The chatbots are among us, and they are of benefit to your business. Think more Lieutenant Commander Data than the Terminator, C-3P0 rather than an evil Decepticon. In fact, think more of that window that sometimes pops up on your competitor's website, asking if you need any help. That's a chatbot,

Wearble app development is the new frontier – and it has all the teething troubles of any sort of fresh challenge. Wearable tech is a great example of how app development is the fastest-moving area of digital design. Only a few years ago, smartphone apps were just a nascent technology; now, they a

It's a cliché that has the air of Del Boy: you have to speculate to accumulate. Business people are rightly wary of the wisdom of that supposed verity, but of course, like most commonplaces it has the core of truth: businesses invest because they believe it will bring returns. Let's assume you'r

"The future is already here," "The future is already here," William Gibson, the science fiction writer and futurologist, has said. "It's just not very evenly distributed." What does that mean? Gibson is making a point about global inequalities; but he could just as easily have been talking about

For anyone who's ever worked in an unhappy office, finding more ways to communicate with your colleagues might seem like making yourself a hostage to fortune. I'm happy to report, though, that at Image+ we're a pretty happy bunch - and that recently we've found another way, and maybe a better way

Speaking as a developer, mobile apps are so exciting because of their flexibility: a tweak here and a bit of coding there can enable them to do more or less anything. Focused little widgets of software stored on your smartphone or tablet, a mobile app is like that special screwdriver in that big old

My job title is ‘Senior Developer’, and that conjures for many pictures of code-surfing and digital tinkering. That’s certainly part of the developer’s role: whether for a piece of software, a new app or a website, we design and program stuff. We’re like a twenty-first century watch-m

Web application development can be the key to unlocking hidden potential with your business. The systems and processes that power your business activity are, of course, governed by limitations of time, manpower, accessibility and other factors which limit the capacity of your staff to attain the pro

Mobile app development has been with us for not even a decade, and yet it is an area of huge growth and innovation. Mobile app developers across the UK are putting an awful lot of time and expertise into designing the software through which a growing number of users can experience the web’s data.

HTML5 web apps are the new web standard. “But what are HTML5 web applications?” we here you ask, “and why are they so wonderful?” Well, we’re glad you asked. First, the basics: obviously enough, HTML5 web apps are powered by the markup language known as HTML5. Developed by Tim Berners-L