaio Augmented Reality Conference (Inside AR 2011) in Munich has become the world’s largest Augmented Reality event and took place earlier this week, making claims that by 2014, augmented reality will be used on every smartphone in the world. Mobile computing is currently the fastest growing IT market, with mobile information retrieval ranging among Read more
Well fed and watered at Podge ’11
For the last 17 years Phil Jones has been keeping us, both creatively and nutritionally, well fed at the annual Podge Lunch – The first being back in 1994 at Quaglinos for 30 people. Last Friday saw a staggering 220 guests (including a sprinkling of the originals) descend upon the IoD offices in Pall Mall. Read more
Welcome to the team!
We are happy to announce that our development team at We Love continues to grow stronger… Joe Angus joins us as a Senior Developer and brings with him a lot of experience in developing applications for mobile and tablets such as the iPad. We hope to bring this to good use, and implement some excellent Read more
We Love… New Jobs!
Due to a number of recent wins and big projects on the horizon, we are currently looking for the ultimate Senior Project Manager to come and be a part of the team at this exciting time! What we are looking for… The daddy (or mother) of Project Managers! You have dealt with large and small Read more
Wacom redefines the pen and paper
Welcome to the latest advancement in paper to screen technology say goodbye to those dirty scans or painstaking hours spent hand tracing your perfect pencil drawing in illustrator, as Wacom have announced ‘Inkling’ a rubber sized clip scanner that doesn’t scan the same way as you regular desktop scanner but instead actually records every pen Read more
What’s new on the field of web browsers?
At the end of the last week Google released version 14 of Google Chrome. The biggest thing about this release is the support of new technology called Native Client. Google Chrome now allows applications (currently only through Chrome Web Store) built with C++ or classic C. This allows developers to create new applications supported across Read more
At the Afforable Home Ownership Awards
Recently the Putney Hill campaign we developed for A2Dominion new homes was nominated for ‘Most effective marketing campaign’. Now this is an award we know well having won it in its previous incarnation of ‘Most innovative marketing campaign’ with the Grand Ocean development back in 2009. We were asked to To educate prosperous young professionals Read more
BBC homepage on iPad
Today, BBC launched a new beta version of their homepage and it looks great. My first thought was… “I bet this works well on an iPad” and sure enough, it fits exactly in the browser window, landscape and portrait. I guess the only thing missing at the moment are gesture controls but I’m sure they Read more