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Social media marketing anti campaign pushes 99 Facebook free days

07/15/201407/12/2014 Julie Campbell

Facebook downvote social media marketing

A new movement is growing that is encouraging people to sign off for ninety nine straight days. The “99 Days of Freedom” project has now begin as an experiment in the promotion of happiness, which is effectively working as an anti social media marketing campaign that is encouraging people to give up their use of Facebook for ninety nine consecutive days. The relationship that users of the social network have with it appears to be quite a love-hate connection. While most users do access it quite regularly, this doesn’t mean…

Jiepang and Starbucks celebrate 2 year anniversary of partnership to expand NFC technology

07/25/2012 Stephen Vagus

China Mobile commerce ticketing payments

Companies work to make NFC technology commonplace in China Jiepang, a Foursquare-esque social network based in China, and Starbucks have announced the second anniversary of their partnership to promote NFC technology. For the past two years, the two companies have been working to make NFC technology commonplace throughout China. Both companies have a great deal of experience with the technology and believe it could be used to connect with consumers in a more dynamic fashion. As part of the second anniversary celebration, the companies are offering benefits to consumers that…

Augmented reality glasses from Vergence Labs have world changing potential

02/14/201202/14/2012 Sam Lambert

A new brand of high-tech eyewear has made an entrance into the growing market of augmented reality-enhanced glasses. Vergence Labs, a technology company, has announced that its engineers have created a prototype augmented reality glasses system that incorporates cloud technology. Like similar products coming from other companies, these glasses are meant to enhance the wearer’s vision and provide them with information they might find helpful. Unlike other products, however, these glasses are also equipped with facial recognition technology, which could be very useful in terms of social networking. The glasses…

Facebook announces partnership with Bango for mobile payment services

02/10/201202/10/2012 Jennifer Goula

Facebook, the largest social network in the world, has announced that an agreement has been signed between it and Bango, and analytics and mobile billing company based in the United Kingdom. The technology at Bango concentrates on an increasing consumer market of smartphone owners who use their devices to access the internet and who are using their devices more frequently for making purchases and other online transactions. The white-label products from the company are able to collect mobile payments for the purchase of online services and content, and can also…

The future of health care may be in the hands of augmented reality and NFC technology

01/11/201201/11/2012 L. Green

Ergonomidesign, a leading design consultancy firm, has revealed what the future of health care system may look like. A team of researchers from the firm have created a new system that combines the emerging trends in technology, life and health science, and social networking. Much of the system makes use of augmented reality technology to handle high detail displays of information. The physical aspects of the system use NFC technology as a way to enable quick communications between patients and health care professionals. To see the firm’s creation, it looks…