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Is Shazam the Future of Mobile Marketing

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Are we about to finally crack the mobile marketing code? The way an Apple iBeacon works is that a store, a retailer, a hotel or resort, has a little device that sends out offers to your smartphone if you have the appropriate app installed. .” Here’s the challenge, and this has always been the challenge for mobile.

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Mini Gift Guide For The Tech Traveller's Business Person In Your Life

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while sitting in airports, hotel lobby's or just over lunch with a friend. A killer little travel device that enables me to leave all of the Apple charger bricks at home for the smartphones and tablets and - at the same time - this also double as a portable charger for your smartphone. With that, I always want a backup. Buyer beware.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #122

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Ibis hotels to have robots paint art while they track your sleep: no, that's not creepy at all - Engadget. "In an interesting example of quantified self and new interfaces, the Ibis hotel is using bed sensors and robot arms to paint pictures of your sleep patterns. Amazon in talks to buy TI mobile chip arm: paper - Reuters.

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On The Road (Warrior) Again

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For over ten years, I've been doing my best to figure out how to be as upwardly mobile as possible. These include a laptop (my weapon of choice is the MacBook Air 13") and smartphone (to keep it all in the family, I'm loyal to my Apple iPhone 5). These are your mobile powerplants. mobile business. bose quiet comfort.

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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

Whether it's at an airport, on a train or in a car, you're mobile and your digital life is mobile too. Just this week, Apple announced that it sold 37 million iPhones and 15.4 And because the hotel where you're staying or the airport may not have many readily available sockets to charge your laptop, phone, tablet, etc.,

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The Future Of Personalized Pricing

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You may recall that back in August, travel site Orbitz discovered that consumers who use a Mac spend nearly thirty percent more per night on hotels, so the online enterprise begun showing Apple users different prices (for more on that: On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels ). mobile commerce. buying habit.

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Don't Take A Technology Sabbatical

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Know my travel plans (airline tickets, car services, hotels and more). In 2001, I worked at a company that specialized in content for mobile devices. Do you know what mobile devices looked like then? There were no apps, there wasn't even the mobile Web browser yet. One day, I will probably get an Apple Watch.