I’m off to Norwalk, CT next week. I will be flying into JFK on Sunday evening and making the one hour drive down to the pleasant town of Norwalk to see the US team at Reed Exhibitions. If memory serves there is no wifi in the office and I am likely to want to be [...]
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Often referred to as the ‘biggest brand on the planet’, SMS — or texting — is still the biggest success story in the industry. In this section we cover innovation, best practice and discussion around the next steps for the medium.
The Walking Dead fans: Get US iTunes credit and buy Season 3 now!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the past two seasons of The Walking Dead zombie apocalypse, both via iTunes. I think I bought the first season from iTunes UK and then bought the second one via the US iTunes store. I just couldn’t wait… and actually, I think it might have been slightly cheaper as the exchange [...]
Groupon’s iPad point-of-sale system for restaurants
Now this is an interesting and very smart move for Groupon… Deal-a-day company Groupon hopes to expand the use of Apple’s iPad at restaurants through its new point-of-sale service called Breadcrumb. The new service from Groupon Inc. launched on Wednesday in an effort to court more restaurants as clients, according to Reuters. The service is [...]
Who do I need to sleep with to get NatWest TouchPay?
I just came across this new offering from NatWest: It’s called TouchPay and, well, it does-what-it-says-on-the-tin. The service uses an iCarte case for your iPhone (or, theoretically any phone) to replace a PayWave compatible credit card. The logic being that you carry your phone with you everywhere and it would be a) mega convenient and [...]
Panic Stations at Cupertino: Why Apple’s iOS 6.0 Maps is a multi-billion dollar problem happening right now
So, that’s a long title. But it’s entirely accurate. You will no doubt have noticed a wide array of publications talking about the utter horror that is Apple’s new iOS 6.0 proprietary mapping application. Like me, many of you will have installed the upgrade of iOS 6.0 overnight and you’ll probably have noted the new [...]
Sybase 365′s Olympic SMS traffic stats: Fascinating reading
Sybase 365 is one of those biggies in the industry that you don’t necessarily hear a lot about, generally because they’re usually busy getting on with the job in hand — namely, processing almost 2 billion text messages every single day. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about them so I think there’s [...]
Anton Gething – nToklo is passionate about data existing in online retail
Momchil here with a video of Anton Gething, Co-founder and Product Director of nToklo. nToklo develops a platform that works with online retail and digital media services companies to Help them enhance and leverage their social capital. Here is the video:
Uplinq: Kabir Kasargod of Qualcomm QDevNet.com on Wireless Health and Biometric Sensor Data
Momchil Here with a video of Kabir Kasargod of Qualcomm on generating Biometric Sensor Data. Qualcomm Life is focused on wireless health, the platform 2Net is created to aggregate biometric sensor data and provide it to enterprises. Here is the video:
Uplinq: Dvir Reznik – Bizzabo helps establish eye contact, shake hands and meet face-to-face
Momchil here with a demo of Bizzabo, helping out at conferences to communicate with the right people. Dvir Reznik of Bizzabo demonstrates the system helping you find the right people to talk to at a conference, learn more about them and finally establish face-to-face contact. We believe in eye-contact, handshakes and face-to-face meetings. Here is [...]
Uplinq: Rick Moy of Teamistry on Employee Performance Management
This is Momchil with a Video of Rick Moy, CEO of Teamistry.com Rick Moy discusses mobile technology and employee performance management that enables on-the-spot assessment and evaluation. Enabling managers and employees to engage each other using mobile technology. Here is the video:
App.net is now funded so you’ve got until midnight to get your username…
Last week I wrote about putting up $50 to fund App.net, “the real time social feed without the ads”. Over the weekend, the startup hit the $500,000 funding target — super news! I’m really excited to see what the App.net team can deliver with their service. All the usual restrictions that we’ve come to know [...]
Alan Ranger of Cloudmark saving the virtual world from malicious attacks
This is Momchil with a video covering various mobile spam topics. Alan Ranger, VP Mobile at Cloudmark, discusses mobile spam and presents Cloudmark’s methods to fight it. Cloudmark started with protecting the email world from attacks, then moved to the social networking world, and currently concentrates on mobile network protection from various spam SMS and [...]
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