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Online security: authenticating a billion users?

Matija Razem, VP of Business Development at Infobip examines the increasingly complex security risks for our online activities, and the benefits of 2 factor authentication for mobile. We also caught up with Matija in person at GMIC Beijing. The mobile and online revolution dramatically and irreversibly changed the way we…
Sam Hill
June 9, 2016
Opinions

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
10 things

10 things you need to know about India’s mobile market

MEF Member Bango takes a deep dive into the Indian mobile ecosystem, discovering a thriving, dynamic market. Here Josh Spoelstra shares 10 top tips to understanding mobile in India. New data from GSMA states that India will be the fastest growing mobile market in the world between now and the…
Sam Hill
June 7, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: June 6

Last week saw two of the biggest annual data surveys hit the headlines: Mary Meeker's State of the Internet, and Ericsson's Mobility Report. You’ll find the key findings and links to these studies here - plus all the other interesting data-related news in this week’s MEF market stats round up…
Sam Hill
June 6, 2016
Monthly Mobile Stats

Monthly market round-up: essential mobile stats

Every week, MEF Minute find the latest industry stats and reports from across the global mobile industry. Here we present a round up of all the reports and sources from throughout the month by sector. 334.9 million smartphones shipped in Q1 – New data from IDC says shipments of 334.9…
Sam Hill
June 3, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up: 3 June

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Snapchat has more active users than Twitter for the first time, Xiaomi snaps up hundreds of Microsoft patents, Saudi Arabia invests $3.5 Billion in Uber... and much more. It’s finally happened: There are more people snapping than…
Sam Hill
June 3, 2016
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