Podcast - 23rd January 2013
It's another packed podcast this week, starting with mobile payments and ending with DIY mobile accessories.
We also cover manufacturing news, mobile VoIP calling, a new virtual network heading for the UK high street, shop closures, smart accessories and phablets.
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Slip slidin' away
Mark Bridge writes:
There’s plenty of snow disrupting the UK – but, thanks to the mobile telecoms industry, thousands upon thousands of people are able to work from home. We’re all feeling pretty pleased with ourselves right now, aren’t we?
Pedestrians may have been skating down pavements but a different kind of trouble on the high street dominated much of last week as music, DVD and occasional mobile phone retailer HMV went into administration.
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Financial institutions representing 90% of all current accounts in the UK have committed to launching a new mobile payment service in spring next year.
Customers will be able to make payments by quoting the recipient’s mobile phone number instead of their bank sort code and account number.
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Over one billion people will have used their mobile devices for banking by the end of 2017, according to a new
Juniper Research report. That’s more than 15% of the global subscriber base - and is a substantial increase from this year’s expected total of just over 590 million mobile banking users.
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Podcast - 14th December 2012
Today's podcast feature takes a look at mobile financial services, from the current state of mobile payments to NFC adoption and the developments we're likely to see next year.
Joining us are Winston Yeo, Vice President Marketing and Product Management for Mobile Financial Services at Gemalto, and Amol Deshmukh, Gemalto's Director of Mobile Financial Services for North America.
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