Bizzsms is proud to announce that it will develop the new mobile website of Safmarine. Safmarine is a shipping company that operates worldwide and is a division of the Moller-Maersk Group. The new mobile website will include several application such as track and trace to locate containers and an office locator. 

Since there are far more mobile phones than regular internet connections the future of internet will be mobile as we can already notice in countries like Japan. This new mobile website is the opportunity to make the company’s services more accessible to its customers and future customers. 

The entire issue No 33 of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung’s supplement magazine is enhanced with taugmented reality using the browser of Junaio

This Augmented Reality based magazine is delivered to 550.000 households!

Foursquare is a location based social network. Users check in on their current position and friends can see your current location. 

Domino’s Pizza claims that its mobile program via Foursquare has contributed to a 28.6 percent increase to the online profit across Britain.

In its earnings release Domino’s said it has been increasing its online activity to grow this sector of its customer base. The company attributed the 28.6 percent growth of its online sales, which now total 17.5 million Euros, to its Facebook site that boasts more than 36,000 fans, affiliate marketing and the FourSquare program. 

“All of these Web-based activities offer a dual benefit of driving pizza sales online and building customer loyalty with this section of the community,” the company said in its earnings release. “We are delighted to see the results of this activity with online sales rising to 32.7 percent of all UK-delivered orders.”

At the WWDC10 Steve Jobs presented the new iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 differs from its predecessors mostly in design. Also the new iphone 4 has a new OS system which gives many new possibilities like video calling, 
For mobile marketeers the new iPhone OS includes an advertising platform called iAds. iAds launches at Juli 1 and should generate over 60 mio of revenue in 2010 from leading brands like   AT&T, Best Buy, Campbell Soup Company, Chanel, Citi, DirecTV, GEICO, GE, JCPenney, Liberty Mutual Group, Nissan, Sears, State Farm, Target, Turner Broadcasting System, Unilever and The Walt Disney Studios. 

“iAd offers advertisers the emotion of TV with the interactivity of the web, and offers users a new way to explore ads without being hijacked out of their favorite apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iAds will reach millions of iPhone and iPod touch users—a highly desirable demographic for advertisers—and provide developers a new way to earn money so they can continue developing free and low cost applications.”

The submission for the Mobile HCI 2010.  

This paper introduces Cookking, an iPhone application that aims at helping young professionals to cook. 

Within 5 years 4% of all retail sales will be mobile according to Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley. The Morgan Stanley analyst says that the world is currently in the midst of the fifth major technology cycle of the past half a century. The previous four were the mainframe era of the 1950s and 60s, the mini-computer era of the 1970s and the desktop Internet era of the 80s. The current cycle is the era of the mobile Internet, she says — predicting that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” 

 

The PayPal iPhone application has been downloaded 1 million times in less than three weeks. This shows that there is an enormous interest in mobile payment. A recent ABI Research study predicts that people will spend $119 billion through their mobile phones by 2015 (8% of the entire e-commerce market).

PayPal mobile transactions have increased nearly six-fold from $25 million in 2008 to $141 million in 2009, leaving this new application to raise the bar. The application launched March 15 in the Apple App Store with the ability to split checks, collect money for events, donate to charities and manage PayPal accounts.