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HTML5 On The Rise: No Longer Ahead Of Its Time

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete, a significant milestone in the history of the Internet and web application development. In this past year, HTML5 adoption has gone into overdrive, with more and more companies moving to HTML5 to deliver rich cross-platform web applications. The…

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The Next Frontiers For Social Networking

Back in 2007, after watching Mark Zuckerberg on stage at Facebook Platform announcement, one thing became clear to many; this appearance would one day be remembered as historic as the 1983 Apple Keynote of Young Steve Jobs. Flash forward today, Facebook is a 200 billion dollar behemoth. But the game is still on, and social…

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Asia-Pacific Boasts More Than 1 Billion Smartphone Users

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…

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In-store Wi-Fi keeps customers happy and spending

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…

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The Hundred-Eyed Retail Giant

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…

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Benefits of Offering Free Wifi

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…

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More Facts On Mobile

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…

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Google’s Ingenious Plan to Make Apps Obsolete

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…