Monthly Archives: January 2012
VeriFone Reimagines Retail and Powers the Future Shopping Experience
VeriFone Systems, Inc. has revealed its next generation payment solutions and invites retailers to reimagine interaction, mobility, security and globalization. (www.verifone.com)
New solutions introduced today expand VeriFone’s market-leading point-of-sale business with new multimedia, mobile technology, payment paradigms and cloud-based services that simplify and enhance the retail experience.
“Retailers hunger for new, more meaningful and profitable ways to [...]
Why 2012 is the year for location based marketing
Grab local customers with social check-in apps!
I didn’t fully understand what LBS(Location Based Service) is when I studied GIS(Geographic Information Service) at my college back in 2002. If I knew how much it would affect in our lives, I might not have changed my major. Approximately a decate later, now, LBS is ubiquitous especially in our smartphone. Mobile marketers [...]
10 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing
Dear smart marketers, let’s use QR Codes for our marketing in this year 2012! Here are 10 creative ways to use QR Codes for marketing.
According to comScore, 20.1 million mobile phone owners in the U.S. used their devices to scan a QR code in the three-month average period ending October 2011. In the big scheme of things, [...]
Job of the Day …. Mobile Product Manager London
Job of the day
Mobile Product Manager – London
This is an incredibly exciting role within one of the UK’s largest media groups – Aspire Mobile. Reporting to the Head of Mobile, the Mobile Product Manager is responsible for all aspects of mobile product development. You will be responsible for delivering a number of core mobile products and services including Apps, m-Sites etc….
Click on the link below for more details or contact Aspire Mobile, the global leading provider of Mobile Media professionals.
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Google Account QR Code Log In
If you don’t want to leave your trace on others’ computers, use QR Codes to log in instead of entering email and password. Google now enables users to access their account with QR Codes.
Do you sometimes worry that your Google account may be compromised when you log in via a public terminal, a client’s network or [...]
jQ.Mobi: At last, jQuery rewritten, ground-Up for iOS and Android
New community project is optimized for HTML5 mobile, provides stellar performance in a tiny footprint
January 16th 2012 jQ.Mobi, a new open source mobile development framework makes its public debut today. jQ.Mobi is a mobile-optimized, HTML5 rewrite of the ubiquitous jQuery framework which is used on over 50 per cent of all desktop websites. jQ.Mobi provides stunning speed improvement (2.5X faster than desktop jQuery), size reduction (only 3K vs. 36K) and code efficiency, with a particular focus on delivering an identically high quality user experience to both iOS and Android devices. Mobile developers can join the community and download the code here. Continue reading
INSIDE Secure makes its easy to adapt NFC for any Android 4.0 hardware
Rating:Its open NFC stack should help speed up NFC app development
In a concerted effort to build the NFC ecosystem, INSIDE Secure has announced that it is making its open NFC protocol stack available for the latest Android release – v 4.0 which is better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. This stack is aimed at connectivity chip vendors, smartphone and tablet manufacturers as well as software developers. The objective is to make developing for open NFC as hardware independent as possible, although obviously it works with INSIDE Secure’s own silicon products. The stack can be downloaded for free from the open Near Field Communication (NFC) website here. Continue reading
BuzzCity finds BlackBerry still dominates ad impressions in UK
Rating: Women and mature users dominate m-commerce
A somewhat startling finding from the latest quarterly report on the mobile advertising industry from BuzzCity is that in the UK, ad impressions are still dominated by BlackBerry (with 69 per cent). The company admits that this is declining with growing interest in Apple devices. The report’s main conclusion is that m-commerce adoption will be driven by women and mature users. In terms of what types of transaction users are making with their mobile phones, BuzzCity has found that services to stay connected; lifestyle and leisure; plus travel are the main categories. BuzzCity served more than 126 billion ads in 2011 which compares to 52 billion in 2010. Continue reading
Upsteam appoints Mobile Expert Richard M Marshall to deliver next-gen marketing
Upstream Appoints Software Entrepreneur and Mobile Expert Richard M Marshall to Deliver Next-Generation Marketing Solutions
LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Upstream, the global marketing technology and solutions provider, has appointed Richard M Marshall as Vice President (VP) of Technology and Engineering to support its expanding product portfolio and the business’ growth [...]
Everything Everywhere upsets the whole UK 4G applecart
Rating: Is it 2G? 3G? or 4G? it’s certainly not what 3 has got
This latest fight over 4G in the UK highlights an essential piece of technology which everybody seems to have forgotten. You can be literally anywhere in the world and if you pick up a telephone, you can talk to everybody, everywhere. Now we have Everything Everywhere (formerly Orange/T-Mobile UK) in the UK proving that the exact opposite is true with mobile technology. They are proposing to use spectrum supposedly provided for 2G to offer 4G services. It’s a harsh business climate out that and GoMo News doesn’t blame Everything Everywhere at all for trying to get a commercial advantage over its rivals. It does, however, make something of a mockery of the whole mobile industry when yet another yawning chasm is opened in the quest for a truly global telephone network which would actually work. Continue reading
5 Top iPhone Apps for Election Coverage
It’s election time! Do you want to keep yourself updated all the latest news and polls? Here’re 5 Top iPhone Apps for election coverage. Hope this will help your right decision…
iDemocrat, iRepublican
There are a quite a few apps geared towards the elections, but the iDemocrat and iRepublican are simple apps that allow you to show [...]
Will the Chinese Twitter become more popular than English Twitter?
A friend of mine, who came from China years ago, has started her own fashion related business. She complains that she has to post the same content for twice on English social web sites (FB and Twitter) and Chinese ones. Some of you may know that the Chinese government still bans Twitter and Facebook in [...]
Mobile Premier Awards at MWC 2012
[ February 27, 2012; 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The Mobile Premier Awards 2012 mark the end of the AppCircus year and brings together the winners of more than 30 countries worldwide. You will have a rare chance to meet developers from all over the world competing for the best app of the year. The competition is the largest open and global cross-platform app competition in the mobile industry, it provides the point of reference for the startup and developer community during Mobile World Congress.
Registration will open soon!
This year, the event is taking place at Sala Apolo – a jewel of the classic dance hall design and only 5 minutes walking distance away from the Mobile World Congress premises.
The event will be followed by a huge AppCircus developer party!
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It’s Time to Go Mobile – A Guide for Mobile Campaign Success
As mobile advertising is growing faster than ever before, it is inevitable to have your own unique mobile strategy to stand out. Here are some tips result-based marketers should do for mobile campaign.
Create a Shorter Process
Less time and less hassle translate into more conversions. This is especially true in the mobile realm, where campaign success [...]
