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  • 04.24.08
    Pizza Hut An Online Innovator? on the go | (2)
    Remember when Pizza Hut didn't even deliver and barely had a web presence worth looking at? I never would have imagined Pizza Hut or their parent company, Yum Brands, which has deep fast food roots, becoming innovators in online and mobile restaurant ordering technology. Today Pizza Hut added a new feature to their online ordering system to help recommend additional items to your order. The system analyzes past customer orders to find combinations that might be interesting or appealing to their customers. They call this new feature a Virtual Waiter and aim to increase sales by suggesting popular food combinations. This comes ...
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  • 04.22.08
    IBM Launches Mobile Web Research Initiative on the go | Comments Off
    Today IBM announced the launch of a new initiative to research and develop new mobile technologies for the 'Era of the Mobile Web.' They have some really interesting goals in mind, such as better voice interaction, instant translation and platform independent mobile application architecture. Another area that they mentioned is a Good Samaritan initiative that would make medical records available via the mobile web to first responders. While this would be a very valuable next generation capability, unfortunately I think we're still a long way from securing the mobile web. Luckily this won't be released prematurely since HIPPAA will prevent ...
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