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NFC-based contactless payments have been around for the last couple of years but are still waiting to reach the tipping point. According to the latest report by Juniper Research, these transactions will reach $74 billion by 2015, with folks using the technology to pay for goods in-store and as transport tickets. Furthermore, the research company…
Everyone’s talking about mobile payments these days. Google has its own scheme, mobile carriers their own (Isis Mobile in the U.S.), while big retailers are also teaming-up to get involved in this hot-paced action. And while there’s still no single model that’s been adopted by the entire market, things are moving forward. Some companies offer…
Shopkick, the location-based shopping applications that offers up rewards just by having its app installed and walking into a store tried a little experiment late last February, which they called Black Friday 2. What’s that, you ask? Read on to find out. The Black Friday 2 experiment, which took place on February 24th of this…
Global internet usage through mobile devices, excluding tablets, is doubling every year. According to StatCounter, as of January 2012, the mobile Internet access accounted for 8.5%, which is up from 4.3% a year before. Moreover, in January 2010, the figure was at 1.6%, which again is more than double than in 2009 – 0.7%. StatCounter’s…
In its new report titled “Mobile TV: Applications, Devices and Opportunities 2012-2016,” Juniper Research talks about mobile TV usage. According to the research company, growing user satisfaction with mobile TV on tablets will push average monthly viewing times to 186 minutes per month in 2014. As users become more accustomed to viewing content on tablets,…
Pew asked 2,253 adults about their mobile phone in a survey conducted last month, and the results suggest that smartphones have finally overtaken dumb phones in the US. The survey shows that 45 percent of cell owners say their phone is a smartphone, and 49 percent of cell owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform.…
In its latest Digital Consumer Report, Nielsen talks about users’ responsiveness toward ads. The research has found that tablet and smartphone owners in Germany, Italy and the UK are more likely than Americans to make a purchase online via PC after viewing an ad on their tablet or smartphone. Of all nations surveyed, Italian device…
Mobile ad network InMobi conducted an iPad-focused study to find out who will buy Apple’s new tablet once it’s released. Here’s what they’ve found out: 29% of respondents are planning to buy the iPad 3 with 54% of those do not already own a tablet. 65% of those who intend to buy an iPad 3…
With Apple announcing their press event on March 7th for the iPad 3, we’re sure many of you are planning to sell your current iPad, that is, if you’re not already one of the 120k+ that already traded in their device on eBay. If you’re not planning on handing down your current iPad to a family…
The GSMA released research into the opportunities that mobiles provide to underserved women in emerging markets. Entitled “Portraits: A Glimpse into the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid”, the report shows the wants, needs, aspirations and mobile uses of women living at the base of the pyramid (BoP), which are those living…