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News Roundup

Global Mobile news round-up: 05 February 2016

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. WhatsApp tops a billion monthly users, Microsoft buys Swiftkey for $250m, Google blocks the ad blockers and much more.Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now used by a billion people every month, Facebook has reported. The Facebook-owned app…
Sam Hill
February 5, 2016
Tech Focus

Automotive focus: Can your car be your mobile wallet?

If automobiles are becoming a little like smartphones on wheels, why shouldn’t they make payments too? At CES in 2015, Mark Fields, CEO of Ford, stood up and said: “We’re thinking of ourselves as a mobility company and not only a car and truck company. We want to be viewed…
Sam Hill
February 3, 2016
Security

Biometric data: the next step in consumer authentication

The way in which consumers verify their identity online is rapidly changing, a development being driven forward by biometric data. Carlos Häuser, MD at MEF Member Wirecard Technologies explains. Consumers should probably not be too surprised if they soon find themselves being addressed as follows: “Dear customer, please turn on…
Sam Hill
February 2, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 1 Feb

How many iPhones did Apple sell last year? What are Google Cardboard sales like? What’s happened to WinPho shipments? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up…
MEF
February 1, 2016
MEFTV

Views from the show floor: MEFTV at CES

The MEF Minute was at this year's CES in Las Vegas, checking out a wealth of new tech at the biggest consumer electronics show in the world. Among the 8K TVs, robots and drones was a huge array of mobile phones, wearables, connected devices and innovations reliant on mobile tech.
Sam Hill
January 29, 2016
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 29 January

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Facebook hits 100m hours of video a day, half of China is online, banks concerns over mobile security of PIN, Apple & Samsung wary over 2016 smartphone earnings and much more.
Sam Hill
January 29, 2016
Opinions

Google wants you on the appternet

Last week, Google unveiled an option to install apps, not from Google Play, but from search results. More evidence that the firm desperately wants apps and the web to play nicely together. Google really loves the web. The web has made Google a $527 billion company. Why wouldn’t Google love…
Tim Green
January 28, 2016
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