Source: readwriteweb.com, 10 December 2009
iBARCODE, a price scanner for iPhone, launches today
December 14th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
App review: iBarcode for iPhone
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Source: econsultancy.com, 11 December 2009
German based price search engine smart.apnoti.com has just launched a new barcode scanning iPhone app, iBarcode.
The app (iTunes link) can deal with a range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which are commonly found on the packaging of consumer electricals, books, and DVDs. I’ve been seeing if it works…
The app compares prices for the US, UK, Germany and France though you need to change your preferred market in the settings section, otherwise it defaults to Germany.
You can either search by keyword, or use the iPhone camera (this works on all iPhones) to scan the barcode and return matching product results…
iBarcode reader app acts as real-time price search engine
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »Quelle: mobilecommercedaily.com; 11th December 2009
iBarcode reader app acts as real-time price search engine
iBarcode in action
Apnoti.com has launched a new iPhone application called iBarcode and claims it is the first mobile price search engine with an integrated bar code scanner.
Consumers can scan product bar codes and the application searches for the best prices on the Internet. The application is $1.99 in the Apple App Store.
“The mobile market is becoming more and more important,” said Wolfram Gast, cofounder and chief marketing officer of Apnoti.com, Starnberg, Germany. “Based on our unique technology of querying prices in real-time at http://smart.apnoti.com it was the only next logical step to bring this technology on the mobile market.
“The bar code scanner technology simply facilitates and speeds up the process of finding products on your iPhone,” he said. “So in the end consumers will always be able to better judge the price in the store in order to make the right purchase decision.”
Apnoti.com is an Internet company that is based on a piece of technology that registers price fluctuations in real-time. The site features automatic email notification when the desired price is reached and a price trend model.
Smart shopping on a smartphone
The application recognizes bar codes such as UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN. These bar codes are generally found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books and DVDs.
Consumers can set their own individual marketplace and language settings, send SMS product searches and store and send price watchlists.
Mr. Gast said that some products may see price fluctuations of up to 70 percent at one Internet retailer.
After a consumer scans a product, the application generates product information and a real-time price comparison.
Consumers can also search for items by product name.
Clicking on a price result sends the consumer to the merchant’s site for purchase.
According to Apnoti.com, the target demographic for the application is 16-40-year-old urban consumers in Germany, the United States, France and Britain.
IBarcode is not alone in the bar code scanning marketplace.
ShopSavvy lets consumers scan the bar code of any item to determine its availability and price from both online and local retailers (see story).
Mr. Gast said that by using the iBarcode application, consumers can get great price transparency and help in making the best purchase decision.
“We believe that people are becoming more and more price conscious,” Mr. Gast said. “IBarcode will facilitate the process of comparing prices.”
New iPhone Application: iBARCODE is the world’s first mobile real-time price search engine
December 11th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Press Release, 10 December 2009
Scan the barcode in the shop and find the best prices.
Starnberg, 10 December 2009 – Today sees the launch of the world’s first mobile price search engine with integrated barcode scanner, the new iBARCODE iPhone application – an innovative service that means you can save cash on the go. This technical innovation from apnoti.com GmbH, based in Starnberg near Munich, enables every iPhone user to scan product barcodes in a matter of seconds and find the best prices. From now on, smart, price-conscious online buyers can use iBARCODE to better evaluate shop prices and always make the right purchase decision.
“The days when we had to go from shop to shop comparing products to find the best price are now finally over! For example, if you want to check the electronics market again to see if an offer really is good value, the iPhone iBARCODE app is a simple way of doing this,” says founder and Managing Director Gerold Herrmann. “Behind the unique and complex technology is a simple yet impressive idea. In order to scan a barcode, all you have to do is hold the iPhone over the relevant code. The integrated camera photographs it fully automatically and finds the best offers on the Internet within a matter of seconds. These are located by the recently launched real-time price search engine smart.apnoti.com, which now already comprises more than 65 million product offerings from more than 10,000 online shops worldwide,” says Head of Marketing Wolfram Gast.
The mobile application recognises a broad range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which can be found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books, DVDs and medicines for example. Practical operating elements complete this handy offering, such as individual marketplace and language settings, fast entry of product search requests as text and storing and sending of watchlists.
The iPhone iBARCODE app is available for download at the iTunes App Store under the Finance category and can be found by searching the term ‘iBARCODE’. Furthermore, you can find more information about the mobile application directly on iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=340184122&mt=8
mashable.com: Real-Time Ecommerce is Coming
October 30th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »Source: masable.com, October 29th, 2009
German company Apnoti indexes real-time pricing for consumers in the U.S and Germany. The primary benefit of their service is to help consumers find dramatic price fluctuations and to take advantage of pricing errors on various ecommerce sites. But this is really quite elementary compared to what is possible. For true real-time pricing to occur, there needs to be real-time inventory management, which will depend on major infrastructure companies such as EDS or IBM to build out those systems. As retailers move closer to real-time inventory management, they’ll improve on their pricing and sales efforts since they will be able to create more efficient price equilibrium adjustments.
For consumer facing applications, real-time pricing can be a competitive advantage for perishable goods. For example, the grocer with fresher fruit can theoretically charge or sell more by providing real-time freshness data. With the growth of smart energy grids, real-time pricing of solar energy and electric power provides tremendous cost-savings for consumers. Generally within ecommerce, real-time inventory information that is accessible through the web is valuable for both the consumer and company. What are the other areas of high impact? Travel? Off-season luxury goods? Event tickets? Let us know in the comments below.
Real-time pricing error alerts for consumers to pounce on
October 22nd, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Source: springwise.com; 21 October 2009
Real-time price search has arrived, and with it some unexpected bonus features for consumers. German site Apnoti claims to have the first search engine to index prices for the German, American and French markets in real time. Currently in beta launch, the engine crawls over 65 million items in more than 10,000 affiliated stores for each and every search request, presenting users with a comparison of products’ price trends over the past four weeks and current prices, accurate (in theory) to the past few seconds. Apnoti differentiates itself from other price comparison services which usually rely on daily updates by their operators, claiming that these services cannot cope with the price fluctuations that often occur throughout the day.
According to Apnoti’s creators, sudden price drops and fluctuations of up to 90%—usually due to retailer error—are a regular occurrence. To help their German users take advantage of these mistakes, Apnoti launched another purported web first: Preispanne.de (‘price breakdown’), a free email alert service for huge price drops. Users enter their email address and select which product categories they’d like to monitor. When a price drop of over 50% occurs, they will be immediately alerted by email so they can pounce on the super-bargain before the retailer has a chance to correct it. Web store Otto.de recently learned this to its cost, when they received 6,534 orders for a EUR 2,000 MacBook mistakenly reduced to EUR 49.95.
Ethics aside, the services offered by Preispanne and Apnoti meet the demands of two powerful consumer trends: transparency and real-time everything. Online retailers will have to stay on their toes if they’re to stay in the game! Meanwhile, opportunities abound for entrepreneurs who can make the most of real-time transparency. How about a cheeky webstore off the back of Preispanne’s alerts?
Website: www.preispanne.de
Contact: www.apnoti.com/support
Spotted by: Susanna Haynie
Smart.apnoti.com in Killerstartups.com:
October 21st, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
We celebrate! The new office. Our one-year anniversary.
October 20th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
The artisans are done, the painters did a perfect job and the new furniture was delivered on time. So luckily nothing got in the way of opening our new premises.
On Friday the 16th October 2009, it was time to celebrate the happening. With our best friends and business partners, we have the new rooms of our think tank dedicated to decency and simultaneously triggered on the first anniversary of our company. We thank the many guests, friends and business partners, and representatives of the local press for the beautiful and cheerful celebration.
A year after the foundation, we look back with joy and pride. The commitment of all the founders and employees of apnoti.com lets even in these tough times the company grow strongly, so the team of apnoti.com can look very optimistically about the future. What began in the “hobby room” at Lake Starnberg soon developed into a global online service for consumers. apnoti.com (automatic price notification) is based on an unprecedented technology to record price fluctuations – of products you love – in real time. Once registered with apnoti.com, the user can directly monitor all desired online products with one click. From now on, apnoti.com will take over laborious online research into daily price fluctuations. As soon as the user’s desired price has been reached or undercut, an alert is sent out by email. In addition, price trend models provide information about past price developments. Since August 2009 also the world’s only real-time price search engine www.smart.apnoti.com is part of our online services. Online shoppers will find the most recent and best price for their desired product just in a few seconds. Thereby smart.apnoti.com scans for each search query more than 65 million product offers from more than 10,000 affiliated online shops.
… someone at the opening ceremony raised the question if we are now going to freeze the further development of our online services. People just took notice of a loud and strong “not really – we are just starting to push our services and there never will be an ending story, for all of us every day is a new start to create something new and exciting on the web”. For example, at the end of November 2009, we will be launching the first web application for the iPhone, which soon is available for download from the iTunes Store. Thus, the new application makes the iPhone to the bar-code-scanner with integrated real-time price comparison. The user starts the iPhone application that scans the barcode from the desired product and will get all the necessary product details and on request a mobile real-time price comparison. This mobile application can read EAN, PZN, ISBN codes, and more. So you are always informed about the products of interest and know the price range in the store to better judge. In addition, you can also search products by using the iPhone application and receive the corresponding price data from a selection of several million product offerings analyzed in real time. Clicking the lowest bidder will then allow the purchase of the product. The countdown has started, so to speak, and soon we are ringing in a new era in mobile shopping – a new feature that we can hardly wait for.
Last but not least, we once again thank our guests very much for the lovely evening and the wonderful collection presents.
The apnoti.com Team
Smart.Apnoti.com – Be A Smart Shopper
October 7th, 2009 by Wolfram, No Comments »
Source: sitesouse.com; 5th of October 2009
Smart.Apnoti.com is a website that allows you to search for the products and compare their prices from different shops in real-time. It is basically a price search engine and is mainly dedicated to find out the price of a product in real time. You get access to the most up to date price of a product. The greatest problem that many of us faces with this kind of shopping is that we become unaware of the price fluctuations but this site takes care of this problem and you get the most updated price of an item and that too from a wide range of shops. The site has many other dedicated features , some of them are:
Features :
1. The site is very user friendly and is easy to work on.
2. The site is absolutely free of cost.
3. The site offers you relevant searches from a wide range of products covering almost every aspect of the daily life.
4. The site also provides detailed information about the product and offers an extremely simple, flexible and quick search function for all the products.
5. The prices get updated whenever a vendor updates its price. Thus offering you the exact price at any point of time.
6. The site has a product base of over 65 million products amongst more than 10,000 affiliated shops.
7. The site is very much secure and reliable to use.
Steps of procedure to use this website :
1. All you have to do is visit the website smart.apnoti.com.
2. You can then put in your query for the product in the search pace provided.
3. After that you can select product from different vendors and choose the most profitable deal for you.
4. The best of the site comes during the festive season where the prices fluctuate a lot.
Editor’s view :
The site is based on a very unique concept and is very well thought of and executed. The USP of the site is its ability to track the prices of the products in real time. A very good concept and very well done.
