Consumers’ greater willingness to shop on the mobile channel rather than buy is supported by other research. Retrevo found in February 2010 that across all age groups Internet users were at least three times as likely to research or compare prices on their phones as they were to make a purchase.
Urban Outfitters exec shares vision for in-store mobile commerce - Mobile Commerce Dail... - 0 views
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"said Glen Senk, CEO of Urban Outfitters, Philadelphia. "We're studying the mobile opportunity. "Mobile may ultimately impact the in-store experience more than it impacts the online experience," he said. "Consumers will be able to walk in store, scan a product, read reviews, share via their social networks and walk out with the product in hand and it automatically gets charged to their mobile device. "Gone is the check-out line, which is amazing.""
REVEL IPAD POS | IPAD Restaurant POS - 0 views
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"Revel Systems provides the new generation POS, the iPad connected with the receipt printer, cash drawer, and cardswipe"
Vintage Bottles via New Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Since their debut six weeks ago, the gadgets have enthralled the (mostly male) customers at Bone's. And to the astonishment of the restaurant's owners, wine purchases shot up overnight - they were nearly 11 percent higher per diner in the first two weeks compared with the previous three weeks, with no obvious alternative explanation. Other restaurateurs who are experimenting with iPad wine lists, from Sydney to London to Central Park South, report similar results. "
TaintDroid: Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones - 0 views
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A joint study by Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University has identified that publicly available cell-phone applications from application markets are releasing consumers' private information to online advertisers.
Kno Announces Single Screen Tablet Textbook - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: New frontiers in social networking - 0 views
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""sniffing packets could take on a very new meaning if brain-mobile phone interfaces become widely used. Anyone could simply sniff the packets out of the air and potentially reconstruct the 'thoughts' of the user. Spying on a user and detecting something as simple as them thinking yes or no could have profound effects. Thus, securing brain signals over the air is an important challenge.""
Android 2.1 becomes most used version, just in time to be obviated by Froyo -- Engadget - 0 views
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Interesting to see how quickly 2.1 has been adopted.
Android 2.2 Packs 5x Performance Boost, says Report - PCWorld - 0 views
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Interesting performance boost if the numbers are true. Wonder what phones will be able to run it.
Android overtakes Apple in US - 0 views
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According to the NPD Group, Google now enjoys 28 percent of the smartphone market, earning the company the second-place spot behind Research in Motion (36 percent) and pushing Apple to third place (21 percent).
Google Android Phone List & FAQ | Google And Blog - 0 views
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Android Phones Compiled List & FAQ
Android OS Distribution Chart Updated, Inches Slowly In Right Direction - 0 views
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37.2% are on 1.5.
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Arg! Still 37.2% on 1.5.
March 2010 Mobile Metrics Report « AdMob Metrics - 0 views
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1.5 still on 38% of the devices - number independently confirmed by Google's April data
Designing for Social Interaction - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design - 0 views
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Designing for Social Interaction
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Good read on social from Google.
Global Retail Executive Council: Jim Crawford: "Adapting to the Rise of the Mobile Shop... - 0 views
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The presentation explained why mobile retail is important, who the "mobile shopper" is (surprisingly, not just techno geeks!), what exactly we mean by "mobile retail," and how you can leverage mobile in your own retail operations.
Global Retail Executive Council: Augmented Reality in Retail: An Overview - 0 views
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Several technology firms targeting retail segment such as Microsoft, Cisco and Google and leading retailers are already testing ideas with this AR concept. Although none have been successful yet, few of the products / concepts such as high capacity mobile computing (e.g. iPhone & DROID) and Microsoft’s ‘Project Natal’ seem to be promising to take this technology mainstream in the near future.
Retailers Reach Out With Smartphone Apps - WSJ.com - 1 views
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A start-up called Shopkick Inc., for example, has signed up Best Buy Co. and Macy's Inc. as launch partners for a new kind of app for iPhone and Android handsets that detects when shoppers are in or near stores and offers rewards targeted to them. Shopkick exploits the phones' location-sensing abilities—and cameras that customers can use to scan bar codes on items—to offer product information, coupons or other marketing offers when shoppers are in a convenient position to buy.
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WSJ ran an article yesterday on use of smartphones in bricks & mortar retailing. Best Buy specifically mentioned.
10 Mobile Trends Impacting Consumer Engagement - 0 views
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10 Mobile Trends Impacting Consumer Engagement
