The Guardian Online compiles a monthly hotlist of Windows Phone apps, featuring the best app's on the market. This month we pleased to see that Splendid's new app for The Times and The Sunday Times app is featured.

The new app offers daily editions of The Times and Sunday Times, with news, analysis, features and coverage from Britain's most experienced political reporters, foreign correspondents and award-winning columnists and sports writers.

The app was designed and built by Splendid in close partnership with the team at The Times. We are currently working on several Windows Apps, for both Windows Phone and Windows 8, and would be happy to talk you through the benefits of this exciting new operating system.

The app is available now in the Windows Marketplace with a free 30 day trial subscription. Follow the links below to find out more.

Splendid have been asked to speak at the IMRG's Usability Seminar for Mobile and Tablet. We will be talking about how brands can behave uniquely on next-gen devices without impeding customer engagement . The talk will draw on our experience of working on multi-channel projects for leading brands and wil be given by our Head of User Experience, Ben Ireland.

IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) is the membership community for the e-retail industry, whose vision is to maximise the commercial potential of online shopping through the promotion of best practice. With more than 20 years' experience in the fast-moving e-commerce market, we enable members to maximise the business opportunities available to them through the provision of insightful data and by tracking trends and developments in the e-retail marketplace.

Splendid are proud to announce the launch of our new app for The Times, which is now available for download in the Windows Marketplace.

The Times Win 7 app provides live news from The Times and The Sunday Times for windows phone users. It combines the best journalism with media rich content, including graphics, photographs and exclusive videos, making full use of Win 7 interaction features. The app covers news, analysis, features and coverage from Britain's most experienced political reporters, foreign correspondents and award-winning columnists and sports writers.

The app was designed and built by Splendid in close partnership with the team at The Times.We are currently working on several Windows Apps, for both Windows Phone and Windows 8, and would be happy to talk you through the benefits of this exciting new operating system.

Splendid athletes walked away with the much-coveted Gold medal in the first official games of the summer last week. Admittedly we're talking about the Graphic Games held in Golden Square, rather than that thing in Stratford, but nonetheless we're still glowing with pride.

Team Apollo Splendido challenged a number of companies based in Soho and soon showed their winning coordination skills in the 3 legged race. It was a closely fought battle, but the team seized victory in the final round with a nail biting tug-o-war finish, which has left one UX designer with hospital-worthy rope burn.

The team was somewhat revitalised when they were awarded a 2ltr Golden paint tin (full of Golden Gin), and a shiny medal to take home to their mum.

It was a proud moment that brought a tear to the eye...and several people to the bar.

Splendid today are pleased to announce the launch of Photoblab, available at the iTunes store. Photoblab is a new social app that allows you to combine your photos with audio to share your best moments with your friends.

It's easy to get going. Simply take a series of photos, add an soundtrack that suits the mood and post it to the community or share it one to one with a friend. It has loads of great features including filters to change the look and feel of your blab, geo location to pinpoint where it was blabbed and the ability to link to your twitter and facebook accounts.

Its free, great fun and highly addictive. So go on and download it from the app store today.

Happy blabbing!

Available to iphone, ipod touch and ipad.

You know that cool band you went to see that your friend couldn't make it to? Or that amazing night out you had that your friend didn't make it along to - the one where you ended up singing Queen songs with your arms around a policeman? Or that birthday of yours your friend missed? Or that talking dog you saw that your friend wasn't around to see?

Ok, apart from maybe taking a little look at your friend's commitment to this friendship of yours, imagine you could capture any spontaneous or perfectly composed moment and share it.

Sometimes an SMS or a picture message just doesn't cut it and video can be too shaky or waaaay too big to send to someone. PhotoBlab gives you the ability to share a neat little slideshow of up to five photos with accompanying audio to a network of friends in a simple feed. You can also share on Facebook, by Twitter or by email. There's even the option to send private Blabs (so your slushy poem recital and pictures of flowers to that special someone is safe).

PhotoBlab uses your phone's camera and built in mic, so you don't need anything special to make dazzling Blabs. Add filters and crop your photos. Record, re-record and edit your audio. You get 15 seconds of audio as standard and the option of a one-time in-app payment upgrade to a full two minutes allowance. Send as much or as little as you want.

The possibilities of moments to capture are endless. Here are some suggestions, just in case your imagination has momentarily seized up:

. a birthday song and a wish

. moments from a band's concert

. baby's first words

. Fireworks

. a drunk friend or relative doing karaoke

. a talking dog (seriously, there must be one somewhere)

Be creative. Be in touch. Blab all over the place. Its totally up to you...

Splendid is pleased to announce that flydubai's new and improved website was successfully launched this weekend and is now open for business.

flydubai is Dubai's first low-cost airline operating routes to more than 45 destinations across the Middle East, Subcontinent, Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe.

flydubai is one of the fastest growing start-up airlines in the world. flydubai currently has a fleet of 23 brand new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft operating from its headquarters at Terminal 2, Dubai International Airport. Three years after its inaugural commercial flight, flydubai is now making more than 800 flights a week, has over 300 pilots and 500 cabin crew, flying thousands of passengers across its network.

Splendid has been working with flydubai since 2010 to design and build a marketing, acquisition and transactional website and provides a flexible platform to support the business as it grows.

Employing Splendid's User Centred Design methodology, a modern and accessible site was designed, aligned to both the business model and the key user objectives.

Splendid has worked closely with flydubai to bring this site to fruition including a dynamic content managements system and a fully transactional mobile site variant in both English and Arabic.

Splendid are off to the Annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, catching up with some old clients, meeting some new ones and being inspired by speakers such as Bill Clinton, Sir John Hegarty, Zaha Hadid and Ariana Huffington . All in the pleasant surrounding of the South of France, how very civilised.

We have just a got a great piece of kit in the office, its a full multi-touch screen from Swedish company FlatFrog. The real beauty of FlatFrog Multitouch 3200 is that many users can collaborate and interact together, while the system's high performance level remains constant with 40 simultaneous touches and drags. It works with Windows, Apple and Android and is fully plug-n-play.

It also works in bright sunlight! always a plus point.

For a demo in in our Soho office please contact us.

After months of hard graft and cunning HTML5 trickery Intel: Project Monument has gone live. The project was designed and developed with Microsoft Advertising and allows users to play with iconic products form the last four decades to create a monument of their life.

It's one of the first sites to use the new Facebook Edge feature that allows custom "Like" buttons, in our case "Remember". There is also a nice TV spot for the campaign, see the second link below.

It launched today with an MSN homepage takeover across Europe and launches on Facebook next week. More details to follow... go have a play.