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Stuart Taylor, Cisco

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Stuart Taylor has written his perspectives on the recent CTIA conference in New Orleans.

1. Three Little Words – “More Spectrum….Please” – It seemed that these were the first words out of every mobile executive’s mouth when they got on the stage.  They all made passionate pleas for why they needed more spectrum to be able to meet the huge customer demand and to continue to add value to the economy. 

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According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the total value of the global real-time mobile location-based advertising and marketing (LBA) market will grow from € 192 million in 2011 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 91 percent to € 4.9 billion in 2016. This will then correspond to 28.3 percent of all…

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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the subject of mobile payment was discussed at length in several of the keynote sessions. See this post. However, there are several different approaches to payment via mobile platforms. Obviously the major banks are keen to get a share of the action – especially in terms of funds exchange and money transfer. The credit card companies are buddying-up to the big mobile payment vendors like Google Wallet.

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Jeffrey Peel, Quadriga Consulting (Photo credit: designbyfront)

Quadriga Consulting, the UK based mobile cloud research consultancy, has joined forces with identity market intelligence firm Verge Research, based in Arlington, MA. Both firms are launching a new multi-client research program designed to map out the future for mobile cloud and mobile cloud identity.

Quadriga Consulting, last year, ran Europe’s first Mobile Cloud Summit…

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World Top 10 Internet Sites: By Daily Page Views. Source Wolfram Alpha

Just a few weeks before its IPO, Facebook is hot on the heels of Google – vying to become the world’s most visited website.

According to Wolfram Alpha, Facebook is neck and neck with Google in terms of daily page views.  Although it’s well behind based on daily visitors.

However, some commentators have been questioning how Facebook defines monthly active users (MAUs) in its investment prospectus – recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission – such as this  article in the New York Times:

Facebook counts as “active” users who go to its Web site or its mobile site. But it also counts an entire other category of people who don’t click on facebook.com as “active users.” According to the company, a user is considered active if he or she “took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party Web site that is integrated with Facebook.”

The Antenna research found that young people are driving adoption in the UK – with 30% of 18-24 year old and 33 per cent of 25-34 year old mobile internet users utilising mobile banking to manage their money on the go – compared to 13 per cent of over 55s.

Antenna’s research also assessed the barriers to take-up, and found that 69 per cent of UK mobile internet users have security concerns about mobile banking services saying they would stop using the service if they felt their data was not secure. These concerns could account for the unpopularity of third-party banking apps, with only one per cent of respondents in the US, and less than one per cent of those polled in the UK, admitting to preferring to use a banking app not provided by their own bank.

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Related articles

• Visa makes two moves into mobile banking (usatoday.com)
• Mobile banking apps take off (theglobeandmail.com)

We don’t normally republish media announcements or releases but if Scalado delivers everything it promises in this video it’s going to be quite a product.  Fun video.

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I received a mailer today from the CIPR (the outfit that represents a good chunk of the professional UK PR industry) and it contained the following entreaty to PR professionals:

If the role of the comms department is to move beyond being a glorified press office, it needs to take a more robust data driven/evidence-based approach to planning, strategic communications and reputation management…only then will that vacant seat at the board room table be filled.” (Andrew Bruce Smith, CIPR).

Well said Andrew Bruce Smith.

Here at Quadriga Consulting | Business Evidence we’re in the business of providing the “evidence based approach to planning, strategic communications and reputation management”.  So if you’re a PR professional and feel that you need to improve your prospects of getting a seat on the Board then give us a call.

Jeff Peel

The Centre’s study ‘Social Networking sites and our lives‘ reveals that women outnumber men on Twitter by nearly 2:1. Whereas over on social-climbing site Linkedin, the reverse situation is true. The latter revelation may indicate that women are less interested in business networking via social media – or perhaps there’s just not as many of them in business to network.

However, right across the social networking piste women are in the social networking majority (with the obvious exception of Linkedin).

Read the full report.

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A recent survey of IT leaders in the USA has concluded that cloud computing is ‘practically mainstream’.  The latest CIO Economic Impact survey of 291 IT leaders has found that nearly half (48 percent) of the CIOs surveyed said they have adopted a “cloud first” policy.  This requires cloud options to be given priority over more traditional computing solutions, for new information solutions.

The survey findings indicate that cloud budgets are beginning to reflect the shift, with 48 percent of IT leaders putting more money into cloud, up from 44 percent in November 2010 and 38 percent in August 2010. According to the report, “More than half (53 percent) of CIOs said they expect to increase their IT budgets overall, up 5 percent from a year ago.”

Are you interested in cloud computing and mobile cloud?  Our Mobile Cloud Summit event is taking place in September.