Posts Categorized: Shout’Em Outs

Google unveils mobile payments – Paypal unveils lawsuit: Google revealed both Google Wallet, which is a contactless mobile payment system which stores your credit card information, loyalty rewards and purchase points, and the linked Google Offers, which is a social commerce deals platform similar to the existing Groupon. Google Wallet utilises Near Field Communication (NFC)… Read more »

Apologies for the delay in our regular Monday ShoutEm Outs – the good news is that you’re not only two days closer to the weekend than usual, but it also means we can include the latest news on the forthcoming Windows Phone updates. Nokia continues to lose market share in Q1 2011 Gartner has released… Read more »

1/3 of smartphone owners open apps before getting out of bed Doubting the importance of mobile applications to consumers? An Ericsson ConsumerLab study across the U.S, Europe and Japan reveals 35% of smartphone owners are firing up apps before they even get out of bed in the morning. It also looked at how smartphones have… Read more »

Mobile website vs native mobile application? The answer is simple: With the option of reaching smartphone users via a mobile website or a native mobile application for their operating system, it can be tricky to know which is the better option. So it’s handy that research group Forrester have suggested the best route is to… Read more »

Google shares useful mobile research: As the home of the Android operating system, Google know a fair bit about mobile operating systems and mobile phone owners – perhaps a little too much given the recent concerns raised over location data collected by both Apple and Google! But if you’re looking to understand mobile users, then… Read more »