Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Apple iPad Replacing Cash Registers
The Apple iPad might be developing as a major new form factor for retailer point of sale terminals. Lowe’s says it is rolling out 42,000 handheld devices in the U.S. and Canada. That closely follows announcements by Home Depot, Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters. iPad as register
Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Even smaller retailers can benefit by using apps and services like Square to accept payments and handle credit card transactions. Many other vendors and retailers are using custom apps to handle their payments systems, and it looks like big-name companies are deploying the Apple tablet en masse.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Apple building cheaper iPhone
Asian suppliers to Apple have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of the iPhone 4, probably to help Apple boost sales in emerging markets. "Apple may want to push into the emerging market segment where customers want to switch to low- to mid-end smart phones from high-end feature phones, which usually cost $150-200," said Yuanta Securities analyst Bonnie Chang.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
United Replaces Pilot Paper Manuals with iPads
United Continental Holdings is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. Distribution of iPads began earlier this month, and all pilots will have them by year end.
Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace approximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot's flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot.
The airline projects it will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.
The iPads are loaded with Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, the industry's premier app featuring interactive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts.
United replaces paper manuals with iPads
Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace approximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot's flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot.
The airline projects it will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year and 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.
The iPads are loaded with Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck, the industry's premier app featuring interactive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts.
United replaces paper manuals with iPads
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Kenya’s M-Pesa Revenue Growth 56%
M-Pesa, the mobile money transfer service that operated by Kenyan telecommunication provider Safaricom Limited, grew its fiscal year revenue (period ending March 31, 2011) 56 percent, from KES 7.55 billion (USD 94.2 million) to KES 11.8 billion (USD 139 million). During the same period, the number of subscribers also increased from 9.5 million to 13.8 million, while 24,000 retail outlets also serve M-Pesa customers.
M-Pesa accounts for 12.4 percent of Safaricom’s total revenue, which is up from nine percent in the previous fiscal year. Since its launch in 2007.
M-Pesa accounts for 12.4 percent of Safaricom’s total revenue, which is up from nine percent in the previous fiscal year. Since its launch in 2007.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Multitasking Now the Norm When Watching TV
Over half of 4,000 shoppers surveyed by Deloitte and Gfk say they browse the web while watching TV, and 45 per cent of these people are visiting shopping sites. In other words, a majority of U.K. consumers multitask while watching TV.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Canada’s Rogers Planning NFC Mobile-Payment Launch
Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest mobile operator, is gearing up for an near field communications mobile-payment launch, NFC Times says.
The telco is planning to work with at least one bank and probably Visa, but not other Canadian operators, said the sources. Rough plans call for launching by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
Speculation for the banking partner is falling on Toronto-Dominion Bank Group, a major Visa card issuer, with four million card accounts. The bank has issued contactless "payWave" cards for about 90 percent of those accounts, with a total 3.6 million contactless Visa payWave cards on issue from its TD Canada Trust arm.
The telco is planning to work with at least one bank and probably Visa, but not other Canadian operators, said the sources. Rough plans call for launching by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
Speculation for the banking partner is falling on Toronto-Dominion Bank Group, a major Visa card issuer, with four million card accounts. The bank has issued contactless "payWave" cards for about 90 percent of those accounts, with a total 3.6 million contactless Visa payWave cards on issue from its TD Canada Trust arm.
TD announced this week it is buying the MBNA Canada credit card business from Bank of America, adding nearly two million MasterCard-branded cards. Both MasterCard and Visa have been active in pushing contactless card rollouts in Canada.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Web Surfing at Work Raises Productivity, Study Finds
According to a new study, Web browsing can actually refresh tired workers and enhance their productivity, compared to other activities such as making personal calls, texts or emails, let alone working straight through with no rest at all.
The study by Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim of the National University of Singapore, assigned 96 undergraduate management students into one of three groups, including a control group, a "rest-break" group and a Web-surfing group. All subjects spent 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e's as they could find in a sample text.
The study by Don J.Q. Chen and Vivien K.G Lim of the National University of Singapore, assigned 96 undergraduate management students into one of three groups, including a control group, a "rest-break" group and a Web-surfing group. All subjects spent 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e's as they could find in a sample text.
For the next 10 minutes, the control group was assigned another simple task; members of the rest-break group could do whatever they pleased, except surf the Internet; and the third group could browse the Web. Afterward, all of the subjects spent another 10 minutes highlighting more letters.
The researchers found that the Web-surfers were significantly more productive and effective at the tasks than those in the other two groups and reported lower levels of mental exhaustion, boredom and higher levels of engagement.
The researchers found that the Web-surfers were significantly more productive and effective at the tasks than those in the other two groups and reported lower levels of mental exhaustion, boredom and higher levels of engagement.
Web Surfing Makes You Work Better, Study Says - WSJ.com (subscription required)
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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