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  • A Window into a New Era

    How long have rivals got to take advantage of the turmoil at Nokia and RIM? I was recently asked by a highly perceptive industry executive about the "window of opportunity" ...

  • Orange Quick Tap Gets Off to a Slow Start

    A few weeks ago I wrote about my first impressions of Orange Quick Tap, which uses phones enabled with near field communication (NFC) to pay for things. Now I've actually ...

  • Retailers Bundle to Kick-Start Tablet Sales

    The global obsession with tablets continues, fuelled by the incredible success of the iPad. In the meantime, rival manufacturers, desperate to capitalise on this new category, are facing up to ...

  • Top Themes from European Operator Results in 1Q11

    Several prominent themes emerged from CCS Insight's Operator and Market Review for 1Q11, which was published last week. Here are my top four trends from the report. Possible changes in ...

  • Tapping into Location-Based Payments

    Orange and Barclays have just released the UK's first contactless mobile payment service, called Quick Tap. They hope it'll revolutionise the way we pay for goods. Customers can hold a ...

  • A Lesson in Global Markets

    The latest season of The Apprentice has set its contestants some tricky challenges, but the one that caught my eye was creating and marketing a smartphone application. The fact that ...

  • Nokia Kills Ovi Brand But Keeps Service Ambitions

    Nokia's announced that it will discontinue use of the Ovi brand for its services and simply use "Nokia" instead. The change will start in July this year and — in ...

  • Operators Should Be Worried about Going Dutch

    As the mobile operator reporting season gets underway, I've watched KPN's announcement of surprisingly weak figures with interest. Traditionally, the first of the European operators to report, KPN usually provides ...

  • Nokia’s Loss May Be Accenture’s Gain

    As rumours started to emerge from Finland last night that employee meetings were planned across Nokia's operations in Europe, it was clear that today's job cuts were imminent. For the ...

  • How Low Can Android Go?

    A couple of days ago I spotted what may be the best pay-as-you-go deal I've ever seen. T-Mobile was selling the T-Mobile Pulse Mini on its Web site for just ...