Tag: app

Download the Live Commentary iOS app for Eurovision

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A big thank you to The Lab at O2 for all their help in the last few weeks as they developed ESC Commentary, an IOS app to support the Eurovision Song Contest communities at ESC Insight and EscXtra. What does it do? You’ll get a live commentary from the team in the press room (and it’s not the same as our long running Alternative Commentary MP3, which you can find here). During each Eurovision show you can hit the green thumbs up button, or the red thumbs down button, to share your view on the song, and the worm will show the combined thoughts of

Stand by for Hollywood vs the App Developers

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For many studios and other content providers, mobile apps are a new source of income and a powerful way to engage audiences, sell games and merchandise. But these revenues are threatened if developers do not pay licensing fees. Pop quiz: Do you think the studios will have a reasonable definition of ‘fair use’, licence the images of their latest blockbuster movie to app developers for a workable fee, or  squelch every app with a flood of DMCA takedowns to the mobile stores so they can control the entire marketing message of said movie?

Why Microsoft need to adopt In-App Purchasing on Windows Phone

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My worry is the delay in getting IAP is going to mean that developers who ride the freemium train are not going to jump on board with Windows Phone. In the near term the simple reason is that there is no IAP at the moment without a disproportionate amount of coding, so the currently successful titles won’t make the jump to Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8 devices need to be announced, launched, put on sale, and then purchased by users in sufficient quantity to give a sufficient number of WP8 devices for freemium games to address. By me on All About

Pearltrees have an iPad app… why?

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I could have just said “Pearltrees have launched their iPad app” and pointed out they bought me a croissant in 2009, but isn’t it more interesting to ask why the next step after a desktop browser app is Apple’s tablet? Based in Paris and launched around the world less than two years ago, Pearltrees  launched their iPad application today. Given the user base of the iPad, it’s one of the smartest moves Pearltrees could have made. The discussion is over on Forbes.