Creating a presence on the mobile web does not take much on the part of a retailer, m-commerce expert Bryan Biniak will tell attendees at IRCE 2008 in Chicago next week.
IMS Research predicts users of contactless mobile payments, mobile banking and over the air transactions will reach nearly 900 million by 2012.Those subscribers will complete 62 billion transactions in 2012, said the research firm's latest report.IMS Research noted that mobile penetration in several developing...
Mobile messaging services provider Sybase 365 said it won a deal with Australian stockbroker Bell Direct.Sybase will power Bell Direct's mobile share trading platform, which allows stockbrokers to trade shares by sending a text message. Sybase 365 acts as the gateway between Bell Direct's...
H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard cardholders will soon have mobile access to their accounts through a partnership among H&R Block, Metavante Mobile Financial Services and Monitise Americas L.L.C.Customers will be able to check their balances from their mobile phone and receive account reload mobile...
Retailers and restaurants can run coupons in local newspapers to try and pull more consumers in. With mobile technology, they can do the same not just when consumers are at home or the office but when they are standing near the store. What's more,...
The UK's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has welcomed the release of the Advanced Trusted Environment recommendations document from the mobile industry's device requirements body, OMTP.
The mobile digital commerce services market reached $1.1 billion last year and is expected to grow to $1.9 billion in 2012, according to a report from MultiMedia Intelligence.The market includes digital commerce service providers that process the financial transactions for premium content for music,...
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group; the GSM Association; the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor; and the UK's Department for International Development are organizing the first mobile money summit in Cairo.
Now that online banking has been around for more than a decade, and widely accepted by customers, banks are turning their attention to taking the show on the road.
Monitise plc, Metavante Technologies Ltd. and Carphone Warehouse said they are working together to launch a "mobile money" application.The plan calls for the introduction of Carphone Warehouse prepaid cards that can be managed from cellphones and used for shopping in millions of locations, said...
Nearly one-third of the major financial organizations worldwide are planning to launch mobile banking services within the next two years, according to a new survey commissioned by Sybase 365, a subsidiary of mobile messaging services company Sybase Inc.About two-thirds of banks consider mobile banking...
Research In Motion Ltd. said today that its first 3G handset, dubbed the "Bold," is coming "soon" - likely in the heat of what looks to be a long hot summer in the device space. The timing of today's announcement fairly screams with competitive...
Big news: RCR Wireless News has redesigned its daily e-mail newsletter beginning today. The new and improved e-mail will still continue to bring you the hard-hitting news you expect from us, but we've added more features.You probably have noticed how many more pieces of...
A Federal Trade Commission commissioner warned cellphone content providers they need to do a better job of disclosing the costs consumers incur when clicking or downloading services for their mobile devices.Speaking yesterday at the start of a two-day Federal Trade Commission forum on mobile...
Regional wireless provider Cellular South said it is teaming with fellow Mississippian BancorpSouth Inc. to expand its m-banking offerings.The Web-based application allows BancorpSouth customers to view account balances and history, transfer funds and pay bills from a Cellular South phone. The service is powered...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.Carrier--RBC Capital Markets initiated coverage on Leap Wireless with a sector perform rating and a $55 price target.--Lehman Brothers lowered its 2008 EPS estimate on...
She has been on your TV set for about a year now. If you grew up in the 1970s, the girl in the commercial might remind you a bit of "That Girl." You know -- the one with the girl with the new job...
A recent compendium of bank technology case studies from financial research and advisory firm Celent, asked the question, "What would it look like for a bank to do everything right with today's technology?"According to Celent, Wells Fargo was the first major U.S. financial services...
CTIA Wireless 2008 is all about phones, but Qualcomm Inc. was busy Tuesday talking about laptops, portable multimedia players and just about anything else that can be connected to the Internet.The San Diego-based chipmaker said Dell Inc. will produce laptops with Gobi, Qualcomm's dual-mode...
Editor's Note: Welcome to On the Margins, a feature for RCR Wireless News' weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. Every week, the RCR Wireless News staff considers events in the wider business world and how they could affect the wireless industry.--Google's YouTube.com announced...
SK Telecom and Citi hope to push the mobile-banking envelope with a new, San Francisco-based joint venture. The companies unveiled Mobile Money Ventures, a joint venture that aims to develop a platform that "encompasses all key mobile banking value propositions" as it bridges the...
Mobile security has been a topic of discussion for many years. Skeptics have always said "mobile security is a solution looking for a problem." True, few mobile security disasters have occurred on the scale of a Code-Red or Blaster, however, mobile data usage has...
Qualcomm Inc. apparently recognizes that mobile consumers remain a chatty lot. And with voice still the dominant mobile use, the San Diego chip company has purchased privately held SoftMax Inc. for its noise-reduction technology. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.According to Qualcomm, SoftMax's...
