RETAILERS are quaking over a new iPhone gizmo that tells users the cheapest shop for products.
Bargain hunters scan an item's barcode on the mobile's camera - then the Sccope app checks its own price comparison website...
from The Sun
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Comment: so another part of Blinkx's USP bites the dust. Blinkx Music is now an irrelevance, SmartShopper is being overtaken (not that anyone ever knew about it anyway), and doubtless soon Transaction Hijacking will go the same way.
Blinkx management has been criminally negligent in losing the company's competitive edge. They need removing NOW, and someone installing who has a clue about (new) media, someone who can react to a rapidly changing landscape (like the emergence of an app and widget economy)...
Oh, and note how this is another mobile app. You know - mobile, that area that Blinkx doesn't think is important, for which they're not developing any products...
Absolutely clueless. A perfect storm of opportunity raging all around them, and Blinkx can't even get rained on...
No reply from Mike Lynch yet. Maybe he hasn't answered because he doesn't have an answer to my points - maybe, as with many shareholders, the penny is starting to drop that Chandratillake just isn't up to the job.
And if that's wrong, then why aren't we - the shareholders, the people who own this bloody company - being told what really is going on?
