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Visa certifies NFC-equipped Android, BlackBerry smartphones for payWave

Joseph Volpe, Engadget, 1/12/2012 Despite repeated industry attempts to build a buzz, buzz, buzz around NFC, growth of the promising communication tech has only been stilted by limited, real-world implementation — not to mention a dearth of enabled devices. This stunted consumer adoption hasn’t put a damper on Visa’s stride towards a contactless payment future, [...]

PayPal Mobile Payments Skyrocketed to $4 Billion in 2011

Angela Moscaritolo, PCMagazine, 1/11/2012 Online payment company PayPal processed nearly $4 billion worth of mobile payments in 2011, an exponential increase from the previous year. To put this figure in perspective, the company processed $750 million worth of mobile transactions in 2010 and $141 million in 2009, David Marcus, vice president of PayPal Mobile, said [...]

AT&T unveils a new API platform for HTML5 apps

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Servic, 1/9/2012 The operator also said it plans to launch an online store for HTML5 apps this year AT&T is hoping to encourage developers to use HTML5 with the release of a new API platform. “It’s essentially a rich set of APIs and tools aimed at furthering the HTML5 appeal as [...]

Mobile app developers to get their own professional organization

Paul Krill, ComputerWorld, 1/3/2012 The Application Developers Alliance would enable collaboration and provide education, cloud access, and lobbying efforts Mobile application developers are set to gain an industry association that would promote their interests, enabling collaboration and product testing while offering education, cloud hosting, and governmental lobbying on their behalf. Led by Jon Potter, former [...]

RIM Welcoming Android Aggregator Developers to Submit App Catalogs to App World

the BerryReview Team, 12/22/2011 We told you earlier about Handster bringing their catalog of Android apps to the BlackBerry App World. RIM has said in the past that they are working with third party marketplaces like Handster to bring over their whole Android catalog at once. Alex Kinsella from RIM came out and explained a [...]

Carrier IQ: How To Find It, And How To Deal With It

Chris Velazco, TechCrunch, 12/1/2011 By now, you’ve probably heard all about Carrier IQ, the mobile logging software that an intrepid researcher named Trevor Eckhart found lurking on a number smartphones from multiple manufacturers and carriers. According to Eckhart’s research, Carrier IQ is capable of tracking what apps you’re running to where your phone is to [...]

RIM BlackBerry services open up to iOS, Android

Roger Cheng, CNETnews, 11/29/2011 Research In Motion now aims to support both iOS and Android smartphones and tablets–a break from the company’s previous BlackBerry-only focus. RIM introduced today BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a mobile device management service that takes advantage of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server technology to track and monitor different phones and tablets. With BlackBerry [...]

AT&T’s Call International App Gives Smartphones VoIP Calling

Eric M. Zeman, Phone Scoop, 11/8/2011 AT&T announced the availability of a new application today called AT&T Call International. This application allows AT&T smartphones to make VoIP-based calls over Wi-Fi to international numbers at low/reduced rates. The application also works abroad, and will let AT&T smartphone customers make calls from foreign countries to the U.S. [...]

What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets

Tom Krazit, MocoNews, 10/31/2011 At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu Linux, is planning to release a version of their operating system for smartphones and tablets. ZDNet scored an interview with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who discussed plans for mobile Ubuntu [...]

RIM links with Microsoft for cloud services

Iain Thomson, The Register, 10/25/2011 RIM has begun a beta of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services, a system designed to manage its users’ devices remotely and allow access to Microsoft Office 365 applications online. The open beta, available in 30 countries, will see RIM hosting the service that lets users synchronize data with Microsoft Exchange Online’s [...]

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