Launched last month and described by ‘an influential’ in the grocery trade as ‘a Just Eat for B2B’, GoKart is a multi-vendor B2B ordering app that is available on Android and iOS platforms.
GoKart allows food and grocery businesses such as retailers, caterers, delis, pubs and restaurants to order from all their suppliers from one app. They can replenish low stock by scanning in existing barcodes, which add items for future and instant ordering. Continue reading
Israeli company Anagog has claimed its parking algorithm that identifies where and when a car has been parked means that it has built the ‘first real time global parking map of the world’.
It has done so by using crowdsourced parking information from apps that have integrated the Anagog service and after a pilot program in Israel released a visualization of a day in the life of Tel Aviv’s overcrowded parking reality. To date, Anagog has more than 100,000 users in Israel and 500,000 users worldwide. Continue reading
Oscar-winning animation company Aardman has teamed up with Pearson to launch a mobile education app aimed at children up to five years old.
The Timmy’s Number Tracing app is aimed at helping pre-school children develop their basic maths skills in a fun and engaging way.
The app uses a character known as Timmy the lamb, a CBeebies favourite apparently, who helps children learn to form numbers. The press release goes on to say:
As parents know well, young children are fascinated by phones and tablets and this app is a unique way to help develop a love for maths from a young age.
They’ll probably want a phone for themselves on their next birthday then.
The creeping ubiquity of Near Field Communication (NFC) comes a little closer today with its deployment at this fortnight’s French Open tennis tournament at Roland-Garros.
Mobile operator Orange will be demonstrating NFC technology on its stand in the Allée Suzanne Lenglen and at other sites within the stadium. Mobile users will be able to pay for shopping, to store their loyalty cards and even to use public transport.
Visitors to the tournament will also be able to test the payment system at the restaurant Les Jardins de Roland-Garros as well as download the Orange Roland-Garros application.
All of which will be tested next Thursday by your correspondent when he attends the semi-finals of the tournament… as a guest of Orange.
I’ll do my best to be as non-partisan as I can but, as I’m sure you all know, there’s no such thing as a free invitation to a marque tennis tournament.
The creeping ubiquity of Near Field Communication (NFC) comes a little closer today with its deployment at this fortnight’s French Open tennis tournament at Roland-Garros.
Mobile operator Orange will be demonstrating NFC technology on its stand in the Allée Suzanne Lenglen and at other sites within the stadium. Mobile users will be able to pay for shopping, to store their loyalty cards and even to use public transport.
Visitors to the tournament will also be able to test the payment system at the restaurant Les Jardins de Roland-Garros as well as download the Orange Roland-Garros application.
All of which will be tested next Thursday by your correspondent when he attends the semi-finals of the tournament… as a guest of Orange.
I’ll do my best to be as non-partisan as I can but, as I’m sure you all know, there’s no such thing as a free invitation to a marque tennis tournament.