Not so many moons ago, we lived in a world of walled gardens. Data pricing was – as per Stella Artois lager in the old and much lamented campaign – reassuringly expensive, and with the added bonus of being quite remarkably opaque: if you’d had the misfortune to use the Internet on your phone for [...]
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mHealth- What scope is there in the remote monitoring market for chronic diseases?
Juniper Research’s report in the mHealth sector launched earlier this year forecasts that revenues from remote patient monitoring using mobile networks will rise to almost $1.9 billion globally by 2014, with heart based monitoring in North America accounting for the [...]
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Bank of America will roll out a mobile NFC payment trial enabling customers to use their smartphones to fund retail purchases. The trial will run from September until the end of the year along with Visa. The NFC function is expected to involve interim NFC solutions such as SD cards or cases, rather than embedded NFC phones.
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The relationship that handset manufacturers have with operators worldwide have always been crucial in creating a route to market for their devices. It may be just as important in the tablet space. As a newcomer to the mobile device party (excluding Dell’s bread and butter connected laptops and netbooks, of course), [...]
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As regular readers of our blog will know, I’m quite a fan of Google Alerts. The other day my Alert on mobile banking was alive with market developments:
KeyBank in the US launched mobile banking to its whole customer base
M-Com launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its mobile banking and payment platform BankAnywhere
In Trinidad & Tobago, [...]
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