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Mobile security could benefit from combined Nokia and Microsoft effort

Jesse Collins
Microsoft mobile secrurity Outlook app

The two companies are actively working to raise the stakes for making the devices safer. Microsoft’s agreement to purchase the smartphone business from Nokia – worth $7.2 billion – is giving the software company the boost that it may need to surpass both Samsung and Apple in terms of mobile security. The company is gathering what it needs to create a smartphone platform that is enterprise class. Despite the fact that Microsoft does now have the technology and will soon also have the manufacturing facilities that it requires, it is…

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Mobile commerce revenue at Google Play approaching that of Apple’s App Store

Sam Lambert
Mobile trends Commerce Apps on smartphone

The earnings from the two different application marketplaces are starting to near par with one another. The results of a new data analysis have just been released by Distimo, and have suggested that the mobile commerce revenue being brought in by Google Play for Android is experiencing a rapid growth. This success is indicating that the app revenues from Android devices is approaching that of Apple’s. Distimo is a trusted mobile commerce app store analytics provider for developers. This firm’s data has, therefore, indicated that the opportunities for developers of…

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New Apple patent highlights potential for NFC technology

John Montgallo
Apple NFC Technology Trends mobile payments

Patent sheds new light on Apple’s interest in NFC technology The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a new patent application from Apple regarding the use of NFC technology. The patent refers to a project that was launched by Apple in 2008, which had fallen to the wayside until very recently. NFC technology has seen some use in the field of marketing, but the patent application hints to a project that leverages the technology for some purpose involving mobile commerce. NFC has long been a pillar of mobile commerce,…

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Mobile commerce gap between iOS and Android is growing

Jesse Collins
Mobile Commerce Traffic

Apple devices are extending their lead in terms of generating traffic over mobile devices. According to a mobile commerce report that has recently been released by Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, devices using Apple’s iOS operating system are continuing to lead the web traffic generation space in the United States over Google’s Android based devices. Furthermore, the gap between these two types of device is continuing to grow as iOS leaps forward. In order to be able to obtain mobile commerce traffic data that was as accurate as…

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Mobile commerce statistics show 23 percent of web traffic is from smartphones and tablets

John Montgallo
m-commerce

The same research has shown that Apple devices represent more visits than those based on Android. The results of a study conducted by Walker Sands Communications – a marketing and public relations firm – has revealed that 23.14 percent of visits to websites that occurred in December 2012 were of the mobile commerce nature, having stemmed from smartphones and tablets. This was an increase of 84 percent over the figures that were recorded a year earlier. When compared to January 2011, there was an increase of 283 percent in mobile…

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