Billing on Mobile

Thank you for stopping by to read our blog today. Since 2008, Billing on mobile has endeavoured to bring you the latest news on important developments in mobile content billing, focussing on the billing of digital content on the mobile web. As from Monday 19th July 2010 this blog will no longer be updated but [...]

Karen Webster from PYMNTS.COM recently interviewed Anil Malhotra, SVP of Marketing and Co-founder of Bango. Listen to their discussion on this podcast around mobile payments, how mobile app developers can make money from their mobile apps and the findings from the recently published Bango white paper. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about: The best [...]

The idea of creating a channel to market across a large and unified customer base is clearly attractive. The operator-backed Wholesale Application Community is an attempt to achieve this, according to the media read-out, to “rebalance” the domination of Google and Apple in app delivery. WAC appears to have started off on the right lines, [...]

This was the thinking behind Touchnote’s innovative mobile application, which allows people to create and mail cards using their mobiles, from anywhere in the world. The application launched in 2009 after Raam Tahkar, CEO of Touchnote, realized there was a gap in the market and uses in-app billing to charge their customers. In a recent [...]

…at least five evidently – and you’re right it’s not funny, especially if you are a mobile app developer trying to build and maintain apps for the growing smartphone market. Google recently revealed high levels of fragmentation in their Android platform and has now announced their own Nexus One handset that uses yet another version [...]

Selling your mobile app could not be simpler, you just send it over to your favourite App Store and it gets published to millions of eager consumers – it’s all part of the App Stores 30% revenue share. They take care of all the complex stuff such as secure app delivery and rights management etc. [...]

The popularity of Smartphones and high end  mobile devices, such as Blackberries,  the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series, means that Wi-Fi is appearing more frequently as a user connection method accross a range of handsets. In fact  Bango has recently released some stats showing that over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using [...]

Probably not but some doubts are now circulating as to whether it makes sense to focus all your efforts on selling mobile content through app stores. John Strand of Strand Consult, who’s been advising mobile operators on strategy for many years, is once again making us all sit up and question: Is Apple’s App Store [...]

App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this month. Along came Apple and launched a highly successful iPhone App Store and now nearly all the major handset vendors – Nokia, RIM, Google to name a few – have or are jumping [...]

In this economy, all of us are looking at how we can save money. But we should also be looking at how we can increase revenue. “Don’t leave money on the table that should be yours,” warned Anil Malhotra, SVP of Marketing at Bango. “Just as a bank may not always pass on interest rate [...]