Don't sell your Android device.
Seriously, don't. Getting a new one? That's fine. Tuck your old one in your closet. Better yet, drill a hole through its hardrive or take a sledgehammer to the thing.
Just. Don't. Sell. It.
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Symantec today announced the findings of its 2012 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey, which reveals that disaster preparedness is closely connected with small and medium sized businesses’ (SMBs) adoption of technologies like virtualization, cloud computing, and mobility. The survey also revealed how willing SMBs are in adopting these technologies, often with improved disaster preparedness as a goal, and how the move is paying off for them.
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The taxi industry hasn't changed much over time. But with a sudden rush of competition from the likes of Uber and Canada's own Winston, their hand has been forced: innovate or perish.
Starting today, Torontonians looking for a lift can order a traditional taxi with two taps on their smartphone. Beck Taxi is claiming to be Toronto’s first Taxi company to introduce a mobile taxi app.
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Thanks to a brand-new set of forward-thinking guidelines revealed today, Canadian banks will soon enable consumers to pay for goods with a tap of their smartphones. As Reuters points out, thousands of Canadian retailers already have the necessary equipment for mobile payments in place - it was only a matter of the Canadian Bankers Association setting open standards for secure transactions over smartphones to ignite the banks.
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Bell Mobility and its parent company, BCE, were served this morning with a $100 million lawsuit. The massive suit alleges that the expiry dates on Bell's pre-paid wireless services are illegal.
read moreToronto-born Uberflip, a cloud-based PDF enhancement tool with embeddable social widgets like YouTube videos, finished 4th at the Road to Banff Canada 3.0 competition. It has since held a high ranking in recent weeks in the Google Chrome Store’s Marketing & Analytics section.
Yesterday, Facebook launched the App Center. Facebook’s App Center will allow all platforms to be listed whether they be iOS, Android, Blackberry, Mango, or Web. Uberflip’s COO Randy Frisch says they are working on that now. As mobile app stores have been incredibly popular, we're now beginning to see web stores beyond e-commerce.
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What does the user experience mean in the mobile commerce space?
Forrester Research and Plastic Mobile agree that it’s basically the cornerstone of any successful mobile initiative.
They showcase this theory in the Case Study on Mobile UI/UX Design titled “Pizza Pizza Cooks Up a Successful Mobile App.”
Toronto-based startup Plastic Mobile says that t has been practicing a “user is paramount” theory since inception at the dawn of the mobile revolution.
read moreNearly half of technology executives are allowing employees to access the company network using their personal smartphones and other technology tools, a concept known as Bring Your Own Device, according to a new Robert Half Technology survey shows.
When CIOs were asked, "Do you allow employees access to your corporate networks via personal laptops, smartphones or tablets?" 49% said yes.
read moreAre you willing to fully commit to the mobile web experience? There are six segments identified by TNS in its Digital Life study, and each one has a different level of commitment.
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Interactive marketing is defined as a combination of display advertising, search advertising, mobile marketing, social media marketing, and email marketing. A Forrester Research report suggests that these mediums combined could represent $77 billion by 2016. That’s expected to be 35% of all advertising spend.
Techvibes recently reported that traditional television still leads all advertising spend at $70 billion in the United States. Still, you should see how cool interactive marketing is getting. Exclusively at Community 54 in Toronto, a lyric video is triggered by the image of Toronto-based singer-songwriter Colin Munroe as seen to your right. You can view the video in which his single “Invincible” comes to life.
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