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Trends on Tuesday: Sleeping & Smelling
During the Going Mobile webinar last week, somebody asked how to help people in their agency understand that mobile is a critical investment. One technique is to arm yourself with facts. That’s why we do Trends on Tuesdays. Today’s Trends focuses on how mobile and technology is changing behaviors and expectations. First, people don’t want [...]
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Food Safety Questions? Ask Karen Anytime, Anywhere
Ask Karen is mobile! Now you can get all of your food safety questions answered on the go. From your web-enabled mobile device, you can browse food safety information, send email and call a toll-free number. If you are using an iPhone, iPad or Android device you can web chat live with a food safety [...]
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Learning Opportunity: Going Mobile
So much to learn about Mobile Gov and so little time? Well, here’s a free webinar sponsored by our good friends at Web Manager University to get you going. WHAT: Going Mobile. Find out more about mobile so you can be ready to serve citizens anytime and anywhere. WHEN: Thursday, May 26, 2011 from 11:00 a.m. [...]
1,461 views | Comments OffMay 25th, 2011 | Filed under Gov NewsTags: apps, best practices, digital divide, events, free, GobiernoUSA, innovation, mobile sites, mobile use, strategy, training, webinar -
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Wallets
Mobile phones are not just for talking. Some peope are looking to use their phones–and near field communication technologies–to make purchases. Read Write Web reports on a survey from Mastercard. 63% of 18 to 34 year-olds are comfortable using their mobile phones to make purchases. Men are more likely than women to adopt mobile payments (51% [...]
1,119 views | Comments OffMay 24th, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Trends -
Are Tablets Replacing Desktops?
The Nielsen Company’s latest research on mobile connected devices found tablet owners who also owned a desktop or laptop computer reported using their desktop less often or not at all. Top reasons for using the tablet are portability simplicity of the interface fast start up and shut down convenience size Overall, 77% of tablet users [...]
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Put Product Recalls in the Palm of Your Hand
If you are ever wondering about a product’s safety in the store, you can easily find if it has a safety recall with the Product Recalls App. The app allows you to scan a product’s bar code to see if it has a recall and find other product safety information. The App is available on the Android platform and the [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Anyone Checking In?
There has been a ton of media buzz (and dollars invested) on services that let people “check-in.” Facebook Places, Foursquare and Gowalla are examples of services that let people check in to let their friends know where they are. Venues are increasingly offering discounts or coupons to people checking in. According to comScore, in March [...]
1,338 views | 1 commentMay 17th, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Trends -
Paper Phones?
In the “what will they think of next” category, researches at the Human Media Lab at Queens University in Ontario introduced a new phone prototype: the paper phone. Let’s let them talk about it the smartphone prototype, called paperphone is best described as a flexible iphone – it does everything a smartphone does, like store [...]
1,463 views | 1 commentMay 16th, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Research