Services Category

US Networks to Validate Premium SMS Companies to Cut Down on Abuses
May 16th 2012 - 18:44 GMT
The USA wireless trade association, the CTIA, through its Common Short Code Administration (CSCA), has announced its partnership with Aegis Mobile to verify the identity of organizations that use premium short code campaigns....more

Isis Mobile Wallet Will Be Accepted at Hundreds of Merchant Locations Across Austin and Salt Lake City
May 15th 2012 - 16:25 GMT
Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture created by AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, today announced the first of its local merchant partners across Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. ...more

TxtNation Launches New HLR Lookup Platform
May 14th 2012 - 15:46 GMT
UK based messaging service provider, txtNation have released their new HLR Lookup platform capable of processing several thousand messages per second....more

Samsung and Visa to Test Mobile Payments at the London Olympic Games
May 14th 2012 - 08:43 GMT
Samsung Electronics and Visa have announced that the Samsung Galaxy S III will be Samsung's Olympic Games Phone during the London 2012 Games....more

American Express Adds Its Cards to the USA Based Isis Mobile Wallet
May 13th 2012 - 13:39 GMT
American Express and Isis, the mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, have announced an agreement to make American Express cards available in the Isis Mobile Wallet....more

Apple Looking to Ditch Google Maps in OS Upgrade - Report
May 12th 2012 - 10:13 GMT
Apple is reported to be planning to drop support for Google's mapping service in its next Operating System upgrade, in favour of a mapping service from companies that the company has bought over the past few years....more

GSMA Receives Additional Funding For Mobile Money For The Unbanked Programme
May 9th 2012 - 11:57 GMT
The GSMA says that it has received an additional US$9.8 million to continue its Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme for a three-year period to 2015....more

RIM Launches BlackBerry Screen Reader for Customers with Visual Impairments
May 7th 2012 - 16:39 GMT
Research In Motion (RIM) today launched BlackBerry Screen Reader, a software application that helps customers who are blind or visually impaired operate their BlackBerry smartphone. ...more

Opera Mini Now Available on Samsung's App Store
May 4th 2012 - 20:26 GMT
Opera Software has announced that its Mini mobile web browser is now available in Samsung Apps, Samsung's dedicated application store....more

New Zealand to Test Mobile Tickets for Public Transport Services
April 30th 2012 - 18:18 GMT
New Zealand's Auckland Transport has announced trials of NFC based mobile payments for transport services in collaboration with Telecom New Zealand and Westpac credit card, along with technology providers, Gemalto, Thales and Paymark. ...more

Visa Europe Confirms Launch Date for Its Digital Wallet Service
April 30th 2012 - 17:29 GMT
Visa Europe has confirmed that its new digital wallet service, V.me by Visa, will launch to an initial group of consumers in the UK, Spain and France in autumn 2012....more

Telefonica Closing App Stores in Germany, Spain and Argentina
April 24th 2012 - 15:48 GMT
Telefonica has announced that it is closing its own-branded App Stores in Germany, Spain and Argentina at the end of this month....more

Massachusetts Transport Authority to Test Mobile Ticketing System
April 23rd 2012 - 11:41 GMT
UK based mobile ticketing service provider, Masabi says that it has won a contract to provide mobile tickets on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) railways....more

Gemalto Selected As the Technology Provider for Transfer Mobile Payment Service
April 23rd 2012 - 08:32 GMT
Gemalto says that says that it has been selected as the technology provider for the Mexican mobile banking service being set up by America Movil, Banamex and Banco Inbursa....more

ITV and Shazam Announce Exclusive UK Commercial Partnership
April 20th 2012 - 10:07 GMT
The music identification service, Shazam says that it has signed a deal with the UK's television broadcaster, ITV which will see ITV become the exclusive UK distributor for Shazam functionality in UK broadcast advertising....more

Cellcrypt Expands Support for Encrypted SMS to Samrtphones
April 19th 2012 - 14:47 GMT
Cellcrypt today announced the availability of interoperable encrypted messaging between BlackBerry, iPhone and Android smartphones running Cellcrypt Mobile....more

Nuance Offers Arabic Speech to Text App in UAE
April 16th 2012 - 16:09 GMT
USA based speech services provider, Nuance Communications announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search applications are now available for free in the UAE,...more

Barclays Expands Mobile Money Transfer Service to All UK Banks
April 13th 2012 - 10:49 GMT
The UK bank, Barclays has announced that its mobile money transfer service has been expanded to customers of all UK banks and building societies....more

Amazon Announces In-App Payments for Android and Kindle Apps
April 10th 2012 - 16:27 GMT
Amazon has announced the launch of its own in-app purchasing system for Amazon App Store developers working on Android and Kindle apps....more

Netgear Offers Mobile App for Controlling Domestic Wi-Fi Routers
April 4th 2012 - 09:50 GMT
Wi-Fi router vendor, Netgear has launched mobile apps for Andoid and iPhone handsets that allows users to control their Wi-Fi router from their mobile phone....more

Bus Ticket Payments by SMS Trials in Italy
March 30th 2012 - 10:50 GMT
The public transport authority in Florence, Italy has launched an SMS based ticketing system in partnership with Ericsson and mobile operators TIM, Vodafone, Wind and 3 Italia....more

Secure Web Browser Launched for Android Smartphones
March 27th 2012 - 14:22 GMT
Good Technology has the availability of Good Mobile Access (GMA) for Android, a secure mobile browser for Android devices....more

Survey: Banking Apps Weak On Many Features Users Look For
March 27th 2012 - 11:26 GMT
Of the ten most important functions that users expect from mobile banking apps, only three of the ten is adequate, according to a survey by the Swiss based MyPrivateBanking Research....more

TomTom Offers Fleet Management on IPad and Android Tablets
March 27th 2012 - 11:13 GMT
In-car navigation provider, TomTom has released an updated version of its Webfleet Mobile fleet management app, extending use to tablets....more

Microsoft and Nokia to Invest Up to EUR 18 Million in Mobile Apps Development
March 27th 2012 - 09:50 GMT
Microsoft and Nokia have announced a commitment of up to EUR 18 million in a newly established mobile application development program at Aalto University, Finland during the next three years. ...more

Etihad Airways and SR Technics Rollout IPad Aircraft Type Training Courses
March 26th 2012 - 18:11 GMT
Etihad Airways is one of the first airlines in the world to roll out aircraft type training courses using tablet technology. The airline says that it has started training its 200 licensed aircraft engineers with an iPad app developed by SR Technics....more

NEC Commences Joint Research on Anonymous Authentication Project for Smartphones
March 26th 2012 - 14:26 GMT
NEC announced today the commencement of joint research on anonymous authentication technologies with eight other international institutions, including France Telecom and Microsoft, to provide enhanced privacy services for smartphones....more

WHSmith to Roll Out Contactless Payments in Retail Stores
March 23rd 2012 - 07:34 GMT
The UK high street stationery and newspaper retailer, WHSmith is to start deploying contactless payment terminals in its stores in preparation for increased use of NFC facilities inside smartphones....more

GSMA and Wi-Fi Trade Group to Develop Wi-Fi Roaming Standards
March 20th 2012 - 09:50 GMT
The GSMA and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today announced they are working together to simplify connectivity to Wi-Fi hotspots from mobile devices by developing technical and commercial frameworks for Wi-Fi roaming....more

PayPal to Enable Credit Card Payments Through Smartphones
March 16th 2012 - 08:35 GMT
PayPal has jumped into the mobile credit card payments market and is launching a plug-in for smartphones that lets them process credit card transactions....more

Text Messages Help HIV Patients Stick to Antiretroviral Drug Therapy
March 14th 2012 - 08:00 GMT
Mobile phones could play a valuable role in helping HIV patients to take their medication every day, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The researchers found that patients were less likely to miss doses if they were sent weekly mobile phone text message reminders....more

Crimestoppers Launhces Mobile Version of Its Crime Reporting Website
March 13th 2012 - 08:54 GMT
UK based crime reporting charity, Crimestoppers says that it has optimised its anonymous reporting website to work on mobile phones....more

Japanese Mobile Games Developer Inks Chinese Distribution Deal
March 12th 2012 - 08:52 GMT
Japanese mobile games developer, DeNA has announced a deal with the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo to market its Android games in China....more

Nokia Reported to Be Closing Indian Mobile Money Service
March 11th 2012 - 18:05 GMT
Nokia is reported to be planning to shut-down its mobile money service in India, two years after it launched the facility....more

Oberthur Technologies Adds CDMA Support to OTA Platform
March 11th 2012 - 08:55 GMT
Oberthur Technologies has announced that it is to integrate Interop's CDMA OTA provisioning platform into its broader OTA management solution in order to serve CDMA wireless network operators....more

Microsoft Shutting Windows Mobile Apps Store
March 9th 2012 - 11:13 GMT
Microsoft has announced that it is closing its mobile apps market place that had supported downloads for the older Windows Mobile 6.x based smartphones....more

Google Pressuring Android Developers to Use Its Payment Platform
March 9th 2012 - 10:49 GMT
Google has been pressuring Android apps developers to use its own Google Wallet platform with threats to remove their apps from the Android Market if they persist in using rival payment platforms....more

Apple Using Old Version of Open Source Mapping Data - Without Credit
March 9th 2012 - 09:36 GMT
Apple appears to be moving further away from using Google services, and its newest software application, iPhoto has dropped support for Google Maps for the geolocation facility....more

Google Revamps Its Android Market As Google Play
March 6th 2012 - 18:30 GMT
Google has made its long anticipated move into remote file storage for music and video content with the launch of Google Play for Android devices....more

VeriFone to Support Isis NFC Mobile Payments in US Cashier Tills
March 5th 2012 - 14:53 GMT
VeriFone Systems today announced an agreement with Isis -- the joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless -- to integrate Isis mobile payments in current and future NFC-enabled cashier checkout tills...more