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This is the Year of Mobile! That’s what I’m supposed to say, right? As a mobile evangelist and marketer, I have an obligation to my people, my industry. Actually, it’s not that far off, however I’m not sure I would say it’s this year. 2014, maybe. I expect to see some great [...]
According to a recent study by Greystripe, 78% of iPhone and Android users who plan to buy a car in the next year will use their mobile devices to aid them in their auto search and purchase process. How many plan to buy a car, new or used, in the next year? 1 [...]
As is customary in the mobile market, lots of focus has been given to specific products over the last couple of months. Literally hundreds of discussions can be found online, both positive and negative, around the iPhone 4S, iOS 5, or the Kindle Fire for instance. Many people in the US seem to exhibit an [...]
QR barcode scans grew 1200% from July to December 2010. comScore released its findings that, in June 2011, 14 million Americans scanned QR codes on their mobile phones. These numbers show the importance of QR codes and a need to get it right now rather than later. Although the list of [...]
Lots of time is spent in the smartphone market today talking about which device is the best, or which platform is going to be the winner. Somebody is always writing or talking about how iOS is better than Android, or why BlackBerry is on it’s way out, or how Microsoft is going to come charging [...]
I ran across an interesting article inFierceWireless this week. The article focused on how Tier 2 carriers are pushing handset makers for more smartphone offerings they can provide to their customer base. I’m sure we are all familiar with the smartphones offered by the big three carriers (AT&T, [...]
Every quarter a company called NPD Group releases numbers regarding the number of smartphones sold sporting the various operating systems. Their research is not an analysis of market share, but it is an analysis of the devices sold for a specific quarter. Market share is tracked by other companies such as
“Augmented Reality”…Sounds like something from Star Wars or Star Trek doesn’t it? But in the world of mobility it is a technology that is catching on quickly. So what is it anyway?
Augmented Reality (or AR) is something that many of us are actually at least somewhat familiar with. When you watched the college football [...]
