Calvium Team,
Calvium is pleased to announce the appointment of Jo Reid as our new Managing Director, moving from her current role as Sales & Marketing Director to take up the position. This change will come into effect on September 1st 2015, as our Managing Director of the past 5 years, Richard…
Calvium Team,
As part of the Collaborative Doctoral Award from the University of Exeter, Cristina has just started a 6 months internship here at Calvium. Whilst here, she will be supporting us by writing blogs and white papers about locative media projects and generally helping us to increase public contributions on Experience Design. Hi everyone,…
Charlie Harman,
Apple Pay is a new service, delivered through an official app on the App Store, that allows users to pay for goods and services in physical stores using their iPhone 6, as long as said store has Near Field Communication (NFC) terminals installed. Users can sync their credit or debit…
Jo Reid,
Whilst hopping between meetings in London yesterday, our head of Creative, Jo Reid, took the opportunity to visit the new Soundscapes exhibition at the National Gallery. As champions of using sound to immerse users in our audio trail apps that we call AppTrails, we were intrigued to see what the Soundscapes…
Charlie Harman,
It’s been over a year since we wrote our first blog introducing iBeacons and what they might be used for in the future ( The Low Down on iBeacons and BLE technology). In that year we have witnessed iBeacons take off in an extraordinary way. We have seen Beacon projects…
Jo Reid,
We are looking for some excellent developers to help us bring our interesting and often high profile projects to life. If you would like to become a part of our friendly and dynamic team in our attractive office in Central Bristol, please follow the links below to find out about the…
Charlie Harman,
Bristol is blessed with more parks and green spaces than any other city in the UK. Whether it’s a small park near your home, or a large woodland area on the outskirts of the city, there are multiple places, both well and lesser known, that residents and visitors can take…
Charlie Harman,
Last night Tim Cook and co. announced Apple’s latest upgrades and objectives at the 2015 World Wide Developers Conference. After setting a date to watch it together on the big screen at Calvium HQ, we had lots of thoughts about what this might mean for us and other mobile developers…
Charlie Harman,
Last year Yosemite, Hand Off and Health Kit we’re the big stars of Apple’s annual developers conference. Then, at Apple’s yearly September Keynote it was confirmed that the rumours of the Apple Watch were true. So, now 9 months on, what will Apple’s next Word Wide Developers Conference have in…
Charlie Harman,
Whilst we slept soundly here in the UK, our friends and colleagues ANAGRAM were in New York winning the Bombay Saphire Storyscapes Award for Door Into The Dark at the Tribeca Film Festival! During the last week, unsuspecting New Yorkers have been taking a step into the unknown as they experienced the blindfolded…
Calvium Team,
Welcome to the last blog in our Apple Watch App blog series. Out of all our explorations, one of the features we really wanted to try out was glances. These allow people a “quick look” at some important information. In Whiskr we wanted people to be able to quickly see…
Calvium Team,
We’ve already taken a look at some of the issues we’ve faced building our Whiskr Apple Watch app in regards to context menus and model dialogs. Next we’re going to look into how we shared data between the iPhone and Apple Watch app. This was probably one of the hardest…