The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Kevin Martin) announced yesterday a delay in the voting on his proposal to auction an unused piece of 25 megahertz wireless spectrum. The winnin...
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by leo on March 12, 2008
There are indications that mobile users are starting to warm up on mobile commerce and mobile banking which may eventually make these services. According to research firm Harris Interactive, 16 perce...
As expected, mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks will increase this year. However, the attacks vary from region to region. A new study conducted by messaging security company Cloudmark shows mobi...
Image analytics and pattern recognition software firm Mitek Systems is all geared up to take mobile banking to the next level with its ImageNet Mobile Deposit - the first mobile banking software that...
Mobile technology has become so powerful that it has a dramatic impact even on the future of global retailing. In the latest National Retail Federation's (NRF) annual convention in New York, reta...
From the why are they patenting this department, Jeff Goldman at Wireless Weblog reports that Apple filed a patent application related to ordering from a cafe from your mobile phone, potentially befor...
Following the success of its contactless communication system, Barclaycard OnePulse has teamed up with Nokia to test the practicality of mobile payment in London.
Early next year, barclaycard custom...
As what may be a preview of the bright future of mobile commerce in general, the latest study of Juniper Research shows that about 52 million people will adopt mobile payment methods like NFC (Near Fi...
Riding the recent developments on mobile payment system, Western Union is taking its business mobile with its new partnership with GSM World to develop a global mobile money transfer service. The sche...
Security risks and low awareness level remain the biggest hurdles for mobile banking to gain mainstream acceptance.
A new survey says that American consumers are quite obsessed with their finances c...
Verizon Wireless has redesigned its Mobile Web 2.0 service to enable easier access to mobile Bank of America, the leader in online banking. It simply means:Customers are able to check account balances...
Time might be the best ally of mobile commerce. In a new survey among 633 Americans and Canadians, 77% of consumers prefer to do business with companies offering self-service and almost all (92%) beli...
With the recent announcement of Verizon Wireless about its partnership with Obopay, analysts are seeing a bright future for mobile payments and for mobile commerce as a whole. Even research firm Strat...
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by tom on June 19, 2007
The use of premium SMS to buy products and services in the US is rising, with reports from Media Post claiming US$273 million in premium SMS sales in the past year.Most of this revenue (79 percent or ...
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by leo on May 23, 2007
After allegedly dominating the online banking segment, Bank of America ventures to mobile banking to serve their existing 20 million online customers. Designed for those who are always "on the go...
The business world will never ever underestimate the power of blogs again. The recent "mistake" of Engadget about delayed launch of iPhone knocked $4 billion off Apple's market capitaliz...
Despite the recent findings of JupiterResearch that mobile banking is not really based on consumer demand, Commerce Bank still launched Virtual Private Bank - the first web-based private banking platf...
Although mobile banking is once again a hot topic in US, a new study reveals another possible marketing blunder. According to JupiterResearch, the resurgence of mobile banking is mainly driven by fina...
As an emerging technology deeply associated with "contactless mobile payments", Near Field Communication (NFC) remains far from consumers' reach, according to a new study from ABI Resear...
Combining the advances in mobile technology with the interactive nature of Web 2.0, you will get: Online Payment thru Mobile Devices. The concept of mobile devices as payment mode is gaining grounds a...
After a lull of, well, some years, mobile banking is again a hot topic in America. Last week, several banks announced they would offer mobile banking applications to Cingular customers, including Wach...
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by tom on March 9, 2007
Britain's House of Lord has indicated support for the German EU President's call for a cap on the cost of roaming interconnect charges, with the suggested price being €0.30 (about 25pence) a m...
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by tom on July 19, 2006
mBlox are claiming they are the first company to be ready for the upcoming mobile Internet billing scheme PayForIt, saying they are successfully accredit with both Vodafone and Orange. The PayForIt se...
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by tom on July 11, 2006
Vodafone has thrown a spanner into the works of Ericcson's IPX WAP billing solution in the UK, citing both a Data Privacy issue and a lack of a need for an interim solution before Vodafone's o...
Debi Jones over at mobilejones has a good post today about mobile billing for content and services, specifically Cingular's policy that all partners must use direct billing and not offer payment t...
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by tom on June 19, 2006
This story comes to us via Engadget and MocoNews, with apparent word that EA have decided to sell their mobile games (which now includes Jamdat's back Catalogue) direct to consumers via their webs...
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by tom on May 16, 2006
UK 3G operator 3 has announced its paid-for music download service has passed the 1 million per month mark.Graeme Oxby 3's Marketing Director said: "This million a month milestone is signific...
SanDisk, makers of flash memory products, is cooperating with Philips to put mobile payment capabilities directly into flash memory cards that can be used with mobile devices to create a mobile paymen...
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by tom on March 28, 2006
The BBC has a story about the EU Commission looking at the cost of roaming charges for European mobile users, with word of a proposal to scrap the charge to receive an incoming call while travelling i...
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by tom on March 23, 2006
PayPal has launched a mobile version of it's service, allowing customers to send and make payments using the PayPal service from any supported mobile device.You can use your mobile phone to secure...
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