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Industry views: Pokemon Go and the privacy of user data

Pokemon Go has been a phenomenal success. Almost overnight the game has captured more active users than Twitter. At the same time the game makers, Niantic, are increasingly coming under fire around privacy concerns re the user data that the game is hoarding - including location. Niantic's privacy policy notes…
Sam Hill
August 3, 2016
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The nightmare of getting the shopping in

After 10 years, m-commerce sites should be easy to use. If you think they are, find a nearby octogenarian and try online shopping with them... Have you ever stopped to think about what it might be like to be over 80 and trying to use the internet? Maybe you ARE…
Tim Green
July 28, 2016
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Would you like an app with your pint?

Why should a bar owner take a punt on your mobile payment app if no customers are using it? A knotty problem. But still the startups come. Tim Green ponders a very overcrowded market… I got a sobering email this week. It was from DropletPay, a British startup with an…
Tim Green
July 21, 2016
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Pokémon Go: how Nintendo ignored then won mobile gaming

Nintendo is a stubborn company. For years it said a big ‘no’ to mobile games. But when it finally relented. its game sent millions of people into a frenzy. Tim Green reflects the obstinacy that gave rise to Pokémon Go... By now, you’ll know all about Pokémon Go. Unless you’re…
Tim Green
July 14, 2016
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Don’t you dare talk to me, I’m paying by mobile

Mobile payment wants to replace cash and cards. But will it also also phase out human interaction? Tim Green ponders the demise of small talk on the high street... There’s something I find endlessly fascinating about mobile: its unforeseen consequences. Take the camera phone. When it came along, most people…
Tim Green
June 30, 2016
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Ten jargon-free ways to think about that LinkedIn deal

Did you hear? Microsoft bought LinkedIn. Yes you did. But do you know why? Well, Tim Green has sifted through lots of plausible reasons so you don't have to... Last week Microsoft endorsed the skills of LinkedIn. It endorsed them so hard, it cost $26 billion. Yes, you all know…
Tim Green
June 23, 2016
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The soft option? Operators prep the programmable SIM

It used to be accepted that turning the physical SIM into software was bad for operators: customers would change networks on a whim. But now operators are behind the idea. And it's all because of IoT, says Tim Green... A few days ago a 16-year-old girl from Thrissur in India…
Tim Green
June 8, 2016
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