BNZ mobile apps fly off shelves

BNZ's newly launched suite of mobile banking applications exceeded the Bank's expectations with the service being accessed over 122,000 times and more than $27 million worth of transactions and bill payments made in just 8 weeks.

RWC mobile app launches

The Official Rugby World Cup 2011 Mobile App is now available to download for free for Blackberry, PlayBook, iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7.

The App can be downloaded from here.

Sony Ericsson announces new Oceania MD

Sony Ericsson today announced the appointment of John Featherstone as Managing Director for the Oceania region.

Motorola buy sees Google having its cake and eating it

Tony Cripps, OVUM Principal Analyst:

Impact analysis

Huawei releases first half financial results

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology solutions provider, today released its financial results for the first half of 2011. Sales revenue grew 11 percent year-over-year to CNY 98.3 billion and operating profit reached CNY 12.4 billion.

FIFA 12 available on Xperia Play

New Zealand - Sony Ericsson has announced a limited time exclusive agreement* with EA�Mobile?, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. to deliver the much anticipated EA SPORTS? FIFA 12 on Android. Optimised for the world's first PlayStation certified smartphone Xperia? PLAY, the No.

Google Motorola Mobility acquisition - OVUM comment

Tim Renowden, Analyst: Google has announced its intention to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. This move brings Google significantly closer to Ovum's hypothesis of a "managed device platform" where a vendor controls all aspects of a platform, including hardware, sof

NZ's "cheapest Android smartphone" launched

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, is joining forces with Telecom to bring the latest Android smartphone to New Zealanders at a smart price.

BNZ first NZ bank on Android

BNZ has become the first New Zealand bank to launch an internet banking application designed specifically for Android smartphone users, and one of the first in Australasia to build, from the ground up, a native internet banking application for Android.

Microsoft record results - reaction

Ovum principal analyst Richard Edwards:

"It's the 'quantity of motion' that defines momentum, and even though some parts of the Microsoft machine may be slowing, others are picking up the pace nicely.