Mobile Fridays: This Week in Mobility (Aug. 17, 2012)

Every Friday, the mobility team here at Cloud Sherpas scours the Web for the hottest, most relevant mobile technology news of the week and compiles it in conveniently-byte-sized chunks right here — for fast, easy, on-the-go consumption.

Do you have a story we didn’t cover? Post it in the comments, and join the conversation.

Enjoy!

This Week’s Top Links in Mobility ( In no particular order)

Major Retails Look to Take a Cut of the Mobile Payment Movement
After a rocky start with modern mobility, major retailers like Best Buy look to offer their own mobile payment system.

AT&T to Spend Millions on Safe Driving Campaign
Texting while driving increases the chance of an accident by a factor of 23.

Adobe Removes Flash from Google Play
Your battery will rejoice.

RIM to License Blackberry 10 to Handset Manufacturers
Because that is exactly what this market needs … another OS.

Google Begins to Remake Motorola
After a 12.5 billion dollar purchase, Google finally decides to start doing something with its shiny new toy.

A Fantastic Keyboard for the Visually Impaired
I’m pretty sure this is magic.

Verizon Now Covers 75% of the US with 4GLTE
That was fast …

Square Introduces New Payment Plan for Small Businesses
Square continues to go against the grain with a flat per month fee for all credit card transactions.

Ryan Northington (13 Posts)

Cloud Sherpas Senior Mobility Consultant for North America, Ryan is a Wireless Engineer and has worked in the instrumentation business for the last 5 years. He is recognized as an expert in wireless technology, software development and radio frequency instrumentation. In his capacity at Cloud Sherpas, Ryan specializes in assisting enterprise clients in the planning, design and development of native and cross-platform mobile applications and experiences.