By Staff reports May 22, 2013 Please click here to sign up for Mobile Commerce Daily for free Mobile POS deployments appear to be slowing: report With 33 percent of retailers having no plans to adopt mobile point-of-sale systems soon, the results of an IHL Group report suggest that plans to deploy smartphones and tablets [...]
By Lauren Johnson May 22, 2013 Mondelēz International and Nabisco’s Oreo, Trident and Ritz are betting big on augmented reality this summer as part of Nabisco’s sponsorship of the musical group One Directions 2013 North American tour. The consumer-packaged-goods brandsare rolling out an augmented reality application called 1D VIP for iPhone and Android devices to [...]
By Rimma Kats May 22, 2013 Dunkin Donuts has launched a Vine contest that challenges fans to show how its iced coffee puts a spring in their step. Consumers can participate in the Dunkin Donuts Running on #IceDDby submitting a Vine video with the hashtag #iceDD. As part of the contest, Dunkin Donuts is giving [...]
By Lauren Johnson May 22, 2013 Yahoo is positioning its new Flickr Android application and Web site to more closely resemble the design principles that made Instagram a hit. However, Flickr has also been updated with significantly more storage, which could give it an edge in the free mobile photo app space. With mobile growing [...]
By Chantal Tode May 22, 2013 With Google not introducing any hardware at its annual conference last week, this raises the question of what role hardware can or should play for the company going forward. The annual conference is geared toward software developers, and Google has previously taken the opportunity to unveil new devices such [...]