Here’s another example of enterprise iPad usage — much like the Lowe’s news this week, it’s clear that businesses are ultra keen on putting smart technology such as the iPad in the hands of their customer-facing people. Right now, sales people in shops are often highly redundant beyond issuing a greeting and helping you pay [...]
From Barter to Barclaycard: The History of Payments
Here’s a wee sponsored video from Barclaycard taking a look at the history of how people pay for things. Barclaycard used award-winning director, Dominic Bridgstock, to bring the film to life in the style of Horrible Histories – a Brit comedy classic that Dominic has previously directed. Here’s the vid:

The Pizza Express App: Pay for your meal via PayPal!
Now then, this is brilliant news for all pizza lovers across the United Kingdom — and indeed, anyone else who happens to visit the UK. And anyone who’s been following the burgeoning m-payments space too. You can now pay for your Pizza Express meal using the all new Pizza Express app. It’s fully integrated with [...]

MEF invites you to their Mobile Content & Commerce event in Miami
Picture the scene across Europe come 30th of November 2010. Rain will be coming down intermittently in sheets. It’ll be dark until 9am for a few hours before the pitch black descends once more. You won’t be able to go anywhere without an umbrella and a decent coat. Most of the UK goes into seasonal-depressed-mode [...]
‘Wrapped’ content is on the increase
I got some news in from Jens Lauritzon, MD of Accumulate UK (that’s him above). I’m really, really liking the Accumulate concept. First, though, let’s have a bit of background… Imagine the scene – you’re a 15 year old in Thailand on a PAYG deal and you’ve just got a new phone. You’ve been playing [...]
SocialCord mobile payment platform is going places
Watch this one like a hawk; I’ve seen it demonstrated and it’s utter, utter genius. This kind of concept has been around for a while in the UK and Europe but it’s been poorly delivered and the market hasn’t been mature enough for it. Quite simply you’re presented with a screen to type in your [...]
Is Nokia becoming Fox?
That’s one of the opened-ended questions posed by Kerrianne Gauld, Biz Dev at Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance on MoMoLondon this afternoon. Have a read: Hi I’m doing some research on the mobile advertising sector and wondered if anyone had any views on the sustainability of the sector. If the projected ad spend by 2013 [...]
IBM kicks off universal translator, mobile soul removal
IBM has been touting the latest initiative to come out of its Research Labs, aimed at building a slew of services for the developing economies where mobile phones are the de facto web access device. There’s a lot of fluff around the initiative (social networks go mobile – who’d have thought it?), but some potentially [...]
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right? January 11, 2012
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator? January 17, 2012
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit January 25, 2012
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
January 30, 2012
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
January 31, 2012
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”) February 14, 2012
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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?
February 13, 2012
- Is Nokia’s rehabilitation in the Western Media complete? February 13, 2012
- MEF Americas 2011: Recapping the Event February 10, 2012
- Have you see what o2′s been doing with their #o2Cupid campaign? February 9, 2012
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Mike42: Once more, dear friends, once more...consign agree...
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Raymond Lee: Agree with Terence on this.The regulated environme...
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