According to a study from Aberdeen Group, mobile retail platforms have a number of essential elements, including product look-up features and mobile couponing. Retailers are also pointing to reporting and encryption tools as top planned back-end technologies.

When is a vertical a vertical? Is it when the first page of Google AdWords is taken by look a like companies? Is it when a competitor enters the market with a URL of…

If you have never picked up the phone and dialed leads, it’s a worthwhile experience. Just picture yourself not on the generating end of the leads but on the calling…

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The “2010 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Insights Study” from Performics, conducted by ROI Research, includes its fair share of intriguing morsels of information about searchers in the U.S., including the finding that Google is for “experts,” and Yahoo is for “novices.”

Last year, more non-smartphone users used downloaded apps and mobile browsers. This year, the picture has predictably flipped, according to comScore.

Mobile gaming is one of the five most popular forms of mobile content usage, according to comScore. There are, of course, differences in how popular the activity is, depending on how old the consumer is and what gender they are, as shown by data released by Compete.

Google’s Chrome Web browser continues to see increased adoption, but will it translate into a successful shot at the operating-system market?

Perhaps one of the reasons that we enjoy the Electronic Retailing Association’s (ERA’s) show so much, is that it gave us that kid in a candy store feel. A chief complaint others have about some of…