Arrivals, departures... and a little confusion
Mark Bridge writes:
Farewell for another year, dear old International CES. The Las Vegas-based consumer electronics show is but a fading memory as the mobile industry starts preparing for next month’s GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
However, what happened in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.
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Last month a report from Ben-Gurion University in Israel identified what it described as “a critical vulnerability” in Samsung devices that used the Samsung Knox security system.
The issue, which the university said “could be used to bypass all Knox security measures”, was raised by a PhD student.
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O2 UK is closing its Wallet service on 31st March 2014, less than two years after first announcing it.
The O2 Wallet enables customers on any network to send money from an existing debit or credit card to individuals or to retailers, rather like the Barclays Pingit service.
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UK mobile phone recycling business Cash4phones has filed for insolvency, according to a report by The Guardian.
The company website is currently offline.
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Podcast - 10th January 2014
Mark Bridge talks to Florent Stroppa, General Manager Europe for mobile value-added service specialist OnMobile.
In today's programme Florent explains what 2014 holds for the mobile industry, what he thinks will happen in the slightly more-distant future - and what lessons we can learn from 2013.
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