IntuiLab, a leader in the design, creation and deployment of innovative multi-touch experiences, is proud to report that Nespresso has deployed a record volume of sales kiosks running IntuiLabs IntuiFace Commerce software. This software uses the latest in interactive UI design and business workflow to produce a memorable and highly effective retail installation that speaks to todays digitally savvy consumer. Nespresso has illustrated the appeal of this new generation user experience by achieving what is likely the largest multi-national deployment of its kind.

This roll-out represents a seven-fold increase over the initial pilot, now including most of Western and Eastern Europe as well as farther afield in places like Argentina, Australia, Israel and Hong Kong. With over 250 installations it is the largest of its kind for the new generation user experience typified by IntuiFace Commerce.

IntuiLab is not new to such unprecedented growth, having already been responsible for creating and deploying a tablet-based retail application for SFR Frances second largest wireless telecom operator – that is now in over 500 stores, the largest in-store Android deployment on record. We have learned from over 7 years of working on multi-touch projects that there are no shortcuts to success in the retail world, says Vincent Encontre, CEO of IntuiLab. You need great technology, cutting edge design, and a focus on the long term to anticipate both challenge and opportunity. IntuiLab embraces this formula and we are thrilled to see how well Nespresso has benefited from our partnership.

In 2011, Nespresso launched a worldwide project to add a new sales channel inside large department stores. They wanted to 1) accelerate the recruitment of customers for this shop-in-a-shop experience, 2) energize their image to appeal to new customers, and 3) speed the time to purchase.

With the help of IntuiFace Commerce, these objectives were translated into a luxury experience combining the clean aesthetics of the brand with a modern, innovative and memorable digital application. The result was an elegantly crafted interactive application on display technology supplied by 3M equipped to enable both self-service as well as assisted promotion and selling. The softwares core capability combines product browsing and filtering with selection. Secondary capabilities include brand promotion, 3D informational views, live call center access for ordering and backend monitoring for analytic collection. Throughout, fully interactive high definition images, video and 3D modeling create eye-catching effects that capture attention and inspire purchase. And behind the scenes, an enterprise class software infrastructure enables centralized remote monitoring, management and updates, easing installation and set-up by non-technical personnel across the globe.

The increasing ubiquity of handheld touch devices has created a consumer class comfortable with interactive applications, resulting in a backlash against pre-smartphone experiences. Through the use of cutting edge interactive technology and an intimacy with the science of human-machine interaction, IntuiLab delivered an engaging, intuitive and highly functional application that appealed to this new generation of consumer.

About IntuiLab

Founded in 2002, IntuiLab is a global leader in the creation of in-store interactive customer experiences. Our cutting edge multi-touch and sensor-based applications are based upon a portable, scalable and extensible natural user interaction platform combining our expertise in human-machine interaction with enterprise-class server technology. The results are visually stunning, deeply functional, high ROI experiences for any retailer. IntuiLab partners with a variety of Tier 1 and Tier 2 industry players and has clients in multiple retail sectors including grocery, apparel, specialty, convenience, telecom and banking/insurance. More information is available at http://www.intuilab.com.

Conceptualization The programmer must first decide whether the concept will be embraced by Android users. Does the app meet a current need? Are there any similar apps out on the market currently that feature the exact same attributes? What will this apps competitive advantage be? Once the talented developer answers the above questions, he or she can then begin to envision how the app will truly work. Though some people believe developing apps is purely analytical work, that assessment could not be further from the truth. This process must begin with concept and end with successful application.

Ease of use The most aesthetically pleasing app lasts mere minutes in the Android marketplace if it is not simple to use. Todays consumers simply do not have the patience for an app that involves too much setup time. Apps that are intuitively designed are embraced, and apps that are difficult to figure out are quickly erased.

Actual development A talented professional Android application development master designs apps that are developed well. They are pleasing to the eye, serve an actual purpose and meet consumer needs in some way. Whats more, the actual code is written flawlessly.

With all of these factors in mind, it should now be clear that Android app development is not a simple science. Those who strive to master the process are creative, technologically minded, and think ahead.

Openness- The Android phones’ pride:

Unlike other mobile phone operating systems, Android’s software is not just limited to the ones created by its developers. Because the Android Operating System is an open source, anyone can create software such as applications or accessories for Android phones. All it would take is enough knowledge on how to create them, and everyone can create their own applications. This allows the Android phones to have more available applications than any other phone. Furthermore, Android is also known for having a lot of free phone applications, and everyone would be able to enjoy.

Integration with Google Applications:

Google’s applications are the most important applications there are. They would be very useful to anyone who uses them, and they are all easy to use. Google Applications include Gmail, contacts, calendar and all other Google Applications. If you know how useful Google is on a computer, then you know what it can do to smartphones. Android phones are known to integrate and react perfectly with Google Applications, which means you will have an easy time using them on your Android phones.

Customizing- Android’s bet against others:

Android can be considered to be better than others when it comes to customization.

Android phones are definitely very customizable. The options are almost limitless when it comes to customizing Android phones. The Android phones are even regarded as the phone counterpart of Mr. Potato Head.

This should be enough to convince anyone about the greatness of the Android phone. Along with its amazing free Android phone applications, there are other great things that you would find interesting with the Android phones. It is also recommended that if you get an Android for yourself; you should choose one from the Galaxy S models. Galaxy’s Android phones are known to be very useful and great when it comes to applications. Nevertheless, almost every phone using the Android Operating System would be destined to become a great hit.

With more iPhones and Android phones being purchased each day than new babies being born, it’s only a matter of time before all companies have a mobile website. US Insurance Net joined the ranks of companies offering a sleak, easy to use interface for consumers using a mobile device with the launch of their mobile site, m.usinsurancenet.com.

The mobile version of the site allows users to quickly get quotes by calling into US Insurance Net or by completing a quote online. Having the option to choose to speak with an insurance agent directly over the phone or to request quotes online gives consumers more control over the quoting process as well as helping them save money on insurance. Consumers are currently able to get free quotes for auto, homeowners, renters, life and health insurance.

The new site also allows consumers to contact customer service and still gives them access to the full US Insurance Net website that includes insurance reviews, tips and guides, a q/a section and more, all at their finger tips. As new updates are rolled out, more features will be available on the mobile site, making shopping for insurance and getting information easier than ever.

Taking away one other barrier from the insurance shopping process will not only help users save money, but time as well. Users can save up to 40% on insurance by comparing quotes from several companies without having to take time to visit each insurance site, fill in their information and repeat the process for additional quotes. At US Insurance Net, the consumer comes first and the more we can help them save, the better for everyone involved.

About US Insurance Net

US Insurance Net works hard to provide our users with a fast and simple way to get and compare insurance rates for multiple lines of insurance including car, home, renters, health and life insurance. Consumers can visit USInsuranceNet.com to complete a free, personalized profile and have insurance companies and brokers partnered with US Insurance Net, contact them to help them find the best home insurance coverage at the lowest price.

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A new smartphone app helps parents protect the lives of their teens by providing alerts when teens engage in life-threatening use of smartphones while behind the wheel.

As the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) added distracted driving to its 2013 most-wanted list today, 52apps announced Canary, a smartphone app designed to reduce distracted driving and keep teens alive.

Canary available for iPhones and Android phones is the first smartphone app that approaches the fatal distracted driving epidemic by enabling parents to monitor teens smartphone use in real time. Like the historic canary in a coal mine, the Canary app raises an alarm to parents when their teens are doing dangerous things, such as texting while driving, moving at unsafe speeds, traveling outside an area parents have defined as safe or violating curfew.

Parents can receive messages via the app installed on their own phones and by email, with complete details of their teens activities including a list of their call volumes, locations and driving speeds which Canary logs for later review.

In 2010, 3,092 people died in the United States in crashes involving distracted driving. The National Safety Council estimates that at least 24 percent of crashes in 2010 involved drivers talking or texting on cell phones. Canary gives parents a proactive tool to help teens make the safest decisions and avoid tragedies.

ABOUT CANARY

Spray Foam Insulation & Roofing Magazine is excited to announce its November/December 2012 issue. Readers across the globe can now access the latest edition for free online or via the publications array of apps for Apple iOS, Google Android and Amazon Kindle Fire devices.

SFIRM presents its eighth issue with a distinct focus on exterior spray foam applications, which include much more than oft-highlighted spray foam roofing systems. Indeed, spray foam can be applied to vertical exterior surfaces and provide a buildingresidential, commercial or industrialwith an effective air and vapor barrier, as well as robust insulation.

Highlights of the November/December Issue:

Are you in search of something special for the gadget-lover in your life this holiday season, or a gift that will help make a loved-ones life easier? The experts at Living in Digital Times have tested, toyed, and experimented with the latest innovations and technology and are letting you in on their top picks in this years Holiday Gift Guide for the Digital Age.

The good news is that there are technologies to delight every person in the family. The bad news is that theres an excess of riches. So many choices make the purchase of the right gift nearly impossible, said Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times. But with our help, youll have everyone on your gift list tech-happy.

This years top 20 picks:

Digitally Connected Kids

GeoPalz – The first pedometer for tracking a childs daily activity. The more steps kids take, the more pedpoints they earn. There are 26 unique designs that kids can trade in for prizes or time in the online arcade. Ages 5-12, $ 25.00

Wanderful Interactive Storybooks (Wanderful) – Educational storybook apps based on the classic LivingBooks titles, where every word and every page is interactive, enriching the reading experience and engaging kids for hours. There are six apps in all, $ 4.99 each.

Tablets – The hottest trend in kids gifts this year. An explosion of durable kid-oriented tablets that offer parental controls and family-friendly content have hit the market. Examples include LeapPad2 ($ 99) from LeapFrog, a first tablet for preschoolers, and the Kurio7 ($ 149.99) from Techno Source, an Android family tablet that allows parents to create up to 8 user profiles with custom settings.

Apptivity – Have fun while learning. Apps promote educational and social skills but the interactive features make them a lot of fun to play. Companies such as FingerPrint Digital offer 15 free engaging apps and Scholastic Apps, which offer a variety of book, reading, and gaming apps all under $ 10.

Students Campus Cravings

IZIP Electric Bikes (Currie Technologies) – A cool new alternative for commuting, getting around campus or having fun. A safe, reliable and emission free ride. $ 999 and up.

BookRenter – Make college a little less expensive. Open an account and let your student rent, buy or sell books with ease, while saving up to 80% off the costs of books at the campus book store.

SkyTM WiFi Smartpen (Livescribe) Studying enters the digital age. This smartpen wirelessly records written notes and audio, digitizes the information and sends the notes to an online account. $ 170.

AfterShokz Sportz M2 w Mic – The next generation of open ear sport headphones. They sit comfortably in front of the ear and use bone conduction technology to keep ears open to ambient noises. Safely keeps co-eds connected to their music and social life while remaining active. $ 79.95.

Moms Digital Makeover

Samsung Galaxy S

Mobile Labs, LLC, a leader in automated, cross-platform mobile application testing, today announces the release of Trust 2.0. A certified add-in to the market-leading test automation tool for Web and desktop apps, Mobile Labs Trust 2.0 now includes native object-based scripting, letting testers interact with individual native mobile objects, their properties and methods rather than a single app-view or page-view. Through direct, on-device interaction with the mobile app under test, Trust automates object definition by providing a precise inventory of objects and properties.

Trusts native, object-based approach results in substantial increases to test accuracy and efficacy and improves tester productivity. For iOS applications, testers no longer have to manually define or identify objects by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or image matching. With Trust 2.0, testers use the same widely adopted scripting language, object repository and object identification tools they customarily use for building Web or Windows automated tests. In addition, Trust 2.0 provides powerful direct object interaction without ever compromising the device.

According to Mobile Labs President and CEO Don Addington, the capability to test on iOS devices iPads

Android is promptly becoming one of the most popular tools for mobile application development. It easily provides a range of benefits for mobile application developers. It is easy to hold it also easy to utilize. Moreover, it is open-source based too. The Software Development Kit facilitated by Android helps the developers to a large level and one can start working on applications in a fast and enforced quickly too. It is the best platform which assist the creators to put more time, efforts and understanding client needs.

Your business improvement and working are assured to acquire an immense effect from the increasing amount of mobile platforms and smart phones available in the market. However, among the smart phone platforms, most of the people that stand out from the crowd you can see that Google’s Android is one of them.

Android application development is one such method that will certainly help your business reach at high  goals.

The fundamental programming language needed for Android development is Java and this is expected to be the most trusted and quick languages to formulate applications. Java makes Android application more accountable and effective if compared to other smart phone applications. Due to increasing efficiency and soft availability of Java developers, the Android application development gives a good existence to your business to develop in fast speed. This application is an open agreement platform that allows the creators and users to loosely distribute their requests or applications and even sell them online. There are lots of benefits that are related to this application and are simply to be availed. At some greater extent Android application is admired by the most of the mobile application developers. The chief reason behind it is, the third party integration involvement in the android based devices.  

Android application development is the first as well as the best appropriate option for you as it is a compelling and spontaneous platform to create or to generate mobile applications. It contains an actual choice to entirely change the look and feel, as well as the functions of a mobile device. Android apps offers peer-to-peer electronic messaging that assists existence, fast messaging and inter application communication. Android has powerful or strong APIs, fabulous documentation, a thriving developer community and no improvement or distribution costs.

Competition in the app market continues and with it the need for new app tools for developers increases. AppsGeyser, the leading online app making platform, takes this need seriously and has announced the release of their latest free Android app tool template – the niche app tool. The new tool enables app makers to create an app around a topic using a collaboration of app tools in just a few clicks.

The niche app has been created for app makers that are seeking to create an app based around a topic. The RSS feed, YouTube and website app tools are brought together in this new feature aimed at collating information from various sources. Being able to collate all the relevant information around one topic can be difficult and this is where the AppsGeyser niche app tool comes in useful. Creating a niche app with our new app tool can be completed in a few simple steps and has proven extremely popular.

There is a financial incentive for using the niche app tool too. The niche app presents a range of information on a chosen topic that is automatically updated via the RSS feed and YouTube feed. It has been proven that apps that update their data regularly encourage prolonged and frequent usage. The increased usage of the app increases the financial potential for the app creator.

AppsGeyser Android app creator Michael Harris told us: “I have a rugby school and was looking to create an app that would not only allow people to see what is on my website, but also to get the latest Rugby news and view the latest video clips. This app has allowed me to create a link to the RSB 6 Nations RSS feed, show YouTube videos from my search for RSB 6 Nations and have my website all together on one app. Perfect.”

AppsGeyser Co-founder Vasily Salomatov, told us, “The introduction of the niche idea app tool came from the need for app makers to collate various styles of information into one app. The niche app also increases the financial potential for app creators because users visit the app more often and stay for a prolonged period.

About AppsGeyser

AppsGeyser, launched in February 2011, is a fast growing Android app creation platform. AppsGeyser enables users to create apps for Android devices from any web content in under five minutes. AppsGeyser has seen more than 185,000 apps created on its platform. There have been more than 65 million downloads of its apps.