There is a story over at mobile businesss briefing that declares that almost half of freemium game players will buy an in-app purchase. This is good news because as i talked about before this is a key method to monatise your game. It also talks about a high retention rate for freemium games, however i […]
April 25, 2012
I was asked, again, to provide a view on the future of operator billing, and so I thought it’s about time to write it down. This is part One and looks at history and a brief intro to the costs … A little history, for context, or as I prefer to put it “sedimentary billing”, […]
April 25, 2012
The Economist has published a map showing the take up of SMS banking in Africa. It’s a great reminder that in large parts of the world the mobile device is the access to the internet, and as a salient point, these are mostly simple or so called feature phones, not smartphones. Which is why SMS […]
April 25, 2012
engadget are covering the GE press release regarding a charging post for EVs called WattStation and WattStation Connect. this may be yawn inducing news, except that there is a mobile app for it, and I think this is quite an important element to the overall uptake of Electric Vehicles. At the moment not only are […]
April 24, 2012
Yay, happy days. I have copied over those that I thought would be safe to copy, so from now on the additions will be as I write them, not en mass like this.
April 24, 2012
This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 15:21 20/04/2012, Steve Devo, google, google_wallet, mobile, mobile_payments, mwv, payments, Mobile Internet Google Wallet Osama Bedier, VP Payments, Google, presented at the “Delivering innovative payment services at MWC. Here is a summary of what he said. Ohhh and in case you’re in a hurry I can […]
April 24, 2012
This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 17:11 19/04/2012, Steve Devo, apps, brazil, bump, golden, golden_month, mobile, mobile_payment, month, nfc, payment, paypal, Mobile Internet Saw this report in Mobile Money regarding a P2P (Person to Person) payment service in Brazil and was all excited. Till I read the report and saw that like […]
April 24, 2012
This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 12:25 30/03/2012, Steve Devo, curvedscreen, flatscreen, future, futurology, glass, gorilla, mobile, tablet, technology, touchscreen, vision, Mobile Internet I have been saying for many years now that the future of computing, is for your phone (and now it may be your tablet) to be the compute and […]
April 24, 2012
This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 12:13 29/03/2012, Steve Devo, id, identity, mashup, model, structural, tony_fish, Mobile Internet Tony fish is a london based polymath who runs some companies, writes a lot on new media and technology and runs the Mashup series of events here in London. He has posited a […]
April 24, 2012
This was originally posted to my internal IBM blog on 13:29 28/03/2012, Steve Devo, books, e-books, e-ink, future, penguin, tablets, video, Mobile Internet Penguin Book’s vision for some of it’s titles So why is this important, well a lot of this kind of content is not possible with e-books. SO does this mean that Apple’s e-book […]
April 26, 2012
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