Nearly half of mobile phone users worldwide to make mobile payments by 2014
New research from Juniper suggests that nearly half of all mobile phone users worldwide will pay by mobile for both digital and physical goods by 2014. This represents a growth of nearly a billion...
View ArticleSMS driven money transfer vital to developing market mpayments
A new report by Juniper Research on the mobile payments sector suggests that SMS driven mobile payments are the main driver of the mobile payments market in developing nations and are increasing at a...
View ArticleImpulsePay extends parking payment options in London
ImpulsePay, a mobile payments specialist, has partnered with Park Pay & Go Ltd to offer its Payforit service. The service allows payment for parking spaces without the need to find change, go...
View ArticleYounger Germans prefer mobile purchasing via SMS, IM, MMS
New research into the use of mobile phones to make purchases suggests that while the mobile web dominates, SMS has its place too with 49 percent of Germans preferring SMS, IM or MMS as their method of...
View ArticleLondoners can pay for taxi trips by SMS thanks to Vodafone
Vodafone’s latest publicity exercise sees London taxis get pay by SMS scheme. From today Londoners will be able to pay for their journeys by text if they are travelling in a Vodafone branded taxi. Call...
View ArticleMobile payments for digital goods to rise 40 percent by 2015
The growth will be matched by a rise in fraud levels in some types of mobile payment, says Juniper Research. In a new report, Mobile Payments for Digital and Physical Goods,analyst Juniper Research...
View ArticleWorldwide mobile payment users to reach 141 Million in 2011 says Gartner
Analyst Gartner says worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2 per cent increase from 2010. In money terms Gartner says worldwide mobile payment volume is forecast to...
View Article160Characters Breakfast Briefing 26 January 2012
160Characters is hosting its first Breakfast Briefing of 2012 on 26 January. This event, sponsored by Acision will include two panels. The first will discuss Innovation in Messaging, the second will...
View ArticleboxPAY expands global operations to US and Canada
Irish SMS-based payment solution provider boxPAY is pressing ahead with a rapid expansion programme by rolling outs its service to North America. Following a successful launch last May, the company has...
View ArticleMusic networking..the next big step?
It’s strange to remember how we got hold of music five years ago, and even more strange to think how much it’s changed since then. The days of buying a CD, copying it to a hard drive and turning it...
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