Category Archives: Mobile Devices
Training & Events Calendar
Whatever your training needs and wherever you are in Wales, there should be a training event coming to a venue near you. Stop Press: Anyone interested in a Photoshop course in Carmarthen? Software Alliance Wales is planning a 2 day … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Calendar, Copywriting, Innovation, Internet Security, legislation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, Still photography, Training, Trends, Video photography
Tagged digital training, tourism conferences, tourism training, tourism workshops, Wales tourism events
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Death of the PC???
According to figures published in April by marketing intelligence agency International Data Corporation, sales of personal computers and laptops fell by 14% in the first three months of 2013, the fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline. Some commentators have seen … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Still photography, Trends, Video photography
Tagged desktops, laptops, mobiles, pcs, personal computers, smartphones, tablets
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Rural communities: The pub’s the hub
Local communities – bringing it all together It has been part of our mission to help small tourism enterprises create their own online space and develop their own, individual, content. Individual content differentiates one business from another, addresses the pre-occupations of selected … Continue reading
Fruit of the Vine
At the end of January we wondered whether Vine, the video sharing app that integrates with Twitter, would stimulate imagination and offer another viable platform for instant posting and sharing. (See And now … instant video postcards). The six second … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Social Media, Trends, Video photography
Tagged instant videos, social video, twitter, Vine, Vine on Twitter
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And now … instant video postcards
The way ahead? Over the last months image sharing has been boosted (if a boost were needed) by the integration of basic photo editing apps with social sites, most notably by the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook. Which prompts the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Photography, Social Media, Trends, Video photography
Tagged smartphone video, twitter, video sharing, Vine
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Mobile phone? Take mobile payments
When the lights go out … Early in December 2012 we posted the following item on our News page. Now seems a good time to recycle it through the Blog, given the usual power outages following a day or two … Continue reading
Instagram and other animals
Our flexible friends? At the end of 2012, Instagram caused consternation, not to say outrage, in the digital community by announcing a change in its ‘proprietary rights to content’ due to take effect in mid-January 2013. Whilst acknowledging that the … Continue reading
Augmented Reality: what goes around …
Augmented reality [AR] is a useful and engaging tool for the tourism sector and its customers. Put simply, AR superimposes computer-generated content on the real world: still and video imagery, graphics, audio, and the rest. Users are thus exposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Content Sharing, Innovation, Mobile Devices, QR codes, Social Media, Trends
Tagged AR, augmented reality, city tours, digital imagery, digital tours, museum tours
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Full service hotel smartphone!
An interesting report from the BBC News Channel’s “Click” programme demonstrates the potential of smartphone technology for the hospitality sector. Guests at a Thailand hotel are issued with a courtesy handset on arrival. The handset uses NFC (Near Field Communication) … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Innovation, Mobile Devices, Trends
Tagged Bluetooth, hotel apps, Near Field Communication, NFC, smartphone apps, wi-fi
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Secure your mobile data
Is your smartphone secure? On 10 October we reported on the growth of smartphone hacking (see the News & Shorts page). Working and communicating on the move is one of the greatest benefits of a mobile device. But the more … Continue reading
