The number of people using the Internet on their mobile device will more than double to reach one billion by 2013. Meanwhile, the number of mobile applications or “apps” available on Google’s mobile platform, Android, has risen sharply from 10,000 in September 2009 to a little under 20,000 in December 2009. Where does Google go [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Tech Trends’
January 7, 2010
Can Hoteliers Overlook Mobile Marketing
Mobile marketing will become a hard channel for hoteliers to ignore in the wake of Google and Apple’s big-money acquisitions. The iPhone manufacturer bought mobile advertising network Quattro Wireless earlier this week in a deal worth $275 million while the search engine giant purchased AdMob in 2009 for $750 million. As a consequence of these deals, [...]
January 6, 2010
Is The Hotel Industry Prepared For The Tech That Will Carry THEM Forward?
According to panelists at last month’s Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association annual meeting, future technological advances will need more and more flexibility to handle the demands of hotel owners, operators and guests. Where have pundits like Vegas.com’s Howard Lefkowitz and Expedia’s Pamela Keenan Fritz been for the past two years and why are they grappling [...]
January 5, 2010
Bark Group Releases Neuromarketing Technology
Bark Group Inc. today released information about the revolutionary neuromarketing technology it will be using in future marketing campaigns. Through its strategic alliance with brain research company Mindmetic, Bark is developing neuromarketing research technology that can interpret and decode people’s emotional responses when they are presented with different communication messages. Researchers show videos to participants [...]
