The M-PESA mobile money transfer and payments service took the world by surprise in 2007 when it debuted a successful business based on serving a previously underserved population: the rural poor.
In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall.
A new, potentially disruptive phenomenon called network unaffiliated virtual operators, or NUVOs, has emerged in the North American e-commerce marketplace.
Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP's future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for its solutions by 2015. Following this move, SAP announced on April 10 that it...
Over its 40 years, German enterprise software giant SAP (SAP) has signed up 35 million end users to its traditional enterprise solutions. In the last 15 months, SAP said it has attracted 60 million users to its mobile platform.
A quick analysis on these numbers...
The first wave of early-stage mobilization has hit the enterprise, and the growth rates continue to escalate. Industry analyst group IDC predicts the worldwide mobile worker population to hit 1.19 billion in 2013, accounting for 34.9% of the workforce.
Telefónica Digital tapped Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase and a SAP company, to be its global, strategic partner on providing mobile wallet services, which will be the gateway for its customers to a wide range of mobile financial services. Telefónica expects to...
Samsung Telecommunications America has lined up Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), AT&T Inc. (T) and T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) for the Galaxy S II smartphone. Each carrier will offer the device on their respective 4G networks.The Galaxy S II is already available in Europe and...
DUBLIN, Calif. — August 24, 2011 — Mobile operators around the globe consider IP Exchange (IPX) an essential ingredient for next generation wireless services, according to a new study ("IPX: New Interconnect Strategies for Operators") of global operators commissioned by Sybase 365, a subsidiary...
Migrant workers throughout Asia, who own cell phones but not necessarily bank accounts, are the main driver for mobile money in Asia according to Sybase’s director of business development Tarik Husain.
Villagers who travel from villages and farming areas into the big cities to work...
Migrant workers throughout Asia, who own cell phones but not necessarily bank accounts, are the main driver for mobile money in Asia according to Sybase’s director of business development Tarik Husain.Villagers who travel from villages and farming areas into the big cities to work...
Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend's vRapid Mobile
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
BARCELONA, Spain — The availability of enterprise-class features, tools and security is a pervasive concern for virtually ever IT decision maker. While the major smart phone operating systems are adding some of these to their arsenal, there are many others that are being left...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Chipmaker Sequans said it has partnered with Gemtek to accelerate the availability of TD-LTE consumer devices. The partnership calls for Gemtek to incorporate Sequans’ LTE UE chip into several devices it is currently developing, including a compact USB dongle and a desktop CPE....
Chipmaker Sequans said it has partnered with Gemtek to accelerate the availability of TD-LTE consumer devices. The partnership calls for Gemtek to incorporate Sequans’ LTE UE chip into several devices it is currently developing, including a compact USB dongle and a desktop CPE....
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. John Chen loves his iPhone. Like many of his colleagues at Sybase Inc....
Sybase 365 said it had processed more than 1 trillion interoperator messages since it launched the first SMS interoperability messaging hub in 2001. The milestone is equivalent to processing about 32,000 messages per second for every second of one year, said the company. Sybase...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
