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Google uses QR codes to let smartphone users log into their Gmail accounts more securely

01/17/201201/17/2012 Julie Campbell

Google has launched a brand new method of logging onto a Gmail account from a public terminal that uses a QR code scanned by a smartphone in order to be able to do so more securely than entering a password into the computer. The technique is comparable to the way that a device was set up by Google for a two-step authentication process, which has been available since 2011. This two-step login method once required the use of a unique short code that was generated by the mobile device, as…

2012 will put the spotlight on Amazon, Nokia and Microsoft for mobile

01/05/201201/05/2012 Stephanie Beck

According to the results of a survey performed by Chetan Sharma Consulting, a Washington-based firm, this year, it is predicted that the leaders in mobile will be taking significant steps forward as they attempt to take the lead from the top mobile operating system, Android. The predictions made from the data collected in the survey, called the “2012 Mobile Industry Predictions Survey”, were derived from the responses of about 150 industry insiders on the worldwide mailing list of the consulting firm. They also forecast that m-commerce and mobile payments will…

The look of m-commerce in 2012

12/22/201112/22/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

Mobile has already shown that it is about to dramatically change the way that we buy and sell, and as of the holiday season, it has become quite clear that smartphones and tablets are becoming increasingly important to the lives and shopping behaviors of consumers. With mobile devices available to them, consumers have come to expect to have large amounts of information, products, services, and communication available to them at every moment, no matter when or where they are. With this new perspective, it is obvious that the smartphone will…

Hungarian innovation to integrate bank card into handsets makes their debut: MasterCard selected Cellum

10/29/201110/29/2011 Guest Post

PRESS RELEASE: Budapest; The new technology developed by Cellum allows using mobile telephones as MasterCard bank cards in Hungary. Hungary is the first country in Europe to implement the new technology, and the launch in Hungary is, at the same time, the European debut of the application. Thanks to the cooperation with multinational partner MasterCard, Cellum can now enter the world market with its application available on four platforms **(iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, SIM). * Mobile telephones have long been offering voice, image and text transmission services. As the next…

The reason Google hasn’t yet placed its focus on tablets

10/22/201110/22/2011 Jennifer Goula

Inside the span of twenty four hours, Google held two large events; the first in New York with its subsidiary, Motorola, and the second in Hong Kong with its partner, Samsung. Though there had been some speculation here and there on the internet that there would be a new generation of the Xoom tablet announced, or that there would be a preview available for the next Android-based Galaxy Tab running on the new version of the operating system, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, neither of those events placed any focus on…