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 [...]
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Just in case you missed it – if you’re in the UK, you may have been preoccupied with the large blanket of snow that has just landed – the first Googlephone has arrived. Albeit only the US, but, hey, it’s arrived – via a Google-hosted web store which, according to Mario Queiroz, VP of Product [...]
Not so very long ago, location-based search involved thumbing through a grubby copy of the Thomson’s Local Directory so that you could find out that there were, in fact, no Thai restaurants in the vicinity of your hotel and that you’d better make different plans for the evening. Then along came the Internet and GPS, [...]
Cisco has announced a proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks. This demonstrates its strategy to compete in mobile broadband infrastructure with 3G now, with the path laid for transition to LTE. It also follows on from Cisco’s often stated views about the steep growth curve that we can expect from mobile video in particular over [...]
Last week, three of Japan’s largest consumer electronics companies agreed to combine their mobile handset businesses in a stand-alone joint venture. The stated aim is to help the three companies – Casio, NEC and Hitachi – to make significant savings in production and marketing costs and to improve their positions in the cut-throat domestic market. The [...]
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