Moving an average of almost 1.3 billion messages per day in the fourth quarter of 2009, Syniverse Technologies says it continues to see significant growth of the company’s application-to-person (A2P) and peer-to-peer (P2P) message delivery across its network. According to...

One year ago today Apple held their iPhone 3.0 SDK Sneak Peak event and released iPhone 3.0 Beta 1, giving all of us our first look at cut, copy, and paste, MMS, tethering, Spotlight search, Voice Memo, in-app purchases, turn-by-turn navigation, stereo Bluetooth, pervasive landscape keyboard, P2P gaming, and whole bunch more. Now, a year later, ...

Spain continues to be one of the few countries out there that seems to not have its judges lose their critical thinking abilities the second anyone mentions the word "piracy." We've pointed out a few times in the past that Spanish courts have ruled that file sharing is legal and it looks like they've done so again. Infophage was the first of a few to send in an article about the latest r...

Rating: BuzzCitys approach seemingly ignores the Unbanked The results of BuzzCity’s fifth global survey of consumer mobile behaviour are out and make very interesting reading. This report is entitled  Mobile Money and basically highlights the ways mobile phones are used to buy things. Sadly, theres no mention of person-to-person (P2P) transactions since, here in the West,

The highlights Interview In a wide-ranging interview today Opera chairman Jon von Tetzchner talked about the Browser Choice ruling, Opera's iPhone app, Google as a competitor, and how P2P will be the next generation of the web. Rather than pad it out with waffle, here are the highlights with signposts.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Subscribers in seven developed countries spanning three continents express scant interest in person-to-person mobile payments according to a new survey issued by ABI Research. Consumer in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea all indicate little enthusiasm for the possibilities of making mobile-to-mobile payments--while ABI reports some differences between age groups a...

Allot Communications' Allot MobileTrends: Global Mobile Broadband Traffic Report shows that worldwide mobile data bandwidth usage has increased significantly by approximately 72% during the second half of 2009.  The report also reveals YouTube is taking up a lot bandwidth, Facebook is hot, Skype is the top VoIP providers and P2P is choking cell networks. According to Allot MobileTrends Report...

FTP heading the same way as GOPHER Analysis of mobile traffic during the second half of 2009 shows YouTube accounting for a tenth of all data consumed on the move, but P2P is still clogging cells.… What is your recession sales strategy?

We've discussed peer-to-peer lending sites in the past, though mostly with respect to regulatory questions revolving around their attempts to securitize the loans. However, every time we mention those sites, we get comments or emails from people insisting that such sites are terrible and much riskier than they make out. Right after the economy crashed back in 2008 the various P2P lenders all ...

Piracy is one of the biggest issues of our time. Many of us have used or heard of services such as KaZaa in the past. A few years ago P2P services were being used heavily to pirate music, movies, and even books. That is still going on today. But RIAA, MPAA, and other organizations are