The Easiest and Cost Effective Way to Mobilize Your Business
So it’s 2012 and you probably want to ensure that you are reaching the maximum audience of your customers. Only 1 out of 8 small businesses are taking advantage of having a mobile service which can meet demands of on-the-go users. Is it because people just ignorant about modern trends? This can’t be the case .. read more
M-payments In The Western World And Africa
How well mobile money is doing in Europe and the United States? If you take into consideration how popular this type of money management in Africa and other developing countries you would think it’s more than okay. But it’s not that great, really. Paypal’s mobile payments reached $4 billion in 2011 which is a nice .. read more
What’s there for mobile carriers in 2012? Part II
So, Apple and Google are slowly taking the advantage of carriers’ 3G channels to deliver the content (apps) from their markets to subscribers. Not only it makes carriers suffer, as they can’t capitalize this channel, it also leaves not so many options for mobile service providers, especially newcomers. It’s not easy for them to contact .. read more
What’s there for mobile carriers in 2012?
As it always happens at the end of every year we should draw a conclusion about things that happened in the industry in the last twelve month and make a prediction about what we are to expect in 2012. This is not about new retina and AMOLED displays, intelligent software assistants and devices that bridge .. read more
Africa, Mobile Services, and Future
The development of mobile telecommunications in Africa is one of the most rapid in history of the industry. Even now mobile penetration continues to grow at 26% rate with 500 million people already having a mobile device. With such a huge numbers one may think that launching a service there is a certain success. However, .. read more
How easily implement secure mobile financial service from scratch
Whether you are looking to build a mobile service in developing countries, where mobile finance is a hot trend now, or improve your existing infrastructure, Eyeline Financial Service Delivery Platform (EFSDP) is a solution to consider. With a huge experience in mobile technologies we created a solution that ultimately solves all current problems in this .. read more
Apple takes almost all money spent on mobile apps. Where are mobile carriers?
Apple controls about 85-90 percent of the money spent on mobile applications, according to a Jaffray Senior Research. Great numbers, but this is not about competition with Android which, by the way, controls 10% that are left. Apple’s App Store has generated nearly $5 billion in revenues and $330 million went to Google. Nothing went .. read more
How to develop a mobile service and launch it in one week
Making a mobile service used to be hard. Now you can make it without hiring developers and investing huge amount of time and money in actually launching it. This is what basically stops many people from going into this industry. You may think that developing a service is the hardest part of it. But in .. read more
Difference between USSD and SMS
Quite often people are looking at USSD as a cheap alternative to SMS. But in reality it is completely another form of technology which brings different form of user experience. Choosing one of them depends on requirements of your service. In most cases, though, USSD is a much preferred solution. Nowadays everything goes fast. Making .. read more
Nigeria and Mobile Finance
We have a lot of requests coming from Nigeria where people are eager to launch new mobile services. It’s no wonder. Nigeria is continent’s largest mobile market and tenth largest market in the world. And it’s just a beginning. Mobile money is an industry which is on the rise now all over the world. The .. read more