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When your application's out in the world, facing the rigours of daily use, there's always a possibility that annoying little bugs could start to appear – or, worse, that something critical breaks in an unexpected way. That's why we're introducing GT Protect: a flexible support contract, giving you peace of mind that any surprise bugs...
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5 key SEO and social considerations when redesigning your website
As you can see, we’ve given the website a bit of a spruce up over the past few months. Hopefully, we’ve improved the usability of the site, and the updates will assure our customers (and prospective ones), as well as Google, that we are moving with the times and our content is fresh. Our updates...
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The other platforms: where businesses are seeing social media opportunities
Businesses and organisations with a social media presence are becoming an increasingly everyday occurrence. Yet, as companies continue to experiment with new digital channels to reach existing and fresh audiences, the number of social platforms available is becoming ever-greater and even more diverse. Sites such as Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr may not be boasting the...
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Sencha Touch - deploying to production
When examining how to build a new Sencha Touch 2 application for production, I wanted to make sure I wasn't reinventing the wheel. I'd heard of Sencha's commandline SDK tools but this gave me cause to look into it more. Now that I've done so, I'm impressed, but I think the documentation could be doing...
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Apps and the mobile web: what should you prioritise?
Both apps and mobile websites have become increasingly important ways for companies – particularly retailers – to connect with people. However, while there have been good arguments put forward for the benefits of both sides – there has been little cold hard data to really compare how many people are engaging across each channel, nor...
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Stubmatic update [31 Oct 2011]
We have just rolled out an update to Stubmatic. Although on the surface stubmatic looks the same we have made some major changes to the underlying logic in preparation for some future enhancements that we are working on. For now one of the biggest changes you will notice is we have updated the way events...
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From QR to Blippar: Making sense of the increasingly complex world of mobile
As mobile and smartphone camera technology continues to become more powerful, there has been increased speculation into the usefulness of camera phones for driving consumers of offline marketing towards digital content via scannable tags, codes and images. Mobile tagging adoption From crowd-sourcing reviews and comments of physical products via barcode scanning, to embedding URLs in...
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Is simplicity the key to a hit app?
One of the biggest stories in the world of the iPad last month centred on the success of the app released for The New Yorker. By turning their back on interactive features and the ‘Bells & Whistles’ approach to digital versions of offline media, The New Yorker’s developers essentially put all of their efforts into...
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