January 2012
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Safmarine top rated in the shipping app benchmark
Bizzsms’ customer Safmarine is among the few shipping companies that have a mobile application or mobile website. A recent benchmark by Seaintel Maritime of the 53 biggest shipping company shows that 87% of the large shipping companies does not have a mobile solution. Seaintel foresees an increasing market “Based on developments in other industries, it appears inevitable that the...
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Bizzsms contracts PrivatAir, Switzerland
Following a meeting in Geneva, the Swiss Airline company PrivatAir chose for Bizzsms as a partner for developing an iPad and web application for the purpose of auditing. The PrivatAir auditing application will serve as a tool for their service division and allows auditors to have offline audits and enables the management to create custom reports based on the results of the audits.
PrivatAir has...
December 2011
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Safmarine Android app launched
Bizzsms & Safmarine just released the new Safmarine Android application. There was already an iPhone version of the application available, and now Android is added to the wide range of web and mobile applications Safmarine offers.
The apps allows to search for sailing schedules , tracking of cargo based container or booking number , a feed to the latest Safmarine news items and the...
October 2011
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LiveWall
Bizzsms is co-founder in the LiveWall project. LiveWall is an application that allows customers to display various types of interactive media such as social media messages, movies, images, Facebook pictures, RSS feeds etc. on screens. The application can be used during events or as a narrowcasting application. The easy to use interface allows customers to set the contents of the screen...
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Bizzsms develops for Ikea
Bizzsms just added a new customer to its portfolio: Ikea. Together with DHL/Mailmission, Bizzsms will develop a webapplication that allows Ikea employees to manage their work clothing inventory.
This assignment is the first assignment in cooperation with DHL/Mailmission and will hopefully result in a long term relationship.
The webapplication is expected to be launched before the end of...
Bizzsms contracts its first Asian customer
Bizzsms just contracted the Asian shipping company MCC Transport for the development of an iPhone application. With the application it is possible to display schedules, track containers and find agencies. The application is expected to be launched before the end of the year.
Safmarine promotion video app
The video below is a promotional video of the application Bizzsms created for Safmarine.
August 2011
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June 2011
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Inspiring talk on the new generation and social...
April 2011
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Bizzsms launched two new mobile applications
By Eelco van de Wiel
This week Bizzsms launched two new mobile applications.
Safmarine The iPhone app of Safmarine, a subdivision of the A.P. Moller - Maersk group, was accepted by Apple by Friday evening. Safmarine is an international shipping business offering container and break-bulk shipping services worldwide and has over 200 offices worldwide.
The application offers the following...
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Near Field Technology finally going mobile
By Eelco van de Wiel
The latest version of the Android SDK has full support for NFC functionalities. NFC means Near Field Communication and allows mobile phones to communicate to nearby objects. Chances are that if you buy a smartphone towards the end of this year, and most certainly in 2012, it will be equipped with a NFC chip. This technological advancement introduces a new era in mobile...
February 2011
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comScore Digital year in review
ComScore has revelead the Digital Year in review edition 2010 this week. This online reading shows the most importance online trends of 2010.
It is interesting to see that the time spend on Facebook became more than the time spend on sites of Google. There are more women among the 153 billion unique visitors of Facebook in 2010. Also the decline of webbased e-mail usage is a notable development....
December 2010
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Bizzsms researches mobile price comparison
By Eelco van de Wiel
Two mayor players in online retail have initiated a mobile application for price comparison. In November 2010 Amazon launched a new price comparison app for mobile phones (Business week, 2010). Before also Ebay noted the importance of mobile price comparison as a future growth strategy and bought the price comparison app RedLaser (ZDnet, 2010).
Business week wrote: “The idea...
November 2010
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Betaversion of Safmarine's mobile website
The beta version of the mobile website of Safmarine was launched. During the last months Bizzsms has worked closely together with Safmarine and IT company IBM to create the mobile website. During Januari the broad customer base of Safmarine can test the webapplications available at the mobile website.
The mobile website is available at http://m.safmarine.com
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this week's inspiration: the internet of living...
Even though this talk is not directly in the field of mobile communications and mobile marketing, it gives a clear view of the future of the internet of things. Very inspiring and interesting!
The talk is about the convergence between technology and biology posing possibilities to program cells and use them as future computers.
October 2010
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Google Mobile Advertising over 1 billion in 2010
Google earns over 1 billion dollars from mobile platforms in 2010.
“Mobile is on an annualized run rate of over $1 billion. This means the people who are accessing our products and services through their mobile phones are adding a $1 billion annually to our existing revenue streams. Clearly, this is the future of search in the Internet, more people in more countries coming online from these...
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Barcode scanning up 700% in 2010
Data from a new consumer adoption survey sponsored by ScanBuy indicates mobile barcode scanning is up a whopping 700% in 2010 in the USA.Though still a concept that’s mostly reserved for early adopters, mobile barcodes are beginning to make their way into the mainstream. In Japan barcodes are already mainstream: 86% of consumers scan four or more times a month, 81% of consumers scan for discounts...
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Custom designed QR Codes
QR codes have an error correction included in the code. This gives the possibility to change the QR code without ruining the contents. For one customer, Bizzsms created this QR Code which has a pepper included in the image. This QR code draws even more attention from the viewer!
September 2010
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Virtual watch app
Canadian Nuevo Watches offers virtual tryvertising to home shoppers using their mobile phone.
Compatible with the iPhone and the 4th generation iPod touch, the Nuevo app lets users try on and select watches in the Neuvo watch collection without physically touching them.
This is a simple and effective example of augmented reality and a nice way of integrating mobile apps in marketing...
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Bizzsms develops mobile website of Safmarine
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...
August 2010
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July 2010
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Domino's on Foursquare
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...
June 2010
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iPhone 4
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 ...
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Bizzsms Mobile HCI 2010 Submission →
The submission for the Mobile HCI 2010.
This paper introduces Cookking, an iPhone application that aims at helping young professionals to cook.
May 2010
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LBS
“the number of applications in the Apple App Store for iPad has grown to 4,870...”
– distimo
April 2010
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Morgan Stanley forecasts mobile developments
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...
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Paypal mobile over 1M downloads in 3 weeks
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...
iPhone OS introduces iAds
The new version of the iPhone OS includes an advertising platform called iAds. Apple hosts and runs this platform. Using this platform developers can earn money using their application since Apple grants (only?) 60% of their earnings to developers. This might be a huge step for mobile marketeers and advertisers.
Since Google recently bought the current leading mobile advertising platform AdMob...
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iPhone shopper commercial
Mobile phones will change the way people shop. New applications make it possible to compare prices among many local retailers which might result in more price sensitity and more competition among retailers. This results in a true revolution the traditional split between the online and offline markets will dissapear. Soon we will post more concerning this subject at this blog.
This...
March 2010
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Data traffic exceeds voice traffic
Financial Times
“(…) Data traffic has exceeded the volume of voice calls across the world’s wireless networks for the first time, highlighting the challenge facing mobile phone operators as they struggle to adapt to surging demand for mobile internet services.
The crossover occurred in December when 140,000 terabytes of data content, such as emails, music and video, was handled by mobile...
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9292ov.nl and QR Code
The major Dutch public transport planning website 9292ov.nl uses QR code on their website for providing a link between the website and the mobile phone. Users can plan their trip at home at 9292ov.nl and after planning a QR code is shown at the website. When scanning the QR code a mobile website with the same trip is displayed at the mobile phone which makes it possible to use the planned trip on...
Mobile payment approaching
The news that MasterCard and the major carriers have teamed up via Zoompass has got the industry excited about the idea that smartphone payments are fast approaching. The newest player on the scene is Tyfone’s SideTap card. The card can function as a payment device, allowing the user to scan their smartphone over a PayPass system. The product is said to hit the market in the second half of 2010,...
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Starbucks and Foursquare
Foursquare is a location based mobile application which allows users to check in on their favorite locations. By checking in all of the friends of the person can see that a certain person has checked in and users can also earn points (badges) by checking in. This real-life location based “game” is a big hit. Currently foursquare has half a million users.
Starbucks starts cooperating...
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Smartphone owners want mobile coupons
A new survey published by Compete.com indicates smartphone owners are very receptive to mobile coupons, especially when it comes to grocery coupons that are easily redeemable via barcodes scanned directly from the device.
The results were quite interesting, indicating consumers were most interested in receiving grocery coupons (36%), scanable barcodes (29%), offers to save and pursue at leisure...
Apple iPhone patent for locking your phone →
February 2010
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Mobile world Barcelona highlights
Every year the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the place to be for everyone in the mobile business. All the new gadgets, applications and possibilities are exposed by the leading manufacturers and companies in the business. Some highlights and proceedings of the MWC 2010:
Competition between operators, manufacturers and developers Mobile phone manufacturers increasingly have to share...
2D Barcodes & Fashion
Fashion designer Norma Kamali used 2D bar codes for her boutique at the New York fashion week to create a more interactive experience. To barcodes in her flagship store linked to videos about the items and give attendees the change to win prizes.
“The strategy was to integrate technology, fashion and retail to create an action,” said Norma Kamali, the New York-based designer.
The application of...
Google shopper
Google has just launched “Google Shopper”. Google shopper is an Android mobile application. It offers the possibility to search for products. In addition to basic text search, users can search by voice, take a picture or scan the bar code to get information and price comparison.
QR-Code-generator.nl
BizzSms has just launched a new website in the Netherlands: www.qr-code-generator.nl. Everybody can create a QR-code for free!
“The reason why retailers and brands need to have a mobile presence is simple:...”
– Brennan Hayden, vice president of WDA, East Lansing, MI.
iPhone application Heyello!
Heyello!, the new iPhone application by BizzSms is availble in the Appstore.
Using Heyello! you can send real postcard by mail to other people.
Website
Application in Appstore
January 2010
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Social media site Hyves introduces mobile payment
Hyves, the largest social community website in the Netherlands with over 9,5 million members (in comparison with 16 million inhabitants of the Netherlands) introduces a mobile payment application. Users of the social network site can make payments to other members as well as several companies.
Large catering players such as New York Pizza, The Spare Rib Express and several other companies will...
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Retailers Go Mobile
As retailers settle into their routine this year, one thing must change from 2009: mobile must no longer suffer benign neglect. At risk are dashed consumer expectations for consistent experience across store, catalog, online and mobile.
While retailers and marketers have suffered through a 2009 holiday of endless checklists, sage advice and told-you-so’s, now is the time to examine how the...
10 reasons why mobile advertising is more...
From MobileMarketeer
1) Where the users are: Advertisers can reach many more users via the mobile phone than via the PC. Globally, mobile ownership and usage far outstrips the ownership of PCs with Internet access.
It is estimated that half of the world’s humans now carry a mobile phone, approaching the 4-billion mark, yet Gartner’s latest figures put the number of installed PCs worldwide at...
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