Watching RIM’s CEO Jim Balsillie at their annual DevCon yesteday, he came across as the most thoughtful leader of the major players in the smartphone market. He listened to questions carefully. More pauses, less polemic. Jim believes profoundly in the idea of ‘constructive engagement’. It’s a cornerstone of his thinking. RIM’s story is about the [...]
Filed under: Blackberry, Cool mobile stuff | Tagged: bango, Blackberry, DevCon, mobile commerce, RIM, SmartPhone | Leave a Comment »
Woww – yes, that’s three times “w”, my awesomely funny way of slipping “world wide web” into the coverage from Las Vegas. At the Verizon Developers Conference this week, the mobile web was the most intriguingly persistent theme of the last two days. Although all the graphics around the event spoke to powering your app, [...]
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The need for understanding usage behavior on mobile is increasing, with more brands and developers now recognizing the importance of analytics in helping them engage with customers. In line with this, over the next three weeks, two key events in the US will have measurement taking center stage on the agenda. The Verizon Developer Conference, [...]
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Having attended the Mobile Future Forward event last week, it was interesting to hear the debates centered around the future of mobile, and how monetization and analytics took center stage among the topics discussed.
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Today a customer’s wallet contains cash, plastic, coupons, travel cards and a variety of other payment methods, which no one else controls but the customer. In other words no vendor has control over the payment experience. Replicating this customer experience with a wallet for the 21st century is what some payment providers, like Bango, are [...]
Filed under: Mobile web | Tagged: Apple, micro-payments, mobile browser, mobile commerce, Mobile Future Forward, mobile payments, mobile phones, PayPal | Leave a Comment »
According to the latest web browsing stats released by Bango, across a wide range of websites targeting mobile phone browsers, the iPhone is losing ground to its competitors in popularity for web browsing. What might be the reasons for this? When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone he made a big point of the fact that it [...]
Filed under: Apple, iPhone | Tagged: Adobe, Apple, bango, Blackberry, google, iPad, iPhone | 6 Comments »
