Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 23rd March

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Periscope, Twitter's answer to Meerkat-style live streaming, is now available The Verge Live-streaming apps are the thirstiest of all media. A Facebook post wants a like, a tweet begs for favs, and a snap means little without a response. But for sheer drop-everything, look-at-me arrogance, nothing beats the …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 16th March

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners Guardian You are travelling by plane to see your newborn grandchild. As you board the aircraft, the cabin crew address you by name and congratulate you on the arrival of a bouncing baby boy. On your seat, you find a gift-wrapped blue rattle with a …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 9th March

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Apple Watch release date, price and features Tech Radar Apple Watch launches on Friday, April 24 - you can set your friend's inferior Android Wear smartwatch to that release date - and we finally know everything about what's been hiding up Tim Cook's sleeve. It's an iPhone-compatible smartwatch …

MWC15 News Round-up Day 4 – say goodbye to passwords, hello to connected cars and pizza

This year at MWC consumer trust and privacy have taken up position as a central theme.  There's also been plenty of announcements at the device level on how consumers can protect themselves with more sophisticated biometric authentication technology.  ZTE, Fujitsu and EyeVerify all announced eye scanning technology and Qualcomm putting forward its own 3D unltrasonic finger print scanning tech as a credible alternative. Elsewhere there's more evidence that the automotive sector is increasingly embracing mobile as the latest poster-boy of the ecosystem.  Visa announced that it has joined …

MWC15 News Round-up Day 3 – from mobile phones to connected bow-ties

Day three at Mobile World Congress saw much more buzz around the Internet of Things, data, wearables and smart devices. The words *mobile* and *phone* are deliberately omitted because so much of the exhibition and discussion has noticeably shifted out to capture the array of things that mobile now enables.  Connected cars, health bands, connected watches - even hat-pins, bow-ties and cuff-links were featured on one of the many Samsung stands. Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Executive Ken Hu took up the issue in his keynote stating, in no uncertain terms: 'be careful smartphone, your days are …

MWC15 News Round-up Day 2

Day two at Mobile World Congress has seen a lot of discussion around some key topic areas both from company led announcements and general discussion from the show floor, particularly the need to balance the industry's need to create, ingest and use consumer data against the very real need to foster trust and protect privacy bought in to sharper focus by the anticipated growth with the Internet of Things.  One live discussion concluded that: 'trust is the new currency in mobile'.  Global News Stories BlackBerry goes keyboardless again with new Leap ArsTechnica BlackBerry today …

MWC15 News Round-up Day 1

Daily news from the floor at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona.  Global News Stories Mobile World Congress 2015: wearables, virtual reality and three-sided phones Telegraph Samsung has unveiled a three-sided phone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, alongside its new flagship Galaxy S6, in the hope that differentiating itself from its Android competitors will help to reverse its slump in smartphone sales. The Galaxy S6 Edge is curved on both sides, meaning the display wraps around the entire width of the handset. This is intended to create …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 23rd February

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Gartner: expect mobile disruption, strong wearable growth through 2015 Memeburn Right now, the global smartphone market seems pretty set: Samsung and Apple are top of the pile and a bunch of Chinese players, including Huawei, Lenovo, and Xiaomi, are fighting for what’s left of the pie. But things can change …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 16th February

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Health features for Apple Watch dramatically scaled back after repeated failures, report says VentureBeat After attempting for years to create a wearable device that would focus on health and fitness, Apple was forced to fundamentally change its vision for the Apple Watch when many of the features simply didn’t work. That news …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 9th February

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Tim Cook explains why Apple Pay doesn't collect your data: 'You are not our product' Business Insider Apple's new payments system Apple Pay is off to a good start: Customers are using it where it's available — by December, two out of three dollars used for contactless payments were from Apple Pay — and …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 2nd February

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Apple’s iPhone Overtakes Android In US Sales For The First Time Since 2012 TechCrunch Apple, in its flush of new, bigger iPhone 6 handsets, has been selling record numbers of its older and newer model smartphones in the last few months, and now it’s passed another significant milestone: it has managed to …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 26th January

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history BBC Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which tops the $15.9bn made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012, according to Standard and Poor's. Record sales of iPhones were behind the surge in profits. Apple sold …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 19th January

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Here’s Everything That Went Down At Microsoft’s Windows 10 Event Tech Crunch It was a very Windows day, with Microsoft unveiling lots more about Windows 10, the next generation of its operating system, including how it will work across mobile, tablet, desktop and other platforms. The biggest surprise was …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 12th January

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Google to pilot modular phone in Puerto Rico BBC Google plans to pilot a modular phone, on which components can be swapped, this year. It says tests will take place in Puerto Rico, where devices will be distributed from "food-truck-style stores". The firm suggests phones with swappable parts will cost …

Mobile News Round-up – CES Special

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant mobile content and commerce snapshot - this week, the news is unsurprisingly dominated by CES 2015 in Las Vegas: we round up the stories you may have missed.  Global News Stories CES 2015: Wearable tech becomes invisible BBC Wearable tech is staging a vanishing act. That's not to say that there you can't find any new products here at CES in Las Vegas. In fact, the show floor …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 15th December

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Samsung in Talks to Launch Apple Pay Competitor re/code Samsung has discussed a deal with a payments startup that would help the smartphone maker unveil a wireless mobile payments system in 2015 to rival Apple, according to multiple sources. The technology would allow people with certain Samsung phones …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 8th December

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Blackphone Confirms Privacy-Focused App Store And Device Sandboxes Incoming TechCrunch BlackPhone, the post-Snowden, pro-privacy Android smartphone joint venture between secure comms company Silent Circle and phone maker Geeksphone, has confirmed it will be adding an app store to its PrivatOS in an update …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 1st December

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories PayPal Reports Record-Breaking Number Of Black Friday Shoppers And Sales On Mobile TechCrunch The move to offer online shoppers earlier access to Black Friday deals – beginning as early as Thanksgiving Day this year – resulted in record-breaking numbers of consumers shopping on mobile, reports PayPal. Based …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 24th November

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories More than half of UK consumers have used digital wallets to pay for online goods The Drum More than half of UK consumers (54 per cent) often or always use digital wallets to pay for goods online, research from Skrill has found. The research of 2,000 UK adults found that more than one in ten 18-24 year …

Global Mobile News Round-up – Week 17th November

Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Pebble and PayPal Join Forces for Wearable Payments Mobile Marketing Magazine PayPal have released an app for Pebble smartwatches enabling users to check-in to pay at any retailer, restaurant or business that accepts PayPal, as well as receive payment notifications direct to their wrist. With Apple Pay’s …