In May, Google announced the release of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. It was officially launched in October but the first device running 4.0 – the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Google’s flagship phone – wasn’t launched until last week. Those new features? First of all, visual voicemail has finally come to the Android platform along [...]
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For those of us over this side of the pond, the US “holiday” mobile shopping predictions we get asked for (i.e. Black Friday and Cyber Monday) are rather hard to handle as Thanksgiving doesn’t happen over here, perhaps for obvious reasons. However, we do associate shopping with the Christmas season and this year there is [...]
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 [...]
The news last week that Apple will not equip the iPhone 4GS with NFC was a disappointment to some as take-up by iPhone users would have been a great stimulus for the market. Despite the number of “other” smartphones announced with NFC (and that appears to be an increasing number by the week) the iPhone [...]
There’s always a lot of talk about the growing take-up of mobile payments, a trend which we in Juniper Research have summarised across the digital and physicals goods, mobile money and NFC sectors in our recently published report on Mobile Payments Strategies. Aside from the business side, everyone agrees that the way in which consumers [...]
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