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Ralph Lauren QR instant purchase from the shop window

OMG. My dream in instant shopping dream has just come true. Ralph Lauren is testing new shop window displays where you can see an outfit with a QR code. If the shop is closed you can still buy the outfit on your phone.

ARGGGHHH. My husband is going to hate this and I just love it. [...]

Lunch with Willie Donnelly, Micheal O Foghlu and Barry Downes of the TSSG and WIT

OK. If you don’t know who Willie Donnelly, Micheal O Foghlu and Barry Downes are – you should.
 
They are basically at the head of the TSSG and the gurus behind the Waterford Institute of Technology (which is soon to become a University). Michael (pronounced MiHaul) is some sort of Perl Guru and has a history [...]

Mobile Search: Verizon Google? Has the world gone mad?

I read a few comments and articles on the rumour that Verizon and Google will partner for mobile search.  I think it was the Wall Street Journal newspaper that said Mobile Search is anaemic?

So what is the rumour?
That Verizon and Google are about to secure a deal for mobile search services in the US.  OK, [...]

Something dawns as Nuance buys SnapIn

I read about Nuance set to buy SnapIn last night but was too tired to write about it and needed to digest this.
So at 4am this morning my new Maggie Thatcher style wake up time I looked through my old BKI Media notes.
Then I realised something huge.
I remember meeting SnapIn over a year ago, it [...]

Pitch to GoMo News at CTIA and sponsor update

If you want to pitch to GoMo News at CTIA – I am going to do a pitch day on Friday 12th September. Its a free for all and I will sit in one spot and interview as many companies as possible every 20-30 minutes.
What I get? Great new news and information on hot start-ups?
What [...]

Scanbuy Launches 2D Barcode Application for the Apple iPhone

Scanbuy’s ScanLife 2D barcode application is now available for free on the iPhone App Store. 

Scanbuy’s technology uses the phone’s camera to give users an instant connection to information, without needing to search by keyword or type in a lengthy URL.  Individuals can also create and scan Personal EZcodes as links to their blogs or networking [...]

Visibility Mobile logos start arriving

First of all thank-you the distinguished Ajit for the lovely post: http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2008/08/visibility_mobi.html#trackbacks
 

Above is the logo for Go Mobile SEO it is one of the two brands of Visibility Mobile.  The Visibility Mobile logo should be live by tomorrow or early next week. More information on the company will come -but we are in stealth [...]

Mobile Barcodes NeoReader on the iPhone vs Nokia N95 Barcode Scanner

Last week a release went out that NeoMedia had released the NeoReaderfor the iPhone. I decided to check it out. Because I also have a Nokia N95; with the Nokia Barcode Scanner on it I decided to do a face-off between both the products.
How?
Well, I chose the same sets of barcodes and I took a [...]

NeoMedia secures USD 8.7 million financing from Yorkville Advisors

YA Global Investments (aka Yorkville Advisors) has committed USD 8.7 million in mobile barcode company NeoMedia.

From the press release
The funds will accelerate implementation of NeoMedia’s aggressive go-to-market plans under new CEO, Iain McCready. These plans will focus on providing mobile barcode scanning infrastructure to carriers, NeoReader scanning software to handset manufacturers and code implementation products [...]

Legal Fraud or AOL’s Platform A Third Party Ad Serving Inventory Solutions

AOL has launched its mobile third party ad-serving solution.
What is Platform-a.com?
Remember that AOL bought Third Screen Media – well, it is using this to offer a new way for publishers to manage and allocate inventory.

So what does this mean?
Basically, it sort of solves or helps the lack of inventory problem. Basically it offers mobile publishers [...]

Myscreen Mobile Advertising and WISEKey

WISeKey and MyScreen today announced their partnership on integrating WISeKey electronic identity technologies with MyScreen’s unique patent-pending mobile advertising technology platform, defining a new standard in the delivery of high-quality, personalized and secure advertisements, offers and transaction capability to mobile phones.

From the Press Release
“Our collaboration with WISeKey will result in a range of exciting and [...]

Poll: Mobile Live Streaming Video

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Volantis Announces the Social Storefront

Volantis launches the social storefront.
What is it?
Well it is a more storefront that connects subscribers with social network Facebook.
What does that mean?
Well it seem as though it is a gateway for mobile operators to enable them to connect and recommend mobile content or music to friends via Facebook profiles. This means that when a friend [...]

The Mobile Web

Those within the industry are much too focused on what they would like to do on the mobile web instead of thinking about what consumers are doing, what they want to do and how to make it easy for them.

A great example of this discrepancy is described by Ricky Cecil, Director of User Experience, FRY [...]

Poll: Mobile Barcodes Standarisation vs Proprietary?

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