There have been noises that it was interested in Metro and T-Mobile as well.
Too often, marketers see mobile as an untethered, scaled-down version of the Web experience.
In other words, do NOT think of mobile as simply a mini version of your website.
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This agreement is not just for the benefit of Apple, but for China Mobile as well.
The British public is more than ready to accept their mobile as their credit card.
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Windows 8 wants to blend the user experience between PCs and mobile as it includes touch capabilities.
The company also acquired mobile app GroceryIQ which enables the company to push coupons to mobile as well.
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He holds China Mobile as a core in that portfolio, and likes the long term prospects of this teleco.
Banks should look at mobile as a way to connect with customers, not as a separate channel for payments.
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One application Trout mentions is using mobile as a medium for social payments.
Does your company see social media and mobile as a way to help people do their job faster and easier?
To get the same income means working harder, faster, and more efficiently on mobile as you do on the desktop.
Part of the problem is that brands aren't moving ad dollars to mobile as fast as users are migrating to smartphones.
Some companies use mobile as the catalyst to simplify their entire infrastructure.
Sometimes we think of mobile as an extension of our desktop efforts.
The event previously had Samsung Mobile as a title sponsor since 2002, but the company didn't renew its contract after last April's race.
Apple is positioning its latest mobile as appropriate for handling some of the computing-heavy tasks usually reserved for Power Mac G4 tower models.
An array of technology companies is getting into the business of the mobile wallet, helping make your money mobile as cash becomes digitized.
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Reigel suggests that companies think of mobile as a full business strategy, re-imagine client interactions completely, and design new systems for a mobile-first world.
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Meanwhile, Wall Street has been looking for signs that Facebook can make the transition to mobile and monetize users on mobile as well.
Microsoft also looks well placed with Windows 8, in mobile as well as the tablet space (and has intelligently created options away from Nokia).
"We want to tap into the army of developers already working on Android and Windows Mobile as opposed to erecting a wall, " says De Lencquesaing.
They are emerging as the clear leader in mobile as well.
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With the arrival of mobile as a serious and fast growing new channel, a new, very specific type of solution was needed to manage payments for merchants.
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Both of these months have seen a disproportionate number of 3G subscriber additions by China Mobile as compared to the average of about 3 million in the previous months.
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On-line storage is behind remote backup and disaster recovery, on-line content sharing and video streaming, among many other applications currently popular with mobile as well as home-based smart connected devices.
There was a major flowering of voice-OTT services (mainly based on call-back) half-a-dozen years ago (most of which died off), while Skype has migrated from desktop to mobile as well.
New HTC Sync Manager also makes it easy to manage and sync your music collection from your computer to your smartphone to ensure your entire library is as mobile as you are.
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The Starbucks associate selects mobile as the tender in the point of sale system (POS), and prompts the consumer to use the customer facing imager (the same as those used in airports to read boarding passes).
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