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Weekly industry news roundup 2nd December 2011

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Steely Eye

News around the mobile industry, every week, for you, from Steely Eye.

  • House of Fraser and O2 Target Christmas Shoppers | Mobile Marketing 
  • PayPal: Global mobile payment volume increased 516pc on Black Friday | Mobile Commerce 
  • The 7 types of iPhone owners | PR Daily 
  • App Downloads See Autumn Surge on Heels of iPhone 4S Launch |mobileMW 
  • NFC use in mobilemarketing could net $300M | mediapost
  • Smartphones in US to rise to 155.59 million by the end of next year | MobileSquared 
  • House of Fraser targets holiday shoppers with multi-component mobile campaign | Luxury Daily 
  • Jaeger launches site ahead of expected m-commerce surge | New Media Age 
  • How consumers will use their mobile devices during the holidays | Mobile Commerce Daily
  • Tablets fuel m-commerce growth | New Media Age
  • Mobile Fusion to succeed Blackberry Enterprise Service in RIM tablets and smartphones | CIO
  • Sam’s Club releases iPad app in time for holiday shopping – Mobile Commerce Daily 
  • A cable allowing you to transfer photosfrom iPhone to iPad, no PC required | phonearena
  • QR Mania: Mobile Codes In Magazines Rise 228% | mediapost
  • The Third Screen: The Money in Mobile | mediapost 
  • Lloyds TSB banking app goes viralGoMo News 
  • iOS & Android Apps Challenged by Traffic Acquisition Not Discovery j.mp/umGGCx
  • You Guys Are Millionaires Right? | Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery j.mp/ruwgne
  • The death of Flash – 8 years in the making | VisionMobile
  • Scaling Your Mobile Presence for a Global Audience | Guest Opinions | ITBusinessEdge.com
  • SPB Software Is Acquired by Yandex » Press Releases » SPB Software j.mp/tgzhgu 
  • Greenwich Consulting: m-payments will lead to the death of dedicated cards. Oyster Card anyone? ht.ly/7EekD
  • Berg Insight: Location based revenues will double by 2016 | GoMoNews
  • Only 1.2 million non-iPad tablets sold in last ten months |geekdotcom 
  • Infographic: seven sign of Mobile addiction - ht.ly/7Ee6c
  • Creepy! Ultimat Vodka Social Life Audit Facebook App | sociablesite 
  • How mobile payments and digital wallets will open up new opportunities in travel | Tnooz
  • Gameloft giving out free and discounted Android games over holiday weekend bit.ly/w2JJXQ
  • Starbucks launches mobile payments app – Marketing news – Marketing magazine j.mp/s7j2iz 
  • US gov spunks $200K on busted weather app • The Registerj.mp/udYnuG 
  • Scottish primary school may lease tablets to students | TabTimes
  • Sport launches iPad app with GroupM – Media news – Media Week
  • Siri’s unofficial feature: remotely control your car. Start and lock it, pop your trunk | phonearena
  • Stat of the Day: Holiday e-Commerce by the Numbers adage.com/u/a8aVDa
  • Software analysis could be mobile operators’ secret weapon |GoMo News
  • Mobile app content ratings system to debut next week cnet.co/ufy3gr
  • Mobile phones could replace cash by 2016 | digitalmedia
  • Whitepaper about mobile TV: Users expected to rise to nearly 12bn in 2012 | Juniper Research 
  • UK Mobile Retail Traffic to Triple over Christmas Season |bit.ly/uxwL4E
  • Is This Really the Tablet Everyone’s Talking About? | Product Reviews | Wired.com 
  • Tesco to free up shelf space with augmented reality trial – Brand Republic News 
  • How HTML5 Tablet Apps Get a Boost From a New Breed of Publishing Tools j.mp/tojWqr 
  • ‘WTF Mobile Web’ Tracks Terrible Mobile Web Design | Webmonkey | Wired.com 
  • Building a Mobile App Is Not a Mobile Strategy – Jason Gurwin – Harvard Business Review 
  • Mobile Deals Aimed at Black Friday Shoppers Stuck in Line -NYTimes.com
  • 25 years of mobile innovation – video by Nokia ht.ly/7Bs6w
  • 22% of Fandango’s sales for the last Twilight” movie came through mobile. ht.ly/7Bmec
  • Aurora expands mobile point-of-sale trial | Blog | Retail week
  • Walgreens introduces mobile coupons to enhance shopping via apps | Mobile Commerce 
  • eBay interactive shop windows make it easy to donate via mobile | Mobile Commerce Daily 
  • RIM: I Want to Believe dthin.gs/uiVOm8
  • 60M consumers will shop via mobile over Thanksgiving weekend: study – Mobile Commerce Daily 
  • Selena Gomez funds iPhone app dthin.gs/s4j9WH
  • Coca-Cola tests NFC-enabled vending machines to bolster mcommerce presence | Mobile Commerce
  • German Public Transport Deploying Mobile Ticketing bit.ly/ryPBBn 
  • Nokia: Lumia 800 Launch Going Fine, Thanks (“welcoming reception in the United Kingdom”) dthin.gs/uKB7G3