The mPowa mobile payment service, which was announced earlier this year, is now available on Apple iPhone and iPad devices.

Individuals and organisations that want to take credit and debit card payments can download the app and register their details to receive a plug-in card reader.

Mobile technology company Qualcomm Incorporated is planning to change its corporate structure. It says the reasons include improving its product delivery and protecting its patent portfolio from any claims that involve other parts of the company.

After the restructure there’ll be a new wholly-owned subsidiary called Qualcomm Technologies Inc (QTI). This business will handle Qualcomm’s research and development activities along with its product and services businesses, including the QCT semiconductor business.

Vodafone Group has split its European operations into two new operating regions; Northern & Central Europe and Southern Europe.

Philipp Humm has been appointed as Chief Executive for Northern & Central Europe with effect from October, while Paolo Bertoluzzo is the new Chief Executive of Southern Europe.

Research In Motion has published quarterly results for the first three months of its current financial year, which ended on 2nd June. It shipped 7.8 million BlackBerry smartphones and 260,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the quarter.

Revenue was $2.8 billion (£1.8 billion), down 33% from the previous quarter and down 43% from the same quarter in 2012. The company reported a net quarterly loss of $518 million.

A new forecast from Informa Telecoms & Media expects mobile operators to increase their share of app revenues from 10% last year to 17% in 2016. However, they’ll also see their share of mobile content and commerce revenue drop from 44% in 2011 to 31% in 2016.

Although many services including mobile entertainment and messaging are going ‘over the top’, avoiding direct payments to networks, the adoption of carrier billing for paid app downloads will help to offset this lost revenue.