The Way Forward For NFC Payments

Today in Hall 4 a conference session was held to discuss NFC and the future. One of the key panelists was Ryan Hughes of Isis, the NFC payments initiative backed by AT&T, Verizon and T-mobile. They have been running trials in Salt Lake City and Austin this past year and…

Telefonica Presents Global Mobile Research Study

This morning at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Telefonica (the Spanish-based telecom giant) presented an interesting market research study covering mobile in 54 countries consisting of over 50,000 interviews. Among the highlights:

3-D Printing On The Cusp Of Widespread Adoption

You may have heard of 3D printing as “the next industrial revolution,” or “something that changes everything.” But this year, get ready for the technology to really take off in the consumer marketplace. The ecosystem needed to support the…

FirefoxOS … Why?

“That’s probably our most frequently asked question”, said the Mozilla rep at the Firefox booth when I asked him why as an Android user I might prefer FirefoxOS.

For those who haven’t been keeping tabs on it, Mozilla is launching a new mobile device operating system in Q2…

Wikipedia To Deliver Articles Via SMS

Wikipedia is starting to tackle a problem many content providers struggle with — reaching feature phone users on-the-go. Wikipedia’s solution will deliver articles via text message when users send an SMS request. The new product will help expand Wikipedia’s reach…

Oscar Tweets Total 8.9 Million

In case the Superbowl didn’t prove that Twitter was the second screen of choice for most viewers, Twitter today reported that a total of 8.9 million Tweets were generated over the length of the evening: 2.1 million during the red carpet, and 6.8 million during the awards…