Orange will start a mobile payment service trial in Poland. For this service, Orange has established a partnership with the Polish bank Bank Zachodni and MasterCard. And Gemalto will be the TSM(trusted service manager) for the trial. In Poland, the distribution of infrastructure accepting MasterCard PayPass is so wide spread that it would be easy […]
Car Connectivity Consortium(CCC) will work on the integration of in-vehicle services. This Nokia-driven organization has already lined up with key players from car makers to a system suppliers such as GM, Daimler, Hyundai Motors, Panasonic, Samsung, and LG Electronics. < Website Banner of Terminal Mode > This consortium recently publicized several protocols called as Terminal […]
After the launch of ‘Foursquare’, check-in is an essential for LBS. It provides entertainment to users and connects offline activities to online services. But because of uncomfortable process from launching an application to pushing a check-in button, it has not lasted that long. These services require more energy and participation from users. But ‘shopkick’ is […]
There has been an agreement of NFC collaboration between major operators, Orange, Telefonica Movistar and Vodafone. As a fight against powerful platform players such as Google and Apple, the alliance between carriers has been begun. Last year, ISIS, the JV between 3 mobile operators sets forth a new NFC business. The JV will distribute infrastructure […]
It is interesting that Google and Apple’s decision to jump into the NFC industry has caused other players to spin around towards NFC. In fact, NFC is just one of many network technologies that has been utilized as mobile payment and other services for several years now. A few days ago, there was news that […]
NFC is upgrading its payment service. ShopSavvy, a barcode-scanning shopping service provider, will also expand to mobile payment. After the press release that Google and Apple would push NFC industry, NFC has become a hot potato in the internet industry. Even device manufacturers such as Samsung, Nokia and LG are planning to adopt NFC chips […]
There are a lot of interesting applications in the Android Market and App Store. And many companies use these applications for intriguing mobile users. Scan Search is one of the famous applications in Korea. This application provides a AR(Augmented Reality) based local information and a barcode scanning function. The interesting point is that the application […]
There are a lot of interesting applications in the Android Market and App Store. And many companies use these applications for intriguing mobile users. Scan Search is one of the famous applications in Korea. This application provides a AR(Augmented Reality) based local information and a barcode scanning function. The interesting point is that the application […]
If you don’t give it a try, you won’t ever know what you want. There are many questions and approaches on obtaining knowledge and setting up a plan to make that knowledge or idea. But there is oneunchangeable factor in achieving this successfully, and that is rapid execution. The world is changing rapidly, especially the […]
There are certain necessary functions that smartphone users recquire. While users continue to download applications from online application stores, the performance of smartphones gets worse gradually. Also smartphones need to be charged more often than normal phones. So I recommend several applications to help enhance the performance and to save battery usage of a smart […]