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Voice Assistant Services: the new UI battleground?

Apple is looking to compete with Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa in the area of assistant/speaker devices. Until today Siri has not been able to fully match the other two competitors on speech recognition. This acquisition should be a valuable boost to its capability for natural voice language recognition. The…

MEFApril 21, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, April 20th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… iProov, the world’s leading provider of biometric authentication technology, today announced the launch of iProov Web, bringing genuine presence assurance to the web browser. Since 2018, over 3 million people have…

MEFApril 20, 2020

News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up, April 17th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. EU Calls For Interoperative, Privacy-Compliant Contact-Tracing Apps, Ola opens its tech platform to Indian government to combat coronavirus crisis, attacks on 5G mobile masts surge over Easter weekend and much more. Virus-tracking apps used in Europe must…

MEFApril 17, 2020

Messaging Channels

mGage: understanding mobile messaging and the consumer state of mind

Nick Millward, VP Europe at mGage, shares key findings from their new consumer survey on mobile messaging and the consumer state of mind, during a keynote address during the MEF sessions in Barcelona’s UNMWC. The research highlighted that 97% of people said they use some form of mobile messaging. It…

MEFApril 16, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale Interviews

Covid-19’s impact on enterprise IoT

The Global pandemic is of course affecting all aspects of life and business – Andrew Parkin-White spoke to COO of CCS Insight Martin Garner, about how it will impact the enterprise IoT space, and what innovations and challenges he expects to see as the crisis abates. Just a few weeks…

Andrew Parkin-WhiteApril 16, 2020

MEF Webinars & Workshops Messaging Channels

WhatsApp: How many enterprises are actually using Business Messaging?

Mobilesquared’s Chief Analyst Nick Lane shares insights and forecasts on how many enterprises will have adopted WhatsApp’s Business messaging platform by 2024, and how it will perform comparatively to SMS and RCS Messaging. WhatsApp Business is the most in-demand messaging channel right now among the business and brand community.

MEFApril 15, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale MEF Webinars & Workshops Messaging Channels

Understanding the role of AI in the future of mobile tech

Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm advisor and partner at Pellon de Lima Advogados shares insights into the role of artificial intelligence in the evolution of mobile technology, based on discussions held in Barcelona earlier this year for the unMWC event, where the debate explored the legal and moral implications of new…

MEFApril 15, 2020

Mobile Evolution Payments & Commerce Podcasts

Blockchain Podcast: Telegram Gram: postponing a messaging cryptocurrency

In Episode 4 Daniele and Dario chat about the Telegram, the messaging app, and the recent set back to launch its own digital currency, the Gram. There is plenty to learn from the Telegram story – things will take longer, but the messaging coin is still on the cards.

MEFApril 14, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News round-up, April 13th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… The three are collaborating to deliver real-time IoT location and tracking solutions for sectors such as healthcare and logistics. The initiative will use Telenor Connexion’s network, Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator platform and…

MEFApril 13, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale Opinion

NB-IoT – in Japan DoCoMo says ‘no more’

NTT DoCoMo will discontinue its NB-IoT network – 11 months after launch - The Japanese operator will continue to serve the market with the existing LTE-M service for IoT - This might not be about the strength of NB-IoT, but the rationale for a telco to keep multiple IoT networks…

MEFApril 10, 2020