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IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Mbarika & Mbarika |
Africa Calling Growing numbers of Africans at the top, middle, and even bottom rungs of the economic ladder depend on the wireless sector for their livelihoods. But can the region sustain the wireless sector's phenomenal growth rates and accompanying prosperity?   |
Bank Technology News
November 2008
Maria Trombly |
Mobile Insecurity: Reality or Just hype? The increasing functionality and numbers of mobile banking platforms creates the potential for mobile banking security issues, but industry watchers have widely divergent opinions about how serious the threat really is. |
CIO
April 1, 2011
Fred O'Connor |
Africans Use Mobile Phones for Roles Beyond Communicating In a continent with limited infrastructure, phones serve as income boosters, a teaching tool and wallets. |
Bank Technology News
December 2007
Rebecca Sausner |
SMS Use Overtakes The Web at FNB South Africa's FNB Bank rolled out mobile banking in 1999. Soon, users of its SMS banking format will outnumber those customers using Internet banking. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 9, 2010
Penny Crosman |
Americans' Overall Cell Phone Use Dropping Overall mobile phone adoption dropped from 85% in 2009 to 74% in 2010, according to Javelin Research. But mobile-banking-friendly smart phone usage has grown 7%. |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Dial Growth Handheld devices are enabling nascent economies to skip a generation of development. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Karen Krebsbach |
Waiting for the Call Cellphone banking is emerging as an important link that could bring the most basic financial services to the globe's billions of unbanked cellphone users. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Kids and Cell Phones If you're thinking about getting cell phones for your tweens -- kids between 8 and 12 -- you'll want to get both the right phone and the right calling plan to ensure you're not suddenly surprised by a bill full of charges for ringtones and games. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2007
Jack Ewing |
Upwardly Mobile In Africa How basic cell phones are sparking economic hope and growth in emerging - and even non-emerging - nations. |
CRM
May 1, 2006
David Myron |
A Singular Slip In the early days of cell phone adoption, wireless telecom providers positioned cell phones as a lifeline in the event of an emergency. Here is a bone-chilling story highlighting why both businesses and consumers must place more demands on vendors to deliver more reliable products. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Alex Halperin |
Google's Surfing Safari The search giant is betting that it can become synonymous with the Internet in places like strife-torn Kenya. But it has a long way to go. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 4, 2010
Matt Gunn |
Wells Fargo Expands Popular Small Biz Mobile Banking Program The bank has been seeing double-digit growth every month for for its small business mobile banking offering. |
U.S. Banker
August 2009
Charles Keenan |
The Next Frontier Experts say there's good reason to believe that mobile payments will become as widespread as Internet banking and ATMs. And if banks aren't ready, other providers, such as wireless phone carriers and payment vendors, will steal the show. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2007
Yuval Rosenberg |
Phone Flip How your cell phone is morphing into the center of your universe: Entertainment hub... Remote control... Medical monitor... etc. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN, Vodafone Entwine IM Systems The content player and carrier will let European users message from phone to PC and back. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Nokia's New Family of Phones A new line of keyboard-armed cell phones aims for business users. Nokia will benefit from trends like this that it can ride to sales glory, but investors should consider the opportunities that Internet-enabled phones provide for e-mail and other providers. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010 |
The Call of the Wild Retrevo's Gadgetology Report on American cell phone use. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Calestous Juma |
Africa's New Engine As Africa's middle class grows, policymakers should place a premium on regional economic integration and the associated investment in infrastructure, technical training, and support of entrepreneurs. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Campbell & Smith |
Mobile Firms in Africa Get Spotty Reception Multinationals are drawn to Africa's 300 million people who lack mobile access. But poorer customers mean slower profit growth. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Texting Your Google Search The company extends its reach to mobile users through SMS search service. |
Bank Technology News
August 2008
Krebsbach & Fest |
Big Calling Mobile phones have emerged as a critical way to bring financial services to the globe's legions of unbanked -- a billion of whom carry cellphones. |
Bank Technology News
March 2003
John Carroll |
A U.S. Boom Lays in Wait A funny thing happened on the way to the wireless banking revolution in the United States -- only a handful of users showed up. |
Bank Systems & Technology
December 23, 2007
Nancy Feig |
Mobile Banking Experiencing Increased Adoption Mobile banking is causing a flurry of activity in the U.S. financial services industry. |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Catherine Seda |
A Gr8 Way 2 Win Customers Get into your customers' pockets with SMS advertising. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2010 |
Study: Mobile Phone Users Largely Ignore Apps Pew Research Center study finds majority of cell phone owners don't bother using any of the apps embedded on them. |
Bank Technology News
April 2007
James Greene |
A Wealthier World Needs Rich Bank IT What will the world of financial services look like in 10 or 15 years? The general outlines are taking shape right now. Inevitably, technology will drive much of this change in the ways that banks do business. |
Bank Technology News
January 2009
Rebecca Sausner |
Smart Phones Now Dominate Mobile Usage Touch screen smart phones are making a significant impact on mobile banking. |
PC Magazine
August 8, 2008
Jonathan Flax |
The Proving Ground for Text Alerts Governments, colleges, and others are launching text-messaging alert systems at an increasing rate to warn against safety hazards and severe weather. But are they working? |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Robert Lemos |
A Moving Target Today, cell-phone viruses are not a big deal. But if you think your phone will always be safe, think again. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2007
Dave Mock |
Dueling Fools: China Mobile Bull Taken all together, China Mobile's story of rapid and profitable growth foretells great things to come for this wireless giant. Investors, take note. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2007
Julie Sturgeon |
Talkin' Up a Storm The debate over integrating cell phones into instruction rages: Do potential security risks and classroom disruptions negate the promise of academic gains? A North Carolina pilot program may soon have the answer. |
PC World
May 4, 2008
Erik Larkin |
Safest Way to Bank Online? Your Cell Phone Phones are off the radar for most hackers today. But Google's Android OS and the iPhone could make them more of a target. |
U.S. Banker
July 2011
Glen Fest |
Smart Strategies for Dumb Phones Banks must balance the urge to make investments for a smartphone world against the needs of today s customers -- and a majority of them use standard cell phones. |
Entrepreneur
February 2006
Amanda C. Kooser |
Make the Cut? While many consumers may be kicking landlines to the curb in favor of cell phones, most growing businesses are behaving more circumspectly. Know your options for bringing your phone system up-to-date. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Ethan Zuckerman |
Other Roads to Computing for All The One Laptop Per Child project is only one of more than 20 initiatives in low-cost computing. Some are trying to design low cost or ruggedized computers; others are trying different approaches to make traditional computers more affordable. |
CIO
June 9, 2009
Gary Beach |
Text Messaging at Work Text messaging may drive top-line results, such as improving customer satisfaction. |
Bank Technology News
December 2007 |
Mobile banking: Are Texting Services Here to Stay or Not? Text-message banking isn't considered a killer app, but qualifies as the easiest road to launching mobile financial services. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2008
Jeff Weinstock |
Hate the Player, Not the Game For new technologies to be successfully integrated into schools, we must first fix the users, not the tools. |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
You're Grounded Landline phones are taking flight with a host of slick new features. |
Bank Technology News
December 2008
Glen Fest |
The Paradoxes Of Mobile Adoption A new Javelin Strategy & Research report reveals layers of paradox involving mobile banking security. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Willy H. Verheye |
Food Production or Food Aid?: An African Challenge Food production is not keeping pace with Africa's rapidly growing needs. Aid programs in the 1970s and 1980s were considered a temporary solution to the most appalling famines, but Africa's food shortage appears to be worsening. This paper discusses the reasons for this situation and ways to address it. |
| AskMen.com |
Computers Are So '00s Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. |
CIO
February 1, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
Buying on Air It won't happen overnight, but people will ultimately accept the idea of buying goods and services via their mobile devices such as cell phones, according to a recent report by Boston-based Yankee Group... |
Search Engine Watch
February 9, 2011
Andy Atkins-Kruger |
Global Search Marketing Numbers Are Shocking, Wake up America! These statistics are a wake-up call for anyone who doesn't realize the sheer scale of the growth in the global internet. |
InternetNews
July 9, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Amazon Debuts Mobile Phone E-Commerce Site Amazon today unveiled the beta launch of AmazonWireless.com, a new Web site offering mobile phones and service plans from a selection of phones from AT&T and Verizon Wireless. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 4, 2010
Penny Crosman |
17% of U.S. Adults Use Mobile Banking, Survey Finds Mobile web and SMS are the most common mobile banking technologies, but app-based banking will grow rapidly over the next 12 months, according to Luth Research. |
CIO
March 15, 2001 |
Please, Pick Up the Phone Your strategic e-commerce advantage is ringing in your pocket. Will phones be the critical platform for business in the futures? |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2002
Karen M. Kroll |
Controlling Connection Costs Reviewing, managing telecommunications can yield savings... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? The cellular phone is fast becoming the single most important piece of personal electronics - but at what cost and do cell phones cause brain cancer? |
Bank Technology News
May 2010
Michael Sisk |
Security Threats and Opportunities As more people adopt mobile banking and it becomes more transactional -- not just checking balances and getting alerts -- the security threats are likely to mount quickly. |
