Contactless Payments and Barclaycard

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July 20, 2011 Read the full article →

Freedom In Mobility

The criticism (more like the complaint) we hear a lot these days has to do with our ‘over-connectedness.’ We are told that people are too connected… That it is interfering with personal lives and affecting our quality of life. Really? Is it technology’s fault or is it our inability to say no to technology that [...]

July 19, 2011 Read the full article →

Are Mobile Apps Disposable?

Another way of posing this question is ‘should mobile apps be considered disposable?’ The answer is no. If your mobile strategy is such that you are considering putting something (ie. an app) together as a quick fix to coming into the game late … then you really don’t have a mobile strategy. Please don’t build [...]

July 19, 2011 Read the full article →

How Smart is your Smartphone?

How smart is your Smartphone? No… but really. How smart is it? As smart as the applications? As smart as the user? As smart as the designers? Or does it depend on something else?

March 19, 2011 Read the full article →

Growth of Android Video

Just a neat perspective on it.  Enjoy. Found it at MobileSyrup Originally from pestaola.gr

March 5, 2011 Read the full article →

Mobile Operators Respond to Global Trends

Déjà vu with data growth We have been here before. Data traffic already exceeds voice on many mobile networks. And it is predicted to increase 1000-fold within a decade as wireless becomes the world’s primary method of Internet access. A massive surge in fixed network traffic started approximately 15 years ago. Data surpassed and then [...]

February 26, 2011 Read the full article →

Accelerating the Mobile Impact – The relationship between mobility and GDP

Today only 59% of the world’s population uses mobile phones. That means nearly 3 billion people are excluded from the mobile economy. This number is far too large to be a problem; it has to be an opportunity. A 10% increase in mobile penetration leads to a 1% increase in low to medium income GDP. [...]

February 25, 2011 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy: Three Considerations for the “90 Second” In-Store Sell

“Mike, when my consumer walks into a supermarket, I’ve got 90 seconds to convince them to purchase my cold/flu product over my competitors”, explained an overwhelmed pharma client, “they’re affluent and armed with smart phones and I know how to capture their attention before and after they arrive, but how in those 90 seconds how [...]

February 23, 2011 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy is a Key Differentiator

“Having a mobile strategy will be a key differentiator for enterprises and brands alike to maintain and build their customer base,” said Hetal Pandya, director of product management at Nuance, Sunnyvale, CA. “Customers like to solve their own problems without having to speak with someone,” she said. “It is about convenience and consistent customer experience. [...]

February 23, 2011 Read the full article →

Making Money Mobile – Of Value and Values

Mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile money for us is mostly out of interest and stems from noticing the opportunity that exists in these areas – a business opportunity.  For others it is about the gadgets, the novelty and the convenience.  In other places around the world, mobile becomes a vehicle through which people can [...]

December 15, 2010 Read the full article →