Mobile News & Articles

In keeping with the February theme of marketing automation, our mobile app of the week is Panvista, a platform that helps businesses create mobile apps.

Even if there is still no official release date, every day it seems we learn more surrounding the SharePoint 2013 release. The latest -- a recent blog from one of the people working on it that provides brief glimpse into some of the mobile features.

Valentine's Day comes but once a year, but our love of all things social, mobile, local is something we talk about every day. There is no better day to show our love for those that make it all possible. This Valentine's Day we salute you!

Even with more mobile phone choices than ever, according to a recent Gartner report, sales dropped slightly worldwide in 2012, but Samsung remained the top overall seller of feature phones and smartphones combined.

Nokia has been trounced in smartphone sales in recent years, but its continued success with feature phones and now budget smartphones around the world could see the next-generation of upgraders leaning toward the Finnish firm over Apple, Samsung and others. 

Someday, CAPTCHA security tests -- designed to make sure you’re not a bot -- will seem as unnecessary as a middle-aged man being carded at a bar. But, since bio-factor recognition is not yet commonplace, Confident Technologies has released what it calls the first enterprise-level CAPTCHA for mobile devices.

SharePoint social business partner NewsGator, updated its Social Sites platform to include compatibility with the soon to be released SharePoint 2013.

As a precursor to its upcoming conferences in the US and Australia on actionable analytics, Gartner has just published a new research report that identifies three trends that will push users towards analytics adoption in the medium term.

A one-stop shop for small Web sites, Go Daddy has the tools for site building, management and domain registration, in addition to hosting services. Now, the company is expanding its mobile toolset with the acquisition of M.dot, which offers an iOS app for creating mobile websites.

Long have there been rumors of a deal between Apple and Google to keep Google as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to Scott Devitt in a recent investor report, One Morgan Stanley analyst has pegged that deal as one based on a per device sold basis, and it could be worth US$ 1 billion this year alone.

Big data is often the culmination of many different sources of information. Online, offline, mobile, social and local, among others. Connecting to it all can be challenging, not to mention analyzing it. Thanks to a new tool from Apigee, organizations can connect and analyze potentially massive amounts of external data from APIs, apps, social, and mobile ecosystems, together with other data sources for context.
 

If customer experience management exists as a framework for how an organization brings together its resources to optimize its digital presence for its customers, marketing automation seems like a perfect fit. 

The time has come -- Actiance is going mobile. The company announced this week its Socialite Engage mobile app for iPhone, providing on-the-go access to its social media management platform. 

Who doesn’t love a coupon? Why, there are even shows about people who love coupons so much they buy things they don’t even need, just for the thrill of the discount. However, for the rest of us who enjoy receiving coupons from the retailers and brands we follow, there’s a problem: coupons have gone mobile. And while they are often easy to access, they’re not always easy to redeem.

Tuesday, CoreMedia launches the latest version of its Web Experience Management platform, bringing its customers a complete social, mobile and cloud based web content management system.