2012 looks to be another year of technical advance with mobile devices becoming a major part of our everyday lives.
According to the Office for National Statistics, around 45% of UK internet users are going online via mobile data connections and this will only increase as more people get smartphones and mobile tablets.
The Mobile will most likely become a more common tool for online transactions. A year ago Starbucks created an app that allowed customers to pay for their daily coffee fix via mobile and have since made around 26 million transactions. PayPal mobile announced a 516% increase in global mobile payment volume compared to last year.
Google Wallet has already kicked off in the US and the company aims to bring it to europe in 2012 enabling users to pay by swiping phones at shop tills and public transport ticket barriers.
Swiping phones at public transport ticket barriers instead of travel cards, or at shop tills instead of debit cards, redeeming electronic coupons in-store, scanning barcodes to compare prices … mobile phone networks have been talking about turning these ideas into reality for years.
But Google is making it happen. Last summer Google Wallet opened to the general public in the US, and the company hopes to bring it to Europe in 2012, beginning with the UK.
If you have an Apple mobile device such as an iphone or ipad you may have come across some websites that won’t display their flash based videos or even the actual websites that just don’t display properly so it’s always worth checking your own website.
