News & Comment
The insiders guide to mobile Web and marketing in Kenya 2012
September 19, 2012, by mobiThinking
Mobile subscriptions in Kenya outnumber fixed lines 107:1. Mobile Internet subscriptions are growing at 69 percent each year and make up 99 percent of Kenya’s Internet connections. Two-thirds of the 29 million mobile subscribers in Kenya use mobile money services, such as the world-famous M-PESA, which offer an amazing array of financial and payment services. On top of that the government puts development of the ICT sector at the top of the agenda… Okay, do we have your attention now?... Read More
The rise of mobile banking and security concerns in the US [Infographic]
September 17, 2012, by mobiThinking
The Infographic from CreditScore.Net charts US consumer attitude to mobile banking. The stats are mostly from a Survey of Consumer Research Section of the Federal Reserve of around 2,000 consumers earlier this year (you should read this research)... Read More
Five-minute interview: Kerstin Trikalitis, Out There Media; MMA
September 12, 2012, by mobiThinking
In June 2012, Kerstin Trikalitis was appointed chairperson of the MMA EMEA board. She is the CEO of specialist mobile advertising agency Out There Media. The company boasts that its opt-in mobile advertising platform reaches 500 million mobile customers, via SMS and mobile Web, through partnerships with 40 mobile operators... Read More
Lessons from the London 2012 Olympics/Paralympics – shouldnt mobile sites be as accessible as PC sites?
September 10, 2012, by mobiThinking
The phenomenal success of the London 2012 Paralympics (with 2.7 million tickets sold and watched by over 4 billion people on TV worldwide) has done much to raise disability awareness in the public consciousness... Read More
What does JavaScript bring to the mobile HTML5 and CSS3 party?
September 7, 2012, by OrenFarhi
JavaScript brings the mobile Web to life. It brings interactivity to HTML5 and CSS3 mobile Web apps. This Q&A with Oren Farhi, front-end architect and JavaScript expert, explores what JavaScript does for mobile sites/apps and when, where, how and why it should be used … and when it shouldn’t... Read More
