IMTFI Blog: Mobile Money: The First Decade

By Stephen C. Rea and Taylor C. Nelms Over the past decade, mobile phone-enabled financial services, such as those made famous by the Kenyan mobile money platform M-Pesa, have been…

UnionPay’s “Mobile Phone as POS” Product Debuts Overseas, Benefitting Small and Micro Merchants in Hong Kong SAR and Malaysia First | News

SHANGHAI, Dec. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — UnionPay International announced today the launch of its Mobile Phone as POS (MPP) product in overseas markets. Small businesses are able to turn smartphones…

Qualcomm releases Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform, a development kit to help usher the future of mobile gaming

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., leader in mobile chips for smartphone devices and more, just announced the new Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform. The title of the device may seem confusing…

Mobile Phone Market Size to Grow by 551.42 mn from 2020 to 2025 | Growing Adoption of Smartphones to Drive Growth | Technavio | State

NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The mobile phone market is expected to grow by 551.42 mn units from 2020 to 2025. This market forecast report by Technavio can…

Qualcomm, diversifying from mobile phones, to supply chips for BMW self-driving cars

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday said that German automaker BMW will use its chips in its next generation of driver-assistance and self-driving systems. San Diego-based Qualcomm is…

Q&A: Finland’s transport and communications minister on 5G, smart regulation, and mobile data

Finland Minister of Transport and Communications, Timo Harakka. (Photo courtesy of Laura Kotila) Long before the Apple iOS and Android operating systems came to dominate the smartphone market, the early…

How mobile phones help internally displaced people in Nigeria

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Conflicts and disasters around the world have forced millions of people to move from their homes. By the end of 2020, about 11.1 million people were…

FingerMotion’s Subsidiary JiuGe Information Technology Trademarks Two New Brands Expecting to Provide Mobile Device Protection in China

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / October 25, 2021 / FingerMotion, Inc. (“FingerMotion” or the “Company”) (OTCQX:FNGR), a mobile data and services company, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary…

Mobile Phone App Helps to Deliver Palliative Care

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I’m David Kerr, a professor of cancer medicine from the University of Oxford. I’d like to talk today about a study I…

Polling through mobile phones? Telangana to conduct dry run of first e-voting system in India

Hyderabad: Future elections in Telangana could witness a major change in the voting process, with the state government gearing up for a dry run of the first-ever smartphone-based e-voting…

The NPD Group Adds Mobile Phone Category to its Retail Tracking Service in the U.S. | News

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Leading global information company, The NPD Group, has expanded its Retail Tracking Service to provide a view of the mobile phone market.…