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Gartner predicts that over 140 million people will be into mobile payments services this year while mass market adoption of NFC payments is still at least four years away.

The forecast says that more than 141.1 million people will use mobile payments services in 2011, up 38.2% from 102.1 million people a year ago. Over the past year the volume of mobile payments has grown by 75.9% from US$48.9bn in 2010 to $86.1bn in 2011.

Yet, Gartner notes that the mobile payment market is growing more slowly than expected.

Nokia announced its first and last MeeGo running smartphone N9 this week in Sigapire.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that the commercial launch will take palce later this year. As you know Nokia abandoned its plans to further support MeeGo after it entered into a partnership with Microsoft to adopt its Windows Phone platform for all its mobile devices. However, Nokia decided to unveil one of the models it was working on.

The N9 handset features a large touchscreen and comes in black, cyan and magenta colors.
 

Google added new features to speed up web searches for mobile users. On Tuesday at a briefing in San Francisco Google demonstrated a new feature called Instant Pages which allows certain Web pages to pop-up in a user's Web browser nearly instantaneously, as well as a revamped version of its website for mobile devices.

The Mountain View noted that traffic coming from mobile devices such as smartphones has increased by a factor of five during the past two years.

According to the forecast made by Cisco within the framework of its Visual Networking Index global Internet traffic will grow four-fold by 2015 to 966 exabytes a year, or a zettabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) while the number of devices connected to the Internet will increase to 15 billion.

Suraj Shetty, Cisco's vice president of global service provider marketing, predicts that the average resident of the United States will have 7 networked devices in 2015 while in 2010 there was one connected device for every human on the planet.

Now users who want to have an option to shut down their PCs remotely from their iPhone can do it with the new app. Thus, if you are sitting in your chair and watching your favorite TV program you do not wish to leave, while there is a PC turned on in another room, you may switch it off via your iPhone or iPad device with the new iShutdown app.

According to the data from research firm Strategy Analytics the global tablet computer market is set to grow to a $49 billion business by 2015.

The tablet computer market will become the third largest consumer electronics sector, after televisions and personal computers, the research firm said, forecasting 149 million units will be sold in 2015, growing eightfold from 2010.

"Tablets are a high-value casual-computing segment that is creating huge growth opportunities for major brands, such as Apple and Samsung," said analyst Neil Mawston.
 

According to the new finding of an agency that helps manage paid search advertising most Apple iOS devices including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches fail to count paid-search conversions (i.e., clicks) because cookie-tracking is turned off.

It is known that all Apple mobile devices use the Safari as the default browser and so do Apple laptops and desktop PCs. It is also known that Safari blocks third-party cookies by default from considerations of privacy. But it is very bad for advertisers.

As smartphones and tablets are gaining momentum cyber criminals shift their focus to mobile devices to infiltrate malware. A new report from McAfee titled McAfee Threats Report for Q4 2010 reveals that new mobile malware threats in 2010 increased by 46 percent over the previous year.

Next year Motorola Mobility will be rolling out a product that enables consumers to stream video to mobile devices such as tablet computers and cellphones in their home. The product was announced at the Reuters Global Media Summit and it will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics show right after Motorola Inc spins off Motorola Mobility, which includes its set-top box and cellphone business, from the rest of the company on January 4.

Tablets won’t displace PCs anytime soon according to a new forecast made by Gartner analyst George Shiffler. He says that despite media shouts about soon “death” of PC market, tablets are only expected to displace around 10% of PCs by 2014. The reason, he says, is that tablets aren't likely to develop the extensive content creation capabilities that users find in PCs.

Over half of mobile devices users access their employers’ networks daily without being allowed to. Over 80% of mobile devices users whose security is not controlled by a company, say they have accessed work information.

According to the data from Juniper Networks who polled 6,000 mobile device owners, the use of such gadgets as smartphones and tablets is a serious security threat for corporate information storage.

This holiday season Microsoft is making its another effort to firm its position at the mobile phone market with the launch of Windows Phone 7 phones. According to the estimates of the analysts and experts Microsoft could spend a half-billion dollars or more in marketing costs and payments to developers and handset manufacturers to subsidize the expense of building phones and apps, so that the Windows Phone 7 ecosystem is well-seeded at launch, as noted by the TechCrunch blog.

A major Taiwanese newspaper reported the rumors that Apple is preparing a new iPad 2 with a 7-inch touchscreen to launch at the end of the year. It is the second time the rumor is reported and it comes from the island's Chinese-language Economic Daily News financial newspaper, which was among the first to correctly report that Apple was making a tablet when other news sources said it would be a netbook. And the launch of the original iPad proved the paper correct.

As it appears from the latest Microsoft report large companies will unlikely adopt Windows Phone 7 based mobile devices because phones from HTC, Dell, LG, and Samsung won't work out of the gate in October with standard Microsoft technologies used by corporations to deploy and manage their apps.

A group of chip makers with the participation of Samsung and GlobalFoundries announced this week the launch of a new development platform that is expected to streamline and make faster the production of the next generation low-power chips for mobile devices.