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Regulation

Data regulation in the UK and Germany: a beginner’s guide

Data collection is a potential minefield for businesses looking to collect or monetise user's data. MEF Policy & Initiatives Advisor Simon Bates shares the key take aways from a new series of regional guides for businesses, and the regulatory issues around data collection.

MEFFebruary 18, 2016

Internet of Things Opinions

An accident waiting to happen? Thoughts on the ethics of driverless cars

Your autonomous car needs to avoid an accident. Does it swerve left towards two children or right towards 10 adults? Or does it keep going and risk killing you? Tim Green mulls over the moral quandaries of our driverless future...

Tim GreenFebruary 18, 2016

Country Focus MEF LatAm

Country focus: your guide to Mexico’s mobile market in 15 stats

This month, MEF Minute is posting a series of articles on Mexico. Here, we present an easy-to-digest introduction to one of the world's fastest growing and dynamic mobile markets. There's essential information on subscriber base, smartphones, 4G, operator shares, tablets and more...

MEFFebruary 17, 2016

Internet of Things Opinions

Keeping mobile in the connected car

Another major feature of CES this year was the connected car where the debate between “brought in” vs “built in” connectivity continued apace. As on board solutions become more sophisticated and reliable, MEF Minute Editor Sam Hill asks could the mobile phone end up being left out of the equation?

Sam HillFebruary 16, 2016

Industry Views Internet of Things Music

Industry views: Which services will sit behind the wheel of the connected car?

Last month's CES in Las Vegas saw many of the large automotive firms showcase their vision of the connected car. A year before at CES 2015, Mark Fields, CEO of Ford, said: “We’re thinking of ourselves as a mobility company and not only a car and truck company. We want…

MEFFebruary 16, 2016

Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 15 Feb

Could the app economy be poised to break $100bn? Who’s winning the war of the wearables? Which Chinese smartphone manufacturer has crashed into the world top ten? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data-related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up

MEFFebruary 15, 2016

Enterprise Communications

Two-factor authentication in the (mobile) enterprise [infographic]

For IT departments, allowing mobile to become a part of the computing infrastructure of an enterprise - by allowing access via mobile devices - presents real problems in terms of security and as a result IT managers are resistant. Yet the benefits of allowing remote access or including employee devices…

MEFFebruary 15, 2016

Privacy Security

The Internet is on fire: trust, privacy and mobile security in Europe

Last week in Berlin MEF hosted the first meet-up in a new Consumer Trust series designed to bring together members and guests to discuss the burning issues companies must grapple with when it comes to privacy and security in the mobile ecosystem. The evening was kindly hosted by Deutsche Telekom…

MEFFebruary 12, 2016

News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 12 February 2016

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week...Google reverses Samsung ad-blockers decision, Opera gets offered out for $1.2bn, Twitter users numbers are flatlining, India says 'no' to Facebook's Free Basics and much more.

Tim BanksFebruary 12, 2016

m-commerce Mobile Payments Opinions

Visa is a different company this week – and it’s all thanks to mobile

There was a time when a payments network had to do one thing: verify and process transactions made with pieces of plastic in shops. Not any more. Payments have gone virtual. People expect to make them anywhere. Last week, Visa responded to this change by turning into a software company.…

Tim GreenFebruary 11, 2016

Data regulation in the UK and Germany: a beginner’s guide

An accident waiting to happen? Thoughts on the ethics of driverless cars

Country focus: your guide to Mexico’s mobile market in 15 stats

Keeping mobile in the connected car

Industry views: Which services will sit behind the wheel of the connected car?

Mobile market stats round-up: 15 Feb

Two-factor authentication in the (mobile) enterprise [infographic]

Global mobile news round-up: 12 February 2016

Visa is a different company this week – and it’s all thanks to mobile

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