Tuesday, 23 August 2016

How digital signage can enhance customer experience?


Today’s technology oriented world demands latest technology usage in every industry. In retail industry also, customers want to access information, deals, products and information, whether they are shopping online, or in the store. As consumers are increasingly digitally savvy and are expecting an Omni-channel retail experience. Retailers can give their customers interactive, immersive cross-channel shopping experiences with the convenience of online shopping in the store, with the help of Digital Signage.
Digital Signage is an innovative way for customer engagement.Around 63 percent of people are reporting that digital signage catches their attention. So it is proved that if it is used perfectly, digital signage displays can be a success to the whims of customers.
Content is the Key
Most of the retailers focussed on the screen they used in the digital signage, but the secret is in the content displayed on the screen. Digital content is the first point that catches the attention of the customers.
So the content you display must be good. What do you mean by that? Well, first it all in the design. Digital signage with the complex design and difficult to read or understand at a glancecontent becomes worthless.Keeping these things in mind, here are some tips to keep your content easy, breezy and beautiful:
1. Create a story:The digital signage within your windows must tell the people passing by your store about the value what they will derive from walking through the doors, so that the passerscan be turned into your customers. This can be done with the help of images and videos.
2. Keep it simple: Using five great words will entice customers more than 10 mediocre ones. So it’s a thumb rule to keep things simple and attractive. Allow your message do the talking and use the eye catching colours and layout.
3. Compelling composition: Enticing visuals and compelling colours that complement each other can attract eyeballs and get more focus by people.
Benefits of Digital Signage for Retail Industry
· Enriches customers retail experience with interactive and engaging digital solutions
· Helps the businesses to increase brand awareness, product sales as well as operational efficiency.
· Create a unobtrusive Omni-channel retail strategy
· Convert common customers into loyal customers by leaving a meaningful, lasting experience.
· Employee training and skills management, as it creates awareness about current job vacancies or provide staff training, improve employee competence and job satisfaction.
The growth of Digital Signage
Digital signage is a powerful tool in retail industry. But like the most technologies, digital signage also has to undergo numerous evolutionary stages.
IMS suggests that digital signage infrastructure’s global marketwas $5 billion in 2010. It may have reached a greater height now.
IMS’s projection of $7 billion in infrastructure by 2013 almost outlandish compared to ABI’s forecast of $4.5 billion in 2016.
These firms are certainly measuring different things in different ways. Both are subject to different biases and will introduce different errors based on their way of collecting data and calculations they applied.
The future of Digital Signage
It is predicted that by 2020 the digital signage will be a $20 billion industry. At a pace of 20% annually digital signage users are increasing.
In future, digital signage will get use in all types of other products, and it will continuously grow. The single screen with images, text will be old thing and the new era with digital signage, mobile, wearable technology will start. The world will become a global network of computers, data, databases, cameras and devices.
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Sunday, 7 August 2016

Apple Releases Redesigned Apple TV Remote App for iPhone


Apple TV users no longer need to use that awkward Siri remote, as Apple launched their new remote app with which users can get all the advantage of all media hub’s feature. A brand new Apple TV remote app is released on 1st August, which drags iOS interface into modern era. This release has opened a new set of opportunities for mobile app development company USA specially mobile app development companies Atlanta, New York or UK and across the world who are able to develop app for Apple TV.

This app mimics the functionality of the Siri Remote and is used to control the fourth-generation Apple TV as well as older Apple TV models. But there is no option to use the legacy iTunes Remote app for the users who want to control iTunes media on their Mac. The Apple remote was released to the public on 1st August Monday afternoon at WWDC. It was available in beta version for the developers to test till Monday’s release.

An app has to connect Apple TV via Bluetooth, having the exact layout as it was for the Siri remote. It has a significant improvement over the old remote app. It is a good replacement of previous remote app that was not fully supported to the latest features of fourth-generation Apple TV. But it is also missing few features in its current version.

The new app is freely available on Apple app store with a 5.5 megabyte download. It requires iOS 9.3.2 or later for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Without Siri, Apple TV remote app can also work with a third generation with Apple TV software 7.2.1 or a second-generation model with Apple TV software 6.2.1.

The Apple’s description for the new Apple TV remote app –

Apple TV Remote is a great companion to Apple TV, delivering the best of the Siri Remote. With Apple TV Remote, you’ll never need to put down your iPhone to enjoy Apple TV. Control Apple TV with a swipe of your finger or use the keyboard to quickly enter text. And you can use the app along with the Siri Remote.


The features of the app include 
  • Navigate Apple TV with touch gestures
  • Quickly enter text, email addresses, and passwords using the keyboard
  • Ask Siri to find something great to watch, listen to, or play
  • Control the movie, TV shows, or songs that're currently playing
  • Play games using the accelerometer and gyroscope
  • Turn on Game Mode for simplified game controls

Requirements:

  • iOS devices using iOS 9.3.2 or later
  • Wi-Fi connection to Apple TV
  • Apple TV (4th generation), using tvOS 9.2.1 or later
  • Apple TV (3rd generation), using Apple TV Software 7.2.1
  • Apple TV (2nd generation), using Apple TV Software 6.2.1

With the simplified text entry, Apple TV Remote app allows entering names, usernames and passwords with your phone’s keyboard.  It also allows game mode so that you can use accelerometer and gyroscope of your smartphone.

The Siri remote has volume buttons and infrared blaster, but the iPhone doesn’t have an infrared blaster to adjust the volume on a receiver, soundbar or TV set.

Overall, the new Apple TV Remote App is a nice opportunity for anyone who likes to use new Apple TV as it allows you to control Siri of the Apple TV from your iPhone.

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Monday, 1 August 2016

Verizon buys Yahoo at $4.8bn


Yahoo was one of the first companies which opened the way in the internet world for many of us.
Now Yahoo reached almost end of its life as an independent company.The American telecommunication company Verizon Communications announced on Monday that it acquires Yahoo’s core internet business. Yahoo’s board approved the sale at $4.8 billion. From just a cell phone company to transforming to something more is the purpose of this deal. The news grabbed the attention of tech giants, industry leaders, and mobile apps development companies USA and across the world.
So we have to know first why Yahoo failed:

What went wrong with Yahoo?

A leader in email as well as online news and search in 90s and early 2000s- Yahoo, why it failed to sustain?
  1. The series of bad choices of CEOs 
It is easy to criticise the current CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer and her strategy, but she is just the current CEO in a long line of sub-optional CEOs of Yahoo.Yahoo appointed CEOs at an increasingly rapid rate before appointing Mayer.

 In 2008 Carol Bartz was appointed as Yahoo CEO, then Tim Morse, Scott Thompson in 2012. The change of CEOs at this rate could not give time a company to sustain. Scott Thompson did 2,000 job cuts, earned himself $7.3m for 130 days’ work. Then Ross Levinsohn became the Yahoo CEO and left before Mayer became CEO in July.



2. Yahoo didn’t rate technology and didn’t hire good programmers

"Yahoo treated programming as a commodity. The job of programmers was just to take the work of the product managers and designers, and translating it into code," claimed former Yahoo employee Paul Graham.Facebook, Google, Microsoft hired the best programmers, but Yahoo put everything in the hands of project managers and designers.

3. Yahoo behaved as a media company, not a technology company

  Yahoo continued as a media company with dollops of technology, though, it didn’t come in the race of Google and Facebook. Google and Facebook advertisement platforms are effective with content-strategy. But Yahoo created advertising products and platforms, but not created user-centric content. No-one wants to pay for subscribing to newspapers and magazines without getting pre-subscription benefits. But Yahoo focussed more on it and get nothing as compared to Google and Facebook.



4. Hadn’t buy Google 

 In 2002 Yahoo had a chance to buy Google. Then after months of negotiation the Chief Executive Terry Semel balked at the $5 billion price. Somebody tech leaders says this was the biggest mistake done by Yahoo.



Yahoo Timeline
  • 1994 – Yahoo founded
  • 2000 – Yahoo valued at $125bn at height of dot.com boom
  • 2002 – Yahoo didn’t purchase Google
  • 2008 –Refused Microsoft’s $44.6bn offer
  • 2013 – Yahoo acquired blogging site Tumblr
  • 2015 –Yahoo faced net loss of $4.4bn
  • 2016 – Verizon agreed for $4.8bn deal to buy yahoo

DEAL FROM THE EYE OF VERIZON

This is a quite big amount for a company whose online business falling from grace. Yahoo at one point was the first name coming into mind for internet search, but now another companies are doing that job quite good.

Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdams wants a larger share of the booming digital advertising pie. And he thinks this deal will help him. Verizon is a leading US mobile phone network, which has a wealth from smartphone users.

Verizon purchased AOL a year ago. Now with Yahoo, Verizon will gain Yahoo’s 600 million monthly active mobile users, also its email service, Tumblr, Yahoo Finance etc.


Sites like Engadget, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and TechCrunch will now do advertisements for Verizon, that can be more effective depending on the knowledge of Verizon about its mobile customers. It will help Verizon to compete with Google and Facebook.
Simply Yahoo couldn’t do it alone as it doesn’t have enough data on its one billion or so monthly users to target and to stand in the race of Google and Facebook.
We will hear more concrete details from Verizon in coming time. It may be using Yahoo brand, or maybe not.
Regardless, Yahoo as an independent company is finished and there is new era started with the name Verizon.
This is the lesson for all tech industry including web application development companies USA, mobile app development company New York and overall software industry across the world.
Bottom Line
 “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” - John D Rockefeller (Founder of  the Standard Oil Company & Philanthropist).