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Seahawks want to offer mobile loyalty program next season with discounts for game-day fans
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More and more people are using their smartphones at Seahawks games and the team wants to capitalize on this growing trend. Chip Suttles, the Seahawks VP of Technology, spoke at a Seahawks Mobility Summit on Tuesday evening in Seattle hosted by Extreme Networks, a Bay Area-based company that operates the WiFi network at CenturyLink Field which debuted before the start of the 2014-15 season. GeekWire caught up with Suttles after the panel discussion...
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The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?
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It's the apps. The iPhone and Android conquered the world because of the apps. More specifically, what keeps Android and iOS dominant is the utter lack of those apps on competing platforms. But today, the mobile landscape is significantly different than it was a year or two ago (let alone five). Today, apps aren't really necessary. In fact, it's...

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What mobile phone data can reveal about you, in Rwanda or right here at home
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Rwandan phone user
Researchers have analyzed data about mobile phone use in Rwanda to figure out how wealthy a phone’s user is – and they say they might be able to do the same kind of analysis for any other country. The study, published today in the journal Science, applies big-data models to look at much more than income. The Rwandan data, for example,...
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