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Global Mobile news, 20th July News Roundup

Global Mobile news, 20th July

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU, WhatsApp limits message forwarding to reduce spam & misinformation, phone data usage growth slows in the US, and much more… Google has been fined a record €4.34bn ($5bn; £3.9bn)…
Sam Hill
July 20, 2018
MEF Member news, 16th July MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 16th July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… RealNetworks, a leader in digital media software and services, today announced SAFRâ„¢, a highly accurate, machine learning facial recognition platform, architected to economically scale with high performance and rapid processing to…
Sam Hill
July 16, 2018
Weekly mobile news round-up, July 13th News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up, July 13th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Facebook under fresh political pressure as UK watchdog, Zimbabwe’s first election without Mugabe turns into a data privacy minefield, HTC develops ‘blockchain phone’, and much more… The UK’s privacy watchdog revealed yesterday that it intends to fine…
Sam Hill
July 13, 2018
Industry views: Why does the A2P SMS industry need a Code of Conduct for fraud? InterviewsMessaging Channels

Industry views: Why does the A2P SMS industry need a Code of Conduct for fraud?

MEF recently launched it’s new Trust in Enterprise Messaging (TEM) service backed by an industry Code of Conduct for A2P (Applications to Person) SMS in collaboration with 30+ participants of MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme, that includes MNOs, messaging companies and signalling providers. The new service is self-regulatory – its…
Sam Hill
July 10, 2018
MEF Member news, 9th July MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 9th July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Upstream, a leader of the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets, has today revealed that new low-end Android smartphone devices being sold to consumers in developing markets, many of whom…
Sam Hill
July 9, 2018
MEF Member News, 2nd July MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, 2nd July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Bango, the Cambridge-based mobile commerce company, has expanded the use of its billing integration technology, enabling customers to sign-up for Amazon Prime Video in the UK through a leading mobile operator.…
Sam Hill
July 2, 2018
MEF Connects Digital – what’s up with the blockchain? MEF Webinars & Workshops

MEF Connects Digital – what’s up with the blockchain?

During the mid-nineties, consumers and investors discovered the idea of ‘interactivity’. Before long, companies started to add the word ‘interactive’ to their names. It was good for business. Soon after, they did it again with ‘dotcom’. Is there a equivalent magic word for the 2010s? How about blockchain? Don’t scoff.…
Sam Hill
June 29, 2018
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