China has become the first nation to embrace facial recognition technology to authorise digital payments following an innovative play by Alibaba to ease queues in local KFC restaurants. The so-called ‘smile to pay’ service has been introduced in the city of Huangzhou as part of a trial with the chicken chain to boost the customer […]
Doro has taken the wraps off the 8040 smartphone. It will be available in the UK and Ireland in November with selected partners. The device has a host of features catered to seniors such as loud and clear sound, adjustable text size and an assistance button. Family and friends can access the 8040 through web […]
Wearable sales are set to hit 310.4m in 2017, accounting for $30.5bn in revenue, up 16.7 per cent from 2016 – according to tech research and advisory company Gartner. Of the over 310m sales, 41.5m are forecasted to be smartwatches, drawing in $9.3bn in revenue. Gartner expects smartwatch sales to total nearly 81m units by […]
Walmart is going toe-to-toe with Amazon on voice ordering after partnering with Google to enable the US retailer’s customers to buy goods through Assistant on their Google Home devices. Walmart joins the likes of Costco and Target on Google Express, which enables shoppers to shop at popular stores through its app, website, or by voice […]
Food retailers like Walmart, Unilever and Nestlé are partnering with IBM on a blockchain collaboration intended to address food safety. Additional IBM partners include Dole, Driscoll’s, Golden State Foods, Kroger, McCormick and Company, McLane Company and Tyson Foods. They will work with IBM to identify new areas where the global supply chain can benefit from […]
Global location tech company GroundTruth (formerly xAd) has seen a 35% QoQ revenue growth as major brands like L’Occitane and Timberland put more budget towards location-based marketing. Following their acquisition of WeatherBug, GroundTruth have won 35 new Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) since the start of 2017. As global interest continues to develop and in the […]
Facebook is expected to expand its inventory by designing an augmented reality (AR) glasses that could display digital objects in the physical world, according to a patent application filed by Oculus. ‘A waveguide display used as part of the virtual reality (VR) system, AR system, mixed reality (MR) system or some combination therefore’ is how […]
Digital Element, one of the leading provider of IP geolocation technology, announced Improve Digital, the all-in-one advertising platform for publishers, content providers, and broadcasters, has adopted its NetAcuity Edge hyperlocal targeting solution to ensure its customers can serve the right ads, to the right audience, in the right location. Digital Element’s technology has been integrated into 360 Polaris, […]
Treasury Wine Estates’ brand 19 Crimes recently collaborated with creative technology company Tactic and J. Walter Thompson SF to release a wine label unlike any other. Using augmented reality (AR), the San Francisco-based Tactic developed an innovative 19 Crimes app for iOS and Android devices. The easy-to-use technology brings the torrid stories of each bottle to life by animating […]
Domino’s, one of the UK’s favourite pizza, is once again pioneering the use of new technologies to make ordering a pizza even easier, with voice-activated ordering through Amazon’s Echo and Dot devices. Working closely with its innovation agency We Are Social, Domino’s now allows customers with an Easy Order profile to place an order for […]