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From A to B via NFC, DCB, SMS…

This week in our sector focus, MEF Minute takes a brief tour around the world of travel and mobile ticketing. Until the moment Uber completely takes over the world, the daily reality for most regular commuters is public transport. And that reality is not always a pleasant one. For the…
Sam Hill
October 21, 2015
Mobile PaymentsRegulation

The global mobile money landscape update

The mobile money landscape continues to grow in every direction finding new ways to add convenience to the routine business of transactions, whether that be purchasing an app  (or purchasing something within an app), transferring money to relatives or friends or splitting and paying a restaurant bill. What's interesting is…
Tim Banks
October 21, 2015
Meffys

MEF unveils winners for the 12th annual Meffys Awards in London

Mobile Ecosystem Forum, has announced the 15 winners of its 12th annual Meffys – the international awards for measuring commercial success and rewarding innovation across the mobile ecosystem. The awards, supported by F-Secure and Mozilla, took place at a sell-out gala ceremony in London at the Rosewood Hotel, hosted by…
Tim Banks
October 20, 2015
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 19 October

US millenials bank by selfie.. Tablet e-commerce losing out to smarthphones again.. study identifies mobile gamer drop off rate + Netflix add 3.62 new subscribers thanks to mobile... All this and more mobile related stats and data in this week’s MEF market stats round up…A new study by Mitek and…
Sam Hill
October 19, 2015
News Roundup

Global mobile news round up

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Blackberry wants to own mobile privacy, auto-insurers using IoT to monitor driver, Pepsi to launch a smartphone in China plus much more... BlackBerry plans to get back to its enterprise security and privacy roots, according to the…
Sam Hill
October 16, 2015
Industry Views

Industry views: what’s next for mobile and consumer trust?

The last few weeks have seen some interesting moves around ad-blockers and Safe Harbour and raises some important questions. Both point to the need for consumer data and the fragility of that relationship in terms of developing consumer trust for a sustainable business future. How should the industry respond? Perhaps…
Tim Banks
October 15, 2015
Opinions

What happened to the e-book revolution?

Hardly anyone buys CDs and DVDs any more. But paperbacks keep selling. Tim Green wonders why we don’t have our noses in a good e-book yet. There’s a bit of a row going on in the book publishing world at the moment. I don’t imagine it’s getting violent. Bookish types…
Sam Hill
October 15, 2015
Tech Focus

Tech Focus: mobile screens

Today’s smartphones are brilliant. But they do all broadly look the same. Can new display technologies bring back some experimentation? MEF Minute looks at screen innovation… It’s hard to overestimate the impact of phone screen innovation. Today, displays are so good we can happily watch entire box sets on them.…
Sam Hill
October 14, 2015
Guest blogm-commerceMobile PaymentsOpinions

mPOS – at the intersection of payments, service and engagement

Mobile-point-of-sale (mPOS) is disrupting the way payments are accepted and opening up new levels of customer engagement. Initially conceived as a low cost and convenient solution for small businesses (that traditionally weren’t able to process card transactions), larger enterprises from high-street retailers to healthcare businesses are experimenting with mPOS and…
Tim Banks
October 14, 2015
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