GVSU Mobile Applications and Services Lab

This research should put an end to the argument over the relevance of social media in the industrial sector. In fact, it appears that by percentage, B2B is ahead of B2C in some key categories.

This research should put an end to the argument over the relevance of social media in the industrial sector. In fact, it appears that by percentage, B2B is ahead of B2C in some key categories.

According to Muse, ShopSavvy currently boasts over 3 million users who are on average performing 26 product scans per month.  These are impressive statistics when you consider that the application is available for only one platform at the moment.  But another interesting statistic, especially for retailers, is that 91% of scans are performed by users who are in a store and in “buy mode”.  

The application itself is compelling enough to the current crowd of Android owners - 75% of them have installed and used ShopSavvy.

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-app-engine-for-java-sdk-122.html: "At long last, the dev appserver has a data viewer. Start your app locally and point your browser to http://localhost:8080/_ah/admin to check it out."

“The Deloitte Holiday Survey found that one out of five, 19 percent, plan to use their mobile phone to assist them in their holiday shopping,” she said. “The popularity of mobile usage is evident across all age groups, with 39 percent in the 18-29 age group and 19 percent of respondents in the 30-44 age group [are comfortable with mobile commerce].”

Read this document to learn about the range of application types you can develop for iPhone OS and the human interface design principles that inform all great software.

Google provides a Java version of his App Engine solution (GAE). It is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that offers massive and flexible scalability for your Web applications by hosting them on the Google cloud (based on Google computing infrastructure). For more details, you can read our blog post with the official announce. Due to the restrictions of the GAE, we need to provide an adaptation of Restlet for this environment. GAE is based on Java 6, with a restricted list of APIs. See GAE developers documentation for details.