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M-Commerce: Will Mobile Payment Gain Mainstream Acceptance? |
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Back in March, we ran an article about the growth potential for mobile commerce (or M-Commerce) in 2010, as Best Buy estimated the number of mobile phone users accessing its online store jumped from 6.5 million to 17 million in the past year (see Retailers Connect with Customer Smartphones).
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Gadgets for Dad: Father's Day Gift Trends
Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 20. According to a recent National Retail Federation (NRF) survey, total spending on Father’s Day gifts will reach $9.8 billion in the U.S., up 3.8 percent from $9.4 billion last year. The average consumer will spend $94.32 on a gift for dad, up from $90.89 last year.
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Sam's Club Personalizes Discounts for Customers
Unlike data-driven businesses, such as hotels, airlines, banks and online retailers, big retail chains have been slower in using powerful computers to determine optimal product pricing or to match discounts to customers’ specific tastes, wrote Andrew Martin of the New York Times (May 30).
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AT&T Phasing Out Unlimited Data Plans
Two weeks ago, on June 2, AT&T announced it was discontinuing its unlimited data plans for mobile phone subscribers. The carrier’s new fee structure, which went into effect on June 7 – the same day that Apple unveiled its latest iPhone model – caps the use of e-mail, web browsing, social-network posting and streaming video under two pay plans.
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Handset Design: Square Shape or QWERTY Keyboards?
According to ABI Research, global mobile handset shipments totaled approximately 1.15 billion in 2009. What were the predominant trends among these devices?
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Volume #5, Issue #12
June 16, 2010 |
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DID YOU KNOW?
Shoppers will order $2.2 billion of physical goods via cellphones this year, $1 billion more than last year and five times more than 2008.
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