Japanese mobile operator KDDI plans to encourage businesses to replace their fixed-line phone systems with smartphones by offering a service to create low-cost communication networks. KDDI’s service will allow firms Continue Reading
UK startup CloudZync is launching a new contactless payment app for smartphones, called Zync Wallet. The app, in addition to its virtual-wallet function, will log customers’ spending in shops, allowing Continue Reading
US cable provider Comcast has announced that it will begin usage-based broadband billing tests on 1 September 2013 in central Kentucky, Savannah, GA, and Jackson, MS. Subscribers on those systems Continue Reading
At the end of the first quarter of 2013, 62 percent of German mobile-phone owners had a smartphone, up from 54 percent at the end of the third quarter of Continue Reading
Italian MVNO ZeroMobile has introduced You&Zero, a new roaming plan that enables ZeroMobile customers to talk to each other for €0.20 (US $0.26) per minute, including in Italy. The offering Continue Reading
Four in ten (41%) of U.S. consumers who use the internet indicate that they own a tablet, roughly equal to rates reported in March 2013 (40%), according to a new Continue Reading