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Mobile payments to increase four-fold in five years

A new report from Juniper Research expects mobile payment transactions to increase nearly four-fold in the next five years, exceeding $1.3tn (£829 billion) by 2017.

This growth will mainly be driven by sales of physical goods by a combination of remote purchases and in-store NFC transactions. However, physical goods purchases via mobile phones will still only account for around 4% of all retail transactions by 2017.

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Adobe Flash has left the building

Mark Bridge writes:

So, that’s it. Today’s the day Adobe Flash Player - the preferred video player for many web sites - leaves the Google Play store.

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Sony to launch PlayStation Mobile this autumn

Sony to launch PlayStation Mobile this autumn

Sony Computer Entertainment says it’ll start the full-scale launch of PlayStation Mobile in the autumn.

The service, previously named PlayStation Suite, will bring Sony PlayStation games to a variety of mobile devices. This initial launch will include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA.

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LG passes milestone of five million 4G LTE smartphones

LG passes milestone of five million 4G LTE smartphones

Although 4G LTE phones haven’t yet been given a UK launch, they’re selling well abroad.

LG Electronics has just passed global sales of five million LTE smartphones, having sold a million in July alone. The company’s first LTE smartphone - the Revolution - was released in the USA last May, with the worldwide range now having expanded into double figures.

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Motorola cuts jobs, Digia acquires Qt and Starbucks partners with Square

Podcast - 15th August 2012

This week's edition of The Fonecast starts with news that Motorola Mobility is to lose around a fifth of its staff worldwide. There's also more reorganisation at Nokia, which is passing its Qt software business to Digia.

In addition we're talking about a new US partnership between Starbucks and Square, some good news for Research In Motion, a worrying report for Samsung and a major milestone for Shazam.

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