The number of mobile banking users will exceed 150 million globally by 2011, according to a new study by Juniper Research. The Juniper Research report determined that the mobile banking market is currently most advanced in the Far East, but that growing numbers of mobile banking services are being offered in North America and Western…
Cellphones dangerous to your eyes? Not likely… maybe
Cellphone radiation has been the subject of heated debate over its potentially harmful effects on the human body. From brain cancer to killing bees to making you stupid, the radio waves emitted by mobile phones are still being studied to determine its impact on humans. The latest study, published in Journal of the National Cancer…
Mobile Research: The future of fieldwork
Tim Macer, one of the keynote speakers at next month’s Mobile Research Conference, believes that the mobile phone will revolutionize self-completion surveys in the very near future because it offers the potential to address several challenges that market research companies face today. These include reaching representative samples, respondent engagement, turnaround times and cost. Macer has…
Japanese study declares Apple iPhone 3G “Best Smartphone of 2008”
Despite speculation that the Apple iPhone 3G would fail to catch on in any significant manner in Japan – a country so used to advanced cellphone features that it makes the iPhone 3G’s feature-set look dull – it seems that Japanese geeks are just as enamored with Apple’s glossy-finished touchscreen handset as the rest of…
Moore’s Law due for a reboot on Mobile devices?
BBC News has a great story on where the development of Mobile device chipsets is going to be going in the coming months – very simply, to a multi-core architecture. The article features commentary from Advanced Risc Machines (Arm), a UK-based firm who provide about 80% of the processing chips in Mobile devices – the…
ABI Research: LCD still rules mobile phone screens, but new technologies hunt for niches
LCD is still king in the land of the mobile phone displays, but a number of other screen technologies are vying for small slices of the vast realm. According to ABI Research, because LCD is a mature technology, it has a cost advantage that ensures its future as the primary display technology for some time…
166 SMS text messages sent through O2’s network on New Year’s Eve!
Talk about a record! O2 has announced that their network ushered a record-setting 166 million SMS text messages over a 24 hour period that ended 7:30am on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). That works out to a whopping 1,900 text messages sent every single second of the day! The rush of wireless subscribers sending out…
Most people will be accessing the InterWeb via Mobile in…..2020!
Yep, that’s a bit of a shock for those predicting that it would be in the next few years or so! According to a new report by the “Pew Internet & American Life Project”, people will only be using Mobile devices to access the net in around 2020. The “Future of the Internet III” study…
‘Texting’ is a good sign of a person’s recovery, apparently…
BBC News has an interesting piece on it’s site, about how ‘texting’ is a good sign of recovery… read on if you are intruiged.. Essentially, Doctors at some of the huge UK music festivals have said that a patients’ ability to use a mobile (for texting) is a pretty good indicator of how ill they…
Google Mobile Looking for Product Ideas
What better way to give the people what they want by simply asking them? An official page has popped up for Google Mobile users who want to suggest and vote on product ideas. Good call, Google! Top-voted ideas include: “Manage Google Calendar on Google Mobile (add, update, delete an event with all functionalities of the…