Mobile shopping doesn't have a huge share of retail website traffic at present but things are moving. The big retailers are beginning to get their act together and more and more consumers have internet-enabled phones. Read More

September’s issue of.net featured an article by Luke Wroblewski, arguing that web products should be designed for mobiles before desktops. His justification is that mobiles are growing massively and that they help focus readers. According to Morgan Stanley Research, mobile internet adoption is outpacing the growth of desktop internet adoption. Moreover, mobile internet users are often much more engaged then regular internet users. Read More

Last month I delivered a seminar on internet marketing to a group of about 40 or 50 independent retailers. Whilst discussing mobile commerce I asked them how many of them had used QR codes in their marketing and no hands went up. So I then reversed my thinking and asked how many of them knew what a QR code was. Less than half of them did. I was a bit surprised but then again maybe I shouldn't have been. Read More

Unless you've been living in a cave these last few days you've probably heard or or read some news stories about a report on the state of Britain's High streets by retail expert Mary Portas. I confess to not having read the full report yet but I've read the commentaries and Ms Portas' article in the Daily Telegraph. Read More

As always the World Economic Forum in Davos has been producing some great headlines for business journalists. One of these is that the value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The leading driver in this growth will be the rise of mobile internet access. Read More