Tuesday, April 19, 2011
This week's edition of The Fonecast covers text message donations, network partnerships, mobile payments and the latest innovations. There's also a look back at a feature from 2006 in which we discussed the still-current topic of voicemail hacking.
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Mark Windle, head of marketing at OpenCloud, predicts that this year’s reduction in the number of traditional telecoms operators in some countries will provide an opportunity for other operators to innovate and capture market share in 2016.
He says next year will be a year of rapid change for telecoms… whether it’s MVNO disruption, competitive tariff pricing or simply defence from the ‘dark art’ of hacking.
Mark Bridge writes:
The most memorable moments in life often go unrecorded. You don't have your camera in your hands. Your finger is still hovering over the 'pause' button on your audio recorder. Or you were simply too busy experiencing whatever was happening. It's all about the one that got away.
That's where Kapture can help.
James Rosewell shows me a colourful roll of paper that's the width of an iPhone but well over three metres long. When I look closer, I can see it's a printed copy of the Wall Street Journal's mobile website. That's a lot of scrolling to do... and a pretty unfriendly user experience for anyone reading the news online. Why does it work so badly?
We talk to two very different companies at Mobile World Congress about their businesses and their relationships with mobile networks. Rebtel is a mobile voice-over-IP provider, while Mosaik Solutions produces mobile network coverage information.
In this week's news report we're discussing PayPal's latest mobile money initiative, we're looking at London Underground's new WiFi service and we're transfixed by Vodafone's m-health move. Listen to all this - and much more - online at TheFonecast.com.
This roundtable discussion on Privacy in Mobile Applications was held during Mobile World Congress 2012. It was hosted by MEF, the global community for mobile content & commerce, and was supported by SNR Denton.
Heroes of Emerging Markets: recorded during Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. This panel discussion, sponsored by Pearson and arranged by mobileheroes.net, looks at the opportunities of doing mobile business in emerging markets.
Although the new Apple iPad has been grabbing the mainstream news headlines, there's much more going on in the mobile industry. We look at all the top mobile stories, from 4G in the UK to mobile money investments by Visa Europe.
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