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  • Personal Highlights from Mobile World Congress

    Our Team Picks Out a Few Notable Sights As the CCS Insight team gathered for a beer at the end of a demanding week in Barcelona, we reflected on our ...

  • Operators Must Change Tune

    Complaints at Mobile World Congress Might Be Justified, But No One's Listening For a long time now, operators have used the annual Mobile World Congress as a platform to air ...

  • Daily Insight: Day 2, Mobile World Congress 2013

    A Round-Up of All the Important News from the Show This is the second of our reports from Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. Divided into seven research areas, it ...

  • Daily Insight: Day 1, Mobile World Congress 2013

    A Round-Up of All the Important News from the Show This is the first of our daily reports from Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. Divided into seven research areas, ...

  • BlackBerry Tries Money Messaging with BBM Money

    Pilot in Indonesia Will Be Popular, But BlackBerry Must Consider Next Step Last week the commercial pilot of BlackBerry's BBM Money launched in Indonesia. The service allows BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) ...

  • Huawei Expands Reach in Africa

    Participation in Microsoft's 4Afrika Initiative Gives Chinese Player Greater Coverage Earlier this month Microsoft launched the 4Afrika Initiative. The software company aims to invest $74 million over the next three ...

  • The Day I Became an App Developer

    Easier Creation of Basic Apps Raises the Challenge of Search and Discovery Recently I attended the BlackBerry Jam developer conference in Amsterdam. This event saw over 1,000 of the top ...

  • Pleading Poverty in France

    Comparison Reveals SFR Tariff More Expensive than UK Rivals A recent comment by the CEO of French operator SFR took me by surprise. Stephane Roussel said that mobile tariffs in ...

  • Mobile Digital Payments Reach a Tipping Point

    Despite the Challenges Facing This Market, Digital Payments Have an Assured Future Last week I attended a mobile payments conference at Canaccord Genuity, an investment bank. Other attendees included telecom ...

  • Trading Places in Barcelona

    We Take an Exclusive Look around the New Venue for Mobile World Congress I've recently had the chance to visit the Fira Gran Via, the new venue for this year's ...