What’s the best place to work? Twenty-five years ago, it might have been a shiny office with a fully stocked canteen for an always-on and always-in-the-office workforce. Cut to today, and the digital era has made mobility a quality today’s…
The smartphone though has become an extension of ourselves. It goes pretty much wherever we do. There are probably three things most of us leave the house with every day – keys, wallet or purse and our phone. And, thanks…
Some 1.7 billion people around the world lack access to basic financial services such as a bank or mobile money account. Digital financial services have the potential to bring this population, concentrated in developing countries, into the financial system—giving them…
After years of phone sales stagnating, manufacturers are starting to experiment with new design elements, user experiences, and even new phone shapes. This experimentation got underway at the end of 2018 and is about to bloom in full force on…
Traditional approaches to solving mobility problems—adding roads and transit lines—are not sustainable, primarily because of concerns related to climate change, public health, and funding. Hence the interest in new technology-powered forms of mobility: ride sharing, free-floating bikes, autonomous electric vehicles,…
Mobile commerce, or m-commerce, revenue worldwide has increased from $184 billion in 2014 to a projected $669 billion by the end of this year. Combine that with the fact that as of 2016, according to Actinic, 86% of UK digital…
Have you ever wondered how often you check your phone? thirty times? fifty? even more? Dr. Sally Andrews, a psychologist at Nottingham Trent University, states that we use our phones twice as often as we think we do which indicates…
There’s no question that smartphones and the apps we use can get us to spend more time, and interrupt Real Life more often, than we’d like. The question is, what’s the best way to curb smartphone addiction? There are five…
Ultimately, the idea is to steal time from the smartphone. The smartphone will probably never go away completely, but the combination of voice commands and hearing could become the primary interface for anything spontaneous. Read more in Fast Company The…
72 percent of global executives are planning at least five enterprise mobile initiatives over the next year and 21 percent expect revenue to increase at least 10 percent as a result of mobile initiatives. Read more in Mobile Business Insights …
