‘Digital Commerce’ Archive

Meet Generation D

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK They’re between 12 and 17 years of age, and they’re digital natives. They multi-task: when watching TV they’ll also be busy updating their Facebook profile and Tweeting. In fact, there are good grounds to call them Generation ADHD! As Sebastien Marteau, vice president of Fox Mobile, Germany, pointed out yesterday, this is [...]

How long can Apple keep its world closed?

BLOGGER: AMNON EKSTEIN So powerful is the Apple brand these days that the whole world sits up and takes notice whenever Steve Jobs does or says pretty much anything. Most announcements usually herald the arrival of their newest seriously cool product (most recently, the iPhone 4 and the iPad), or the launch of yet another [...]

Is it goodbye to the walled garden?

By Matt Anderson The walled garden is collapsing, with consumers increasingly going off-portal to browse and consume from their mobile handsets. That doesn’t sound like great news for service providers who are now finding themselves being squeezed out of a very lucrative value chain.  After all, mobile Internet usage is powering ahead, thanks partly to [...]

The mobile doctor is in

By Kathy Cianciolo We’re all aware that healthcare costs are spiraling out of control. Is relief just a text message or webcam visit away?  The answer is yes: the emergence of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology is propelling the healthcare industry into the digital era, enabling it to not only address escalating costs but provide more effective medical [...]

Is it all about the app?

By Stephen Krajewski Back at Mobile World Congress again after a two-year break, and it was easy to notice a dramatic change in the event’s focus compared to previous years: everything now seemed to be about putting anything you could possibly think of on a mobile device. Serious apps, silly apps, and those apps “you never [...]