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We signed 100,000 new clients during the pandemic… by listening Our ‘customer discovery’ program was the key. 1. Know your market The pandemic changed everyone’s needs across industries and locations. During this global shift, we paid close attention to the businesses that we were built to serve: those with under 20 employees. In fact, small businesses with under 20 employees make up almost90%of the businesses in the US. We saw that almost as soon as pandemic restrictions went into place, these businesses were the ones to drive the accelerated demand for digital financial services....

When I first started writing about IoT in 2013, device makers promised a world where IoT would seamlessly facilitate a machine-to-machine connection between the smart gadgets in our lives, including our smart home. Made possible by machine learning, our devices would become instinctual in the way they spoke to each other and responsive — with no human interaction. One of the most significant examples touted at the time was car-to-smart home solutions....

Last.fm users frustrated at the service’s recent decision tostart chargingfor its mobile streaming service have another option from today.We7has launched a similar offering for free and unlike Last.fm, it works offline too. Only available to Android users in the UK and Ireland at present, the service works like Last.fm by allowing users to create a radio station based on music they like. The app then ‘charges up’ with music from related artists, storing it locally on the handset....

Wearable fitness trackers will be on many Christmas shopping lists this year, with a vast range of devices (and an ever-increasing number of features) hitting the market just in time for the festive season. But what does the latest research say about how effective they are? Fitness trackers are trendy Currently,about one in fiveAustralians own one of these wearables, and about a quarter use a mobile app or website to monitor their activity levels and health....

Smart glasses are now dime a dozen, but there are very few that you can buy and even fewer that have an attractive use case. TCL’s newNXTWEAR AIR glasses could be one of them. The most appealing feature of the pair is projecting a 140-inch virtual screen in front of your eyes, to privately watch whatever you like with a movie-theater experience.Think of it as your personal projector you can move around with....