Everything is getting smarter—phones, trashcans, scales that tweet (so cruel). There are even implanted digital do-dads, like pacemakers, helping to improve life for those with particular medical needs. So it seems inevitable that clothing would not be immune. Digital novelty wear, such as kids shoes that light up with each step, or shirts that light […]
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IBM ConnectED 2015: Content Management for Mobile
Barry Pellas from PointSource spoke about several options for delivering content to mobile devices. Imagine you want to display a coupon to a user has they navigate your mobile app. But you also want to deliver that same coupon to someone browsing on a desktop browser. You don’t want to create two different coupons and […]
IBM ConnectED 2015: Optimizing Mobile Applications
Tyler Tribe, IBM’s Product/Offering Manager, IBM Digital Experience Software, presented a great session at ConnectED 2015 titled “Optimizing Mobile Applications with IBM Digital Experience, IBM MobileFirst, and IBM ExperienceOne.” The session focused on keys to delivering successful mobile experiences. Some of the key points and messages from the session were: Mobile Statistics People check their phones […]
IBM ConnectED 2015: IBM’s Mobile Strategy and Social Way to Work
Dan Swango, Director, IBM Collaboration Solutions, and Baan Slavens, Sr Product Manager, IBM Connections presented a session at IBM ConnectED 2015 on IBM’s Mobile Strategy in the collaboration space, which includes IBM Verse, Connections, Sametime and Traveler applications. Baan presented some market statistics: “The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.” “25% […]
CSS Pixel Ratio (or “How Big is My Phone?”)
When designing and developing a website for mobile devices, there are many things one needs to consider. Are you using a responsive or adaptive approach? What devices / browsers should be supported? What are the major breakpoints? When trying to answer these questions, we as designers and developers tend to focus on mobile device resolutions […]
Azure Mobile Services – Offline Sync Now Available
Before I get into the details of the announcement on Offline Sync, let me take a moment for a quick introduction to Azure Mobile Services, as I don’t believe we have blogged on Mobile Services yet. With Azure Mobile Services, it’s easy to rapidly build engaging cross-platform and native apps for iOS, Android, Windows or Mac, […]
Mobile – top channel for holiday shopping season
The shift in retail strategies has allowed for consumers to change up their shopping behaviors combining an in-store and online shopping experience. With the first rush of the holiday shopping season done, retailers are offering their most aggressive promotions and deals of the year. And this holiday season is shorter than average with only 28 […]
Cracking the Connected Consumer Code – Ensuring the Right Experience for the Right Channel
In today’s increasingly digital, mobile and social purchasing landscape, shoppers have a greater say in when, where and how those needs are met. To break through the disruption and provide quality experiences for these connected consumers at all stages of the purchasing cycle, businesses must examine the ways they engage their target clients through established […]
How retailers can use Apple Pay to drive business
Well the day has come and gone and Apple Pay is here! Retailers have been preparing to accept this new payment system and have equipped themselves with the necessary POS terminals to do so. Although the system may be a little shaky out of the gate, like anything else, it will certainly start a new […]
Dreamforce: Salesforce1 Mobile Keynote
Salesforce shared their roadmap for the Salesforce1 Mobile platform. Here are the themes for upcoming releases, especially for Winter 2014. For Users: Find and update customer data finder – new customer lists, self-curated lists, more information on the list itself so you don’t have to go to the details view as often. All of the […]