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Mobile World Congress dedicates series of events exclusively to Apple next year

September 7, 2010 - 8:16am | News | Other themes

The biggest mobile show in the world is hosting its first event dedicated specially for Apple developers next year. Mobile World Congress, which takes place each February in Barcelona, Spain, will add MacWorld Mobile to its new slate of events focused on developers, who make the small software programs or apps that have become key to phone makers' fortunes.

Apple itself never participates in wider industry events like MWC or the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but prefers to stage its own shows, which attract huge amounts of media attention.

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Mobile operators will invest up to $72 billion in wireless technology

February 10, 2010 - 2:19pm | Investment industry | News

According to the GSM Association, telecoms industry body, mobile operators worldwide are expected to invest up to $72 billion in wireless broadband technologies this year to accommodate surging demand.

GSMA | HSPA | investment | mobile broadband | Mobile operator

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GSMA launches Mobile Money Exchange to support financial services companies

July 7, 2009 - 5:25am | News | Payment systems

The body representing the worldwide mobile communications industry, GSMA, presented its Mobile Money Exchange initiative at the Annual Mobile Money Summit in Barcelona, Spain. Through this initiative, the GSMA intends to support financial services companies, entering the mobile environment, by providing a common voice and formal business forum for business collaboration.

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Bill Gates and GSMA care for unbanked?

February 18, 2009 - 2:52am | News | Other themes

The worldwide mobile communications industry organization GSMA in association with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made an announcement about their new project to provide wider access to unbanked people in developing countries through mobile phones. The program titled Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) was granted a US$12.5 million financing from the foundation.

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Visa will present mobile payment technology at GSMA World Congress

February 13, 2009 - 3:57pm | News | Plastic cards

Visa Europe and Visa Inc will demonstrate its cutting-edge mobile payments technology at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress through real life illustrations.

Visa is expected to demonstrate Visa Mobile, its first commercial service in mobile offers that is enabled on Android powered mobile devices. Also, Visa will showcase NFC-based and SIM-based contactless payments which will enable customers to carry out mobile point of sale payments through their Visa payWave enabled mobile devices.

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Volantis’s Ubik.com, a nominee for GSMA award

January 22, 2009 - 3:39am | News | Other themes

GSMA Global Mobile awards selected Ubik.com, a mobile website creator developed by Volantis Systems, to nominate it in the “Best Mobile Internet Service” category. Apart from Volnatis there are four other nominees shortlisted for the award. The winner will be determined and further announced on Tuesday 17th February 2009. The services that are nominated in the “Best Mobile Internet Service” category are those allowing users to more easily access the mobile web.

GSMA | mobile Internet | Ubik.com | Volantis

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Successful trials encouraged GSMA call for NFC adoption

November 20, 2008 - 2:24am | News | Other themes

In a move to push the adoption of contactless payments by consumers the GSMA, an international trade group of mobile operators, is calling for full near field communication (NFC) functionality to be built into cell phones. The Association in turn supports the development by backing the European Telecommunications Standards Institute's 'Single Wire Protocol' to standardize the interface between SIM cards and embedded NFC chips within handsets.

contctless payments | GSMA | mobile payment | mobile phone | NFC

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