The HAPIfork, made by HAPILABS, smart electronic fork is seen on display at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, Jan. 8 in Las Vegas. The fork vibrates and lights up to help its user slow down to a healthy eating pace.
Showing posts with label Consumers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumers. Show all posts
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Friday, July 6, 2012
The future of mobile business and consumer apps
via techi.com
Mobility is a must these days. Especially in the business world. Smart phones lead the way for mobile devices and now tablets seem to be the new trend. No business professional wants to lug around a lap top anymore, especially if they travel a lot. So the tablet has become a popular choice for the traveling business person. Not only are individuals choosing the tablet as their favorite mobile device, but big businesses are using them more as well.
Since bigger businesses are using tablets, the need for more specified applications is growing as well. Enterprise application development is growing. Enterprise applications are software platforms that are too larger and too complex for individual or small business use. They are designed to integrate with other apps within corporate networks while meeting strict requirements for security and administration management.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
13 New Features in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
via pcmag.com
Windows 8 is finally ready to have its tires kicked by the masses in the Consumer Preview. Here's what's new since the Developer Preview. Anyone who's been playing with the Windows 8 Developer Preview will notice quite a few changes, both in content and user interface design. In general, the Consumer preview does a better job of integrating the two faces of Windows 8—the touch-centric Metro interface and the traditional Windows Desktop interface. It also introduces some very handy new touch gestures for tablet users. But keyboard and mouse users—Microsoft's bread and butter—haven't been left out either. Here are the changes that stood out among those in this latest pre-release of Microsoft's next big operating system.
Friday, February 10, 2012
5 Situations When Consumers Need to Be Extra Careful
via mint.com
If you’re a trusting kind of person, then chances are you’ve been ripped off more than a few times.
You’re not alone, my friend. I’ve fallen for so many scams, I’ve almost lost count.
But here’s a useful exercise: Do you know who you can trust? A Gallup survey of honesty and ethics finds that nurses, pharmacists and doctors are ranked the most ethical (in that order).
Monday, February 6, 2012
Statistics of How Consumers Choose Businesses - Infographic
via soshable.com
The numbers are rising on businesses using Social Media to their advantage and rightfully so, since 97% of customers will purchase from your business based on a review they find on the product they are looking for, even more so the review is through people they trust, hence why social networks work.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
87% Of Connected Consumers Prefer Websites & Mobile Sites Over Apps
via readwriteweb.com
Welcome to the connected consumer. This person most likely has a tablet and smartphone, and is constantly connected to their friends via Facebook. Today, more than 60% of 25-34 year-olds (Gen-Y) own a smartphone. One in three online consumers will buy a tablet by 2014. That's a lot to digest at once, right? A new survey from Zmags investigates the connected consumer and their digital habits.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Consumers Spent $35.3 Billion Online This Holiday Season
via allthingsd.com
Current economic woes didn’t put much of a damper on holiday spending this year, particularly online. Between November 1 and December 26, U.S. consumers spent some $35.3 billion online, according to the latest metrics from comScore.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Cost Of U.S. Consumer Electronics Returns Estimated To Reach $16.7 Billion In 2011
via techcrunch.com
While consumer electronics (CE) merchandise returns are often an overlooked scenario for consumers they are undoubtedly top of mind for manufacturers and retailers because of their billion dollar price tag. “Put another way, manufacturers spend about 5 percent to 6 percent of revenues to manage all aspects of a customer return. For retailers, returns represent approximately 2 percent to 3 percent of sales,” according to a new study put out by Accenture.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
AT&T Sucks More Than Any Other Carrier, Says Consumer Reports
via gizmodo.com
Once again, AT&T has been declared the worst carrier provider by the users themselves. This year Consumer Reports' satisfaction survey—which covered 66,000 people—says the same: AT&T sucks.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Survey: iPhone Users Find It Too Darn Hard to Switch
via hothardware.com
Have you ever tried talking your Apple-loving buddy into getting an Android smartphone or a Windows Phone 7 device? You'd have a better chance of selling ice to an Eskimo, a point that's underscored in a new international survey conducted by the GfK Group. According to the survey, nearly one in five consumers who own both an iPad and an iPhone believe that it's more difficult to switch smartphones than it is to change bank accounts, gas companies, or electric providers.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
U.S. consumers spend $4.5 billion on gaming in Q2
Consumer spending on the U.S. gaming industry was up slightly in the second quarter, research firm NPD reported today.
During the second quarter, U.S. consumers spent a total of $4.5 billion on gaming hardware, content, and accessories, representing a 1 percent gain over the second quarter of 2010. However, sequentially, things didn't go too well for the industry. In the first quarter of 2011, total consumer spending on video game hardware, content, and accessories hit $5.9 billion.
Monday, October 3, 2011
The 20 Brands With The Most Loyal Customers
via theatlantic.com
Although companies spend billions each year to try to make their brands resonate with consumers, few ever end up with truly fanatic customers. But the perks are huge for those who do.
Loyal customers consistently come back to buy more, they're more willing to stay despite increases in price and they become strong advocates for the brand in their own social circles and online.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Think Consumers Are Tired of Deals? Better Think Again
via adage.com
You've probably seen it, maybe even experienced it: two expired Groupons tacked to a wall for months. That $100 in unused yoga and dance lessons reduced to bad cubicle art inspires an outright offensive against daily deals and a rash of deleted, unopened emails from Groupon, LivingSocial, DealOn, Yipit and every city magazine launching its own version of the service.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
How Consumers Interact With Brands on Facebook - Study
via mashable.com
People interact with their favorite brands on Facebook far more than on any other social network, according to a recent study of online consumer behavior.
The study, conducted by Constant Contact and research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey, analyzed the behavior of 1,491 consumers ages 18 and older throughout the United States and revealed a number of details about how people interact with brands on the world’s largest social network.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Consumer Fears put Economy on the Brink
While the Dow Jones industrial average and the unemployment rate get more attention, the shoppers outside a Wal-Mart in Northern Virginia offered a taste of what some economists believe is the more immediate reason that the U.S. economy may be on the verge of another recession.
Americans are still spooked.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Why Customer Satisfaction Surveys Aren’t Useful and What To Do About It.
Definition: Cus-tom-er Sat-is-fac-tion Sur-vey (n): A long, complicated and arduous task for both a company and their customers that can often yield little to no useful results.
Do you really think your customers WANT to fill out your customer satisfaction survey? How many times have you blasted through a survey just to get the freebie that comes with it? Well guess what? Most of your customers are probably doing the same thing and ruining all your “precious” data.
Why Customer Satisfaction Surveys Aren’t Useful and What To Do About It.
Definition: Cus-tom-er Sat-is-fac-tion Sur-vey (n): A long, complicated and arduous task for both a company and their customers that can often yield little to no useful results.
Do you really think your customers WANT to fill out your customer satisfaction survey? How many times have you blasted through a survey just to get the freebie that comes with it? Well guess what? Most of your customers are probably doing the same thing and ruining all your “precious” data.
'Made in China' Goods Only Small Sliver of U.S. Consumption
Politicians and pundits talk often talk of the undue sway Chinese businesses have over American consumers without the hard numbers to back up claims. So Galina Hale and Bart Hobijn, two economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, have stepped in to do the mathematical heavy-lifting. What they've found is that only 2.7 percent of U.S. consumers purchases have the "Made in China" label.
"Although globalization is widely recognized these days, the U.S. economy actually remains relatively closed," the authors write in a recent report. 88.5 percent of Americans' consumer spending is on things made in the U.S. In the U.S. market, China only had the edge over domestic businesses in the nondurable goods category that includes clothing and shoes. It also, unsurprisingly, does well in the U.S. in the groups of goods that include electronics and household appliances.
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