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Mobile channel is working like a charm for eBay, with the company revising its m-commerce forecast for this year – from $4 to $5 billion. The new figure comes after eBay reported that revenue for the third quarter (ended September 30, 2011), increased 32% compared to the same period of 2010. British eBay users are…
You’ve probably heard about some projects that aim to make eco-friendly disposable mobile phones. Here’s something completely different – a mobile phone that never will need to be replaced. Danish company Æsir is behind this product, which we could also call somewhat eco-friendly presuming such a device won’t be replaced as often as “regular” phones.…
Back in 2002, there were less than 200,000 people in Afghanistan with the access to a telephone line. Today the picture is completely different, with some 15 million Afghans using mobile phones and 85% of the population living within the combined network coverage of the four major carriers. This mass installed base opens up possibilities…
US Airways now accepts mobile boarding passes in 14 U.S. airports with additional airports to be added later in the year. The airline first started testing the technology at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. starting in December 2010 and since that was a success, they…
Mobile operators in the BRIC countries — which include Brazil, Russia, India and China — are accounting for a rapidly growing share of global mobile revenues, and are on track to overtake the U.S. in market size (revenue) by 2012. According to a new Wireless Intelligence study, The Global Cellular Industry Balance Sheet, BRIC operators…
Google’s a company that can best be described as an engineer’s wet dream. It was founded by engineers, it’s run by engineers, and unless you’ve got hard data to support any of your statements during a meeting, you will be ignored. That being said, the stereotype of engineers being a bit … how should we…
We don’t get to write about Cox Communications that often. Quite the contrary – last time we covered the cable company (7 months ago) they’ve entered the mobile space through partnership with Sprint Nextel. Now we’re hearing they want to expand to the prepaid market, though we don’t have specific timeframe to report. In an interview…
Interactive billboards are nothing new. The advertising industry has been coming up with new and innovative ways to get your attention when walking past large screens for years. Some let you tweet a message that’ll appear on said screen, others let you manipulate the display with a text message. Over in Sweden, McDonald’s tried something…
The GSMA may not get a lot of press love as an organization, but they’re responsible for not only holding the largest wireless trade show of the year (Mobile World Congress), but also inventing and maintaing the standards that power over 80% of the mobile phones currently being used today. Their CEO, Rob Conway, has…
Being a dominant player in the world’s most populous country is not enough for Baidu. They want more and they go for more. Baidu’s first target is Japan for which the company has already prepared a local search engine and is now looking at the rest of the world for further expansion. Speaking at a…