Real world retail units are coming under pressure from a move to the online world, but we are only at the very start and things are about to get worse for shops on the high street. 2013 will be a year when a number of factors are coming together to force massive disruption in the bricks and mortar shops of this world... Read More »
Google has been starting to make some great inroads into the hardware market, but it's reached a point where it simply has to open its own retail stores to start selling its products. Retail is a route that some of the biggest tech companies in the world have been going down and the timing is perfect for Google to make the same move now... Read More »
While it was unthinkable a few years ago, tablets are now being used for many tasks, even replacing the computer in some cases. Naturally enough, brands have moved into this area to the point where tablets are now an integral part of how things work... Read More »
Tablets are slowly becoming the most popular device for mobile retail searches as a report from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Google Retail Monitor say they now account for 40% of all retail searches on mobile devices... Read More »
IBM is currently testing out a new approach to mobile shopping in the form of augmented reality (AR). The company's research labs have designed a prototype of a mobile application that can be used to identify products and find out more information about them... Read More »
We've all seen how QR codes can be used in innovative ways to promote goods and services but a new startup company has turned this on its head by using them to pay for goods and services instead. Kuapay have released an app that aims to replace credit cards with QR codes making payment faster and easier. Users enter their credit card information into... Read More »