6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013: March 19-20, 2013 – Singapore

As Asia’s largest mobile commerce summit event, Neoedge the leading producer of original conferences and workshops for the corporate world, has announced the biggest names in the industry supporting the 6th Mobile Commerce Summit ASIA 2013 which is happening on the 19-20 March 2013 at the Hotel Novotel...

Delineating the Mobile Value Chain: A Holistic View of Mobile Payment

As excitement surrounding mobile payments develops, most of the focus has been placed on the wallet apps such as Google Wallet and Isis jockeying for position. However, the success of a mobile payments system will depend on far more than which piece of software will be used on the most devices. A fully...

Mobile Payment Strategies Report: Opportunities & Markets 2011-2015

A new study from Juniper Research has determined that the total value of mobile payments for digital and physical goods, money transfers and NFC (Near Field Communications) transactions will reach $670bn by 2015, up from $240bn this year. These forecasts represent the gross merchandise value of all purchases...

Research Report: Positioning for Payments in the New Mobile-Social Technology Era

We are at the beginning of a new technology cycle as consumer adoption of mobile and social media extends the reach of the web and integrates those media into the physical world. Facebook is only eight years old, and yet its planned $5 billion IPO is the largest Internet IPO ever. As in every new technology...

Mobile Industry Predictions Report: 2012

The Yankee Group has just released its free 17-page 2012 Annual Predictions Report, which looks into what the future has in store for the ever-growing mobility landscape. Overview: The world is in transition and in the year ahead, mobile will be both the protagonist and the subject of this instability....

Mobile Contactless Payments Summit: Oct. 17-18, 2011, Chicago, IL

Strategic Solutions Network (SSN) will welcome an estimated 400 executives from leading retailers, banks, carriers and technology companies to attend the Mobile Contactless Payments Summit  October 17-18th, 2011 at the W Chicago City Center. The 3rd Mobile Contactless Payment Innovations Summit is part...

Research Report: 2011 Contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) Mobile Payments

Javelin Strategy and Research has release a new report entitled “2011 Contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) Mobile Payments: Framing Mobile Payments on the Foundation of Mobile Banking.” Mobile payments have been the source of much excitement for over half a decade, with the latest focus...

Report Says ISIS to Invest $100M to Challenge Google Wallet

With summer days dwindling, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has less than two weeks to make good on its pledge to launch its Google Wallet mobile payment service. Google Wallet is a mobile application service that will let owners of Sprint’s Samsung Nexus S 4G smartphones use their phone as a wallet at some 20...

Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility May Speed Mobile Payment Plans

With Google’s announcement of its agreement to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, the search giant has potentially turbocharged its mobile payment plans. Where before, the Google Wallet was only set up to work with the Sprint Nexus S phone (most other telecom providers have joined the ISIS mobile...

Visa’s Plan to Dominate Mobile Payments

It’s no secret that credit card companies are shelling out big bucks and aggressively forming partnerships and deals to start cashing in on the mobile and digital payments innovations currently taking place. American Express, which recently debuted its own digital payments product Serve, has been...

Research: Smartphone Banking Security

Javelin Strategy Research has release a new report entitled: “Smartphone Banking Security: Mobile Banking Utilization Stalls On Consumer Fears.” Mobile banking adoption has stagnated despite explosive growth in smartphone adoption from 2009 to 2011. In 2009, one in four smartphone owners...

Smartphone Banking Security: mBanking Susceptible to Consumer Fears

According to Research and Markets, mobile banking adoption has stagnated despite explosive growth in smartphone adoption from 2009 to 2011, and the company attributes the slowdown to consumer fears over mobile banking security. In 2009, one in four smartphone owners considered mobile banking unsafe. One year...

Mobile Banking Markets and Opportunities Report Announced by Research and Markets

Research and Markets  has announced the release of a new report, entitled “M-Banking Markets and Opportunities.” Mobile banking refers to a client-server system that is specifically designed for mobile devices, allowing banking customers to use handheld devices to...

Global Mobile Software Market to Reach $79.7 Billion by 2017

Proliferation of mobile computing devices, such as, mobile phones, laptops, palm computers, and the rise in the number of supporting platforms, such as, Android, has resulted in the development of several killer mobile software and applications revolving around device customization, internet connectivity,...

Google to Test Mobile Payments in New York and San Francisco

Google Inc. plans to start testing a mobile-payment service at stores in New York and San Francisco within four months, letting shoppers use their phones to ring up purchases, two people familiar with the project said. The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from...

NFC Mobile Payments Will Be Big Business for Google, Says Schmidt

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, thinks wireless transactions, enabled by the coming wave of Android smartphones outfitted with near-field communication (NFC) technology, could turn into a serious business for the company. Speaking to a small group of reporters late Tuesday after his keynote...

Google NFC Mobile Payment System Announcement May Come This Week, Says Analyst

Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Marianne Wolk believes Google could unveil a mobile-payment system, based on near-field communication (NFC), at Mobile World Congress this week. The conference is being held in Barcelona, Spain from February 14-17, 2011. “We see several challenges to Google as a...

Google and Apple NFC Mobile Payments Battleground

Recent reports have suggested that the Apple iPad and the iPhone 5 will have integrated Near Field Communication (NFC) capabilities that can be used for mobile payments, as well as other applications. NFC involves a chip that transmits a short range, high frequency signal in order to communicate with nearby...

Mobile Payments Research Report 2011: Battle in a Fragmented Market

Research and Markets  has announced the addition of the “Mobile Payments – A Battle of Giants in a Fragmented Market” report to their offering. This study spotlights the mobile payment market, provides details about the related services and their technological aspects,...

Google to Launch Mobile Payment Service

There are a number of companies getting involved in getting mobile phones to be able to make purchases and charge either your mobile phone bill or directly to your bank account. Google is now planning to launch a new mobile payment service that will be based on Near Field Communication or NFC. This new...