Articles tagged with: M Commerce and Rcom

Worldwide mobile cellular subscribers to reach 4 billion mark late 2008

..ors to innovations such as m-commerce to access pricing information for rural farmers and the use of mobile phones to pay for goods and services. While mobile broadband subscribers remain concentrated in the developed world, a number of develop more

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Encypted SMS as a Backup for Mobile Data Applications

Mobile applications developer, Masabi says that it has overcome an obstacle to m-commerce application uptake by using encrypted SMS to transfer data. Following a range of commercial and pilot launches the company found that providing SMS as a data option solves connection issues for the (claimed) 40-50% of java application users who cannot connect through GPRS or 3G.  more

Related Tags: sms, roaming, encryption, memory, java, gprs, mobile-commerce