Travelers have still not warmed up to mobile transactions

Edit Business Insider 06 May 2016
Travelers are increasingly using their mobile devices for planning trips, and assistance during the trips themselves ... For clarity, mobile payments in this sense refers to transactions made on a mobile device and not payments made in a store with a mobile wallet ... But just 15% of travel-related payments happened on mobile ... However, this growth rate needs to be supplemented with brand innovation in their mobile browsers and apps....

Open letter to CMOs: Stop all mobile advertising immediately

Edit Venture Beat 05 May 2016
Mobile advertising in its current state is a complete boondoggle ... But that’s not an easy option on mobile browsers, and there are probably some marketers out there that are making it deliberately difficult for viewers to return back to their original content just to trap them in the sales funnel ... But their use on mobile browsers have been far less ... The vast majority of mobile phone use happens in apps, not in native browsers....

SINA Corporation to Report First Quarter 2016 Financial Results on May 11, 2016 (SINA Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
Our digital media network of SINA.com (portal), SINA.cn (mobile portal), SINA Mobile Apps and Weibo.com (social media) enable Internet users to access ... SINA.cn and SINA Mobile Apps provide news information, professional and entertainment content from SINA.com customized for mobile users in WAP (mobile browser) and mobile application format....

Opera brings native ad-blocking to its desktop and mobile browsers

Edit The Verge 04 May 2016
Earlier this year, Opera introduced built-in ad blocking for the developer version of its browser ... Ad blocking on Opera's mobile browser....

Opera launches ad-blocker integration to desktop, Android

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
Opera is adding integrated ad blocker to its browsers on both Windows PCs as well as to mobile, starting with Opera Mini browser for Android ... Web browser ... Apart from multiple-language support, the update brings support for QR code reader and generator for the mobile browser, and has improved the stability and speed in the download manager....

Here’s why it matters

Edit Indian Express 04 May 2016
From May 4, Opera will launch native ad-blocking technology both in the stable version of the desktop browser, as well as the Opera Mini mobile browser for Android. The move could have significant impact in many markets given that Opera is one of the top browsers ... Will this be on all opera browsersmobile and web?. “Yes, both Opera Mini and Opera desktop browsers can now enjoy the ad blocking feature....

Network Security – It’s Everybody’s Business (Avaya Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
The percentage of people connecting to an enterprise will continue to be increasingly digitally dominated from browsers and mobile applications, which will drive specialized ways of serving those customers from the customer experience (CX) perspective ... Enterprise-grade WebRTC conferencing from desktop and mobile browsers will speed the ability for participants to join common virtual areas without launching separate applications....

Network Security – It’s Everybody’s Business (Avaya Italia SpA)

Edit Public Technologies 04 May 2016
The percentage of people connecting to an enterprise will continue to be increasingly digitally dominated from browsers and mobile applications, which will drive specialized ways of serving those customers from the customer experience (CX) perspective ... Enterprise-grade WebRTC conferencing from desktop and mobile browsers will speed the ability for participants to join common virtual areas without launching separate applications....

Your Facebook account's been hijacked. Here's how to recover it and keep it safe

Edit PC World 03 May 2016
Martin Anisko fell for a phishing attack, and a hacker succeeded in taking over his Facebook account. If a crook succeeds in stealing your Facebook account, they can masquerade as you, find out a good deal about you, and get access to your friends ... The following instructions assume that you're accessing Facebook from a full, desktop-oriented browser rather than a mobile browser or app. ....

Unwired Planet, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Results (Unwired Planet Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 03 May 2016
UPIP) is the inventor of the Mobile Internet and a premier intellectual property company focused exclusively on the mobile industry ... Unwired Planet's portfolio includes patents related to key mobile technologies, including baseband mobile communications, mobile browsers, mobile advertising, push notification technology, maps and location based services, mobile application stores, social networking, mobile gaming, and mobile search....

With Web Annotation, You Can Comment on Any Page—But Should You?

Edit Newsweek 30 Apr 2016
Today, if you read the article using the Hypothesis browser extension or by following a Hypothesis link, you can review highlighted passages and more than 50 detailed annotations provided by the climate scientists ... Using annotation is difficult on mobile browsers, which now account for more than half the traffic of many websites—and annotation tools don't work inside mobile apps such as Facebook or Snapchat....

Alibaba's mobile browser to reinvent itself as new media platform

Edit China Daily 28 Apr 2016
The mobile business unit of e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group said on Thursday that it is going to reinvent its browser into a new media platform that can tailor to the information needs of individual users. Yu Yongfu, who is in charge of Alibaba's mobile ......

FTC Expands Antitrust Investigation of Google Android

Edit Newsfactor 28 Apr 2016
The European complaint focuses on practices such as the pre-installation of Google Search as a default search service on most Android devices sold in Europe, which "appear to close off ways for rival search engines to access the market, via competing mobile browsers and operating systems." ... While Android's share of the mobile operating system market in the U.S....
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