… the news last week. The information jostle at a breakneck pace and it is not always easy to find or simply
do not miss the important moments. To start the week and better decipher what lies ahead, here is a summary of current events that marked last week.
Android and iPhone remain at the heart of current mobile, as well as the contactless mobile, where players want to expedite the movement. Meanwhile, technical innovations promise mountains and marvels mobile phones of tomorrow.
No fewer than 14 new members join the Open Handset Alliance e, the promotion of Google Android. And not least, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, but Garmin ARM, Toshiba or Asustek. New terminals or new products in mobile Android in perspective …
With 300 million mobile applications downloaded from the App Store, Apple demonstrates the importance of content associated with a terminal adapter. Especially as publishers follow suit and offer quality applications.
But the exclusive right to sell the iPhone by Orange is not appropriate for Bouygues Telecom. This week
that the review of the complaint filed last year will tell whether the situation must change, which could also benefit SFR.
To accelerate the adoption of NFC (Near Field Communications) for mobile contactless payment, it is activated to shorten the timetable. The group Musketeers expresses its readiness to launch such a service in its brands from 2009.
The fourth 3G license again speak of it through an interview with Martin Bouygues in the newspaper Les Echos. According to him, making a fourth entering Free would not benefit to the market and would be unfair compared with actors in place. (more…)