eBay has acquired mobile payments company Zong for $240 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011.
Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space, adding a compelling new way for consumers to pay for items online. Simply put, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual [...]

Mobile phone service is often the first method of telecommunications that children use around the world; whereas, many of the generation X and earlier still look for a fixed line pay phone when they need to make a phone call way from the home or office. In nations, such as Pakistan, Kenya, and Malaysia, the [...]

Yikes, I wish I had more time to share my experiences, knowledge, observations of best practices, and other items related to monetizing IP communications… before heading home for the day, I want share a memory of a great mobile phone service…
Zong is the Tibetan word for county, referring both to the traditional government units and [...]

The first concept of this phone was to deliver all of the benefits of a home pc or notebook into a device that fits right in the palm of your hand. And while the palm PDA was very useful to the individual who needed their data organized right at their fingertips on the go, the amount of additional accessories to provide the connectivity, synchronization and other much needed conveniences started to become tremendous.

Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets.
US researchers have found a way to work out where the tap touches and use that to control phones and music players.
Coupled with a tiny projector the system can use the skin as a surface on which to display [...]

The 4G revolution in wireless won’t just make Web surfing on your  mobile phone faster; it could help you say good-bye to traditional  cable and DSL broadband.
Clearwire’s 4G WiMax service, currently the only 4G wireless service  on the market, offers average download speeds between 3Mbps and  6Mbps, which are comparable with many DSL and [...]

The new release of Symbian dialer is available for demo on VoIPSWITCH www.callto.net website. The dialer uses special compression algorithm which allows for 50% saving in bandwidth consumption. The voice codec remains the same, it is g729. The improvement helps clients making calls using very low internet bandwidth, often from blocked areas, for example UAE. [...]