Internet access rates in the Asia-Pacific region vary widely. For example, countries such as China, India and Indonesia are seeing a digital divide between urban populations with high internet access levels and rural areas that lack the infrastructure to support it. Despite these limitations, internet access growth in Asia-Pacific is expected to be 8.2{69ae0a25d93a3bfb4c7a14c6cb5bc2b4db8e6111ae4c35307d8a6dded8443ab9} in…
Deloittes have recently produced a new report called Navigating the Digital Divide which offers some great insights into the gap between consumers’ digital behaviours and expectations and retailers’ ability to deliver the desired experiences. As explored by Deloittes, the common focus for previous studies on digital in the retail marketplace focus on the 6.5{69ae0a25d93a3bfb4c7a14c6cb5bc2b4db8e6111ae4c35307d8a6dded8443ab9} of…
All seeing, all pervading, ever-present, the ideal retail omni-channel experience. It’s interesting to see the term ‘digital’ used so freely, yet ask many retailers for their definition of digital and you see many varied responses. Is digital this ethereal catchall, or is it in fact any communication through a virtual medium? If you agree with…
It’s gotten much more common today to find businesses that offer complimentary WiFi for their patrons, especially in cities. Still, there are many places outside of Big-City-America where free WiFi is the exception and not the rule. (Trust me, living and working in semi-rural Ohio, I know!) If you are on the fence about whether…
New mobile internet trends have caught my attention this week. Today, we look at their impact on the news business. In developing countries, mobile growth keeps accelerating. In Nigeria (pop: 173 million, median age: 18), based on page views count, 76{69ae0a25d93a3bfb4c7a14c6cb5bc2b4db8e6111ae4c35307d8a6dded8443ab9} of internet traffic now comes from mobile. In India (pop: 1.25 billion), the rate…
GOOGLE SHOWED OFF any number of potentially revolutionary technologies at its I/O developer conference keynote Thursday. There was Jump, a platform for generating 3D virtual reality content, and Brillo, Google’s latest entrant into the smart-home horse race. But the company’s most important announcement was the evolution of a technology that’s nearly three years old. It…
Hotel WiFi Test has released a new report that ranks hotel chains by Wi-Fi quality. Two characteristics of hotel Wi-Fi are considered: the quality of the WiFi and whether in-room Wi-Fi is free. The report contains a global ranking and separate rankings for the United States, Europe and Asia. The chain to which a hotel…
Although the impact of digital transformation is not new, the retail industry is entering a new age that presents unprecedented challenges for all CEOs. Digitisation is an essential part of today’s business world. Though the importance of online presence, business popularity and visibility was small earlier, it’s a fact that today, the importance of online…
The ascendance of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data is having a profound impact on the lives of workers. Yet many of the business applications that run on their smartphones and tablets still fail miserably to take full advantage of this revolutionary shift. Even services that tout themselves as “mobile first” often fall short…