McGuire’s Law

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• Starbucks Mobile Payments Go National
• Google building its own NFC-based payments system?
• Vast Majority of Marketers Will Utilize Mobile Marketing and Increase Spending on Mobile Platforms in 2011
• Face It Carriers: Free Services Might Be Better Than Your Paid Ones
• Promised Market for NFC Effectively Commences in 2011 with Commercial Rolls
• Development of the Mobile Web
• Challenges for Hyperlocal Mobile Advertising
• Shorthand brings (some of) the Internet to phones, no data plan required
• Sprint adds HSN ID shopping app package
• Are Location-Based Services Ready to Turn the Corner?
• Paradoxes in the notion of mobile billing replacing cash or credit cards
• Apple adding mobile wallet services to iPhone and iPad
• How Vlingo’s mobile personal assistant makes money
• LG working on an NFC payment system for Europe, planning launch in 2012
• Report: Mobile e-mail rises; Web e-mail dips
• What will be the business model for free NFC-based interactions?

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• Nokia Subsidiary Buys Traffic Camera Alerts Service
• Visa clears DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay mobile payment microSD card for use in smartphones
• Intuit offers mobile payment system for free
• Why Google isn’t interested in NFC mobile payments
• KreditFly launches mobile payments system with credit guarantees
• RIM working on BlackBerry cloud solution
• Shazam integrates Spotify full-track streaming
• Intuit Takes the Gloves Off in Mobile Payments Push
• Skype Is Killing It on Long Distance
• Nokia to Shutter Ovi Music Unlimited Service

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• Action codes are to mobile what the URL was to the Internet
• Contextual Awareness
• Fixing Mobile Messaging
• Devices Crucial to Mobile TV Effort
• Skyfire Attempts to be RockMelt for the Mobile Set
• Location Services Jazz Up the Check-In for the Holidays
• Will advertisers be made to pay for mobile data use?
• Sprint Gives Parents More Control
• Mobile video viewers up 44% over 2009
• Qualcomm CEO Comes Clean About Mobile TV Miscues
• Mobile payments and NFC: Who will get paid, and how?

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• Appcelerator and PayPal Plan Mobile Commerce App Explosion
• PayPal Bets Its Future on Mobile
• Android Ad Impressions Surge While Revenue Eclipses iPhone
• Almost half of Mobile Phone Users Accessing the Internet
• Sprint’s mobile wallet sounds sensible
• Investor Marc Andreessen wants “everything but love notes” in the cloud
• Will Location-Based Services Ever Go Mainstream?
• Facebook’s Mobile Ambitions Get Bigger
• Wirefly Launches Free Mobile Backup Service
• Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson finds himself at SimpleGeo

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• Placecast and O2 bring location-based ads to 1M UK residents
• Google: Mobile totals $1B annually
• How Free Changed the Navigation Game Forever
• Mobile barcode scanning surges 700 percent in 2010
• Bit.ly brings its short link service into the real world
• Ning brings custom social networks to your smartphone
• Who’s Driving Mobile Payments? (Hint: Some Are Barely Old Enough to Drive)
• Bytemobile: User-generated content half of all mobile video traffic
• YouMail’s “digital secretary” for voicemail reaches 15M unique monthly callers
• US Handset-based Navigation Usage Rose in the Past Year

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• MogoTix Looks to Accelerate Mobile Ticketing
• Instead of Taking Payments Mobile, How About Making Cards Smarter?
• Visa rolling out payWave mobile phone payments in NY subway and taxis
• Intel testing context-aware API for smartphones and tablet PCs, teams with Fodor on dynamic travel app
• YouTube to Mobile Operators: Partner Up, Or Else
• Ericsson Makes Bold Move in Mobile Advertising
• Mobile cloud hype
• Location-based services users passionate but limited
• Four Ways Facebook Can Conquer Mobile
• Does Your App Storefront Need Advertising?
• Mobile Banking Use Accelerates in Personal Finance Revolution
• Mobile Advertising: Making it Scale (Eventually)
• Qualcomm closes up FLO TV
• Too Many Magazine Apps Are Still Walled Gardens
• Still dial 411? Google’s free directory assistance option is shutting down

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• US Mobile Learning Revenues Reached $632 Million in 2009
• Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located
• AOL snaps up Rally Up, touts ‘mobile-first’ strategy
• MasterCard Takes on PayPal on Mobiles
• Demand for Mobile Applications Will Help Consumers Overcome Resistance to Advertising
• Location Labs gets info on 15 million local businesses from CityGrid Media
• Is Geo-Local the Answer to the Local Advertising Quandary?
• Users favor ad-supported mobile music over premium services
• Consumers Want to Discover New Music via Mobile Streaming
• Factual Wants to Be Your Place Database in the Cloud

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• For Google, the Cloud Is Its Mobile Future
• News Corp. to unveil digital newspaper for mobile devices
• Apple Shutting Down Quattro Wireless Ad Service
• Hungry For Mobile E-Commerce, MasterCard Drops $520M on DataCash
• Feature Phones Rule the Mobile Web
• Mobile Impact of MasterCard API Move: Covering The Bases
• NFC Mobile Commerce? Verizon-AT&T Led Mobile Payments Consortium Faces Challenges and The Potential of Software-based Solutions
• The Next Big Thing in Location: Recommended Places
• Android web browsing surges 400 percent in Q2
• Is mobile voice being over-valued?

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• Amazon m-commerce sales top $1 billion over last 12 months
• Mobile Money- Are MNO’s Out of The Loop?
• Discovery premieres dedicated FLO TV mobile channel
• YouTube over a third of worldwide mobile video traffic
• Adoption of Mobile Banking Services Exceeds Expectations
• Dedicated Mobile TV Networks Face Uncertain Future
• Multi-Party Video Calling for Evo From Damaka
• Sonic Solutions teams with Widevine on mobile movie streaming
• Operators targeting Texas, Utah for contactless payment trials
• Apple Facetime Sounds the Death Knell for Upfront Per-Service Charging
• Mobile Data Mediation - profiting from the exponential increase in mobile data use
• Mobile TV: Bigger Is Better
• New York Times launches Press Engine mobile content platform

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• 20% of British Smartphone Users Listen to Radio via Mobile Phone
• European mobile ad network fill rates perform significantly better than those in the USA
• Mobile Banking Usage Nearly Doubled Since Last Year
• Google: Android searches up 300% over first half of 2010
• As Always, Mobile Music Faces Uncertain Future
• BlackBerry Launches Protect. Service Finds Lost Handsets, Saves Data
• Mobile bandwidth caps challenging Web TV
• Mobile Banking Steadily Gaining Acceptance Among U.S. Consumers
• Broadcast Mobile TV Captures Subscriber Counts, While 3G Mobile TV Drives the Revenue
• FLO TV losing money, Qualcomm looking for an out?