Thursday, April 21, 2011

Badoo launches mobile payments In the UK with Ericsson IPX - Ericsson

Social networking site Badoo, available in 180 countries, now is offering mobile payment services in addition to credit cards, debit cards, text messaging and PayPal.

Badoo is available in over 180 countries, has more than 114 million registered users and is growing rapidly. It is currently the 2nd largest Facebook Application (behind CityVille).

Verizon to Launch New iPhone on LTE?

"When a new device from Apple is launched...it will also be a global device," said Francis Shammo, Verizon CFO. Some think that means a 4G Long Term Evolution device.

Major Amazon Outage Ripples Across Web

Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on April 21, experienced as latency issues for people using resources at one of its Northern Virginia data centers. The problems are rippling through to customers, causing downtime for many services that use Amazon’s cloud to run their web services.

The sites knocked offline by Amazon’s problems include social media hub Reddit, the HootSuite link-sharing tool, and Quora.

Visa Delivers Real-Time Discounts and Promotions to Mobile Consumers Using SMS

Visa is working with Gap to deliver real-time discounts and promotions to consumers using text messages. Gap customers who opt-in to participate in the service are notified of money-saving discounts or promotions in real-time while shopping.

Mobile Money, Apps, Bandwidth: Upside for Mobile Ops

In a video, CCS Insight analyst Martin Garner shares his thoughts on how operators can capitalize on data traffic, applications and mobile money.

He says operators to shift from flat-rate to tiered-rate pricing plans in their data traffic solutions. Operators also can profit from mobile money services and mobile apps.

Nokia Will Get "Billions" From Microsoft Deal




Nokia's decision to support the Microsoft Phone operating system will mean Microsoft pays "billions" to Nokia, the companies say.

Nokia will deliver mapping, navigation, and certain location-based services to the Windows Phone ecosystem. Nokia will build innovation on top of the Windows Phone platform in areas such as imaging, while contributing expertise on hardware design and language support, and helping to drive the development of the Windows Phone platform.

Microsoft will provide Bing search services across the Nokia device portfolio as well as contributing assets and expertise in productivity, advertising, gaming and social media. The combination of navigation with advertising and search will enable better monetization of Nokia’s navigation assets and completely new forms of advertising revenue, the companies believe.

GoPayment App for iPad

Intuit Inc. says its iPad-optimized "GoPayment" app is now available on the App Store. GoPayment is a mobile payment app that lets anyone who sells a product or service get paid on the spot, using the iPad and a debit or credit card.

This optimized version of the GoPayment app makes mobile payments easier with a new layout that takes full advantage of iPad's large, high-resolution display and "Multi-Touch" interface.

It also includes new features such as the ability to add product photos, making it easier to find a product and complete a sale. GoPayment is also compatible with the free Intuit Credit Card Reader letting users save time by swiping credit cards instead of entering card data manually.

Zoom Wants to Become a "Digital Twin Equipped With Your Institutional Knowledge"

Perplexity and OpenAI hope to use artificial intelligence to challenge Google for search leadership. So Zoom says it will use AI to challen...