We've already looked at mobile payments in the MobiDev blog on Trends in Mobile: 2nd Half 2013, but with 2014 now well underway - and this being the time of the year for predictions - we thought it worth revisiting the subject of mobile payment technologies. The reason: simply that 2013 saw a number of providers begin a marketing onslaught to push the concept out to retailers and...

How long could you last without your smartphone: a day or two? Maybe a week? Would it be a truly great discomfort if you left your precious mobile assistant at home? Is there a fear that you'd lose something important? There has been a lot of talk about the fact that computers and Internet are highly addictive. Now this kind of addiction is mobile, it's unchained and with us, anywhere we...

In every nation on the planet you would find over 90% of businesses failing or becoming stagnant in the first three years. The absolute #1 reason for this is always a lack of marketing. Most technical businesses seem to be rather stubborn about making this necessary, but unfortunately the reality is that innovation does not sell itself, you need firm marketing to just start.
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There is a roughly equal number of apps on the App Store and on Google Play. This number has been growing in leaps and bounds, and now it's somewhere around a million apps for each store. Windows Phone Store has one-fifth of a million, yet it's a great number as well. For a newcomer app it's easy to get lost and never found. Owners of smartphones and tablets go to application stores,...

Freelance marketplaces open huge opportunities for doing online business and for outsourcing: there are jobs, projects, and services all around. The brightest examples might be Elance, oDesk, Freelancer, and Guru, which unite hundreds of thousands of business and professional freelance companies and individuals. And if you want to choose such a marketplace for posting the job offer...