I came across the video presented below over at Dave Knox’s blog Hard Knox Life (he’s a Brand Manager at P&G), who in turn found it at Feed: The Digital Design Blog. It was previewed at the Wharton Business Technology Conference by Microsoft Labs – looking at “Microsoft 2019“.
The video shows how mobile might meet retail in the future. However, I don’t see it as being 10 years away. Tesco already have the analytics behind this conceot as well as a mobile MVNO (Tesco mobile). Let’s see if we can make this a reality in 10 months not 10 years – even as a trial service. The video is worth watching and is just under 2.5 minutes long.
I had lunch today with Javier Foncillas who is Director of Branded Content for Vodafone. He was very excited as they have just launched their new Vodafone music service – reaching deals with the leading record labels to provide DRM free MP3 music. From what he told me, it was an interesting process in [...]
No sooner had I blogged about Microsoft’s view of 2019 with a great short video on mobile meets retail, I read in this week’s edition of New Media Age that Tesco (the UK’s largest retailer) has signed up Unilever to a trial of a mobile-based Clubcard scheme.
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Interestingly, Tesco.com’s head of R&D is also thinking of involving customer mobile phones in the shopping experience — see http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/2009/01/lure-of-dual-mode-mobile-phones.html
Maybe we’re not so far away after all…
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