Mobile Commerce Trends

Teachers are using artificial intelligence to lighten their massive workload

09/04/202309/01/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Artificial intelligence - Teacher smiling sitting at desk with stack of books

AI has become a new way to create lesson plans and reduce the amount of unpaid overtime worked. Teachers that have been finding their workloads overwhelming throughout the schoolyear are looking to artificial intelligence to an increasing degree. This technology helps them to keep on top of some of their more time-consuming tasks. Teachers are using artificial intelligence to help complete activities ranging from grading, planning lessons for any subject they teach, or even developing behavioral support plans for students requiring this additional attention. By using the technology, teachers are…

New energy technology in the form of paint can heat and cool buildings

08/31/202308/30/2023 L. Green

Energy technology - Person painting house exterior

This can help to reduce electricity use for air conditioning and decrease heating fuel consumption. Stanford University scientists have developed a new form of energy technology in the form of a paint that can both heat and cool homes and other structures, keeping them cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The result is that electricity and heating fuel consumption are reduced, as is the cost of their use. The idea is that through this paint alone, buildings can reduce their operating costs and produce lower carbon emissions.…

Consumers love paying bills with mobile wallets, but fees could block growth

08/24/202308/23/2023 L. Green

Half of consumers say they wouldn’t use this feature if it came with an added cost attached to it. All age demographics are using their mobile wallets to an increasing degree for the purpose of bill payments. Consumers enjoy the convenience of being able to pay their bills whenever and wherever they want. There is certainly an advantage to using mobile wallets when compared to now outdated methods of paying bill such as writing a paper check and mailing it or heading to the bank or institution to make a…

How will mobile security be affected by widespread artificial intelligence use?

08/16/202308/15/2023 QR Code Press

Generative AI is becoming increasingly popular and will certainly lead to issues with misuse. ChatGPT, Bard, and other generative artificial intelligence tools are rapidly increasing in popularity worldwide, and experts are now bracing for the impact this will have on mobile security. Just as these tools help with productivity and efficiency, they can also pose a serious risk of misuse. Not long after generative AI tools were launched, they had already started to be used for mobile security threats such as malware, many of which have been worked into official…

Millennials love their mobile wallets while Boomers hesitate

08/15/202308/14/2023 Sam Lambert

Mobile wallets - Millennial holding wallet and phone

The use of digital transactions continues to rise, but user trends differ by generation. Consumers across all age groups are adopting the use of mobile wallets on an increasing basis, but some generations are following this trend much more enthusiastically than others. While some are using this technology quite readily, others are more hesitant to use regularly or at all. PYMNTS has release the results of their “The Mobile Wallet Challenge: Replacing Physical with Digital” study. The research was conducted in collaboration with ACI Worldwide. It involved surveying more than…