A unique selling-point of eReaders has always been, and remains electronic ink, but a number of developments raise the question about whether a new chapter (if you’ll excuse the pun) is about to begin for this market. Most importantly, while the iPad is re-defining the portable computer on a higher-priced plane, tablets at lower price [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The news that Intel and Mastercard have teamed up to enable NFC payments on Ultrabooks has some interesting ramifications. The first is, as the title suggests, the number of “things” you can “tap” is increasing everyday. But there’s obviously more to it than that. Personally, I wasn’t really expecting that I would ever need to [...]
Adobe announced this week that it would no longer be developing a Flash plugin for mobile browsers, prompting comments that Steve Jobs has had the last laugh. After all, the iPhone does not support Adobe Flash and Jobs was highly critical of its reliability, security and performance. Jobs’ essay, ‘Thoughts on Flash’ is well worth [...]
Yesterday, AT&T, without disclosing any major details, announced at the ‘LTE North America’ conference that they will launch LTE-Advanced network in the US in 2013. Sprint had earlier announced that it will deploy LTE-A on its 800 MHz spectrum by H1-2013 and is expected to launch LTE services by mid-2012 on its 1900 MHz spectrum [...]
Here at Juniper Research, we often get asked whether we track POS (Point of Sale) systems. The reason we get asked is that POS systems are the “other side” of a user’s mobile payment transaction. We always answer “No” because, as a mobile-focused analyst house, we have quite strict definitions of what is “mobile” and [...]
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