Podcast - 24th April 2013
There's a diverse collection of mobile-related news in this week's 30-minute podcast.
We start with the new Twitter music service before moving on to discuss quarterly results, patent licensing, wireless charging, advertising and mobile payments... before ending with a curious report about app-controlled underwear.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Podcasts
Tags: podcast, twitter, music, microsoft, nokia, android, foxconn, patents, battery, payments, vodafone, orange, voip
Spring in the air
Mark Bridge writes:
The past few days have seen the arrival of two familiar seasons. Not only has the sun peeked its head from behind the clouds in an approximation of Spring but the mobile industry has been releasing its quarterly results.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Applications, Opinion
Tags: opinion, microsoft, google, visa, payments, banking, vodafone, india, uk, t-mobile, legal, twitter, music, htc, lg, samsung
Vodafone India has partnered with ICICI Bank to launch the M-Pesa mobile money transfer and payment service in India. It’s estimated that approximately 700 million people in the country have no access to conventional banking.
M-Pesa was first launched in Kenya in 2007, allowing customers to send and receive small amounts of money on mobile phones.
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Ad-supported UK mobile virtual network OVIVO Mobile has recently appointed three new non-executive directors.
PhotoBox co-founder and finance expert James Longley, advertising veteran Martin Smith and entrepreneur Tony Fish will be joining the company.
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S4 for Samsung, 1m for BlackBerry
Mark Bridge writes:
Samsung launched a new flagship Android smartphone last week, eschewing Roman numerals and calling it the Galaxy S4. Well, it was never really going to be the SIV, was it?
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Opinion
Tags: opinion, android, samsung, smartphone, blackberry, st-ericsson, google, vodafone, advertising
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