By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90% of mobile transactions, according to Gartner. Gartner said that the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream with fixed-line computing.…
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Microsoft to launch Zune store for WP7
Tech giant to launch store and subscription service for Xbox 360, Windows PCs and Windows Phone 7 phones within weeks
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O2 get promotional on their iPad data pricing
O2’s iPad customers are up in arms at O2’s decision to cut their monthly data allocations. O2 customers who signed up for the iPad were initially told they could choose from plans with a 500MB cap, a 1 GB cap, or a 3 GB cap, but O2 has changed it’s terms and those caps are…
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Another Nokia exec out: UK head jumps to Pace as president
The music hasn’t stopped at the top levels of the Finnish mobile phone maker, which is losing a fourth top-level executive
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Diary Date – DroidCon London 28-29 Oct
Another date for you diary. This time it’s DroidCon a two-day London based Barcamp and conference for Android lovers in sunny Islington in late October. The first day will be a barcamp style day (think geeks, pizza, fizzy pop, tech, tech, tech) organised by attendees where everyone is encouraged to share in the things which…
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500,000 mobile apps are downloaded daily
New research from Borrell Associates finds that users don’t hold on to their apps According to Borrell Associates, worldwide we’re download some 500,000 apps per hour, unfortunately for developers and brands around the world, most of those apps are quickly discarded by consumers. The appallingly badly named report “Mobile Applications: Preparing for the App-ocalypse”, shows…
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BlackBerry users at 1.5million downloads a day
Research In Motion (RIM) has said that BlackBerry App World users are downloading more than 1.5 million apps per day on average. The total of 1.5 million downloads also represents a 40 percent increase for RIM over the previous, which is not bad considering that earlier this month they announced they had hit the 10,000…
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Date for the diary – Mobile Cloud Computing Forum
Enterprise Mobility will be high on the agenda at the Mobile Cloud Computing Forum, taking place on the 1st December 2010 at RIBA, London. Sessions at the one day conference and exhibition will include an overview of the Mobile Cloud Computing Proposition and Marketplace, Mobile Cloud and Enterprise Applications, The Challenges for the Mobile Cloud…
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In Nokia World, the future’s bright – or so it seems
The mobile giant is a master of hardware. But software is more important now
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Why you won’t see smaller iPads next year – though you will see revised iPads
The rumour mill is working overtime to suggest that Apple is going to try to compete with Samsung and others in offering a 7-inch tablet early in 2011. Here’s why that’s misguided – and what Apple will actually do
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Microsoft launch Mobile Ad SDK for WP7
Microsoft Advertising has launched their Mobile Advertising SDK for Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Advertising Exchange for Mobile, which it describes as ” the industry’s first real-time, bidded ad exchange in mobile”. According to Microsoft’s Advertsing Team’s Raj Kapoor on the official Microsoft Advertising Blog, the launch, will allow Windows Phone 7 app developers to…
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More iPad updates from iOS 4.2
According to Apple the original intention for the release of iOS 4.2, coming so close after bug-fix 4.1 , was to harmonise the iPad iOS with the iPhone and iPod Touch iOS. However this original intention seems to be going a little askew, as Apple have chucked in a few iPad-only goodies in the new…
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Facebook Places checks in to UK
Facebook Places, the location-sharing service launched in the US last month is now available in the UK
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LG loses chief executive following record making losses
South Korea’s LG Electronics – the World’s third largest mobile phone supplier – has ousted its chief executive Nam Yong, blaming him for LG’s lack of sales, and is replacing him with a founding family member in a bid to turn around its loss-making mobile phone business. Following a record $103 million loss in the…
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Intuit and Nokia create a small business alliance
Intuit and Nokia have announced an alliance to develop and deliver an innovative new mobile and web based marketing service for small businesses around the world. Addressing one of the main concerns for the world’s estimated 500 million small businesses, the new service will be designed to help them get more business through personalised, relevant…
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RIM losing out to the iPhone
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, however things don’t look so good for next quarter revenues as it fails to add as many subscribers as it expected. RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45%…
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The web is still no faster than a pigeon
This story is not strictly Mobile or Business but it is mobile broadband – in a way – and it amused us greatly, and we know how they feel, sometimes our mobile broadband is so slow you’d have thought it was going via carrier pigeon. A South African business Unlimited IT based in Durban decided…
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comScore – Android sees significant growth in US
comScore has released data from latest July survey of key trends in the US mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending July 2010. The big change is the increase in the Smartphone market share for Android. It produced a staggering 5% growth for the quarter. Elsewhere not much changed, which is surprising…
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WeTab to launch the first MeeGo tablet
WeTab*, a German tablet computer start-up, is set to launch “the first shipped MeeGo-based tablet in the world” next week, offering the WeTab product initially in its home market, with availability through retailer Media Markt. The company is a partner of Intel, one of the main proponents of the platform, and the planned shipping was…
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Apple iOS 4.2 beta released to developers
The beta version of Apple’s iOS 4.2 has been released to developers At the last Apple press conference, Steve Jobs said that iPhone iOS 4.2 would arrive in November, but it seems quite a long lead time from Beta to final version so we suspect that it might be launched a little earlier. The focus…