Posts Tagged ‘United States’

NUREMBERG: A majority of consumers around the world are interested in mobile commerce, a trend most pronounced in emerging nations like Brazil and China, a multimarket study has shown. Research firm GfK surveyed 8,603 adults in nine countries – Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, the UK and US – and reported that 62% [...]

The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has said in an update to its Evolution to LTEreport that, since June 2010, 98 additional countries have invested in LTE, bringing the total to 208. In terms of hard deployments, either existing or planned, the numbers have gone up by 32, taking it to 154 across 60 countries. [...]

PURCHASE, N.Y. Electronics payment processors like MasterCard Inc. and Visa Inc. are trying to adapt to new technologies for making purchases. That includes the use of mobile devices, including smartphones that enable “contactless” payments just by flashing a phone at an electronic scanner. One obstacle to adoption of the technologies is the small number of [...]

Posted By ]  Giselle Tsirulnik There is no question as to whether consumers have embraced smartphones with open arms, and the mobile Internet has finally reached enough scale to offer critical opportunities for marketers, according to Yahoo Inc. According to Yahoo’s report, “Mobile Internet – Delivering on the Promise of Mobile Advertising,” brands have not yet [...]

This is the time of the year when we can do verifications of many statistics, was it true what they said back then. I have good data now on SMS, MMS, Mobile Internet users and consumers of Mobile News.