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Blueface launches mobile service
Blueface Mobile was launched today by The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. It delivers both a landline and mobile service on the Blueface cloud platform and aims to be cheaper than the main networks. Customers will get unlimited Ireland and UK landline and mobile calls, free Blueface to Blueface calls and unlimited data and texts for €69...
Mozilla’s web phone will change the app industry
Back before the web was mobile and social, when people accessed the web only through PCs, a non-profit called Mozilla decided to take on Microsoft’s domineering web browser, Internet Explorer. Mozilla didn’t like the fact that a private corporation owned the world’s most-used web browser so it decided to build its own and offer it...
Apple’s iAds in serious trouble?
Remember when Apple launched iAd? It was April 2010 and Steve Jobs (below) took to the stage to explain Apple’s vision for mobile ads. The iAd platform initially wowed many in advertising, promising rich, video-led, immersive experiences for consumers. There would be ads within apps, created using HTML5 – a new era is advertising dawned....
Mastercard’s new Dublin HQ to develop mobile payment solutions
Mastercard is to set up its new global office for the company’s technology operations headquarters in Dublin. A key focus of the new HQ, which will employ over 130 highly skilled workers, will be on mobile and wave & pay solutions. “[We] are a technology company that happens to be in the payments space,” says...
One billion smartphones by 2016 – app sector to be worth $55 billion
Forrester, a research group known for its solid predictions, believes there will be over one billion smartphones in the hands of people worldwide by 2016. Forrester’s new research also suggests 90% of these phones will have been built and/or controlled by Apple, Google and Microsoft. This trend towards smart mobile will be driven by business...
Facebook looks to mobile money
In its recent IPO filing, Facebook admitted that its mobile offerings (on smartphones and the iPad) don’t generate meaningful revenues. It has over 425 million monthly active mobile users and is yet to reveal its mobile ad platform. This week the social network struck a deal with UK mobile payments firm Bango to provide ‘payment...
Mobile web usage doubling year-on-year
If further proof was needed that mobile phones are fast becoming a common device to access the web, here it is: Global internet usage through mobile devices, not including tablets*, has almost doubled to 8.5% in January 2012 from 4.3% last year. The figures from web analytics firm StatCounter also show what make of phones...
Visa certifies wave and pay phones from Samsung, LG and Blackberry
Visa Europe has certified certain smartphones made by Samsung, LG and Blackberry to use its mobile app for payments – Visa payWave. The Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 have been added to Visa’s list of “compliant payment products” i.e. wave...
Apple needs to be radical to build its mobile ad business
Apple has hired Todd Teresi, a former head of digital publishing at Adobe, to head its iAd mobile-advertising business ahead of a ‘major’ media announcement later this month. Speculating on Apple events has become a favourite sport of bloggers and tech writers. Most believe Apple will announce a new deal between it and America’s major...
Google plans risky entry into the tablet sector
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said Google will launch a tablet computer within the first six months of 2012. The Google tablet will run on the Android operating system (OS) and will aim to compete not just with the iPad but with other tablet computers built by Samsung and HP. In an interview with an...
Opera Mini who? The battle of the mobile browsers gathers pace
Most people browsing the web just want a good browser. They don’t really care who owns it. Last week we reported that Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become the world’s second favorite (or most-used) browser. ‘So what?’, most people would shrug. But it’s a big business, and you can read more about how browsers make...
A new era for online video
The way people consume video is changing and changing fast. New research by Marc Gosschalk, a senior analyst with comScore, suggests 1.2 billion people worldwide watched on average 18 hours of online video each in October 2011. Russia (43.1 million unique viewers), Germany (42.7m) and France (36.6m) lead the way in Europe in terms of...
