Each week the MEF team curates mobile stories from around the world. Essential news you may have missed, the latest market insight & data nuggets, the Global Mobile News Round-up offers an instant international mobile content and commerce snapshot.  Global News Stories Apple Watch release date, price and features Tech…

This year at MWC consumer trust and privacy have taken up position as a central theme.  There's also been plenty of announcements at the device level on how consumers can protect themselves with more sophisticated biometric authentication technology.  ZTE, Fujitsu and EyeVerify all announced eye scanning technology and Qualcomm putting…

Day three at Mobile World Congress saw much more buzz around the Internet of Things, data, wearables and smart devices. The words *mobile* and *phone* are deliberately omitted because so much of the exhibition and discussion has noticeably shifted out to capture the array of things that mobile now enables.…

Day two at Mobile World Congress has seen a lot of discussion around some key topic areas both from company led announcements and general discussion from the show floor, particularly the need to balance the industry's need to create, ingest and use consumer data against the very real need to…

Daily news from the floor at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona.  Global News Stories Mobile World Congress 2015: wearables, virtual reality and three-sided phones Telegraph Samsung has unveiled a three-sided phone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, alongside its new flagship Galaxy S6, in…