The Teen Tech event was a resounding success with many schools competing for in the app competition:

Prizes for Best Pitch, Best Icon, Most Marketable App, Most Innovative App and Best Teamwork were presented. Oasis Academy Immingham won the grand prize, Best App Overall, with an app that let the user try on different make-up looks and clothes outfits to find out what suits or fits them before they buy. 

The pupils taking part won a day with the team from local application developers Hull Apps, who helped them develop their app idea, how it should be marketed and how it would look.

The prize was sponsored by KC, whose Commercial and Finance Director, Sean Royce, said: “As a communications company, we want to help show young people that the science, engineering and technology lessons they’re involved in every day at school lead to exciting career opportunities, so that more young people might then choose that career path. The app competition really captured everyone’s imagination, and our congratulations go to the winning team from Oasis Academy Immingham.”

For more information please do read the full article on the KC website.

We’ve been really pleased that two well known local businesses recognise the benefit that mobile development brings. They’re a great example of how the latest technology can be harnessed and used to grow businesses, whether they’re a large corporate firm, or an independent small business. Here’s what they had to say:

“We recognise the importance of mobile communication, especially with the growth of smartphones like the iPhone. Our customers are also embracing mobile devices, which are becoming personalised to their needs, and can deliver information they find helpful.

Weʼre delighted to be working with Hull Apps to develop applications which will be genuinely useful to our customers, and provide extra value. We want to ensure we engage with them, listen, learn and help the city community”.

Nick Thompson, Director, Consumer Services Kingston Communications.

“HullApps offers us a unique opportunity as a small business. We have already found that online communication has significantly grown our sales over the last two years. The iPhone application that is being developed for us offers us a new and exciting way in which to engage with our clients. We were pleasantly surprised to see that a high proportion of our customers were already using iPhones to view our email newsletters, so developing an iPhone application was the obvious next step.”

Mark Blowers, Ian Blowers Jewelers.

We’ll be posting more news of our current projects very shortly, but in the mean time, if you have any queries, please get in touch with jm@hullapps.com or call him on 0113 815 5678.