Archive for the 'Mobile' Category
Geo-Fences + Mobile Phones = Powerful Real Estate Marketing
Published by Stephanie March 8th, 2010 in Advertising, Demographics, Innovation, Interactive Advertisement, List Growing, Mapping, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Online Advertising, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Technology.Chris Thorman writes for Software Advice which specializes in helping organizations find the right software for their individual needs. He has shared his article “Searching for Real Estate Made Easy: Geo-Fences Plus Mobile Phones” with Dotfusion.
It’s Saturday morning. Joel and Rebecca are walking their dog through a neighborhood in Austin, TX. As they walk, they [...]
Discount vouchers directly from your iPhone
Published by Angie February 4th, 2010 in Advertising, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Shopping Center Marketing, Social Media, eCommerce.Voucher Cloud is an app developed by Invitation Digital that allows users to get discount vouchers straight to their mobile, as well as locating nearby businesses with special offers.
To make things easier, Voucher Cloud takes your current location via GPS and serves up the offers closest to you. This seems to [...]
What are people buying right now?
Published by Riley February 3rd, 2010 in Advertising, Measurement, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Shopping Center Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, eCommerce.Spin off of Twitter’s question “What are you doing?” Now we get to see your credit card transactions! Good idea?
As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new [...]
iPhone credit card payment system
Published by Angie December 9th, 2009 in Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping.Not to be outdone by tech visionary Jack Dorsey — one of the brains behind Twitter — and his Square cellphone payment start-up, point-of-sale veteran VeriFone struck today with the announcement of PAYware Mobile.
Not dissimilar from the Square iPhone application and accessory, which The Times profiled last week, PAYware targets small businesses with its subscription-based [...]
Meet Stranded Travelers Via Twitter
Published by Riley December 2nd, 2009 in Mapping, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology.There is nothing more excruciating than having to wait at an airport lounge for hours on end while weather conditions better and you can finally depart. If that situation ever rises its ugly head again, this new Twitter-based service might just alleviate things slightly.
http://www.boarding.fr/
In essence, through Boarding you can send a tweet which will allow [...]
Find best place to work remote…There’s an app for that.
Published by Riley September 16th, 2009 in Innovation, Mapping, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Virtual world.It’s rather difficult to find a quiet and the most favorite place to work in a public place, which is almost perpetually noisy. WorkSnug, which is an Augmented Reality application for the iPhone 3GS will find your favorite work place that is just suitable for you. This is made especially for the mobile workers who [...]
Hitchhiking With Your Mobile Phone
Published by Angie September 10th, 2009 in Advertising, Consumer Brands, Mobile, Technology.Forget all the warnings your mother gave you about getting into a car with a stranger. A German technology institute developed an application that allows spontaneous carpooling for anyone with a mobile phone.
OpenRide, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, instantly matches drivers with ride-seekers and vice-versa. Walking from lunch to work when storm [...]
Free Burgers = Grow Your List
Published by Riley September 9th, 2009 in Advertising, Demographics, Interactive Advertisement, List Growing, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Online Advertising, Retail Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Websites.TGI Friday’s have launched a huge Facebook offer after ‘a friendly bet’ with a fan called Woody. If self proclaimed number one fan Woody can get 500,000 Facebook fans by 30th September 2009, then the first 500,000 will be entitled to a free Jack Daniels Burger or Jack Daniels Chicken Sandwich.
Unfortunately this promotion is US [...]
The Twitter Opera
Published by Riley September 2nd, 2009 in Innovation, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Virtual world.The Royal Opera House in London has come up with a very creative way to use Twitter to compose the storyline for their next opera.
“The Twitter Opera” is to be performed as part of the ROH’s Deloitte Ignite Festival at the beginning of September. The concert will consist entirely of 140-character tweets that the ROH [...]
Saving the trees with the iPhone
Published by Tim August 12th, 2009 in Innovation, Mobile, Technology.CourseSmart has come out with a pretty neat, and environmentally conscious, iPhone app. It allows college students to view and use their textbooks on their iPhone.
Read more at CNET


