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Mobile phone service complaints soar
Sydney Morning Herald
The most common complaints included poor coverage, 31,465 complaints, slightly up on last year; mobile billing disputes, up 33 per cent to 13,943; and complaints about the quality of information given to consumers at the point of sale, 20,213 complaints.
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Sydney Morning Herald
IDC: Mobile phone market growth returns to 'healthy' status
ZDNet
IDC said smartphones drove the mobile market train in the third quarter by selling 179.7 million units, accounting for more than 40 percent of all devices shipped. The 45.3 percent year-on-year growth was above IDC's forecast by 0.1 percent, suggesting ...
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More to African Mobile Payments than M-Pesa
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Kenya's M-Pesa seems to be everybody's favorite example of mobile cash in action. But, it is far from the only success of its kind in Africa, it has not proved equally popular everywhere it has been launched and it is not immune from technical problems.
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Vodafone To Launch Mobile Wallet Service Next Year; Inks Deals With M ...
TechCrunch
Yet another mobile wallet is lining up to replace your leather-wrapped bundle of plastic: Vodafone Group, which owns and operates the Vodafone mobile carrier brands, is partnering with m-commerce company CorFire to bring NFC-powered mobile wallet ...
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Mobile Marketing - The Elephant In The Room For Marketers
Forbes
About a month ago I wrote a piece entitled Mobile Marketing Too Large For Brands To Ignore which featured a very telling quote from Mark Donovan, comScore SVP ofmobile: ““With nearly 86 million Americans now shopping on their smartphones, this...
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Forbes
Diversinet Upgrades Mobile Health Security Platform
eWeek
Mobile technology company Diversinet has announced enhancements to its MobiSecure platform to enable tighter security on smartphones as doctors and patients interact electronically. The new capabilities could improve doctor and patient collaboration ...
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eWeek
A Ravenous Ability to Collect Personal Data
New York Times
BERLIN — Angry Birds, the top-selling paid mobile app for the iPhone in the United States and Europe, has been downloaded more than a billion times by devoted game players around the world, who often spend hours slinging squawking fowl at groups of ...
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Mobile apps and other digital tools for Hurricane Sandy
Examiner.com
While still a cyclone, Hurricane Sandy has been rated as a true hurricane. As of this writing it seems certain that it will reach into North Carolina and maybe even as near as the eastern shores of the Great Lakes. Sandy is already notable for ...
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Mobile-area volleyball teams shooting for state titles this week in Birmingham
al.com
MOBILE, Alabama -- The usual suspects like Bayside Academy, McGill-Toolen and St. Paul's are there this year from the Mobile-Baldwin County area at the Elite Eight state volleyball tournament at its new location at the Birmingham Crossplex. There also ...
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