Bluetooth Special Interest Group has ratified a new version of the Bluetooth Low Energy standard that adds new security features preventing people from sniffing out a Bluetooth signal and using it to track phone and devices while moving about. The fe...
Regent Street in London has debuted a smartphone app that is linked with beacon technology. So far, 130 stores, or roughly 80% of the retailers along Regent Street’s mile-long strip, have installed sensors at their entrances that can co...
Could beacons, the type of hardware that transmits Bluetooth signals, become a revenue-generating force for media companies as soon as next year? Some experts think so, accelerating a forecast from media analyst Gordon Borrell that the retail industry ...
Strong growth in mobile traffic is hitting all publishers, including paywalled newspaper brands like The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper, which gets 30% of its website traffic from mobile visitors, has inked a string of mobile-focused partnersh...
Sales, both in stores and online, from Thanksgiving through the weekend were estimated to have dropped 11%, to $50.9 billion, from $57.4 billion last year, according to preliminary survey results released Sunday by the National Retail Fe...
A new report from Juniper Research has found that mobile phone and tablet users will make 195 billion mobile commerce transactions annually by 2019, up from 72 billion this year. Use is expected to be buoyed by the launch of Apple Pay, togeth...
Our fragmented attention spans are so fickle that if something doesn't grab us in the first few seconds, we're likely to turn away, writes Michelle Castillo. Research by Web performance monitoring company Catchpoint Systems suggests that news...