This week’s podcast from The Fonecast starts with a look at Barclays Pingit, the new UK mobile payment service that’ll let almost anyone send and receive money from a smartphone. We then move on to Ofcom’s plans to cut mobile termination rates before discussing camera technology, new handsets, patents, NFC tickets and plenty of other topics.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. So said Sir Arthur C Clarke.
Last week’s magic was supplied by imaging company Scalado, which announced a new product called ‘Remove’. The clue’s in the name: it can automatically remove unwanted people from photos taken on a mobile phone. Expect to see it on a handset near you before too long.
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Sony Corporation says it’s completed the transaction to acquire the other half of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications; a 50% stake that was owned by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
It means Sony Ericsson is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony.
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Sony Ericsson has expanded its existing relationship with surf-inspired brand Billabong to create an Xperia active Billabong Edition smartphone.
The original version of the scratch-resistant handset was announced in June 2011. It’s dustproof and water resistant to the IP67 rating.
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We start today’s podcast with some big-name departures, as RIM welcomes a new Chief Executive and Yahoo! says goodbye to one of its founders.
There’s plenty more, too - from impressive quarterly results to unsuccessful mobile insurance fraud.
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