Mobile payment service ImpulsePay has launched an age verification service for online content, enabling content owners to sell products and services to users aged over 18. Unlike other services that require a credit card to confirm the user's age, ImpulsePay checks the user's mobile phone account with their mobile operator to make sure they're old enough to buy the content.
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In The Fonecast this week we're talking about acquisitions and departures, mobile virtual networks, mobile giving, mobile gaming… and the almost-inevitable mention of Apple.
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The number of mobile broadband modem shipments – including USB modems, PC Card modems and wireless routers - grew more than 55% last year, according to ABI Research. That's over 25 million more units, up from 2008's total of 46.4 million to the 2009 total of over 72 million.
ABI's figures show Chinese manufacturer Huawei is the market leader, supplying 54.3% of the world's USB modems and almost half of all PC modems and routers.
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