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The ATM Goes Cardless
More Power to Phones as Banks Enable Cardless Transactions Last week, Wells Fargo, the third-largest bank in the US, introduced a service providing its account holders with cardless, smartphone-based...
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Laptop in Your Pocket
Is Your Next Phone Your Next Laptop? In early 2011, Motorola introduced its Android-based Atrix 4G phone. It was a rather standard high-end Android device for the time but was one of the first to...
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UK Adoption of SIM-Only Plans Gathers Pace
A Third of Consumer Contracts Will Be SIM-Only by the End of 2017 In the UK, more than one third of contract consumers (34 percent), will be on a SIM-only deal by the end of 2017, according to CCS...
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WhatsApp Plans Digital Payments Service
India Will Act as Test Bed WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has plans to launch a digital payments service and India will be its first market.
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Shift to 5G Calls for a Revamp of Data Plans
Network Operators Must Rethink Unlimited Data Allowances The mobile industry is going through a major change, prompted by the advent of LTE-Advanced and the dawn of 5G networks.
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Power to the Platform
Rethinking Silicon and Benchmarks Ever since computing went mainstream in the mid-1990s, the CPU has become synonymous with computational performance.
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Cable and Wireless
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile Will Be a Challenge to Incumbents and Itself Last week, US telecommunication and media company Comcast officially unveiled its mobile service.
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New Phone Forecast Highlights Transition In Technology Landscape
Handset Shipments Will Reach 2.08 Billion in 2021 CCS Insight's latest update to its worldwide forecast of mobile phone shipments was unveiled today.
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Autonomous in Greenwich
Londoners Get to Test Harry, a Driverless Shuttle Bus During the next two weeks, Londoners will get a chance to ride a prototype driverless shuttle bus on a route in Greenwich.
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Vulnerabilities in Fingerprint Scanners
Can a Fingertip Really Secure Your Smartphone? Fingerprint readers have become common in smartphones.
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Now for the Next 100 Million
Netflix Talks to Telkom to Re-Enter Indonesia This week, Netflix reported that it's in talks with Indonesia's state-controlled telecom company Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) to roll out its video...
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Facing Reality
Will Users Take to Facebook's New Dual Realities? For Facebook, if it's not one reality, it's another.
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Xiaomi Didn't Get the Big Device Memo
Reveals Its New Mi 6 Flagship Phone On Wednesday at an event in Beijing, Xiaomi unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the Mi 6.
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Miles of Light
Verizon to Buy Miles of Fibre for Fixed-Line and Wireless Services Last week, Verizon announced a multi-year deal with Corning to acquire large amounts of fibre-optic cable.
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Forecast Notes Steady Progress in Multiplay Adoption in the UK CCS Insight has recently published its forecast of multiplay services in the UK.
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The Rhythm Is Broken
AT&T Claims There's No Predicting the US Phone Market Yesterday, in its results for the first quarter of 2017, AT&T stated: "The company is no longer providing consolidated revenue guidance...
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Mooted Airline Laptop Ban Has Big Implications
Disruption Looming for Business Travellers This week, the Guardian revealed that the Trump administration is considering barring passengers flying to the US from UK airports from taking laptops into...
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Opportunities in Adversity
A Ban on Large Devices in Cabins May Be a Boon for Some Firms In yesterday's Daily Insight, my colleagues Nick McQuire and Ben Wood shared their thoughts on a potential ban on laptops and other...
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Bike-Sharing, a New Battleground in China
Ofo Is the World's First Bike-Sharing Unicorn China's bike-sharing market, now with more than 30 major competitors, has become the latest battleground for funding as some of the hottest start-ups...
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Titanic Tools to Create VR Content
Top Effects Company Unveils VR Suite for Production and Distribution Here's another potential enabler for the creation and distribution of professional virtual reality content.
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