Sybase Blog – Diarmuid Mallon

Recently I spoke at the Informa Mobile Financial Services conference in London. I been given the rather weighty subject “Bring Me Up To Speed:
What Technical Advancements Have Happened Over the Last Twelve Months? What More is to Come?”

So in my last post I looked at how users accessed Directory Assistance (DA) services from their mobile devices.

I pulled some addition data, and here’s how that data looks over a month. Viewing a whole month at a time, we are only looking at daily totals, rather than hour-by-hour messaging rates.

In June comScore published some very informative data on mobile banking. In that report was a section on where users accessed mobile banking services, and curiously, at home was the largest response: This got me thinking, is this atypically for mobile banking, or is something we see with other services? What would be a good [...]

I’m just back from a short vacation, which I spent sightseeing in Istanbul. Now, normally on these trips I bring my laptop so I can prepare my daily itinerary, keep up on email, online check-in for return flights, etc. This time I decided to see if I could just cope with my trusty mobile phone. [...]

So what was the biggest selling handset in Europe last year? The iPhone? The Blackberry or perhaps an LG? No, although they all got plenty of press coverage. What was the OS on the biggest (globally) selling device? S40 or S60? Windows Mobile? No, none of those. Last year the biggest selling handset was the [...]

Here’s a clip of Marty Beard talking about Sybase, at last month’s Mobile World Congress, on Spain’s TVE1. For those with a quick eye, you might spot my thumb demoing mobile bill payment.

Pyramid Research latest report predicts that mobile advertising will help increase mobile service revenues by up to 10% with in five years. Here’s some context. Whilst the average ARPU in North America is a healthy $51.96, in Europe it is significantly lower at $32.87, but in rest of the world ARPU ranges $17.30 to $11.83. [...]

We saw a great deal of interest in our mobile banking, payments and remittence solutions at the show. Something that might have surprised some outside observers, as the global financial climate might have been expected to lower interest in launching new mobile services. But, from what I could see at the show, the interest was [...]

Well my posting for the final day of the show comes a few days late. Traditionally the Thursday afternoon is quietest part of the show as most attendees rush off to get an early flight back home. Whilst many did this, Thursday ended up being catch-up day for meetings that couldn’t be squeezed in during [...]

So the green theme continued with the announcement from the GSMA of a universal charger for phones. If like me you travel with a plethora of digital devices, it sometime seems that the chargers and PSUs take up more space than the devices themselves. So anything that solves this gets a big thumbs up from [...]