by Wayne Kurtzman | Mar 24, 2015 | augmented reality, Content, economy, featured, Geolocation, Marketing, mcommerce, mobile, SxSW, wearables
This post originally appeared on The Pitney Bowes Corporate Blog. The South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive conference in Austin, Texas is where the creative techs from virtually every industry come to share and learn what they are doing, and what will become...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Apr 26, 2014 | Analytics, eCommerce, featured, Geolocation, Innovation, LBS Location Based Service, Marketing, mcommerce, Social Media
There has been a lot of speculation of the future of Google+ as Vic Gundotra, the head of the social network leaves Big G. Even before Google Wave,I believed Google+ was on a seven-year adoption plan. Start with college students needing an integrated mobile app to...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Mar 18, 2014 | Geolocation, Social Media, SxSW
One of the great parts about SXSW are the great conversations, like this one with Brian Solis in the PayPal Social Media Lounge. Connected consumers pose challenges and opportunities to businesses. Most of the business expertise we have individually hasn’t...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Oct 29, 2013 | eCommerce, featured, Geolocation, LBS Location Based Service, Marketing, mcommerce
Pac-Man munched power pellets in the same way Americans now munch mobile data bandwidth. A new study from Frost & Sullivan says the average mobile user is now up to 2GB data usage a month. That’s roughly 75 mobile web pages per day or roughly 1.5 hours of...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Jun 20, 2013 | augmented reality, Content, eCommerce, education, featured, gamification, Geolocation, LBS Location Based Service, Marketing, mcommerce, mobile
Two months after SXSW, there are several technologies that I am excited about – and interested to see how behaviors will change to adopt them (or not). Of real interest is how the world will deal with the financial implications of these game-changers. Any one of...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Dec 29, 2012 | gamification, Geolocation, LBS Location Based Service, Marketing, mobile, Review, Social Media
“Watch out! Accident ahead!” I just turned on Waze, the crowd-sourcing / navigation traffic app and I instantly found out what cause of a backup on a local road. Not a bad way to revisit the app that I first reviewed just over two years ago. The app has...
