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Do we need a wireless carrier e-commerce revolution to kickstart the mobile Value Added Services market?
Carriers’ online service purchasing mechanisms are apparently not as advanced as consumers might think. OSS and BSS industry sources are suggesting that as few as 10 to 15 percent of wireless carriers worldwide have an end-to-end e-commerce solution as part of their web presence. That is to say, an online storefront where the end user can purchase their mobile phone plus their voice, messaging and Internet tariff plans; and complete the transaction electronically without the need for any manual processes or further human interaction.
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Changes to the terms of Apple’s iPhone SDK annoys developers, serves to perpetuate mobile application fragmentation, but may advance the argument for mobile web apps?
Clause 3.3.1 of the Terms of Service (ToS) that developers are required to sign in order to create Apple-approved applications for the App Store has been changed, to effectively ban the use of third party compilers that create cross-platform applications.
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AT&T confirm video to be the ‘wrong sort’ of ‘killer app’ for the wireless industry, but are silent on how to monetise content successfully
At CTIA this year, the issue of the increasing dislocation between wireless carriers’ network traffic and the service revenue that they generate was a key talking point.
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Qualcomm’s smartbooks: I think I get it - but will the consumers and the carriers?
Qualcomm has been promoting the Snapdragon chipset for several years now. In 2008 they keenly publicised the processing advantages that Snapdragon had over Intel’s rival embedded processor for portable devices, the Atom. Yet 2008 became the year
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Could the next generation of Mobile Internet browsers adversely affect the market for Mobile Advertising?
On May 15th Mozilla announced the availability of the Alpha version of Fennec. Fennec is the mobile implementation of the Firefox desktop browser and is something that I have been looking forward to for some time.
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Jamie Moss
Jamie is a Senior Research Analyst within Informa Telecoms & Media's Content and Applications team.
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