Tag: mobile
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INFILTRATE. SURVEY. PERCEIVE by Reyes Makes Games – This is fun, kind of pranky game to play in a house with others.
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Walmart used AI to crunch 850M product data points and improve CX – “The primary in-store improvement is that associates’ can use in-store technology like mobile tools to quickly locate inventory and get items on shelves or to waiting customers — a significant upgrade from the ‘treasure hunt’ of finding items in years past”
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Gsma | Mobile Industry Eyes Five Billion ‘Dormant’ Phones Sitting In Desk Drawers For Reuse Or Recycling – 5 billion phones sitting in desk drawers.
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🗂 Link: CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group
Mobile banking is another key area of innovation, including NatWest’s personal finance app Mimo, which uses open banking application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence and data analytics to create a social feed that helps customers manage their money. Mimo is being beta tested with 5,500 customers. NatWest aims to extend the roll-out later this year.…
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Link: Insurers go all-out on mobile, but what comes next is elusive
“74% of Canadians begin their insurance research journey online, with 25% of those using a smartphone only. Further 61% of this segment will immediately abandon a broker’s website if not considered mobile-friendly, and a full 50% of Canadian consumers believe that if a company does not have a mobile website it does not care about…
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Link: Kroger is taking a direct shot at Amazon and Walmart and making checkout lanes obsolete – Business Insider
“In 2018, [Kroger] is rolling out a new service to 400 stores that will enable shoppers to scan and pay for their items without checkout lanes, registers, or cashiers.” Link to original
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Can’t get enough of that computer in your pocket
Nomophobia (/’noʊ-moʊ-‘foʊ-biː-ə/; noh-moh-pho-bee-ah): Fear of being without one’s mobile phone. No-mobile-phobia, or nomophobia, is probably one of the great universals of the day. This newly minted word describes a real problem internationally, as we all grow ever more attached to the tiny devices that dominate our lives. The word appeared on both British and American…
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Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone
Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four years developing “just walk out” technology, which detects when items are picked up or returned to shelves and “keeps track of them in a virtual cart,” Amazon said. There’s no checkout line — just leave the store…
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Link: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption
Also: Source: Why 2016 Will Be The Year Of Mass Wearables Adoption
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Link: 16 mobile theses
“That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash and market position of the legacy monopolies to help it build new businesses.” Source: 16 mobile theses
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Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
“At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future around cloud and mobile: Java, Node.js/JavaScript and Swift,” Phil Buckellew, vice president of enterprise mob Source: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
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Link: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones
Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to tie more success (revenue) to that greatness. n=”1,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India.” Source: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones
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The mobile web sucks
“Just looking at the stats for The Verge, our mobile traffic is up 70 percent from last year, while desktop traffic is up only 11 percent.” The mobile web sucks
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Lessons from Inbox Zero
Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean from my mobile devices, but they are sometimes only sufficient for triage. Lessons from Inbox Zero
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From a computer on every desktop to computers on everything, everywhere
These are the most important three chunks from Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s new CEO) memo: Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation. … Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world. … I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence…
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@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
"More than 50 percent of Walmart customers have smartphones, and mobile is driving more than 40 percent of Walmart.com seasonal traffic." —@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
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Why it’s so different now
Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Insane. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 2013 = $25 billion…
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Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
As IBM now cleverly says Mobile isn’t a Device, Its Data… We’re heading into a beautiful, bright, future where Data is Eating The World and solving tough problems… —Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
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