Deutsche Telekom to Introduce Mobile Payments in 2011

Deutsche Telekom plans to launch its "Mobile Wallet" service for mobile payments, tickets and bonus programs in Germany and Poland in 2011, with further launches in the United States, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic in 2012.

"'The area of payment systems is a major driver of growth for Deutsche Telekom," says Thomas Kiessling, Chief Product and Innovation Officer of Deutsche Telekom.

After the acquisition of the Internet payment service company Firstgate with its "Click and Buy" brand in 2010, Deutsche Telekom will successively introduce a whole portfolio of innovative and competitive payment solutions for customers and retailers starting in 2011. Applications include paying over the Internet as well as remote and proximity mobile payment.

Deutsche Telekom: Archiv

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Tablets,Tablets, Tablets

Projections of tablets sales now routinely number in the hundreds of millions of units a year. Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass, predicts 180 million tablets will be sold globally in 2014.

Projections of laptop sales for 2014 for that year might be 220 million globally. The issue is how much substitution might occur. 


Business Insider thinks tablet sales could reach 285 million in 2014, while e-reader sales add another 64 million units.

iPhones as Plentiful as iPods?

90% Text, 40% Use Mobile Social Media in U.K>

A Deloitte study found that 90 percent of U.K. smartphone owners send at least one text message a day, compared to 40 percent of mobile users who use social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, on their phones. Half of British adults access emails on their phones.

Forget tweets, all we want to do is text, says study - Telegraph

Location Features Driving Mobile Shopping

JiWire's fourth quarter 2010 report found that location-based ads are driving mobile shopping, with 17 percent of the on-the-go audience making purchases while mobile and 20 percent visiting physical store locations after seeing a relevant ad. Additionally, the greater the discount offered, the further the mobile audience is willing to travel to redeem a promotion.

About 78 percent of respondents use location-based apps on their phone and 29 percent use them multiple times a day. Some 34 percent clicked on an ad in response to location specific message.

Some 57 percent are more likely to engage with an ad that is relevant to their location, an increase from 46 percent in the first quarter of 2010.
About 17 percent have made a purchase in response to a location-based advertisement.

Media Center - JiWire.com

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