Tag Archives: smartphones

Consumers love mobile shopping

Consumers are increasingly using their mobiles to purchase products as well as research products, read reviews and prices while they are shopping (in real life stores and web stores). 6% of US consumers surveyed by Forrester say they have used a shopping-related smartphone app in the last 3 months and 12% say they intended to [...]

Why you need to cater for your Android users in 2012

Compare the US mobile web traffic figures with Australia and you’ll see a disconnect between what you’re hearing about on Australian Android growth and the actual figures. Typical stories go like this “Australian page views on Android grow 672% in four months…” (Digitalmedia.net) The enormous percentage gives away the back story – it started with [...]

Peel iPhone app tells you what to watch

The eternal problem of 100s of channels and nothing to watch may have just been solved by an iPhone app. Tell Peel what you like and where you are and it will suggest which shows you should tune into. Even better, it comes with a remote which connects to your TV, audio and DVR! Peel [...]

Two screen behaviour boon for TV

Great New York Times article about the rise of social TV, or the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook to engage in real time chat about TV shows as they happen. The article mentions the Grammys and the Oscars and we can see the same phenomenon here during MasterChef and Q&A. Definitely worth [...]