We have so many projects going on at the moment that I'm not allowed to talk about, that I'm starting to run out of blog material!
So I thought I'd write a more general piece, and after reading the Group of Eight report (you'll read more about it below), I decided to focus on our innovation, because as you probably understand, it’s always nice when your efforts are validated - both by research and results :)
SO LET THE BOASTING BEGIN! Ahem, I mean, let the reflection begin. It's amazing what you can learn from others' reflections...
Gaining Momentum with iPhone Apps
Our early jump into iPhone application development, before ‘iPhone developer’ was even an understood term in most circles of Australia, led to great success with Newton’s Cradle. It quickly jumped to the second top free app globally, and after 18 months and over 3 million downloads, it is still getting tens of thousands of downloads a week.
Battling Australia's Skill-Shortage Crisis with Interactive Whiteboards
A revolutionary interactive whiteboard science education program we started with That Science Gang (and the backing of RiAus, SA FilmCorp and Leedal Presentation Systems) last year, has just been heavily validated by a new report by Group of Eight. The report found that students are losing interest in science and maths in primary school, which is resulting in a national skills shortage crisis in areas such as engineering, statistics and economics. The education program we’re developing will equip primary school teachers to battle this crisis. We already knew of the critical need in this area, but it’s certainly nice to have our belief corroborated by this authoritative report.
Getting Creative with iPad Touch Apps
Meanwhile we are also looking at the iPad Touch as another exciting opportunity to be innovative. There are a lot of companies out there claiming to be iPad developers, in fact, a report from Flurry Analytics have revealed the number of iPhone / iPad developers have tripled since Apple announced the specifications of the iPad. Obviously it won’t be our speed that will show our innovation here - but we believe that many of these iPhone developers turned iPad developers will struggle to really leverage from the unique specs of the iPad. And that’s where we see our opportunity to be innovative.