Mobile Commerce

The wireless industry is hoping to mirror the wireline industry in one aspect: the money-making potential of Internet advertising. But big questions remain. How will consumers react to advertising on …

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 …

Endwave Endwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 …

SOMERS, N.Y.-IBM Corp. announced a number of software developers have chosen its WebSphere Everyplace Suite as the platform on which they will extend their applications to various wireless devices. “Combining …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Veritas Software Corp. and Corsair Communications Inc., a provider of real-time billing and mobile commerce systems, plan to deliver integrated and optimized application solutions to wireless carriers. The …

For the mobile commerce market to succeed in winning over consumers from the wired Internet and bricks-and-mortar space, it will have to be flexible in meeting consumer expectations, according to …

MCLEAN, Va.-Ventera Corp., an e-business solutions provider, announced it has formed a wireless Internet and mobile commerce practice group. The company already uses WAP technology to allow network system administrators …

WASHINGTON-In a move with major implications for the future of mobile commerce and the $183 billion merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., the Federal Communications Commission last …

NEW YORK-InPhonic, still in its corporate infancy, has skipped over baby steps and is making major strides as an outsourced, behind-the-scenes distributor of private-labeled wireless and mobile-commerce services. In mid-September, …

NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting released its Mobile Micropayments prototype, illustrating how consumers can purchase items using an Internet billing solution from a wireless phone without incurring charges on their phone bills …

Voice portal company iNetNow Inc. reported a co-branding agreement with Arelco Inc., an independent licensee of National Car Rental, allowing customers at select Arelco-owned National Car Rental stores to receive …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. unveiled several implementations of its wireless Internet services platform by such companies as Nortel Networks, SBC Wireless, Virgin Mobile and Indian firm Tata. Nortel and InfoSpace have …

Until you have actually bought a good or service using a mobile device, it is difficult to comprehend the sheer power of the phone as an electronic wallet. In Europe, …

NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting and wireless application service provider Everypath Inc. announced they plan to work together to provide businesses with wireless access to Internet content. In addition, AC Ventures, a …

A new company soon expects to offer business-to-business mobile commerce services in Japan using software NTT DoCoMo uses in its wildly popular i-mode Internet applications for consumers. Redwood City, Calif.-based …

NEW YORK-In November and December, Sonera zed U.S. Inc. “will dip its big toe into the waters of mobile commerce to see if they’re warm,” and it plans user trials …

NEW YORK-At the suggestion of a franchise owner-operator, McDonald’s Corp., Oak Brook, Ill., has decided to add wireless electronic payment to its menu at several restaurant drive-up windows in Southern …

AUSTIN, Texas-Mobile e-commerce applications are expected to be the next driver of wireless Internet services, after e-mail, according to research by IntelliQuest, a marketing research firm. Early adopters will be …

NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on …

Price Communications Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Price Communications Corp., signed its 500,000th subscriber and reported it added 42,162 net new cellular subscriber during the first six months of …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and MasterCard International said they will commit resources in a joint effort to speed mobile commerce deployments. The companies will collaborate on research and development projects to …

LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer. “Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which …

GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology …

NEW YORK-A new report from Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown says the wireless Web opportunity will extend the e-services market at least another 25 percent and possibly more than 50 percent during …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plan to develop and market the delivery of promotions and discounts to AT&T Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service customers. InfoSpace said it …