Following on from my post yesterday, I continue to garner test requirements for the physical examination of mobile communications devices by means of impaction of inaminate object(s) – or in other words, how to batter some ruggedised handsets in to submission! If you would like to see extreme physical peril come to the Nokia 5140…
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Juniper Research: Total mobile payments to grow nearly ten fold by 2013
According to Juniper Research’s Mobile Payments Study, purchases via mobile devices, contactless NFC transactions and money transfers will together generate transactions worth over $600 billion globally by 2013. This figure represents the gross value of all the items being purchased or the value of money being transferred. While the mobile market today is currently dominated…
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So the other day I hit upon a great idea – I’m an outdoorsy kinda guy, I like my mobile gadgets, and I always shed a small electronic tear when one of them gets damaged. So rather than weep, I figured I should turn that frown upside down and test out some devices that just…
Report: RIM still leads US smartphone market, Apple takes second place
All the doom and gloom surrounding the US economy’s downward spiral into recession apparently isn’t enough to stifle the US smartphone market. While the rest of the US suffers from weak consumer spending, the smartphone market is a veritable “shining star” of hope. For the January to July 2008 period, NPD Group reports that overall…
Gesture-sensing TV does away with remote
The Telegraph.co.uk has an interesting story about a TV developed to sense hand gestures as a means of control, rather than using the traditional remote. Following on from all the hype regarding the combined gesture/hardware remote of the Nintendo Wii, Toshiba’s TV trumps that by doing away with the hardware altogether. The system uses a…
US mobile internet usage sees huge jump in Q2 2008
With 3G usage in the US surpassing Western Europe, it’s not all that surprising to hear that the US has seen mobile internet usage increase almost a third in Q2 2008. The US has seen mobile web access jump 29.4% from Q1 to Q2 2008. Crisp Wireless reports that mobile internet traffic increased as mobile…
US 3G market penetration out paces Europe
It looks like our immature, underdeveloped 3G wireless network infrastructure hasn’t stopped the US from passing-up Western Europe in terms of 3G subscribers. According to comScore, 28.4% of US wireless subscribers have hopped on board the 3G bandwagon. Compare that to the 28.3% of western European wireless customers with 3G handsets in tow, and it’s…
Nortel and LG testing 4G LTE handover at highway speeds
Sure, 100Mbps worth of downstream data is something we’d all like to see in the near future. Imagine cruising the wireless airwaves at speeds faster than we see with wireline broadband services. Yup, the 4G LTE networks of the future are most definitely going to be fun. Getting 100Mbps data speeds from a particular cellular…
Research: Global Mobile Content Tools Market to breach $8bn in 2008
The Insight Research Corporation has just released a new study, stating that those involved in Mobile content creation will spend more than $8 billion on the tools for creation, editing, management, and loading of that content. These could be Music and electronic game publishers, television broadcasters, video production companies, content aggregators, and telecommunications carriers worldwide.…
Research: Mobile Content Consumers are more loyal than ‘Internet’ Consumers
A new piece of research suggests that consumers of mobile content are more loyal to the sites where they get the content from, than those accessing through the internet. This surely is good news for Operators and some Content Partners with off-desk presence… Prof. Philip Sugai and Prof. Donghun Kim, both professors at the International…