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Coming to a smart screen near you
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New Zealand mobile ad spent sits at one percent, in contrast to much higher rates of digital spend offshore. With trends like location and rich brand engagement driving growth, that one percent is about to get a whole lot bigger, says Snakk’s Max Flanigan.

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Vodafone and Telecom pull out all the stops for iPhone launch, grease up FOMO-suffering Apple acolytes
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Sometimes you just can’t escape lining up. The portaloo at the festival, the cashier at the supermarket, the coolest new bar. But no-one really likes doing it, so it is fairly hard to fathom why anyone would do it for a new phone. Plenty do, of course (even though they don’t actually know why). And the companies selling them go to great lengths to butter these strange tech fiends up and ensure they don’t get queue fatigue, as evidenced by Vodafone and Telecom’s launch festivities for the new iPhones.

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Telecom accessorises Fashion Week with digi-bling
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Telecom has given Fashion Week a digital edge with a new mobile site called Sheek. The HTML site offers a quiz challenge with a chance to win a $5000 wardrobe with choices from Kiwi designers Hailwood, Andrea Moore, Zambesi, Annah Stretton, Huffer, Karen Walker, Kate Sylvester, Cybele and Twentyseven Names.

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Get your brands on smart screens
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The challenge and opportunity for business is that mobile significantly disrupts the traditional path to purchase model across most categories. Understanding how you can use the channel to attract, convert and retain customers will help marketers reinvent their sales model and deliver new business opportunities in this rapidly evolving landscape.

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Life off the grid
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The Luddites among us may remember the pre-mobile age as a wonderful time when you didn’t feel obliged to check your work email before you went to bed and phubbing wasn’t a threat to the very fabric of society. Telco beast Qualcomm sees things a bit differently and, in an entertaining, pratfall-heavy online film that’s clocked up 2.3 million views in a few weeks, it’s attempted to show what the world would be like without mobile. Answer: violent and crazy.

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Let’s take this offline
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There are few things more annoying than sitting at a bar with someone who seems more interested in playing with their phone than in interacting with an actual human across the table. Thankfully, Salve Jorge Bar has come up with a clever way to pry phones away from its patrons: ‘The Offline Glass’.

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Hands on with Apple’s iOS 7
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One of the handy things about having an app in the Apple App Store is the iOS developer centre , which comes with early access to new builds of the operating system. After downloading and playing with the beta version of iOS 7 for iPhone I’ve come to the conclusion that Apple’s made real strides to compete with Android, but has managed to get hit by the ugly stick on the way.

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Review: Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 – the artist’s tablet
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My love hate relationship with Samsung’s Galaxy Note range now spans over two years of smartphones and tablets. These flagship devices known for the signature S Pen stylus inputs, border gimmicky on one end and business essential on the other. With the Galaxy Note 8.0, Samsung has created a device that’s definitely more latter than the former – putting a powerful iPad Mini competitor in the hands of consumers (for a price).

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Making mobile more personal
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As the smartphone revolution continues, the demand for mobile applications has burgeoned. A bombardment of apps, big and small, jostle for precious screen space, but it is only those that amplify a brand through personal engagement and valuable experiences that will find App Store success.

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Mobile music
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How do you promote the launch of ‘Europe’s first fully-digital mobile bank’? You connect 227 mobile devices together and get a 60-strong orchestra to play a digital version of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen.

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