Tag: wifi

Deliveroo unveiled telepathic food ordering, Honda introduced emoji registration plates, Carlsberg moved into gourmet burgers with The Carlsburger and Virgin Trains offered a 25% discount to customers who were willing to shovel coal. With brands vying for headlines this April’s Fools day, a time when brands are rewarded for being deceptive, impractical and hopefully funny, the million dollar question is, were you fooled? As ever, share anything interesting you spot with #OMDFWD

 Headlines

• Hot off the press, Twitter has won the rights to stream live NFL Thursday night games
• It was a poor year for April Fools, but here are the best and worst  including this news grabbing one from Google
• Speaking of Google, you can now search for animal sounds and have the results delivered in audio

  Insights

• Does the rise of messaging apps calling for ‘bot’ strategy?
•  As spring finally arrives, here are the next big 6 health and wellbeing trends to keep us in fine fettle
•  Peer endorsement drives 10 x more purchase intent than a celebrity route

Cool

• Reminiscent of Converse’s Spelling Bee, KFC encourages teen learning with the lure of free WiFi
• Connected bikes 2.0 coming to a bike lane near you soon
• Viewers in Asia can now vote for their favourite reality contestants via Google search results
• Facebook buys Lobster, meaning US users could monetise their social snaps

Deep reads

• Everything you need to know about the snapchat latest update
• As Apple reaches 40, a look at the forgotten founder who gave it all away
• Is drone racing set to be the next big thing?

Fed up of sitting on hold? New app Hero lets users message questions and queries directly to restaurants, shops, cinemas, gyms and hotels. Next time you want to check if your favourite restaurant has a free table; whether that stylish shop has those shoes in stock; or what time the latest blockbuster hit is screening at the cinema, you won’t have to spend valuable minutes of your life listening to Coldplay on hold. Read, learn and share away….!!! #OMDFWD

HEADLINES

• Rolling news from SXSW can be found here (and all over Twitter)
• Facebook is bidding on the rights for some significant NFL games – a sign of things to come for sports rights?
• Google is testing a payments app – called Hands Free – that enables users to pay in store without taking their phone out of their pocket

 INSIGHTS

• How the BBC is using Viber and WhatsApp to reach younger audiences
• The world’s WiFi, mapped
• When TV supports mobile: how TV ads pushed Game of War: Fire Age to top ranking mobile game, by revenue

 COOL

• Hero, the App looking to make telephone helplines a thing of the past
• 94 year old style icon Iris Apfel is designing fashionable safety-alert bracelets for seniors
• Star Trek Beyond’s Director Justin Lim releases his latest 360 piece for Google Spotlight Stories, a Sci-Fi short set in Downtown LA

DEEP READS

• On Jack Dorsey’s plans to fix Twitter
• The making of PlayStation VR
• A good summary of AI: part I and part II