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Mobile Contactless Payments Trialled Live at Mobile World Congress 2010

15 February 2010, Barcelona, Spain - GSMA, Samsung, Telefonica and Visa, with Giesecke & Devrient, Ingenico, ITN International and La Caixa, collaborate across industries to give Congress attendees an opportunity to experience NFC. Here you can find more info on the handset used in the trial and possible solutions to overcome the NFC handset shortage in trials. Today [...]

First Impression on 2009 Mobile World Congress

The Arrive The arrive in Barcelona (Monday) this year is quite different from the past, in Barcelona and Cannes too. Crisis feeling starts at the entrance, no more free metro tickets available, no more fruit and biscuit in the media lounge … The first place I attended was the GSMA & Industry CEOs @ Mobile [...]

will.i.am fights for musicians’ role in mobile

Emmy Award-winning musician will.i.am believes mobile will give artists the opportunity to more closely connect with fans on a massive scale – potentially changing the way the world consumes entertainment – as long as their interests are protected. “Mobile is where it’s all going,” he said in an interview with Mobile Business Briefing ahead of [...]

Mobile Money Summit 2008 in Cairo 14-15 May 2008

Introduction worldwide organizations looking at rural zones of our planet such as Africa to cover the digital divide using technology, ITU, belonging to UN,  held the second phase of The World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005. The UN Millennium Development goal is driving a lot of resources [...]

Seventy Million more african now connected to GSM networks

GSM coverage extended by an area the size of France in just 12 months Cairo: The GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, announced today that the number of mobile connections in Africa has risen 70 million in the past 12 months to 282 million.  Mobile operators have ramped up investment in the [...]