Mobile Commerce
Is just the question I’m asking!
You see, the other day I was sitting in the School Library working hard on a piece of History work, when a class came in and began working on the available computers. The class was a mixture of boys and girls who were thirteen/fourteen years young.
A group of these boys, [...]
Wow! Doesn’t time just fly by? I’ve been away for a month – organising myself with school and the various activities I’m involved in, and it feels like forever! Never fear though, because now I’m back. Well, for once a week that is!
Now school’s are a hostile environment (well, at least mine is), and navigating [...]
That is just one idea that has been floating around Mobile Industry Review for sometime; and it seems like after a trial period, people like it!
The Near Field Communications (NFC) which O2 had been trialling with Nokia has had some optimistic results. Apparently nine out of ten (90%) of the five hundred trialists said they [...]
I’m being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review I’ve read hundreds of news articles on the latest goings on with the mobile industry. Yes a lot of the so called news is terribly “boring”, but every now and then, I have to sit back laugh, and ask “why”?
Ricky kindly sent me [...]
That’s one of the opened-ended questions posed by Kerrianne Gauld, Biz Dev at Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance on MoMoLondon this afternoon. Have a read:
Hi
I’m doing some research on the mobile advertising sector and wondered if anyone had any views on the sustainability of the sector. If the projected ad spend by 2013 [...]
The mobile industry has been WOEFULLY inept at dealing with mobile commerce. Appalling. There’s a heck of a lot of hesitation going on.
Only a few years ago, some mobile operators were doing their best to avoid getting anywhere near mobile commerce. Now, as revenue plateaus and the data market is moving swiftly to flat rate [...]
After having the pure pleasure of playing around with some interesting, new, and innovative mobiles and applicatons over the past couple of weeks; I’ve come to a conclusion that I want a new mobile.
I’ve been sitting here looking at mine, a Sony W810i, and it just looks so boring, and big, compared to everything else. [...]
No, this isn’t a rant about Blyk. So don’t worry. This is a look at how I think mobile marketing is being put to use, and whether or not it has had any effect on my spending, interesting, or anything of the sort really.
Way back in 2002 I got my first mobile phone, at the [...]
Bank of America might be celebrating reaching one million mobile banking customers, but there are millions more set to do their financing over their phone, according to analysts Juniper Research, and a significant proportion of those will be coming from users who have never had a bank account or credit card before.
Some 41.5 billion mobile [...]
Mobile payments company Obopay has nabbed a four round of funding worth $20 million from the likes of Essar Communications Holdings Limited, leading the round and existing investors including Citi, Societe Generale, Qualcomm, and Promethean and new investors like Olayan America Corporation also joined in.
The company is mainly a North American-based venture - it lists [...]
Mobile banking is set to skyrocket, according to mobile analysts Juniper Research, with 816 million of us using mobile banking services by 2011, a tenfold increase on the 2007 figure. The analysts reckon that the annual number of global mobile banking transactions will rise from 2.7 billion in 2007 to 37 billion by 2011, while [...]
Continue ReadingIndia is, according to Obopay, adding 8 million mobile customers a month — to a market that’s already got around 250 million mobile users (compared to roughly 257 million in America). So it makes sense for Obopay to head to that area. It’s not a tip-toe strategy either. They’ve got together with YES BANK (the [...]
Continue ReadingSK Telecom is teaming up with financial services giant Citi to create a so-called “next generation’ mobile banking joint venture. The joint venture will go under the name of Mobile Money Ventures and create new services around NFC payments, budget planning and tracking, expense management and location based advertisements and discounts.
The new services will be [...]
Scottish tradition has it that on February 29 a woman has the right to propose marriage to any man she likes - and if the would-be husband refuses, he’s liable to a £100 fine.
(So reports Clarissa at the Sydney Morning Herald.)
Heard from Mark Curtis, top chap at Flirtomatic, the mobile/online dating and flirting community (and [...]
Continue ReadingAs a postscript to yesterday’s post bemoaning the state of Westminster Council’s ‘pay by mobile’ parking system, I got a surprising text from Virgin Vie today about an order for some home furnishings.
“Your VIRGIN VIE AT HOME parcel will be delivered today. If you need your delivery on an alternative date reply to this text [...]
With apologies to those seeking analysis or a product review (what are you reading my rubbish for anyway?), this week’s piece is a self-indulgent rant about a mobile payment service gone wrong… a ‘how not-to’ guide if you like. My interest in the matter? An £80 ( $160) ‘penalty charge’ notice sitting on [...]
Continue ReadingResearch outfit Gartner has found that while consumers are still more likely to browse than to buy using their mobile phones (no surprise there), they are comfortable with checking the price of an item or finding a store on their handset. According to a survey by the company, US shoppers are twice as likely to [...]
Continue ReadingRingbacks haven’t ever had caught the imagination of the public like Ringtones did all those years ago. However they’re still popular — as this news from Virgin Mobile USA demonstrates.
Virgin reports that over 100,000 of their customers are subscribing to the $1.49/month service. You can choose individual ringback tracks for [...]
Taiwan Mobile has decided to get into NFC payments with new partner Gemalto. The operator has said it’s going to rollout the NFC system nationwide from this year, using Gemalto’s SIM based contactless system, initially starting with mobile payments and moving onto coupons and ticketing in the future.According to the pair, this is the [...]
Continue ReadingTyfone, which develops hardware and software for white label mobile banking and mobile contactless payments, has got a funding injection from Indian-tech-focused VC firm Ojas Venture Partners. Tyfone says it will use the cash injection “to scale its three areas of business - mobile banking, mobile payments including contactless payments and retail merchant relationship [...]
Continue ReadingNFC trials are nothing new, both in the United States and abroad, but it’s interesting to know that the testing is getting more and more popular. The latest includes Nokia, a usual suspect, along with Mastercard and U.S. Bank, in the Spokane, WA area. NFC, or Near-Field Communications, allows two equipped devices to exchange information [...]
Continue ReadingThis article in the Business Standard reports that over one hundred thousand million customers in India are using PayMate to make transactions for products and services (movie tickets, airline tickets etc) via text message — with over 2,500 transactions being made daily. Fascinating. PayMate has just recently welcomed Indian bank, Cosmos — and [...]
Continue ReadingLink: QuickOrder - GENOCO by Phil Lu
“Get your coffee fix, fast!” iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows the users to purchase their favorite Starbucks drink without waiting in line. This application also includes QuickPay, a swipe transaction system using semacode technology.
I picked this up via MacRumours. A smart chappy by the name of Phil Lu [...]
Continue ReadingIf there’s one thing the beginning of the year is good for, it’s predictions, and there’s no shortage of them for 2008. The latest is from Bango, offering up 5 trends that they expect to see in 2008. Given that Bango is one of the leading mobile payment services, some of these ‘trends’ aren’t a [...]
Continue ReadingLink: SourceWire | Press Releases - Mobile Phones Price Comparison Site Launched by Phones Limited
Working with over 20 online retailers, dealerships and UK network operators the site reads and compares datafeeds from the likes of The Carphone Warehouse and Vodafone before showing the best deal for any given mobile phone package to include line rental [...]
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