HELSINKI, Finland-Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group joined the MeT initiative, formed earlier this year by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. to jointly develop an open and common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions.
Nokia said the inclusion of Siemens was an important step towards the initiatives goal of facilitating fast adoption of trusted mobile commerce services.
Nokia also announced that the first MeT Workshop is scheduled to take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 16. Participants in the workshop are expected to come from a variety of business segments including banks, service providers, online brokers, payment organizations, travel, transport, entertainment, IT companies, developers and mobile phone manufacturers.
