Earlier today Apple announced its long expected entry in to the smaller tablet market. With an almost 8″ screen size, the screen space is larger than the obvious competition (Amazon’s Kindle Fire devices and Google’s Nexus 7), and that matters…
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Black Friday: The Data
Michael has already taken a look at the Black Friday data we saw in our regular reports, and the reasons why WiFi might matter for retailers like Macy’s, Safeway and Home Depot to include free access in their stores. I’m…
What Black Friday means to the Wi-Fi world
Black Friday has come and gone. As usual, the yearly craziness ensues such as all night shopping sprees, near-riots at retailers, and sadly, the occasional assault for merchandise or in this year’s case, pepper spray attacks. Now, the craziness will…
Tagged with: black friday, data offload, Retail, Wi-Fi
Posted in Events, Interesting, Market, Opinion, Statistics
Posted in Events, Interesting, Market, Opinion, Statistics
Online Video Watching Reaches Record High in October
The case for data offload onto Wi-Fi becomes clearer to me every day. comScore just released its October statistics from its Video Metrix report and the current findings are astounding. For the month of October, they cite 42.6 billion videos…
Tagged with: data offload, online video, statistics, Wi-Fi
Posted in Interesting, Market, Statistics
Posted in Interesting, Market, Statistics
Is mobile privacy an issue for you while shopping at your local retailer?
That sounds like a loaded question doesn’t it. By hearing that question out of context, one would most likely answer yes. Now let me bring it into context. A recent CNN article reported two malls in the US are axing…
Wi-Fi’s Impact on M-commerce
The holidays are almost here and Black Friday, a retail phenomenon during the holiday season, signifies the kickoff of retail madness. That day is slowly being overshadowed by Cyber Monday, the following Monday where retailers are encouraging customers to shop…
Tagged with: advirtising, mobile marketing, Retail, Venue Messaging, Wi-Fi
Posted in Blogs, Interesting, Market
Posted in Blogs, Interesting, Market
Devicescape releases the Q3 2011 Wi-Fi Report
Chalk it up as another banner quarter for Devicescape. On the heels of growing to over 4 million hotspots globally, Devicescape just released its Q3 2011 Wi-Fi report. What’s interesting about this quarter’s report is that I’m seeing some wavering…
The State of WiFi beyond 2015
I’m sure many of you have heard that the World Broadband Alliance just released their report titled “Global Developments in Public Wi-Fi”. If you haven’t seen the report, you may have read one of the many articles that cite its…
Q1 2010 WiFi Report – A Wish List
We just completed the Q1 survey for our quarterly WiFi Report, where we probe into the opinions of our membership about WiFi. I thought I would share a few of the interesting findings. Check these charts out (sorry for the…
Where’s Easy Wi-Fi?
The Easy Wi-Fi multi network application (white icon) is temporarily unavailable in the Apple App Store. It will be restored on or around October 20th. So, why is it unavailable? Well, we’re working on a big new release, version 4. …
