Tag Archives: smartphone

Bring the noise! Bluebrain’s new album/iPhone app

 Location-aware album creates unique listening experience from Springwise Innovations in the music industry continue to come thick and fast. No sooner had we finished our article on DATAROCK’s new USB single, held inside a diamond shaped toy figurine, than we heard about US-based Bluebrain’s latest endeavor. The Washington duo’s new album — The National Mall — will take the form of a location aware app for the iPhone.

GiftRocket Makes a Gift Card Accepted Anywhere

Why are the people who say gift cards are impersonal always the ones who buy you the worst presents? For the record, I love gift cards, and I love the looks of this app.

From Mashable:

Why are the people who say gift cards are impersonal always the ones who buy you the worst presents? For the record, I love gift cards, and I love the looks of this app. From Mashable: Is the gift card, a surprisingly desirable commodity for gift recipients, in need of a version 2.0? The decades old [...]

Why you need to cater for your Android users in 2012

Compare the US mobile web traffic figures with Australia and you’ll see a disconnect between what you’re hearing about on Australian Android growth and the actual figures. Typical stories go like this “Australian page views on Android grow 672% in four months…” (Digitalmedia.net) The enormous percentage gives away the back story – it started with [...]

Peel iPhone app tells you what to watch

The eternal problem of 100s of channels and nothing to watch may have just been solved by an iPhone app. Tell Peel what you like and where you are and it will suggest which shows you should tune into. Even better, it comes with a remote which connects to your TV, audio and DVR! Peel [...]

Facebook leaps into future as smartphones prepare to get smarter

 Good article on how technology firms are on the brink of innovations that will transform our personal and professional lives. As technology redefines and remaps our world virtually, the consumer firms driving its development are the new mapmakers. Companies like Facebook are feverishly searching the potential of interaction on the web. So far, that has [...]

The future of mobile shopping

 According to a ForeSee study of 10,000 consumers 11 per cent of shoppers made a purchase on their mobile during the holiday season, up from 2 per cent at the same time last year. And mobile is playing an even bigger role in researching purchasing decisions, with 30 per cent of those surveyed saying they used their phone to compare items, find a store location or check a price.