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Second time round on the NFC hype-cycle?

Mark 2:41 pm August 1, 2011

Today, NXP drastically revised its 2011 NFC sales forecasts – in fact it more than halved them. This follows several months of NFC excitement in the mobile space as big players clamoured to announce their rival offerings. Haven’t we been on this NFC hype cycle before?
This summer the US operator consortium Isis – comprising AT&T, [...]

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Android Ain’t ‘Appy

Mark 2:53 pm August 11, 2010

It’s not fair being an Android user. Not only are our social lives ‘less fulfilling’ than our iPhone toting friends and colleagues, we can’t get an official BBC News app. Or The Guardian. Or Time Out. Or Football Manager. These aren’t niche apps, they’re well respected news outlets and one of the world’s most popular [...]

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Mobile Culture Clash

Ed Howson 5:16 pm April 14, 2009

When I started working in mobile back in the late 90’s the industry was always looking to the Japanese and the Scandinavians in an attempt to predict the next big thing. On the face of it, this made plenty of sense as it was in these countries that the first mobile services had launched and [...]

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