Tag Archives: Mobile telecommunications

Kill switch will save $2.5 billion per year as suggested by a study

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The kill switch defintiely offers a lot of personal benefits for the kill switch and it is pretty obvious why it has become a need for many mobile owners. From the viewpoint of having increased...

New Dating Rules: Break-Ups Through Text OK, Playing Hard To Get Not OK

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At a panel at SXSW in Austin Greg Liberman, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spark Networks, the company that owns JDate and ChristianMingle, explained that in every stage of history there...

Why It’s Scary When 0.15% Mobile Gamers Bring In 50% Of The Revenue

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There’s a new report out from Swrve which says 0.15% of mobile players account for 50% of mobile games revenue. The general idea isn’t exactly groundbreaking news, but those specific numbers seem...

Incentives are coming for payments by phones

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Many people use their smartphones to watch video, play games and wake them up in the morning. Some even use them to generate digital boarding passes to fly. So why not use...

Authenticate Card Transactions By Mobile While Traveling

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MasterCard has announced the pilot of a new service to link mobile phones to card use for customers who are traveling. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MasterCard and Syniverse said they are...

Big Data Under The Surface At Mobile World Congress

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The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is about mobile devices and the hottest new handheld devices – from smartphones to tablets to wearables. You’ll get the latest on the Samsung S5, Nokia, and LG, and...

Evolution in US cellphone plans over past year

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In the old days, U.S. wireless customers typically paid $100 or $200 for a phone and agreed to a two-year service contract. Although the phone actually cost hundreds of...

Amid shake-up, US cell carriers look to new models

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — How's this for gall? Take away hundreds of dollars in subsidies that cellphone customers have enjoyed for years. Then pass it off as an improvement. The major U.S. wireless...

T-Mobile offers infinite phone upgrades, catch

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NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile is allowing people who participate in its $10-a-month Jump program to upgrade their phones anytime, eliminating the previous limit of two upgrades a year. As introduced last...