smartphones in retail
Retailers around the world are scrambling to understand how the smartphones in the pockets and purses of their customers can be utilized in a meaningful way. When the web appeared on the scene in the mid-90s, many retailers quickly realized that the it offered a way to sell to customers that were not situated in a market in which they already had a bricks and mortar store. While these online...
Read Moreexploring social check-In
Social Check-In is an interesting mobile application genre that is getting a fair amount of attention from users. Foursquare, one of the most popular social check-in apps here in the USA, currently has around 10 million users. Even President Obama joined Foursquare this past August, which must really be giving the secret service headaches! Other social check-in apps such as SCVNGR and Gowalla are...
Read MoreGVSU Laker Mobile
We’ve just refreshed GVSU Laker Mobile for Android! Version 1.1.2 introduced a number of exciting new features and also eliminates those 1 or 2 bugs that were bothering you all. Well ok, maybe there were 3 bugs. In any case, the new version includes a variety of new features, including a brand new horizontally scrolling tab bar main view, the GVSU events calendar, the GVSU library,...
Read MoreGVSU Blackboard app for iPhone!!
If you’re like us GVSU grad students working in the School of Computing’s GVSU Mobile Apps and Services Lab the two loves of your life are at minimum your shiny new iPhone and GVSU’s learning management system, aka as “Blackboard”. We like the rest of you have been sad that these two objects of our affection have not found a meaningful way to integrate themselves. ...
Read MoreShop Social!
We’re pleased to announce the availability of MASL’s latest mobile app: Shop Social. The app is available on both iOS devices as well as Android. Shop Social is an experimental shopping app, and we’re hoping you all will find it quite useful and fun. Basically, we’ve been trying to figure out what kind of shopping experiences can be created in a bricks and mortar...
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