July 2011

Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2% increase from 2010, when mobile payment users reached 102.1 million, according to Gartner. Worldwide mobile payment volume is …

Social game maker Zynga, whose titles include the hugely popular FarmVille, CityVille and FrontierVille Facebook games, is looking to take its first big step outside the giant social network’s walls in a deal with Chinese social site Tencent.

Mobile marketing platform company Upstream says it will be opening new offices in Redwood City, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The firm, whose MCS marketing technology platform boasts …

Mountain View based Intuit Inc., maker of the popular TurboTax program, has announced the availability of its QuickBooks invoicing app for Android, following up its iOS app for Apple iPhone users. …

iTnews | July 25, 2011 | James Hutchinson The University of Western Australia has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate approximately 1000 disparate servers to a private cloud platform …

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has snapped up assets from Sunnyvale based GestureTek, which specializes in gesture recognition technology, for integration into its Snapdragon processors. Gesture recognition, once the preserve of …

Crowded House said it best back in 1987 with the hit single “Always take the weather with you,” and now comScore can confirm, taking the weather with them in their pocket is what most mobile users love above all else. Of the 76.8 million Americans who own a smartphone, a whopping 31 million have some kind of weather app, amounting to 40.4%.

Bloomberg | July 25, 2011 | Jun Yang Samsung Electronics Co., maker of the Galaxy mobile phone, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj and Apple Inc. in smartphone sales for the …

The New York Times | July 24, 2011 | Kevin O’Brien When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided …

Brocade | July 19, 2011 | Press Release GENEVA — (Marketwire) — 07/19/2011 — More than half of all Europeans take at least one holiday each year, which means some …

Alcatel-Lucent | July 25, 2011 | Press Release Paris, July 25, 2011 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced availability of a suite of visual collaboration solutions that …

Nokia Siemens | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP Multimedia Subsystem platform to offer new services M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, a leading operator in Bavaria, Germany, is …

TeliaSonera | July 22, 2011 | Press Release The reduction of share capital by means of cancellation of shares resolved upon on April 6, 2011 by the annual general meeting …

Deutsche Telekom | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, operator of the T-Mobile network, and PTK Centertel, operator of the Orange network, signed an agreement today to …

Vodafone | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Group service revenue +1.5%(*), excluding mobile termination rate cuts +3.9%(*) Strong service revenue growth in India +16.8%(*), Turkey +32.1%(*) and Vodacom +7.8%(*); …

Mobile TeleSystems | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Moscow, Russian Federation – Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” or the “Company” – NYSE: MBT), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and …