Rodney Payne Marketing Associates

Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Google may be getting ready to take augmented reality to the next level: According to a report, an Android-powered pair of glasses will go on sale by the end of 2012. If so, get ready for a new take on the concept of wearable computing. A number of smart gadgets that track your movements and assess your health havemade waves over the last…

Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Samsung has reigned supreme in Twitter buzz relating to Mobile World Congress, but one week before the start of the show, HTC has leaped over the Korean handset giant on news of a new “superphone” being unveiled in Barcelona, according to social media number cruncher Anltyk. MoDaCo and several other gadget blogs have recently begun leaking details of the HTC One X or…

Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Syrian citizen journalist Rami Ahmad Alsayeed was killed by the country’s armed forces today, according to a blog post by live streaming provider Bambuser. Alsayeed was using Bambuser to report out of the besieged city of Homs, which has been under heavy attack for days. Some of his footage from recent weeks has been used by major news networks BBC World and Al…

Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Although the idea of police officers video-recording their encounters with citizens has some claiming a small victory in the quest for better transparency, the issue isn’t that simple. Yes, video could provide invaluable evidence in some situations, but it could also provide evidence without context and fertile ground for privacy invasions. The New York Times on Tuesday published both a story describing Taser International’s…

Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants According to leaked documents, Facebook plans to upgrade its premium ads on February 29. The company expects the new ads to perform 40 to 8o percent better than its previous product. As the owner of a social creative agency, and as a rapacious buyer of Facebook ads for clients and for marketing my own company, I live for this kind of news. In an age of…