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Maximize your Web Site’s Mobilization with CSS (Practical eCommerce)
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Posted: 09/11/2009
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With mobile internet use and mobile-friendly browsing on the rise, expert Armando Roggio is
encouraging businesses to consider his “Web Design Tips” before redesigning their e-commerce sites to address their mobilization. Simple techniques such as adding a second style sheet or slightly revising a page’s HTML can enhance mobile shopping experiences
without wasting time to register new mobile domains or create mobile-specific styles. The best
solution? According to Roggio, it’s more efficient to redesign your current site to render well
across multiple platforms including mobile, desktop, RSS, and more, using CSS. To illustrate his advice, Roggio creates a home page for an e-commerce comic book store with an instructional video demonstrating how to create mobile-friendly background images.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products,
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Creative & Design,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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Cashing in on Email Buzzwords (Marketing Vox)
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Posted: 08/15/2009
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New research from MailerMailer's ninth bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report, demonstrates that marketers who leverage the ten top email buzzwords like "news," "party" and "free” experience higher open rates. Mapping industry trends, the report shows that religious and spiritually-themed emails are opened most frequently while telecommunications, transportation, travel, banking and finance open rates also top the charts. The report reveals that email deliverability is on the rise with more emails reaching recipients' inboxes and emails sent at the beginning of the week, Monday in particular, experience the highest open rates. With more users tending to view emails from their hand-held devices, the report also provides tips to design mobile-friendly emails so you can cash in on these new trends.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business
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Growing the List: Hot New Tactics for 2009 (Marketing Vox)
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Posted: 07/31/2009
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Research conducted by ExactTarget, Ball State University, and the Email Marketers Club, provides an insider’s view into successful list growth. Best practices include on-site registration and capturing information through inbound call centers. Collecting customers’ email addresses during times of active participation-at point of sale, during online shopping and in store via text messaging- is an actionable strategy with a 60% higher success rate than offline activities like list rental and display advertising. The fastest-growing tactics for 2009 include email subscriptions via text messaging and enabling consumers to share email content with their social networks, with growth projected at 500% and 348%, respectively. The study also reports that B2B marketers entice more new subscribers with ‘incentivized’ registrations while ‘non-incentivized’ subscriptions are more effective for B2C marketers.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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Bridging the Gap: JavaFX for Mobile Devices (Info World)
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Posted: 07/18/2009
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With more than 2.6 billion mobile phones deployed with Java worldwide, Sun Microsystems is heralding the JavaFX extension as a bridge from desktop to mobile device to television. "JavaFX Mobile delivers rich, expressive user experiences and we know that this is what our customers require these days," Sun’s vice president of marketing Eric Klein said recently at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Improvements to the new 1.2 release of JavaFX Mobile include optimized performance, a user interface library, and localization. Future plans include building the JavaFX technology into “smartbook” devices that boast Internet access and GPS capabilities on small, hand-held devices.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Creative & Design,
Experience & Interaction,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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Chinese Company Premier’s World’s First Phone to Run Windows XP (Info World)
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Posted: 07/18/2009
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Chinese company In Technology recently unveiled the first-ever mobile device capable of running Windows XP. A cool hybrid of mobile phone and pint-sized computer, the device can wake Windows from standby mode to receive calls and text messages and support Wi-Fi, optional WiMax, GPS and next-generation mobile. Other key features include a customized chip from Advanced Micro Devices, pull-out Qwerty board, 120GB hard disk, and a 4.8 inch LCD touchscreen. Battery life averages seven hours while larger batteries can power the device for up to 12 hours. Product release within the Chinese market is scheduled for mid-September with international release slated a bit further down the road.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global,
Asia Pacific
Audience:
Business to Consumer
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