75.5% ...growth in the worldwide smartphone market from H1 2005 to H1 2006. Unit shipments grew to 34.7m, with Japan…
Virgin Mobile is the first UK operator to market mobile broadcast technology in a major campaign. If you walk down…
Mike Grenville of 160characters.org has written an interesting article about the lack of progress with mobile banking services, particularly in…
As a follow-up to Mike Short's article about the importance of understanding the contextual user environment (CUE), there was an…
4 ...Japanese mobile payment systems will share the same point-of-sale terminal as local players combine to expedite the rollout of…
An interesting announcement from KDDI regarding RFID technology: the Japanese operator is selling a Bluetooth RFID reader which communicates with…
Vodafone will start selling its 710 3G handset in October, the first marketed solely under the operator's brand. It is…
Zi Corporation, best known for its predictive text entry software, has secured an agreement with a 'major multi-national' operator for…
Near-field communication There is an extensive technical overview of contactless near-field communication technologies and their role in the mobile environment…
13m+ ...Osaifu-Keitai mobile wallet handsets among DoCoMo's customer base of 55m Japanese subscribers. DoCoMo uses Felica contacless technology for payments,…