SEATTLE-Irish m-commerce provider Valista will team with IBM to offer content management and transaction services to wireless carriers.Valista said the partnership will integrate its software with IBM's Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE), a platform designed to allow businesses to trim development times for new...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will stop accepting new prepaid customers at the end of March, citing the use of prepaid phones for fraudulent purposes. The Japanese carrier said previous steps to stop fraudulent use have been unsuccessful. "As fraudulent use has persisted, DoCoMo...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, Inc. said it will stop accepting new prepaid customer at the end of March, citing the use of prepaid phones for fraudulent purposes. The Japanese carrier said previous steps to stop fraudulent use have been unsuccessful."As fraudulent use has persisted, DoCoMo has...
CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced the winners of its 2005 GSM Association Awards during its gala at the 3GSM World Congress.Brazil won the GSM Association Chairman's Award for country leadership. Brazil counts more than 22 million GSM subscribers, and GSM is expected to become...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. announced it will be demonstrating with Orange and Trusted a wireless security handset mechanism designed to eliminate unauthorized handset use and fraud. The demonstration also features a 128-bit secure contactless payment application and a customer loyalty application, powered by TI's radio-frequency...
2 Sprint PCS affiliates select Nortel for 1x Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won wireless infrastructure contracts from two carriers, Horizon PCS Inc. and iPCS inc.Under a four-year, estimated $14 million deal, Nortel will replace Horizon's existing CDMA network in Ohio, Indiana and...
DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has won wireless infrastructure contracts from two carriers, Horizon PCS Inc. and iPCS inc.Under a four-year, estimated $14 million deal, Nortel will replace Horizon's existing CDMA network in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee with 1x for voice and data, according...
SEATTLE-M-commerce software developer Qpass has acquired Altamedius, a Dublin, Ireland-based multichannel payment technology provider, the companies announced yesterday.Qpass said the acquisition will help it exploit the growing m-commerce market in Europe. It hopes to widen distribution of its Qpass Prosperity Series software to Altamedius'...
LONDON-The scramble to find allies continued in the mobile gaming arena with two new partnerships and an acquisition. Tiger Telematics, the U.S.-based producer of the Gizmondo mobile gaming console that launched in Europe recently, announced it will acquire British developer Warthog for $8 million...
The scramble to find allies continued in the mobile gaming arena with two new partnerships and an acquisition. Tiger Telematics, the U.S.-based producer of the Gizmondo mobile gaming console that launched in Europe last week, announced it will acquire British developer Warthog for $8...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced two new partnerships to further its presence in the enterprise market.AWS and Symbol Technologies Inc. said they will partner to offer enterprise voice and data services on Symbol computerized mobile bar-code scanners. The announcement is Symbol's second deal with...
Motorola Inc. will conduct an m-commerce field trial of mobile phones enabled with MasterCard PayPass and Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the company announced Tuesday. The handsets, which are expected to be in the field by the end of the year, will allow users...
LONDON-Digital rights management took center stage at the Symbian Expo Tuesday, with two new agreements to help content providers protect their wares.Mobile security company Discretix and e-commerce provider NDS released a DRM protection suite for mobile content.Dubbed OMA DRM V2.0, the updated product offers...
DUBLIN, Ireland-M-commerce moved a step closer to becoming reality with two separate announcements this week.Payment software company Valista announced Orange has chosen its payment technology to provide connectivity to Simpay. Simpay, which was founded by Orange, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone, focuses on enabling...
LONDON-The buildout of third-generation wireless technologies are poised to transform the way enterprises do business, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The analysis also indicates state-of-the-art communications systems must continue to evolve if businesses are truly going to capitalize on the...
HURST, Texas-Handango released an update to its mobile download provisioning technology, Handango AMPP, the company announced Friday.The new technology allows users of Handango AMPP to simplify content discovery for wireless subscribers, speed deployment of content offerings for mobile operators and streamline m-commerce capabilities. Originally...
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.-Sun Network Group Inc. has agreed to buy m-commerce provider PayCell Inc., a two-month-old subsidiary of Celtron International, in an all-stock transaction.Earlier this week, Celtron had rejected a proposed spin-off of the subsidiary in favor of Sun's acquisition. Celtron established PayCell, which...
Wireless messaging applications in the United States typically involve voting for reality TV show contestants, participating in trivia contests or requesting some sort of information, and most cost a few dollars or less. But one company is hoping to expand the functions of text...
TORONTO-Diversinet Corp. and China's Guangdong Electronic Certification Authority recently began working together to stimulate China's emerging mobile commerce and mobile digital certificates market.Under the partnership, the companies will use Diversinet's Passport ONE security infrastructure software to implement the m-cert system. Guangdong will operate the...
TORONTO-Diversinet Corp. and China's Guangdong Electronic Certification Authority recently began working together to stimulate China's emerging mobile commerce and mobile digital certificates market.Under the partnership, the companies will use Diversinet's Passport ONE security infrastructure software to implement the m-cert system. Guangdong will operate the...
KFAR SABA, Israel-M-Systems' Fortress Security Division and Emblaze Semiconductor have teamed to develop embedded security solutions for next-generation multimedia processors for the mobile industry.Emblaze will integrate M-Systems SuperMAP low-power cryptographic coprocessors, software protocols and application program interfaces into its semiconductor products and make them...
Two of the world's most notable mobile commerce startups, Network365 Ltd. and iPIN, announced today they will blend into a new player, Valista, a move company officials said will create a dominate payment provider covering more than 150 million subscribers.The ambitious combination could pave...
Jeffrey Glass could be considered a player in the mobile-commerce industry, although you won't find the "m-commerce" designation in any of the literature about his company. However, as president and chief executive officer of M-Qube Inc., Glass for almost three years has been encouraging...
PARIS-French supplier Alcatel Corp. and South Korean mobile-phone operator SK Telecom said they will jointly develop and market mobile applications worldwide. The companies said they will focus on mobile commerce, location-based services, infotainment and gaming services.Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will...
