Google has launched its premium music streaming service Play Music All Access in the UK and is initially undercutting Spotify’s premium offering on price, with an introductory £7.99 per month offering. The service lets subscribers stream tracks to connected devices from a library of millions of tracks sourced from the music industry’s leading major and […]
Ikea has created an augmented reality app that allows customers to see how its products would fit into their homes as it looks to boost its online and mobile sales and limit returns of ill-fitting furniture. The updated 2014 Ikea Catalogue app, available on iOS and Android, will enable customers to try out 90 products […]
Commercial Break is a new app launched onto the market this week aimed at those who spend ad break hopping channels, only to go back to their programme and realise they have missed half of it. The free iPhone app alerts viewers in real time when their TV programme comes back from commercials by using […]
The UK’s largest mobile phone operator is launching its first major campaign for its Orange brand since it debuted EE last year. The campaign kicks off July 29, with a TV ad featuring Kevin Bacon advertising Orange’s pay-as-you-go (PAYG) offering of 1GB of mobile data free with every £10 top-up, to air during top TV […]
SKIN-CARE brand Nivea has created a solar-powered mobile phone charger. The bizarre move from the folks at Nivea was made to ensure people read its sunscreen ad – its solar-powered sunscreen ad. The company took out a full-page ad in a Brazilian magazine and decked it out with solar panels and a charging port you […]
Some Android users swear by task-killing apps, but most feel that the OS has matured to a point where you can let it manage itself without the need to meticulously close every open app on your phone. That hasn’t stopped German automaker Audi, of all companies, from releasing its own task-killer app called Audi Start-Stop. […]
Drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 car crashes each year. To help curb the numbers and help travellers get to their destination safely, Thai coffee shop chain Café Amazon—with the help of creative agency BBDO Proximity Thailand—has created an app that helps wake up sleepy drivers. With the use of eye- and face-tracking technology, the […]
Popular mobile game Angry Birds has received a “magical” update that includes some new gameplay mechanics involving magic portals. As part of this new release, Angry Birds makers Rovio have teamed up with Simon Pierro, better known as the ‘iPad Magician’, to create a ‘magic’ video. The video features some ingenuity from Pierro, who performs […]
Consultancy Huge has created the new online home for American weekly news magazine Newsweek, which ceased its print publication at the end of last year and merged with online publication The Daily Beast. Huge was appointed to the work last November and, according to associate creative director Megan Man, was asked to define ‘what should […]
Windows Phone News, the online magazine, is now live. Windows Phone News is the first magazine devoted to Windows mobile phones and the tablets, laptops and PCs that implement Microsoft Windows and its Metro user interface. Windows Phone News carries up-to-the-minute news, reviews and interviews on Windows mobile phones, apps and services, and the Windows […]