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Magento Mobile & Designing your first App

// August 22nd, 2010 // 1 Comment » // e-commerce

Mobile commerce is the next big thing. It’s been said for the last two years by many analysts, but at long last the e-commerce guru’s at Magento have finally produced a solution that could turn all of this speculation into a reality. Econsultancy recently reported ‘Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in the way [...]

7 reasons why Magento should be your next ecommerce solution

// August 8th, 2010 // 4 Comments » // e-commerce

It’s almost one year ago to the day that I updated the great-save.com domain to point at our new Magento Community Edition (CE) powered website. In those 12 months I’ve become very passionate about this ecommerce solution and learnt a huge amount about the key strengths of the open source platform. So here are my [...]

5 of the best Android Apps

// August 5th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // tech, tools

One week after moving to the Samsung Galaxy S from an iPhone 4 I thought I’d share my 5 favourite Android Apps: 1. Swype This is the future of text entry on mobile devices, tech sites such as CNET, Engadget and Distilled’s Will Critchlow all harmoniously agree. It takes T9 recognition to the next level, [...]

Life after the iPhone 4… Hello Samsung Galaxy S

// July 29th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // tech

Taking back my iPhone 4 to my local O2 shop was a difficult decision. On one hand it is a superb phone, probably the best I’ve ever had, but on the other hand I strongly disagreed with the way Apple have handled the whole #antennagate issue. From initially denying any problem through the infamous ‘Just [...]

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