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The GSMA announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile awards in a ceremony hosted by comedian and songwriter Tim Minchin. We don’t even want you to know his bad jokes, but we’ll rather go straight to the point. So the winners of the 2012 Global Mobile Awards are: Best Mobile App for Consumers:…
Orange and Visa announced that Orange Money customers in Africa and the Middle East will soon have access to Visa prepaid account features inside their Orange Money accounts. This update to the service will be introduced in select markets by the end of 2012. By doing so, Orange is connecting existing mobile money subscribers to…
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…
To “celebrate” the leap year and get some media attention along the way, T-Mobile USA is sharing some cool stats to show how the user behavior has changed since the last time February 29 showed on the calendar. Without further ado, here’s what they got: Americans are getting smarter – in 2008, less than 10%…
Jabra is using this year’s Mobile World Congress to celebrate its decade in Bluetooth business, during which they emerged as Europe’s number one Bluetooth hands free communications provider. Needless to say we had a chance to see all of their latest products in Barcelona, including: Jabra FREEWAY – which is the first in-car speakerphone with…
Morpho and INSIDE Secure have team-up to launch a first product that has the potential to bring NFC functionality to the mass market, reaching even those users who don’t have the latest smartphones. The new “SIMply NFC-Revolution” product incorporates INSIDE’s core NFC chip technology with SIM technology from Morpho and the end result is an…
Video-on-demand service provider Voddler has teamed-up with Dolby Laboratories to launch the world’s first mobile movie-streaming service for smartphones using Dolby Digital Plus audio, providing users with “truly immersive 5.1 personal surround sound movie experience over any headphones.” At the moment that doesn’t include many devices, hence the service starts with support for select Nokia…
We haven’t heard from Lumigon for quite some time now. Their smartphones never managed to generate some buzz, even though they introduced few cool novelties. Now they’ve announced a new device, Lumigon T2, which too (like the previous models) is touted as a stylish smartphone that integrates a “sleek Scandinavian design,” along with Bang &…
Returning from Asus’ conference, I can’t say I’m not impressed. Quite the contrary, the Taiwanese company managed to do it again, introducing new top-notch products. During the presentation, Asus’ CEO Jonney Shih talked about “Transformation,” design thinking, cloud computing and where it sees its company fitting into the major trends. We’ve learned that Eee Pad Transformer…
Mobile World Congress has officially kicked off and ZTE didn’t waste any time announcing an obscene amount of devices today. From Android phones, high-end to low-end, along with a new custom user interface, a few tablets, as well as a new Windows Phone, ZTE isn’t playing around in 2012. ZTE Era By far one of…