LAS VEGAS-PayPal Inc. officially went mobile, launching a service that allows users to make purchases and send or receive funds via wireless phones. Wireless subscribers can use the offering-which the company quietly began testing several weeks ago-to send money to other registered PayPal members...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. expanded its mobile TV offerings, launching a streaming video service featuring short clips from 18 channels. Cingular Video is available free to subscribers purchasing the carrier’s unlimited 3G data plan, which costs $20 a month. Content providers for the service include...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. said it broadened a two-year licensing agreement with Seattle-based Qpass. The two companies agreed to add Qpass' Content Delivery Platform and Content Management Services to SunCom's Downloadables service, which allows users to download content to personalize their phones. Qpass...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. said it broadened a two-year licensing agreement with Seattle-based Qpass. The two companies agreed to add Qpass' Content Delivery Platform and Content Management Services to SunCom's Downloadables service, which allows users to download content to personalize their phones.Qpass is...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc., Intel Corp., and IBM Corp. said they have come together to develop a new security specification for such advanced online mobile commerce services as electronic tickets and e-wallets.Known as "Trusted Mobile Platform," it will fend off viruses and other software attacks...
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...
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...
The mobile commerce industry saw several new announcements and partnerships in conjunction with the Mobile Commerce World Europe 2003 event in London, but the most notable event included a teaming of perhaps the biggest names in the wireless and commerce industries.Nokia Corp. and Visa...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. said it has signed a contract with Coastel Communications of Lafayette, La., to provide its Voyager Billing and Customer Care offering, which BCGI said includes a solution for customer management, including retail operations and inventory management, network provisioning, inter-carrier...
NEW YORK-A series of diverse mobile commerce announcements show the industry is still interested in the technology, with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc., start-up Network365 and a New York candy bar store testing the waters.In conjunction with its new stores in New York, Florida...
TOKYO-Japanese wireless data giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will launch a mobile-commerce service the carrier said will allow its subscribers to purchase accessories, perfumes and health care goods using their mobile phones.Mobile-phone users will be able to visit DoCoMo's new online store at...
WAKEFIELD, Mass.-The Mobile Payment Forum, a standards group devoted to mobile commerce that includes many of the world's biggest credit card companies, announced it will expand into new areas including third party authentication, digital transaction records and consumer usability.The forum said it will work...
WASHINGTON-For the third time lawmakers are attempting to pass a permanent Internet tax moratorium.Legislation introduced last week in both the House and the Senate would make permanent a moratorium that has been in place since 1998 but expires in November. The moratorium would preclude...
TOKYO-Index, a leading Japanese mobile content service provider, won a total of 2 million yen (US$16,600) in funds from Dentsu and NEC, the firm announced. Index issued 1,140 new shares and allocated 850 of them to Dentsu and the remaining 290 issues to NEC.Index...
FRANKFURT, Germany-Following the exit of the company's majority shareholder, European mobile commerce company Paybox said it will shut down its consumer-oriented services-which totals 750,000 users-and will focus solely on the business-to-business market."We deeply regret this step. We are not only losing customers and merchants,...
SURABAYA, Indonesia-Lippo Telecom (LippoTel), Indonesia's first regional GSM 1800 MHz mobile operator, announced this week it was awarded a license for nationwide operation by acquiring the licenses of five regional operators that could not meet the operational deadline at the end of last year.LippoTel...
NEW YORK-PayCircle, a group formed to push mobile commerce applications through standard application programming interfaces-released the PayCircle Payment Web Service Specification 1.0, which covers WSDL sources, XML schema definitions and supporting documents."CSG Systems has been actively supporting and promoting the PayCircle approach from the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Students and faculty at the University of Southern California campus will get to jump into the market for mobile commerce under a new service from infrared-based proximity payment company Harex InfoTech Inc. and CrossCheck Inc., a financial services firm.Under a new project,...
MUNICH, Germany-Five companies have agreed to work together to develop mobile commerce security standards for Flash memory cards. Hitachi Ltd., Ingentix GmbH &Co., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., ScanDisk Corp. and Toshiba Corp. believe the new set of security features called Mobile Commerce Extension...
WOBURN, Mass.-Positive earnings, a new contract and a new business line were among Boston Communications Group Inc.'s announcements this week.The company said its net income for the second quarter totaled $1.4 million, or 8 cents per share-well above the projected 3 to 4 cents...
DALLAS—Alliance Data Systems Corp., Alon USA and Cellenium Inc. announced a new joint mobile commerce product, a move that further crowds the already complex mobile commerce market.The three companies released Cellerate, a new m-commerce product the companies said will create an electronic wallet for...
WASHINGTON—A new Federal Trade Commission staff report concludes more government guidance may be necessary to supplement self-regulation of wireless privacy, security and advertising in the infant mobile commerce sector. "Additional guidance could help to ensure that the methods used by companies to provide notice...
