The news that Camden Council in London is to start rolling out wifi in its open spaces, high streets and other public areas is, to my mind, some of the best news I’ve heard for …

200 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first quarter of this year, according to Juniper Research. Meanwhile, it also comes as no surprise that teens in the UK are among the fastest growing section …

One of the main messages to come out of Internet Retailing Expo last month was that retailers need to start thinking across all channels about how to deliver experiences to consumers in an attempt to …

40 years ago yesterday the first mobile phone call was made. From a brick sized lump of electronics and at great, great expense. (For those of you of a UK only bent, it was 28 …

As I write this, day two of Internet Retailing Expo thrums around me here at the NEC. Day One featured a whole day dedicated to mobile (well mobile-social-local, or SoLoMo) services and despite being a …

While I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, back home in the UK IMRG and ForeSee published data, respectively, that showed that m-retailing has exploded and that consumers are finding the m-retail …

So 4G is nearly upon us and while George Osbourne has to explain to his boss (at in Berlin lol) why the auction for the licences raised ‘only’ £2.3billion – more than a billion short …

Thank heavens for that: everyone is rallying round to save the high street. Or rather, everyone in the mobile tech space is using the failure of high street names such as HMV, Jessops et al …

There is a very amusing story on the spoof news website The Daily Mash that states that the UK’s high streets are going to be turned into “pre-Amazon theme parks’, where for £12 admission fee, …

It may not have been that happy a Christmas for many retailers on the high street, but luckily for us at Internet Retailing Towers the online side of Christmas sales has done very well. And …

As Christmas looms and I find myself dashing off this last mobile missive of 2012, my thoughts turn to drink and mince pies… sorry, that’s better. Right, with crumbs in my beard and my head …

As I predicted last issue, this week’s newsletter features veritable Santa’s grotto of stories predicting about the huge impact mobile is going to have on Christmas shopping this year. And naturally, shopping on mobile this …

I wonder how much Christmas shopping will be done this year on mobile? I suspect I won’t have to wait too long to find out – not because Santa will leave me a note next …