Telefónica’s Digital business unit has launched a new all-in-one communication application called TU Me.

The free app is available worldwide and is the first service from Telefónica Digital that’s been launched directly to consumers.

A new research report from Berg Insight has calculated that the total value of real-time mobile location-based advertising and marketing will grow from €192 million in 2011 to €4.9 billion in 2016.

That’s a compound annual growth rate of 91%, with the 2016 figure corresponding to 28.3% of all mobile advertising and marketing.

New research from Berg Insight says global sales of NFC-equipped handsets increased ten-fold in 2011 to 30 million units.

An increasing demand for Near Field Communication technology is expected to see this figure increase at a compound annual growth rate of 87.8% to reach 700 million units in 2016.

Mark Bridge writes:

Some parts of the mobile industry are all glamour and glitz, megapixels and multi-cores, apps and ads. And then there are the essential parts of the industry, quite often with considerably less competition... and therefore accompanied by less singing and dancing.

Despite hailing from the city of Memphis in Tennessee, Mosaik Solutions isn’t from the rock ‘n’ roll end of the mobile industry. It creates mobile coverage maps and provides coverage data, as well as supplying information about coverage patterns, wireless spectrum depth, network configurations and licencing.

Kurt Achin of voanews.com writes:

In India's burgeoning economy, more and more women are going to work in offices - exposing them to what can sometimes be dangerous urban conditions. Now, a new technological initiative aims to protect women against sexual assault.