Mobile

China Mobile Says Apple Must Discuss IPhone Benefit Sharing Businessweek China Mobile Ltd. (941), the world's largest mobile-phone company by users, said Apple Inc. (AAPL) must further discuss with the carrier details about benefit sharing before a deal can be reached on offering the handset. Technical issues related to the ... See all stories on this topic »

First Trade Union Bank partners with mobile payment start-up LevelUp Washington Post (blog) Mobile payment platform LevelUp — which allows small businesses to charge customers by scanning their smartphones at the point of sale — has partnered with First Trade Union Bank to develop a mobile payments app. The deal comes as more banks ... See all stories on this topic »

Beyond mobile: Telcos hook up hospitals, cars and coffeemakers Reuters Carriers such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, and France Telecom are betting that M2M will be a significant source of growth as the number of connected devices climbs to 12 billion or more by 2020. In cars, for example, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile for Businesses Examiner.com With more ways to access social media more people are doing so on their mobile phones, even in the bathroom according to Nielsen's “State of the Media: Social Media Report.” One third of 18-24 year olds are using mobile devices on the throne. While ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile apps outpace the Web and neck-in-neck with TV CNET Mobile apps outpace the Web and neck-in-neck with TV. New research shows that mobile app use in the U.S. rose 35 percent this year, which means people are now spending nearly as much time in apps as watching the boob tube. Dara Kerr. by Dara Kerr ... See all stories on this topic »

Citrix Acquires Mobile Security Start-Up Zenprise New York Times (blog) Citrix will announce Wednesday that it has bought Zenprise, a mobile security start-up company whose backers include Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, the Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Bay Partners. The deal terms were not disclosed ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile App Makers Seek Angry Birds Fame With Analytics Businessweek Not every mobile application can be the next Angry Birds. To improve their chances, programmers in growing numbers are turning to Swrve and other companies, such as App Annie Ltd and Localytics, which use mathematical models and behavior data to ... See all stories on this topic »

How Mobile App Innovators Balance Risk and Reward Forbes By 2014, there will be more than 70 billion mobile app downloads from app stores every year, according to Gartner. Also by 2014, a majority of companies will delivermobile apps to workers via private app stores. Obviously, not all of these apps will ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Apple at Loggerheads with China Mobile NASDAQ Other analysts cited Wednesday's news that Apple rival Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) had signed a deal with China Mobile (NYSE: CHL ), the world's largest mobile telecommunications carrier with more than 700 million subscribers, to sell its flagship Windows 8 ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile browser woes can fool even experts: report NBCNews.com (blog) Most of us may pay attention to safe Internet browsing on our computers, but our littlest computers — smartphones — bear closer watching, says a new study from Georgia Tech, which contends thatmobile Web browsers are "unsafe enough that even cyber ... See all stories on this topic »