No one likes to wait in line, and we’ve already seen several services emerge to help people avoid it. But whereas InQuickER, Queue Watch and TechnowaiT all focus on medical settings, Qminder offers a smartphone app that lets consumers wait in line remotely for just about any kind of service. via: App lets consumers wait in line remotely | Springwise. Related articles Springwise: [...]
To cover all bases, it is important to recognise that consumers are not using these channels in a mutually exclusive manner. They are using both native applications and browser-based apps, so the best strategy is to develop both types. The decision to invest in an app or in a mobile website depends on the company’s [...]
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You’ll recall that Project Spartan is the HTML5-driven mobile application platform that Facebook has been quietly building for months with the help of a group of third-party app developers. While some of those very developers believe Facebook’s intentions here is to break up the control Apple (and Google) have over the mobile app space, Facebook [...]
97% of Android Downloads were Free Paid Downloads on iOS Increased 3.8% During this past month, 97% of all Android downloads throughout its search properties were free apps, and that number has increased by 2% over March, the company says. Read more at www.readwriteweb.com Related articles iOS Users Downloading 5 Million Games a Day, Reports [...]
With the rise of social and information networks like Twitter and Facebook, we now have access to our own crowdsourced news wires. Add to that an army of applications reinterpreting the magazine and newspaper for mobile and tablet forms, and what we have is a news media renaissance that puts the reader’s interests above all [...]
Discover Mobile 2.0 (iTunes App Store) The only information needed to transfer funds is the payee’s email address or mobile phone number. The person receiving the payment needs a valide PayPal account. The person sending money is not charged a fee. An individual receiving the money are not charged a fee either. However, business who [...]
Looking to the Future As much as native and Web are pitted against one another in this debate, the likely outcome is a hybrid solution. Perhaps we’ll see computing as inherently networked and (this is my sincere hope) free for anyone to access. We already see signs of a native Web: WebGL recently proved that [...]