mobile
Want to build a mobile website? The good news is that you already have one.
Here’s a factoid to wow your brains: in 2010, 36% of all smartphone users browsed the internet on their mobile. Note: this stat is over 12 months old. Recent figures suggest the mobile browsing is now as high as 70%. According to Gartner research, by 2013 more people will use mobile phones than PCs to get online.
SME business trends to watch out for in the New Year
The new calendar year is looming large. So, Dr Caroline Hong, Chief Executive Officer of the SME Association of Australia, decided it was high time to share her thinkings on upcoming trends for small to medium enterprises.
Meet KISS Mobile, Anthill 2011 Cool Company Award Finalist [Micro Business Category]
We suspect the first word in this small telecommunications company’s name has nothing to do with liplocks and everything to do with “keep it simple, stupid.” Founded in Melbourne, Kiss Mobile offers a pay-as-you-go alternative to the contractual phone plans from the big telcos.
Google’s $12.5bn Motorola bid has mobile industry in a tizz
Google’s recent announcement that it had snapped up Motorola Mobility for a cool $12.5bn cash has techie types all a-quiver. Top smartphone and tablet manufacturers that use Google’s Android operating system to power their devices have put on their game faces following the announcement. However, many pundits have speculated that they’re collectively bricking it (our words, not theirs).
What are QR Codes?
The popularity of QR Codes is on the rise, but still a lot of people don’t quite understand what they are.
Bluetooth for your PC [not just for shouty, look-at-me types with ear pieces]
Poor old Bluetooth. For a while now it’s been misappropriated by loud, shouty types stomping up the high street fog-horning ‘Buy! Buy! SELL!’ into their ear pieces. We here at Anthill — with a liberal dollop of help from the delightful folk at Intel — would like to reclaim Bluetooth as much more than just a conduit for idiots.
Q&A with Kei Shimada, Founder of Infinita (Tokyo)
Kei is the Founder and CEO of Infinita Inc, a multinational mobile research, consulting and development firm located in the heart of Tokyo. His company is one of the very few companies in Japan that covers the three business areas all under one roof, consists of a multinational team and possesses in-depth working knowledge of the world’s most advanced mobile market. Their goal is to help clients across the globe create world-class services on connected devices.
Australian mobile app to replace four billion pieces of pulped wood (also known as ‘catalogues’)
Appalogues (see what they did there?), created by Brisbane company Min-i-Mags, is a smartphone application that combines old-school catalogues with new mobile technology to create a product it hopes will replace shopping catalogues — Australia’s third largest consumer-directed advertising medium (after newspapers and TV).
This is how mobile will change the future of retail, in 3 min, 4 sec [VIDEO]
Top-ranked digital marketing agency, Resource Interactive, predicts mobile devices will rewrite the retail rulebook. And fast. Plus, 68% of B2C companies in North America claiming to have acquired customers via Facebook.
What were the dumbest mobile phone products in 2010? Ovum reveals the ‘winners’ of its annual Wireless Turkey Awards
A service that employs a real person to call you each day to tell you how awesome you are — and charges $45 a month for this ‘feel good’ moment — was the forehead-slapping winner of Ovum’s annual Wireless Turkey Awards.
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