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Top News: iPad 3 | iWallet patent | Eye-controlled games

iPad 3: Apple's New iPad: 6 key features. Apple upgrades iPad with modest changes. New iPad's lack of a new name leaves Apple enthu  [...]

Top News: iPad3 | Mandatory Facebook access | Google Plus image problem

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QR Codes May Be Better Match for B2B

B2B marketers have learned that while social and mobile media marketing techniques can pay off for them, they still must be adapted for their business constituency. So it goes with QR codes as well. In this case, however, adoption could be greater in the B2B environment. A   [...]

Responsive Design Gains Traction with Mobile Developers

A few weeks ago, WordPress released 3.3, named "Sonny" in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. Its third major iteration, WordPress touts many new attributes to the upgrade: for the user there is a new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. For developers, there is the new editor API, new jQuery version, better ways to h  [...]

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Microsoft Folds on QR Code Tech

One reason why QR codes may not have caught on with the public--at least to the degree that marketers would like--is the varying providers and systems.  One vendor, Microsoft, has surrendered by opening its proprietary Microsoft Tag so it can read and generate QR bar codes. Likely the reason is that Microsoft has recognized that Tag will not be able to gain critical mass at this point, Dan Shust, director of emerging media at interactive marketing firm Resource Interactive,   [...]

New York's Commuters Can Shop Toys R Us Via QR Code

New York commuters that wish to buy select toys from retailer Toys R Us this holiday season can try out the company's QR code-enabled virtual store, which is debuting on billboards located at the city's airports and 40 New Jersey transit stations. Commuters scan the QR code displayed next to the featured product, which takes them to a m-commerce enabled web portal, Mobile Commerce Daily   [...]

Even Vending Machines Intrigued by Google Wallet, But Other Contenders Still Circle

Coca-Cola is piloting a program entailing 200 vending machines with Google Wallet in which consumers use their mobile device to buy a drink, Wendy Clark, senior vice president of integrated marketing communications and capabilities at the company, told the audience at ad:tech. "The combination of mobile commerce and location technology moves our business from the point of sale to the point of thirst,” she said,   [...]

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QR Code-based Advertising May Be Getting Too Complex

QR code-driven branding has reached a new level of complexity with the introduction of Phillips & Co.'s new branding and advertising platform that turns rooftops into billboards via a QR code. As described in Mediapost, the app, Blue Marble, allows brands to place a QR code on the building and then shoot an aerial or satellite image from space. It then becomes accessible in navigation apps such  [...]

Tesco Campaign in UK Uses Newbie AR Provider

British retailer Tesco has launched multi-channel campaign to promote its Big Price Drop initiative, [video] a part of which is being fueled by AR technology. It is a major campaign, Mobile Marketing magazine says, with a major two week TV campaign, high-density Out of Home advertising, a digital campaign, a national print advertising and week-long radio activity. Underpinning the print and DOOH activity is   [...]

New Entrants Join the AR Space

Cadbury has created an augmented reality game. As is usually the case with a mobile augmented reality app, all the user has to do - once the application is installed on the headset - is point the device at a Cadbury product and a 30-second game is launched. (via Gadget). "The player is challenged to tap quacking cartoon ducks as they appear 'out of the bar' on an augmented-overlay on their device's screen," it says. "T  [...]

Top News: Luminate turns pictures interactive | First Mango | Facebook for Business debuts

Ad Technology: Google-backed Luminate turns pictures into interactive money-makers. Mobile Computing: First Windows 'Mango' phone unveiled. Apple's new rules   [...]

Dispatch from the Tablet Wars: Waiting for Amazon

Amazon, according to the latest rumor, is gunning for a low-cost touch screen panel. This means a panel that only supports two-finger multitouch, TechCrunch writes, compared to the 10-finger technology underpinning the iPad and Honeycomb. The report, if it’s true, Tech Crunch says, shows that Amazon is planning to do the smart thing and compete with the iPad on pr  [...]

Voice Search Makes Strides in the U.S. and in Some Surprising Global Markets

Nuance has released a new voice search app called Dragon Go, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, now available on the Apple App Store. Its reach - the app can search some 180 mobile sites - illustrates one facet of the advances this technology is making, for U.S. users. Other examples can be   [...]

Top News: Who owns the social graph? | Motorola Droid 3 debuts | Smartphone privacy | WaPo jobs section gets hacked

Social Media: Analysis: Facebook video calling versus Google+ Hangouts. Who owns your social graph — you or Facebook? Over 500,000 businesses are   [...]

Top News: Google buys Admeld for $400M | Android rival to iMessage ? | Display to increase engagement | Apple v Lodsys

Online Ad Market: Google buys Admeld for $400M. Google expects display engagement to increase by 50%. SMS: Carriers   [...]

Near Field Communications Association Gets Very Popular

The NFC Forum, a non-profit association that advances the use of Near Field Communication technology has become very popular lately with the inclusion of a marquee member - Google. The group also welcomed 31 new associate members and reported that CSR and Intel have raised their membership status to the Principal level, from Associate. Near-field communication has been in the s  [...]

Foursquare and Groupon Vie for the Fickle Lunchtime Crowd

Foursquare and Groupon are both vying for a subset of consumers in the daily deal market, which BIA/Kelsey recently sized as reaching $3.9 billion by 2015: a worker on his or her lunch hour on the prowl for something or someplace new to try. Groupon is targeting this person with a soon-to-debut offering called Groupon Now, a service that offers coupons good only during certain hours for nearby consumers. Foursquare, for its part,   [...]

Top News: Nielsen sues comScore | Google, Yahoo, offer self-regulation plans | Google revamps DoubleClick search | SocialVibe lands $20M after social game ad success

Legal/Regulatory: Nielsen sues comScore. Google, Yahoo and TRUSTe advance self-reg plans. Judge rejects Google’s deal to digitize  [...]

Will Apple Have NFC or Not?

For a while it seemed as though Apple was ready to usher in another era in mobile computing: near-field communications, a technology expected to greatly accelerate wireless payments and offer new online marketing opportunities to brands along the way. But no. In a report earlier this week, the British paper, The Independent,   [...]