Tag Archives: Mobile

Connecting with a Mobile Food Shopper

By Jason Stemm  @NYCubsFan
Since the days of open air markets and general stores, the food shopping experience has been in person. Trips to the grocery store have started with a list and ended with a cart full of groceries filled with planned and impulse buys. Retailers have relied on these incremental purchases to improve margins [...]

Three New Facebook Developments to Keep in Mind

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
Three New Facebook Developments to Keep in Mind
I will emphasize for the 100th time again that 2011 is the year when Facebook starts exploding further as the #1 social network with an increasing number of brands trying to sell off of Facebook. Visualize a sales cycle where you log-in to Facebook, post [...]

With QR Codes, Hospitals Are Finding It’s Hip to Be Square

By Jenn Riggle
While hospitals haven’t embraced location-based services like Foursquare or Facebook Places, they’re moving forward with their mobile strategies by using QR codes and creating mobile websites.
QR or “Quick Response” codes have been around for a while, but they’ve only recently gained mainstream acceptance and seem to be popping up everywhere – on store [...]

Going Dark on Social Media

By Mike Mulvihill
It became really evident this Thanksgiving – my incessant, addictive need to try to keep up with friends and loved ones on Facebook and Twitter. My aging and computer-phobic mother was upset about the preoccupation and predilection my teenage children and I had with our smart phones.  She had a point. (Christmas should [...]

Five Reasons You Should Give Everyone An iPad!

by Mike Mulvihill

My favorite Christmas poem is the classic ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. Well, this year Santa came down the chimney with care early at my company (CRT/tanaka) in the form of iPads for all.
While this is a holiday present to all 70+ client-facing staffers, it was important that we announced [...]

iPad Marketing: Is it about Perception or Real Value? How Doctors, Automakers, Restaurants Use iPads?

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)

It sounds very cheesy when I say, “I take my iPad to bed every night,” but if you are really listening, you get the bigger picture. Yes, the iPad is slowly replacing the books and magazines I used to carry around at home, to the airport or to the doctor’s appointment. Unlike [...]

Five Social Refreshers from BlogWorld: Largest Social Media Conference

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)

Last week I had the privilege of being around 4,500 social media enthusiasts who gathered in Las Vegas at BlogWorld to listen to over 350 speakers talk about what works and doesn’t work in social media. I was so proud to be representing CRT/tanaka and Network Solutions at one of the largest [...]

Are You Spending First on Mobile Websites Vs. Mobile Apps in 2011?

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
Ever since I got my iPhone4 this July, I find myself reaching out to the phone to search for information versus the laptop. From maps, movie times, weather info, checking my bank balance, fall shopping to making flight and hotel reservations, I now go on a Safari on the iPhone. The iPhone [...]

Message in a Bottle: How QR Codes are Personalizing the Wine Experience

  
THE BOOZE BIN
By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
To help put myself through pastry school, I taught wine classes and parties at my culinary school. I learned early from my mentor and pal Tish, who runs the fun and highly popular wine events company Wine For All, wine shouldn’t be taken too seriously. A typical comment I’d [...]

IE8 Privacy Limitations Exposed. Really?

 
By Mike Mulvihill

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Microsoft sacrificed online privacy features on IE8 in order to accommodate the needs of advertisers and marketers.  I trust this does not come as shocking news to most of the world.
Essentially, MS decided that IE8 would always have privacy features turned off.  What’s more, even if [...]