At some point over the next week or so you’ll probably be spending some more time at home than usual, and it’s quite possible that your home will be a little bit more crowded than normal too. Schedules get a bit hectic and it’s nice to have some helpful resources at your disposal to keep your time at home enjoyable and your entertaining on track. We thought we’d see if we can help your home management over the holidays become a bit simpler with some simple but pretty awesome apps.
Tag: mobile
Decorating Your Home with Augmented Reality
Science fiction is becoming more reality than fantasy. One of the most interesting ways this is happening is through a technology called augmented reality. You may have seen it before, but if not what it basically does is modify your view of reality by adding an additional layer of information when viewing through a device.
Here’s to Innovation…
Weren’t we all supposed to be flying cars to work (sure would make my commute better!) and hanging out on the moon by 2012? While technology hasn’t caught up to science fiction in that regard, we do know that writers of Sci-Fi movies like Minority Report and 2001: A Space Odyssey got a lot of things right. Everything from video conferencing to “gesture based computing” and personalized ad serving are “imagined” things we saw in movies that a lot of us use in our everyday lives.
Meet the New coldwellbanker.com – Pocket Edition
I don’t know if it’s just me but doesn’t it seem like technology and innovation seem to operate in dog years? What happens in a calendar year or two is really more like 7 and 14 years worth of new technologies, data infrastructure, social networks, mobile devices, enhancements, software, so on and so forth. I might be exaggerating a tad bit (am I?) but we all know that “things” are moving lightning fast and consumers are expecting their favorite brands to offer experiences that are in lock-step with what’s new and relevant. Fall a step or two behind and they’ll keep moving without looking back.
Getting More Social with the Facebook “Like” and Google “+1″ Buttons
Here’s the understatement of the year (or perhaps of the last 4 to 5 years!?): Social Media has changed everything. Its changed the way we consume and share information, its changed how we interact with our friends, how we meet friends and it has also fundamentally changed the way companies do business…forever. One would think [...]
Shifting Consumer Habits? – More Time on Apps than on Web
I came across an article on TechCrunch yesterday that spoke about a Flurry study that kind of shocked me. The headline read, “Time Spent on Apps Outpaces Web.“ I knew that App usage on iPhone and Android devices is exploding at a ridiculous rate but have we really gotten to the point where U.S. Smartphone [...]
Coldwell Banker Launches First Real Estate iAd
oldwell Banker has worked with Apple to develop the first ever iAd from a real estate brand. Not only that, but Coldwell Banker is the first of only a handful of brands to be part of the launch of iAd for the iPad, and we’re the first brand to ever have a full page iAd that can be seen within certain digital versions of magazines for the iPad.
