Sure, there have already been some multi-billion-dollar businesses like Zillow and Redfin that brought online, mobile and data analysis capabilities to the industry.
According to a recent survey of urban sensing research [6], local event analysis is a key area of mobile phone data analysis.
It has often been claimed that mobile phone data analysis is a significant advance for social sciences, since it allowed scientists to use massive datasets containing the activity of entire populations.
The paper aims to transform the existing Mobile SMS data analysis platform and improve the functions in different aspects such as the internal business data service, the survey service, the mail service, the warning reports of operation information, the business database analysis operation interface and some others.
The advancements in computing, mobile technology and data analysis have allowed startups like Neurotrack to help push research on diseases like Alzheimer's forward, and even predict its onset years before it happens.
The same trends that are powering the explosion of consumer technology — mobile engagement, improved data analysis and new customer acquisition models — are also breaking down some of the historical barriers to entry in financial services and enabling completely new approaches to engaging and serving customers.
"Alibaba Group will provide Meizu with resources and support in the fields of e-commerce, mobile Internet, mobile operating system and data analysis with the aim of developing Meizu's smartphone ecosystem," the company said in an announcement, which also revealed Meizu's phone will be sold via Alibaba's range of online retail sites.
In an excellent piece of analysis on mobile data pricing in Mobile Europe last month, Chris Goswami points out that mobile network operators are unlikely to offer widespread access to "all-you-can-eat" (AYCE) data plans.
