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Mastercard’s new mobile PayPass Wallet
Mastercard, already one of the biggest players in mobile payments, has unveiled PayPass Wallet a new global offering for banks, merchants and partners which enables payments with “a click of the mouse, touch of the tablet screen or tap of the smartphone”. PayPass Wallet is a plan combining in-store mobile NFC (Near Field Communications) payments,...
There’s a new world leader in mobile phones, and it’s not Apple or Nokia
The worldwide mobile phone market has a new leader – Samsung. According to the latest data from the International Data Corp, Samsung is now effectively the world’s largest supplier of both smartphones and all other mobile phones. While the mobile phone market declined 1.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012 to 398.4 million, (compared...
Deezer is coming and in talks with Irish mobile provider
Streaming is changing the way people listen to music. Rather than having all your favourite songs saved on an iPod or hard drive, millions of tracks are stored in the cloud and streamed to your device whenever you want to listen. Frustratingly, however, the world’s most popular streaming music service, Spotify is unavailable in Ireland...
Samsung goes after Apple by aping its marketing
It seems the world stops when Apple releases an upgrade of the iPhone. Apple’s pre-launch hype is the envy of every phone maker on the planet. Why, when clearly the iPhone is not the best smartphone, do people go nuts for each new version? Essentially it’s what marketing types call ‘brand value’ and Apple has...
Blueface to be sold in Carphone Warehouse stores
Blueface Mobile has signed a deal with with Carphone Warehouse, to resell its service throughout the Carphone Warehouse retail estate of 83 stores in Ireland. Blueface offers both a landline and mobile service on the Blueface cloud platform. This new deal with Carphone Warehouse will allow business owners to source mobile phone and landline offers...
Say hello to the age of mobile TV
Watching digital TV channels and players via a mobile device is becoming increasingly popular with consumers. Aertv’s latest findings show 24% of visits to its online TV service are from mobile devices, with Apple’s iPad accounting for almost half (45%) of these. “Viewing spikes around sporting events, especially. What is happening is that someone is...
Irish employees encouraged to ‘bring their own devices’ as workplaces go virtual
28% of Irish businesses are currently in the process of deploying or planning desktop virtualisation projects according to a new survey carried out by IT distributor, Data Solutions. Desktop virtualisation sees the employee’s physical computer replaced by a virtual desktop space stored in a data centre which can then be accessed from any device connected to...
O2 opens online store for SMEs
O2 has launched a new online business store. The new service will allow SMEs and sole traders manage their mobile, fixed and broadband needs online without having to phone a call centre or visit a local store. “We appreciate how busy small businesses are. The O2 online business store will help them fast track and...
Storyful teams up with Demotix
The social media driven news agency Storyful has teamed up with user generated photo and video curator Demotix to create a novel newswire service. The channel will deliver a stream of ‘high-value and rights-cleared’ images and video to news organisations. Demotix’s content will be available on a dedicated channel on StoryfulPro, the subscription section of...
Citizen journalists to provide alternative Olympic coverage – #media2012
Are you more interested in the Olympic movement and its impact on society than the action at the sports stadia? Then tune in to #media2012 – a network of citizen journalists that plans to provide alternative coverage focusing on different dimensions of the London 2012 Olympics. The network’s website claims it is ‘curating a social...
Media rich mobile solution for Irish advertisers
Irish advertisers and online publishers now have a new ‘mobile rich media’ option should they require one. Irish agency Adforce.ie has teamed up with Medialets, a rich media ad platform, to offer advertisers more engaging options for response from customers. Rich media features include video content and image galleries to social media integration, click-to-call buttons...
Click to call ads on Skype – will they bother you?
When Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion in October 2011, many senior tech heavyweights questioned why it paid so much and also why it ‘really’ wanted the technology. As it turns out, Microsoft bought Skype because it saw the online video phone service as a potential ad platform. In February this year, Microsoft Advertising confirmed...
