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MWC15 News Round-up Day 4 – say goodbye to passwords, hello to connected cars and pizza News Roundup

MWC15 News Round-up Day 4 – say goodbye to passwords, hello to connected cars and pizza

This year at MWC consumer trust and privacy have taken up position as a central theme.  There's also been plenty of announcements at the device level on how consumers can protect themselves with more sophisticated biometric authentication technology.  ZTE, Fujitsu and EyeVerify all announced eye scanning technology and Qualcomm putting…
Tim Banks
March 6, 2015
‘Wearables’ Need To Be ‘Invisibles’ – Divorcing Tech From Fashion Guest blog

‘Wearables’ Need To Be ‘Invisibles’ – Divorcing Tech From Fashion

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is featuring a lot of "wearables" reports Techcrunch (which all seem to be smart watches).  Here, former Financial Times journalist and publisher of influential technology blog, Silicon Valley Watcher, Tom Foremski gives us his take on the direction of this nascent market. (This…
Tim Banks
January 13, 2015
MasterCard is making mobile money a reality in Egypt Payments & Commerce

MasterCard is making mobile money a reality in Egypt

In growth economies, where handset penetration is high, mobile is typically the first and sometimes only digital touch-point for consumers within a large under-banked or un-banked population.  Characteristically commerce in the these countries is predominantly cash based, where routine financial tasks like transferring money to friends, paying utility bills or…
Tim Banks
December 15, 2014
Industry Views: Is Privacy And Consumer Trust Still Hampering The Mobile Industry? Interviews

Industry Views: Is Privacy And Consumer Trust Still Hampering The Mobile Industry?

The last few weeks have seen some interesting moves around mobile privacy and consumer trust. Business Insider reports that taxi / ride-share app, Uber, may be collecting seemingly unrelated user data including SMSLog call history, Wi-Fi connections used, GPS locations and every type of device ID possible. Elsewhere Twitter has been…
Tim Banks
December 4, 2014
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