Category: Mobile

  • The acceptance hurdles for QR codes

    QR codes are appearing with increasing frequency in a growing range of marketing and communication activities. I’ve been paying attention to who’s using these two-dimensional barcodes and how in their marketing when I’m out and about, especially in supermarkets, taking…

  • More experiments with QR codes

    There’s a lot of experimenting going on these days with QR codes, those square images we see with increasing frequency on everyday items like utility bills, business cards, even building permits, and which you scan with your mobile device’s camera…

  • FIR Interview: Steve Pinches on the FT, tablets and mobile

    An industry undergoing wholesale change is one way of characterizing the mainstream media as news organizations confront a digital future by planning and experimenting with different business models to help ensure their survival in a marketplace that bears little resemblance…

  • Communication is key to issue management, Vodafone

    Trouble in the UK for mobile operator Vodafone this Monday morning as thousands if not millions of customers across the UK have no cellular or mobile broadband service at all. I’m one of those. As I write this post, there…

  • When Twitter and entrepreneurs collide

    There’s some speculation this weekend over the reasons why Twitter suspended three third-party mobile apps on Friday. Ubertwitter (now known as Ubersocial), Twidroyd and Ubercurrent were all suspended due to what Twitter described as “policy violations.” What this means from…