Category: US

Facebook is 10 today – how much has changed since…

As Facebook turned ten years old today, it occurred to me that one out of every six people on the planet now has a Facebook profile. Facebook is now reported to have more than 1.2 billion users out of the world’s 7.2 billion people. This achievement is stunning, particularly when one considers that this ‘social […]

NFC Solutions Summit: What will drive consumer demand for NFC?

Yesterday was the first day of the NFC Solutions Summit 2012 in San Francisco, and we heard from executives at MasterCard, Sony, and Intel about their plans for NFC. One of the questions everyone was trying to answer is: “how will we get consumers to use it?” A great question, because as we all know, […]

Should 2G be ‘switched off’?

I was reading earlier with interest Ewan MacLeod’s blog post on the problems facing UK mobile data users and how it is still patchy. We have been blogging for a while on the future that beckons with 4G (LTE) but at the moment, in the UK, the time has not come yet. The news that […]

Taking the Gemalto Contactless Challenge stateside

A couple of months ago, two bloggers in the UK took on Gemalto’s Contactless Challenge: a ten-day NFC quest in which they competed against each other to see who could be the most successful in going contactless. By the end, technology blogger Jon Choo emerged victorious with 227 points, while Mobile Industry Review’s Ewan MacLeod […]