Wireless data and electronic-commerce applications should become increasingly popular in the future, with users trading stocks, comparison shopping and making travel arrangements all via wireless devices.However, for such transactions to be completed, sensitive data such as personal identification information and credit-card numbers must pass...
NEW YORK-Citigroup and Sonera Ltd. announced last week they are taking an undisclosed ownership stake in 724 Solutions, a Canadian software company that is hardly a household name but could hold the key to global mobile banking.Juha Snellman, director of sales and marketing for...
NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: "I really want to know, who are you?"Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to provide an answer in the form...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Research In Motion Ltd. has licensed Diversinet Corp.'s security technology for the RIM Inter@ctive Pager, Diversinet announced.Under terms of the agreement, Diversinet will supply digital certificate authentication technology, combined with data security technology from Certicom Corp.
BOSTON-Fidelity Investments announced its InstantBroker wireless stock alert and e-trading service will use BellSouth Wireless Data L.P.'s network for data transmission.As part of the agreement, Fidelity has exclusive use of BellSouth's RAMpowertool, which features encryption technology from Certicom Corp. for secure trading using the...
Paging Network Inc. will be the primary network provider for a remote automotive vehicle security system developed by Adaptive Vehicle Systems, according to an agreement signed between the two companies. Using PageNet's network, motorists can "page" their automobiles with messages to lock and unlock...
