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Barfoot & Thompson launches iPad app :: StopPress
According to IT manager Stephen Barfoot, a quarter of the company’s web traffic is from mobile devices and half of that from iPads specifically. Barfoot already has a mobile optimised website. “The inference from the website traffic is our customers want more mobile ways of looking for properties online,” he says. The app takes information stored in Barfoot’s vast properties database and displays it contextually on a map. This includes photos and video of the property, agent info, school zone information and floor plans. It’s not exactly groundbreaking stuff, but the experience is fluid and well suited to the tablet environment. Barfoot says modern house hunters have come to expect …