The MEX guide to user experience success
PMN are publishing ‘The MEX guide to user experience success’ as a reference document for the mobile telecoms industry. The guide will ex..
Stat Spot: Smartphone market growth
75.5%
…growth in the worldwide smartphone market from H1 2005 to H1 2006. Unit shipments grew to 34.7m, with Japan over-taking EMEA ..
Mobile broadcast – the customer experience reality
Virgin Mobile is the first UK operator to market mobile broadcast technology in a major campaign. If you walk down any UK shopping street..
Banking a missed opportunity
Mike Grenville of 160characters.org has written an interesting article about the lack of progress with mobile banking services, particular..
More on the contextual user environment
As a follow-up to Mike Short’s article about the importance of understanding the contextual user environment (CUE), there was an interesti..
Stat Spot: Japanese mobile payment brands
4
…Japanese mobile payment systems will share the same point-of-sale terminal as local players combine to expedite the rollout of tec..
The new network citizens
An interesting announcement from KDDI regarding RFID technology: the Japanese operator is selling a Bluetooth RFID reader which communicat..
Vodafone launches first own-brand 3G handset
Vodafone will start selling its 710 3G handset in October, the first marketed solely under the operator’s brand. It is manufactured by Ch..