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by Dusan Belic - 1 Comment
The GSM Association is spearheading a project called “Pay Buy Mobile”, suggesting two options for mobile payments, which will probably complement each other. The first one is about over-the-air downloads and the other one includes preloading encrypted credit card information from the bank on the phone’s SIM card. Both Visa and MasterCard are (so far…
At 3GSM World Congress, Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS, released its unaudited financial and operational figures for both Q4 2006 and the full year ended 31 December 2006. Highlights – Full year 2006: 51.7 million Symbian smartphones shipped to consumers worldwide in 2006 – a 52% increase on 2005 (2005: 34.0m) 108…
Located near Nokia’s Booth (later about that), the S60 Booth has all the proper gadgets on it – latest S60-based devices, freebies for S60 device owners (ringtones, wallpapers, etc), and other promo materials. Most of the S60 bloggers are also there. MRKTNGman was kind enough to demonstrate me the latest S60 3rd edition Feature pack…
Symbian booth at the 3GSM is as expected – quite modest. The business philosophy of Symbian is what drives its partners to it – “it’s not about us, it’s about the whole ecosystem”. Making sure that its partners benefit is what matters. Something that many companies could embrace. 🙂
Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) initiative got new members. Founded by companies like China Mobile, KPN Mobile NV, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Vodafone, the group’s goal is to create a virtuous cycle of investment, innovation, and adoption of mobile broadband services with competitive price-performance ratios. New members include Alltel Corporation, AT&T, SK…