Birmingham’s Genting Star City, will finally close its doors

Genting Star City opened in 2003 to much fanfare but in recent years there has been a decline in business, with the rise of casino gambling apps many believe is the final nail in Star City’s coffin. Gambling has always been a hugely popular past time, but since casino operators began to roll out digital …

Enterprise App Development & The Mistakes to Avoid Webinar

Analysts are predicting strong growth in enterprise mobile app development, in the coming year, as businesses focus on “mobilising” their workforces to improve productivity, business efficiency and customer service. With real interest in business mobility being driven by employees and business lines, rather than IT departments, and with this demand growing five times faster than …

Pocket App & LAB Event – Push Me, Pull Me, Nudge Me: Mobile devices and behavioural biases

Push Me, Pull Me, Nudge Me: Mobile devices and behavioural biases Technology is all around us and we live in an era that is constantly online, but what does the mean for us? Technology and channels will continually be changing, but at the end of every interaction, there will always be a human nervous system. Tom …

Enterprise Mobile Phone Applications

Do you want to improve the operations and communications within your business? For many industries, there can be several workers within one building or even out on the road, and ensuring everyone is connected within an organisation is vital to the quality of service you are providing. By working with our team here at Pocket …

Cross Platform App Development

Technology today is paramount. Without the optimisation of technology, your business could be losing out on thousands of customers every single day – whether it’s from the internet or on mobile applications. Here at Pocket App, our aim has been to mobilise businesses across the globe with app development, mobile consultancy, enterprise mobility and responsive …

Fantasy football apps are on the rise and how apps can continue to match with the demand.

While fantasy football may have started out as a geeky, niche hobby, it’s since grown into a pop-culture phenomenon especially within the last twenty years. One of the big reasons for the growth in fantasy football’s popularity is the wealth of online tools that do away with or minimize clunky bookkeeping, and it gets even …

Voice Enabled Technology: Q&A with Pocket App Chairman, Paul Swaddle

  1)       How has voice recognition technology improved in recent years? Has the technology become more sophisticated? In the past three years commercial speech recognition technologies have seen a dramatic improvement. These improvements are in part being driven by deep learning approaches combined with massive data sets. Deep Learning, which is machine learning based on a set …

How mobile apps create better business practices

For small businesses and big corporate companies alike, mobile is the latest frontier. Yet rather than simply developing a mobile-friendly version of your website or adding a cool e-commerce capability to the mobile user experience, more and more businesses are wisely delving into the mobile market by developing a smartphone app that can improve business …

How mobile apps are creating new opportunities within HR technology

HR teams are increasingly having to innovate in order to deal with the challenges of maintaining employee engagement. With mobile applications gradually being accepted as standard operating procedure, more options pop up for HR tasks beyond simply sourcing job candidates. These range from signing off on time sheets to helping employees file health benefits claims …