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Global Mobile news round-up, January 24th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Vodafone pulls out of Facebook currency play, Google’s latest measurement restrictions make life hard for mobile marketers, the fear of ubiquitous surveillance, how IoT betrays us and much more… Vodafone Group became the latest high-profile backer to…

MEFJanuary 24, 2020

Personal Data

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

On Monday the chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, backed EU proposals for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while regulators assess potential risks, highlighting concerns around the use of face recognition in public areas for subject identification, saying: “Facial recognition is fraught with risks...

MEFJanuary 23, 2020

Mobile Advertising

MAD//Fest: Can eye get your attention?

Clicks seem like a clunky way to gauge the effectiveness of digital ads. Can eye tracking do better by measuring what people notice, not just what they do? Visitors to the MAD//Fest conference pondered the question. Tim Green observed… Every marketer knows we are living in the attention economy. In…

Tim GreenJanuary 22, 2020

Mobile Advertising Personal Data Regulation

RTB advertising: ICO threatens punishments, more work to be done

Six months after its first warning the UK Privacy Regulator (ICO) is making clear that the issues with RTB online advertising have not gone away, and it is now threatening to punish companies that are misbehaving. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising…

Dario BettiJanuary 21, 2020

Enterprise Communications

Chatbot Summit: Trillion dollar savings, and other key takeaways

In 2016, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said bots are the new apps. A little premature, perhaps. But there is a growing community of AI engineers, UI specialists and marketers that believe bots’ time will come. Tim Green joined more than 200 of them at last month’s Chatbot Summit in Berlin.…

Tim GreenJanuary 21, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news round up, 20th January

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… BICS, a leading international communications enabler, today reveals that 4G roaming traffic doubled in 2019 for the third consecutive year, as subscriber demand for high-capacity borderless connectivity continues to boom. Sourced…

MEFJanuary 20, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Roundup, January 17th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. China Will Drive Mobile Spending to Record $380 Billion in 2020, Facebook & experts press for national US privacy rules, mobile gaming collects biggest revenue share of app stores spending and much more.

MEFJanuary 17, 2020

Internet of Things Mobile Content Personal Data

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

MEF CEO Dario Betti shares his key take-aways from CES 2020: CES is of course not a mobile focused event, and telecom professionals might find they have to fight their way through super-fast wine chillers, AI enabled food mixers, companion robots that run IoT devices in the home, and new…

MEFJanuary 16, 2020

Digital Identity MEF Webinars & Workshops Personal Data

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor shares discussions from the MEF Connects personal data and Identity sessions held in London at the end of last year. The MEF Connects London event was a great opportunity for the Personal Data & identity Working Group Members and other interested parties…

Iain McCallumJanuary 16, 2020

Carrier Billing Mobile Payments

Telecoming: The European digital ticketing market surpasses €150B in 2019

The digital ticketing market is one of the fastest-growing industries, as explained in market analysis from Telecoming, the tech company specialising in digital services monetization. The digital ticketing market is one of the fastest-growing industry, according to the analysis carried out by Telecoming based on data provided by Juniper Research.…

MEFJanuary 15, 2020

Global Mobile news round-up, January 24th

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

MAD//Fest: Can eye get your attention?

Chatbot Summit: Trillion dollar savings, and other key takeaways

MEF Member news round up, 20th January

Global Mobile News Roundup, January 17th

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

Telecoming: The European digital ticketing market surpasses €150B in 2019

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