NTT DoCoMo To Transaction-Enable AT&T
Japanese carrier, NTT DoCoMo, is developing transaction-based online shopping applications for the US market as part of a forthcoming i-mode service from AT&T, after a deal signed last fall.
Although America Online (AOL) was an early Internet player, a senior Yankee Group analyst, Emily Meehan, has warned that its mass-market appeal may not be easy to replicate in the wireless sector. In ...
Online retailers using PDG Shopping Cart software for eCommerce transactions on their Web storefronts have been advised to apply a software patch after the product was compromised last week. Specifica...
Microsoft has devised a tiny Web server, the WebCamSIM, to run on a SIM card inside a mobile phone, in a move defined by MS researcher, Kai Rannenberg, as a cheap way to conduct mobile payments. Tests...
MasterCard is seeking to extend its purchase card business by working with New York B2B payment firm, TradeCard, to develop an online B2B payment system, the MasterCard Global Trading Program. Digital...
Nokia and Dutch firms, KPN Mobile and Interpay, are working to make mobile payments non-repudiable by integrating WAP/WIM security functions transparently to generate an internal digital signature. Th...
WAP has several security holes, says Verne Meredith, of Diversinet, who believes "any secure digital wireless application needs to be the mirror image" of security in the bricks-and-mortar world". In ...
Electronic banking in China has launched "a banking revolution", stated Ma Weihua, of the Merchant Bank of China, at the fifth China International eCommerce Summit. Luo Zhefu, VP of the China Construc...
Banks wanting smart card market share will need to embrace mCommerce, says ESPCard CEO, Timothy Myers, who sees mCommerce quickly moving off smart cards and onto mobile devices. Myers, who expects pla...
EBPP gives banks a short-term opportunity in the B2B space, since businesses trading online want "round trip" capabilities to present bills to their customers, and to pay bills from their online suppl...
State-owned Banco do Brasil (BB), has reported a 315 per cent rise in online transactions at its site in the past year, rising from 22.4 million transactions in 1999, to 92.8 million in 2000. During 2...
Wireless payments form the basis of three separate projects from US firm, FasPay, Australian carrier, Telstra, and the German carriers, E-Plus, Materna, GZS, in partnership with Accenture. FasPay, hav...
Major financial institutions "are leaving usability and customer satisfaction in the back seat" in the race to gain market leadership by "developing new online and wireless products", says Jupiter's J...
With the Yankee Group predicting mobile retail transactions in the US to exceed USD 50 billion in 2005, or 1.3 per cent of total retail sales, wireless PKI is a strong theme at this week's RSA Confere...
The Latin American Internet user base will undergo a CAGR of 44 per cent to reach 44 million users by 2003, despite the global economic slowdown, according to a joint survey by BSCH and Accenture. Thi...
WAP usage in Europe will exceed 200 million users by 2004, up from 5.8 million in 2000, according to Cahners InStat, with GPRS adoption and xHTML the major factors in driving uptake. Another finding o...
Recent research from the Bank for International Settlements indicates that although European credit card ownership has increased since the mid-1990s, rates are much lower than in the US. For example, ...
Mobile wallets are "the biggest possibility for mobile commerce", says Keiji Tachikawa, head of NTT DoCoMo, who expects cell phones to be used to fund daily purchases, airplane tickets and transit far...
European card industry news tends to focus on EMV and e-purses, but competition in the acquiring market, including the rise of central acquiring, is forcing inter-bank organizations to adapt. With Eur...
Union Bank of Philippines, the fifth largest bank in terms of market capitalization, has unveiled two new e-payment initiatives, namely a Visa Electron card, and an online payment gateway, The PORT. I...
Carriers May Snuff AOL's mCommerce Play
Hackers Exploit Hole In PDG Shopping Cart
MS Contemplating SIM-Based Payments?
MasterCard Testing Smart Purchase Card
Nokia, KPN, Interpay Testing SET Payments
WAP Apps Must Reflect Real-World Security
e-Banking 'A Strategic Choice' In China
Banks Need mCommerce For Chip Share
IDC: 'Banks Are Rushing Towards EBPP'
Latin Banks Cut Transaction Costs With Web
Gap Exists In WAP-Based Payments Market
FSIs Drop Customers In Race For Leadership
wPKI Strong Theme At RSA Conference 2001
BSCH/Accenture Bullish On Latin Commerce
Cahners InStat Sees WAP Revival In Europe
Europe Favors Drafts, COD Over e-Payments
Settlement To Be Top mCommerce Function
Europe's Banks Outgrowing Interbank Model
Union Bank Unveils Two E-Payment Ventures