mobile technology

A new Unisys-IDC survey of 2,820 respondents shows that American office workers are very mobile and readily use their laptops and smartphones to do their jobs at all hours of the day, at home and during time off the company clock. Office employees, and young community in particular, are very tech-ready and have high expectations about how the consumer technology should work.

"They expect their employers to provide immediate connectivity and support for the consumer technology they want to use," says Sam Gross, Unisys vice president of global IT outsourcing solutions.

New uses for mobile phones as technology advancements, spurred on by Apple’s iPhone, open up a host of new shopping opportunities are available for shoppers in Europe this Christmas. A host of new services that can deliver discount vouchers to phones, compare prices of vendors in a vicinity or direct shoppers to online stores are becoming easy to find and use, and they hold attractions for marketers as well as consumers.