Sunday 27 November 2011

Mobile


E-shoppers go mobile on Thanksgiving, Black Friday
CNET
by Dave Rosenberg November 26, 2011 11:14 AM PST Follow @dr138 Apple's iPhone and iPad helped make mobile devices a key driver of Thanksgiving and Black Friday e-commerce this year, according to a report from IBM Coremetrics. ...
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Google, Apple to Challenge Carriers With Mobile Wallets: ABI
eWeek
Google and Apple will gobble mobile wallet market share from carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone and others, over the next handful of years, according to ABI Research. Mobile wallet services from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will ...
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Mobile County gets best of Baldwin County
al.com
I would like to invite new Mobile County teams over each year and have it like college ranks have the Big 10 vs. SEC Challenge. That is where I got the idea." In Wednesday's nightcap, Daphne opened the fourth quarter with a 13-5 run and held off ...
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A&TT and T-Mobile withdraw FCC application for $39 billion merger
LubbockOnline.com
WASHINGTON — Acknowledging the mounting difficulties in obtaining government consent for their proposed merger, AT&T Inc. and the parent company of T-Mobile USA Inc. said Thursday that they had temporarily withdrawn their application to the Federal ...
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Holiday Mobile Payments Volume Takes Off - Up 500% Over Last Year
Seeking Alpha
IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010, with mobile shopping on the rise. eBay (EBAY) and PayPal are seeing similar trends. PayPal Mobile just announced a 511 percent increase in global mobile payment ...
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Google and the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system prepare for Adobe Flash
Mobile bloom News
The mobile Flash Player should be ready to run on Google's Android 4.0 in the next couple of weeks. In earlier news Adobe announced it would be halting its mobile flash player software, but it looks like it will still support what is available with the ...
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Shoppers, stores go mobile this holiday season
The Republic
The number of major retailers with mobile websites jumped 210 percent, and those with a mobile app leaped 278 percent, according to a study by consulting firm Acuity Group, which called 2011 the year mobile took off. Retailers are using mobile ...
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Car crashes into mobile home
WDIV Detroit
A 20-year-old man was behind bars Saturday night after the car he was driving rammed into a mobile home in Rochester Hills, igniting the mobile home on fire. "It sounded like one of those big monster trucks and I can't believe it was a car," said ...
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CardEase Mobile Brings Fast, Secure and Fully Compliant Mobile Payment ...
PR.com (press release)
In collaboration with its banking partner, CreditCall is launching CardEase Mobile, a mobile payment app that from 1st December 2011 enables businesses on the move to accept Chip and PIN credit and debit card payments on a BlackBerry or Android device. ...
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Fire leaves up to 50 people homeless in Cupertino; mobile home destroyed in ...
San Jose Mercury News
By Troy Wolverton A three-alarm fire at an apartment complex in Cupertino Saturday night destroyed four units and damaged 12 others, displacing up to 50 residents, firefighters said. A three-alarm fire at an apartment complex in Cupertino on Saturday ...
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