The Financial Times will be giving staff a £300 rebate towards the cost of a iPad or other tablet. In the first initiative of it’s kind that we know about, the FT is going to single-handedly boost the tablet market by 1,800 units, and award Steve Jobs, Samsung, and retailers everywhere an early Christmas present…
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UK mobile retailers get a best practice body
The IAB, the retailer trade body IMRG and interactive media association AIME have announced their joint leadership body aimed at providing best practice in the mobile commerce sector. The long-winded Mobile Commerce Joint Industry Committee (MCJIC) will provide research and best-practice guidelines, as well as regulate each of its members’ m-commerce activity. The move follows…
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Google’s Schmidt maps out it’s NFC future
As we reported earlier on in the week Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt mapped out the search giants plans for NFC and the inclusion of the technology in the next version of the Android operating system at the Web 2.0 Summit. If you weren’t there then YouTube has the full video of his interview and we’ve…
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Nokia to start contactless payments in 2011?
This week is fast becoming the mobile contactless payment week, in fact we may just ask the government to rename it this time next year. First Google announces that it’s adding near field communication (NFC) to their next mobile the Nexus S. Then the US networks form ISIS an NFC coalition to get NFC going,…