Archive for the ‘Location Based Services’ Category

Checking In at the Check Out Counter

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places and Yelp - among others - have popularized the concept of “checking in” at a particular location on a smartphone - basically broadcasting one’s location to friends, followers and/or business owners over a particular application or multiple social networks. Multiple variations on the theme exist, most ...

RedLaser Brings Focus to Mobile Retail Apps with 2M Downloads

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

The barcode scanning app RedLaser has just announced that their iPhone/Android app was downloaded over 2 million times, with half of their users being active over the last month. In a field that includes quite a few free alternatives, such as ShopSavvy and pic2shop, RedLaser’s success seems to owe to both ...