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Couponing is hardly the newest kid on the mobile block--in the U.K. and several other European markets, Orange Wednesdays have been enabling my wife and millions of other cinemagoers to receive two tickets for the price of one for around nine years--but it is fair to say that the mobile market has progressed since that time.

It may not have escaped your notice that, in recent weeks, NFC--near field communications--has received a lot of press: all points of sale at the London Olympics are equipped to handle contactless payments, all UK Post Offices NFC are enabled; Microsoft has unveiled a mobile wallet with SIM-based NFC. In short, NFC is busy, busy, busy.

Windsor Holden There is a marvellous sequence in Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when Doc Daneeka, the squadron physician, is supposedly killed in a plane crash. News of his death comes...

There has been an end of year tradition in the mobile industry, since what feels like time immemorial, in which various august industry figures rub their chins thoughtfully and then proclaim