by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 14, 2016 | augmented reality, featured, Marketing, mobile
The best part of waking up is having a coffee buddy to share the first cup of the day with. We are not far from being able to have a customized buddy right on your coffee cup. The technology and likely the information about you needed to personalize your new buddy is...
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 | 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...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Jul 11, 2012 | Geolocation, LBS Location Based Service
As an Android user, I have looked longingly at the Apple commercials featuring Siri. With big puppy-dog eyes, I have been waiting for the day I could speak to my phone and it would respond. Nice to meet you, Robin. This past weekend, the eternal optimist in me tried...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Mar 15, 2012 | Analytics, gamification, Geolocation, LBS Location Based Service, mcommerce, Social Media, SxSW
Roald Dahl would have loved the South by Southwest conference and festival, or simply SxSW. Borrowing from poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Dahl wrote that “We are the music makes, and we are the dreamers of dreams”. At “South-by” as the cool...
