Leicester's annual Summer Sundae festival is now upon us and you can keep up-to-date with what's happening from the comfort of your tent thanks to a free free festival iPhone App from Cuttlefish. The App is available from the Apple App Store and provides complete festival listings, plus interactive map, picture uploads, reminders and background information about the event. Get in touch if you would like something similar for your event or project.

Cuttlefish has been commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands to develop an exciting new location-based Internet system. "Empedia" will provide a range of tools to enable museums, libraries and archives to create interactive maps and exhibition guides that will be viewable on computers and mobile phones.

it is hoped that Empedia will become an ever-growing collection of maps, audio tours, picture trails, video trails and interactive guides that people can use to explore the rich culture of the UK's East Midlands. Users will be able access Empedia using a standard web browser on a desktop computer or laptop, but it will really come alive when used on a mobile device such as an iPhone. This will allow residents and visitors to the East Midlands to have Empedia - and all of the great content it will contain - with them wherever they might be.

The project officially started in April 2010 and development of the platform is progressing well. It will have a limited release in September 2010 followed by a full public launch in February 2011.

Cuttlefish is looking for expressions of interest in the project from museums, libraries and archives in the East Midlands. If you think you might want to add content to the Empedia system, or simply want to know more, then please contact Sean Clark at seanc@cuttlefish.com or telephone 01509 231233.

Cuttlefish has a strong in-house team, but we are always on the look out for good freelancers. At the moment we are looking for iPhone/Android Developers and CSS-based Graphic Designers. Your location is not important, but you need to be able to work both independently and, at times, closely with our core team at times to suit them. Please contact us with a short CV and examples of your work.

Cuttlefish has had its first App approved by the Apple iPhone Store. The Pineapster App gives members of our popular Pineapster community the ability to check news and events information and post to the discussion forums from the comfort of their iPhone.

We have a number of other applications for the iPhone in development so watch out for future announcements.

If you want to download the App then simply search the iTunes store for "Pineapster".