“Who are RegaloCard?” some people may be asking. I’d have said the same a few months ago. But so far in 2010 they’ve made half a dozen announcements about their mobile money transfer services. RegaloCard is an example of an innovative approach to mobile money transfers. It is a prepaid gift card that immigrants can buy in [...]
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Number of Embedded Mobile & M2M Connected Devices to rise to 412 million globally by 2014
by John Levett on January 19th, 2010
In our latest research on Embedded Mobile & M2M Strategies, the number of embedded mobile & M2M connected devices is expected to rise to 412 million globally by 2014, with connected utility metering expected to be the single largest device area of the five key markets within the burgeoning M2M industry.
The markets covered include: Utility metering, Mobile Connected [...]
Regular readers of our blog will be familiar with my posts about mobile banking being where the action is. Well folks, you gotta believe it! This week came the news that Microsoft and M-Com are to deliver a mobile payments solution globally.
Actually alhough the headline says “Payments”, in my view it’s really banking. The release [...]
Today this news item was on GMTV in the UK at breakfast time. It equates to more than 10,000 texts per day, and, as the article says, the teenager has a full time job as well – and presumably sleeps at some point. Our appetite for texting seems to grow unabated.
The UK’s Mobile Data [...]
Maybe it’s better known as the mobile economy…but either way I was fascinated to read a piece in the UK’s Guardian newspaper this last week about the growth of mobile payments. So why was I fascinated? Because this is a sure sign that mobile payments are going mainstream and it’s very encouraging.
Was I surprised? [...]
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