In this week’s edition of The Fonecast we’re talking about Adobe’s plans to stop developing Flash for mobile browsers, O2’s plans to trial 4G in London, eBay’s plea to the UK government, iZettle’s mobile payment app, some dubious advertising and a security flaw in Apple’s App Store review process.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Flash is dead, HTML5 is the future. Okay, the next stage in the evolution of the mobile browser isn’t that clear – but a restructure at Adobe has pretty much marked the end of mobile Flash development.
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Online betting community Betfair has sponsored a number of Bromley FC’s football players to have QR Codes shaved into their hair.
The players will see action this weekend in the first round of the FA Cup against Leyton Orient.
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A new study from comScore reveals that 14 million Americans scanned 'QR codes' or standard barcodes on their mobile phones in June 2011. The data comes from the company's comScore MobiLens service.
It means that 6.2% of US mobile users scanned a barcode that month.
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The Microsoft Tag 'colour barcode' is reported to have had its best month since launching in January 2009. More than 50% more tag scans took place in March 2011 than in any other month so far.
Microsoft says the number of scans per month has doubled over the past three months, while the number of users per month has increased 2.5 times in the same period.
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