Category: US

Fax for the memories

Last week, I was perplexed to have someone ask me: ‘What’s your fax number?’. The relative novelty of receiving a fax led us to wonder why, in this digital age, they are not now totally obsolete? The answer: signatures.

Building a More Secure Internet

It is critical that consumers are certain that the site they visit is the one they intended to access. A new policy signed by the Obama Administration will change the way we do business on the internet.

Mobile phones as room keys – whatever next?

With the constant growth of contactless applications, one wonders what other areas of our everyday lives one day could be NFC-enabled.
Would you have thought of using your phone to open you hotel room or unlock and start your car?

Earlier this year we saw the first demonstrations of NFC being used as a car key, for both accessing and starting the vehicle. It may not be too long before we see the same system being adopted for commercial, or even residential, premises.

Mobile advertising doubles in size

Consumers are jumping onto high speed 3G & 4G networks while utilizing smartphones in droves and advertisers are right behind them. Will mobile advertising be a $20 billion industry by 2015, compared to under $2 billion last year? Gartner thinks so, and new research from comScore shows why.