While the age of the mobile ringtone appears to be coming to an end, a flurry of announcements over the past few days would seem to suggest that – taken as a whole – mobile music is doing very nicely, thank you, and poised to do even better for itself.
First up, there’s the deal between [...]
Archive for May, 2009
There have some positive WiMAX announcements over the last week or so. Menatelecom in Bahrain is the first company in the world to launch a nationwide WiMAX 802.16e end-to-end network. Clearwire and Cisco announced an alliance to enhance and expand CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services throughout the USA. Comstar is launching service in Moscow.
I could [...]
It’s all been rather quiet on the mobile TV front in Europe recently, so it’s good to see that Norway, not content with having a runaway success with a teen idol violinist in the annual bloc voting exercise that is the Eurovision Song Contest, has doubled up by becoming the first European country this year to [...]
Boots is set to be the first UK high street retailer to trial a contactless payment system. It is working with MasterCard to allow customers to pay amounts under £10 via their MasterCard PayPass cards, without having to enter a PIN at stores in London and Liverpool. Barclays and Barclaycard welcomed the news – they [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I remarked on the fact that the world and his dog were busy playing catch-up with Apple and embarking on the app store trail. RIM – tick; Samsung – tick; Nokia – tick due in the next couple of days; Orange, O2 – beta tick. But no Vodafone.
Until today.
A press [...]
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