Finally, after a couple of attempts, the Russian operator Yota has managed to launch the country’s first LTE network in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Yota had earlier signed up other mobile operators including MegaFon, MTS, Rostelecom and VimpelCom to share a single LTE network on a wholesale basis – which Yota will build to deliver LTE mobile [...]
Archive for December, 2011
One of the fallouts from the much publicised Verizon/Google disagreement that we commented on last week was the renewed focus on the security of the mobile payments process. This week there have been a number of reports on this issue. There have been two technical views – one on the security of Google Wallet and [...]
Reports have emerged from within Facebook that the company is poised to make its first move into the mobile advertising space, possibly by inserting its Sponsored Stories adverts – which highlight a user’s friends interaction with various brands – into a user’s mobile News Feed. The reports, which first saw the light of day in [...]
We highlighted in this blog last week about the announcement from Verizon and that it would block Google Wallet. Only a few days later there was a counter-announcement from Verizon that it wasn’t really blocking Google wallet, it was in discussion with Google about implementing a suitable “secure element” on the handset. OK – that’s [...]
So far this year Facebook has bought six companies ranging from the mobile app developer, Snaptu, to the mobile advertising firm, Rel8tion. One acquisition, Beluga, whose business centred on group messaging, was eventually integrated into the Facebook Messenger app. The most recent acquisition – announced this week – is the purchase of small geosocial networking [...]
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