A recent survey by Compuware confirms what you’ve no doubt heard from multiple sources recently, that mobile shopping is hot and increased significantly over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend. Compuware takes the analysis one step further and focuses on iPad usage for this shopping, and identifies an interesting trend. While mobile shoppers are [...]
Mobile Banking platform provider, mFoundry, has upped the mobile payment stakes by allowing banks to offer NFC payment solutions to their customers, within the banks’ mobile app. This is significant, because not only does it allow banks to defend against competitive offerings from Google Wallet and others, but it also allows customers the convenience of [...]
Smartphone adoption may be high in the U.S. but overall smartphone sales are highest in China. A new research note published by Strategy Analytics on 21 November estimates that 23.9 million smartphones shipped in China during the third quarter of 2011. That figure is slightly above the 23.3 million smartphones shipped in the U.S. Read the [...]
If you have kids, you know its that time of year to pre-order your child's school yearbook. And, most likely, the year book provider is Jostens, www.JostensYearbooks.com. I've known Jostens for 30+ years and have fond memories of its products. Websites and Mobile - On the surface, the Josten's Website is fine if you are [...]
Already ahead of the Apple iPhone, Google announces that the number of Android devices has doubled in the past six months – from 100 million activated to 200 million. Read the full Finanial Times article.
A recent study by Limelight Networks stresses the importance for retailers of not only having a mobile optimized commerce site, but ensuring it is a positive experience for their customers. It is no longer sufficient to wrap a mobile renderer around an existing site (if it ever was), today's consumer expects fast page loads to [...]
CIOs are tying to get their arms around mobile and its various facets (application development, utility/value to the end-user, context to the Internet channel, device management, security, and so forth). However, the ubiquity of mobile is generating ideas and interest across the enterprise. Smart organizations are putting in place processes to capture and execute cross-functional initiatives to [...]
The WSJ reports today on the progress of HTML5 as the mobile Internet standard. The standard got a lift on 9 November as Adobe Systems decided to pull back on mobile Flash - a competing technology. Some 34% of the 100 most popular websites used HTML5 in the quarter ended in September, according to binvisions.com, [...]
mobilecommercedaily.com - Gap, with Visa, is expanding its Mobile4U program to deliver personalized discounts via SMS. Gap is on the forefront of mobile with its mobile e-commerce site and related initiatives. While I applaud the novel use of SMS by Gap, consumers should dig deeper on Visa's long-term intent with your data. Read a related [...]
Lessons Learned: Six lessons learned from more than 40 enterprise mobile implementations. Learn how to: Develop a mobile strategy specific to your organizational objectives and capabilities Manage expectations regarding features and timelines Understand and plan for integration challenges Select a development approach (Native vs. Platform) Define an appropriate testing and deployment plan Put “adoption” and [...]
