A new retrofit contactless mobile payment system from Visa and DeviceFidelity is to go on a live trial in Turkey. While we were digging around for news on Visa’s digital wallet we found this news that somehow went under the Business Mobile radar from earlier in the month. Visa are to launch Europe’s first microSD-based…
Day: 20 August 2010
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Visa to trial m-payments digital wallet in US
There’s one phrase that never fails to depress the life out of us at Business Mobile and that is “digital wallet.” If we had a pound for every time we’d been told that the the digital wallet will replace the real wallet, and that it will make e-commerce, m-commerce etc more secure and make it…
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BlackBerry App World cuts prices and revenue share
Cut-price apps are now to be available on BlackBerry App World but revenue share is reduced to 70%. Research In Motion (RIM) has ditched the rule on its BlackBerry App World that developers have to sell their paid apps for a minimum of $2.99. But at the same time RIM have also announced that it…
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Mobile data use triples in the past year
Mobile data use has tripled in the past year and global mobile data traffic has now hit over 225,000 terabytes per month, with 50 billion mobile devices predicted by 2020. Figures released by Ericsson show that mobile data use has almost tripled in the past 12 months. Global data traffic had reached nearly 225,000 terabytes…
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Android nipping at the iPhone’s heels in the US
July ad figures from US ad network Millenial Media’s Mobile Mix monthly survey on mobile device trends. Show Android devices nipping at the heels of the long standing leader Apple’s iOS. US Smartphone Mix July 2010 1 Apple iOS 55% 2 Android OS 19% 3 RIM OS 16% 4 Other 6% 5 Windows Mobile 4%…