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Mini 5 Mobile Browser Means Big Business for Opera Software (Internet Evolution)
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Posted: 11/08/2009
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Norway's Opera Software, the leading maker of mobile browsers, recently released Mini 5, a redesigned, more user-friendly instrument. According to John Strand, chief executive of Danish consultancy Strand Consult, “Opera Mini has been the main driver of growth for Opera.” New features are designed to simplify web surfing: like speed dial, tabs and a password manager. Statistics from StatCounter show that Opera captures 25% of global mobile internet traffic, while Apple (22%) and Nokia (21%) are close behind. Google’s recent entry into the market and Mozilla Foundation’s plans to enter soon promises to widen the playing field. Opera, which markets its browser to cell phone makers and operators, gained 22% for its shares over the first three quarters of 2009. The browser can be downloaded directly by consumers for free.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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HP Closes the BI Gap with Informatica (Intelligent Enterprise)
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Posted: 11/08/2009
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HP recently advanced its partnership with Informatica to round out its business intelligence portfolio by offering a host of new “solution bundles,” including: HP Neoview, HP Master Data Management Services and HP Information Quality Management Services, all with Informatica Data Integration Platform. Informatica upped the ante of its own services portfolio with its recent acquisition of complex event processing (CEP) vendor Agent Logic to isolate events and patterns of events within high-volume, fast-moving data. Shipping, e-commerce, utility and IT are among CEP’s real-time applications, and HP will likely combine the new technology with Informatica's identity resolution capabilities to drive even more e-commerce applications like as real-time rewards, cross-selling and up-selling.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
E-Commerce,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business
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Digital Window Shopping: The Return of the Online Cart Deserter (Marketing Vox)
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Posted: 10/22/2009
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A McAfee study found that online cart deserters may simply suffer from a temporary case of cold feet. Digital Window Shopping: The Long Journey to Buy, finds that 65% of online window shoppers simply wait a day or two before committing to a purchase. The study, which examined 163 million online transactions, suggests that these shoppers may just open their wallets a little more slowly than others. "The good news is that those shoppers who you thought were disappearing may not be gone, they may just be delaying," said Research Analyst Shane Keats of McAfee. Sales conversions are 11% higher when accompanied by security cues like Trustmark and a PayPal/comScore study found that 21% of buyers will abandon a site completely without security verification, further suggesting that abandonment and security issues go hand-in-hand.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products
Topic:
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Consumer
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Motorola SmartPhone Targets Social Network Crowd (Internet Evolution)
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Posted: 10/22/2009
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Motorola’s new smartphone, the Cliq, targets a young crowd addicted to social networking. The Cliq features a dynamic home screen with a collage of emails, tweets and status updates flashing over the sender’s profile pictures. The moderately priced Cliq, estimated to cost around $100, will be available this fall from T-Mobile. Another more expensive version will be available from Verizon. Both phones use Google’s Android operating system, but Motorola transformed the Cliq’s software to include Motoblur–the wow factor that makes the phone stand out from the crowd of Android phones expected to launch in the 2009 holiday season. Users simply supply their account information and the Internet-based service will combine all the information from a user’s e-mail and social networking accounts into one handy address book.
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Industry:
Telecommunications
Topic:
Creative & Design,
Experience & Interaction,
Technology Implementation
Region:
North America
Audience:
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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Getting Social with Adobe Flash Platform Services (InformationWeek)
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Posted: 10/22/2009
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Adobe partnered with Gigya, a social media management platform, to launch Flash Platform Services, to add more sociability and measurability to developers creating Flash applications. The service’s three core principles: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social, aim to take Flash viral and social in the online distribution of Flash applications over platforms like Web, desktops and mobile devices. Available later this year, users will be able to “Flash” forward with the service that enables them to share, collaborate and facilitate real-time application distribution, tracking, and monetization to get one solid application that can ultimately deploy over 70 social networks and services. 98% of PCs with Internet connections are equipped with Adobe's Flash software, but applications are not always installed.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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