Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 23, 2014

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Shoppers are going mobile in larger and larger numbers, according to on-line retail data leader comScore. Mobile digital commerce is expected to have grown by 25 percent over the last season, almost twice the growth of desktop E-commerce.  Overall digital commerce is expected to grow by 16 percent, reaching $61 billion.  Read Original Content

Powa, a commerce specialist operating primarily in the United Kingdom, will be bringing its mobile commerce service to the United States. New funding will allow the company to launch its digital payments system in the U.S., expanding the mobile commerce options that are available in the country.  Read Original Content

Smartphone traffic to e-commerce sites grew by more than 62 percent and revenue grew 141 percent, according to MarketLive. Tablet revenue and traffic grew by a more modest 20 percent. Though still dominant, PC-based commerce growth “continued its decline.”  Read Original Content

The cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications can actually meet or exceed the original cost and time to implement those systems. In their new report, “StarMobile Transforms Enterprise Apps into Mobile Apps”, 451 Research details the advantages of StarMobile’s app development tool and how it can drastically reduce the cost and time to mobilize enterprise applications. Download report here: http://starmobileinc.com/report-451research-starmobile-transforms-mobile-apps-into-enterprise-apps/

A recently unveiled report from Juniper Research has found the total number of users who plan to engage in mobile transactions is going to grow considerably over the coming years. They predict just over two billion mobile phone or tablet users will make mobile commerce transactions by the end of 2017, up from 1.6 billion during this calendar year.  Read Original Content

Mobile payments may experience lackluster growth in Canada. A new study from GfK, a global market research firm, shows Canadians are somewhat apprehensive when it comes to using a smartphone to make a payment.  Read Original Content

Target Corp. has now taken another step that reveals the retailer is getting very serious about mobile commerce, as it has purchased Powered Analytics, which is said to have “an Amazon-like shopping experience,” that can be provided to shoppers while they are within a brick and mortar store location.  Read Original Content

In Contact Solutions' recently completed retail mobile shopping survey, one major issue with mobile buying behavior–customer care was found. Altogether, 16 percent of consumers said they struggle with mobile shopping apps at least half the time, and 38 percent of respondents said they are disappointed with the inability to get help within a mobile app.  Read Original Content

Smartphone and tablet based commerce is expected to account for 49 percent of all online sales in Europe by 2018, according to new research published by Forrester.  Read Original Content

According to the 2014 holiday shopping study conducted by Deloitte, which included the participation of 5,000 American consumers, the average holiday spending this year will be $1,299, which represents an increase of 13 percent over last year. Among all U.S. consumers 72 percent will be using their smartphones for shopping purposes.  Read Original Content

Realex Payments, Europe's leading payment solution provider, announced a new partnership with Shopgate, the world's leading software-as-a-service m-commerce platform.  Read Original Content

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of consumers surveyed said they trusted their bank in providing a mobile digital wallet service, a Deloitte report found.  Read Original Content

Mobile-based payments in the United States are expected to reach $142 billion in volume in 2019, according to a report from the research firm Forrester, from about $50 billion currently.  Read Original Content

In the three weeks since the company released Apple Pay, Whole Foods has processed more than 150,000 Apple Pay transactions. McDonald’s, which accepts Apple Pay at its 14,000 restaurants in the United States, said Apple Pay accounted for 50 percent of its tap-to-pay transactions.  Read Original Content

A new study by Retale found consumers are ready for mobile.  Thirty-six percent of respondents have previously used a mobile device to pay for something in a brick-and-mortar retail store, while the majority (64 percent) has not. However, mobile pay use has more than doubled over a two-year period.  Read Original Content

Apple’s new mobile payment system Apple Pay already has support from major banks, credit card companies and also some major retailers.  Now it would appear smaller independent retailers will also be able to support Apple Pay in the future as Square’s Jack Dorsey has confirmed the company is working on bringing Apple Pay to Square.  Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly - Week of December 8, 2013

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Digital security firm Oberthur Technologies has partnered with mobile services specialists mBank in a project aimed at bringing together the m:Wallet solution from OT’s MoreMagic subsidiary and mBank’s experience in branchless banking, to provide mobile branchless banking including merchant payment, money transfer, loans, credit and insurance.  Read Original Content

Mobile app developer Bruce Arnold announced the availability of mCartXP, a multi-device HTML5 mobile web app developed jointly by his firm WebFL.US and their white label web development counterpart WLWeb.US.  The app can be used to buy and sell products and services using virtually any mobile browser - including Dolphin, Firefox, Mobile Safari and Opera - and any smartphone or tablet.  Read Original Content

Ovum has released a report concerning the caution that many consumers are exhibiting concerning mobile commerce. The report shows that some 68 percent of consumers said they would stick to traditional e-commerce due to the risks that exist in the mobile sector.  Read Original Content

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Etisalat Group, the leading telecoms operator in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, announced the expansion of its award winning mobile phone-based commerce service "Flous" through its subsidiary Etisalat Moov in Benin.  Read Original Content

Early numbers from several retailers indicate a surge in mobile commerce for the first few banner sales days from Thanksgiving weekend through Cyber Monday. Forget double-digit growth. According to Internet Retailer Mobile 500, many retailers are posting triple-digit increases in several mobile metrics over the same holiday shopping days last year.  Read Original Content

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, both eBay and PayPal saw the highest holiday mobile commerce activity that they have ever had. The volume of purchases and payments made over smartphones and tablets was higher than any other equivalent five day period in previous years at 96 percent greater, year over year.  Read Original Content

Mobile commerce sales accounted for nearly 21 percent of total Black Friday digital sales in the United States, $314 million out of $1.512 billion, and nearly 17 percent of Cyber Monday sales, $350 million out of $2.085 billion, Internet research firm comScore Inc. reports.  Read Original Content

The latest study by mobile entertainment body MEF reveals only around 65 percent of mobile media users globally have used their device to purchase goods or services.  The research reveals a decline in the volume of purchases for the first time — from 54 percent of mobile media users in 2012 to 42 percent in 2013. Read Original Content

According to the report from IBM, online shoppers in the U.S. spent more than $2 billion on Cyber Monday.  Read Original Content

Spindle, Inc. announced its MeNetwork360SM application is now available to merchants and consumers. Combining location-based mobile marketing and payment processing on a single platform, the MeNetwork360 app is compatible with both iOS and Android devices.  Read Original Content

“Together, e-commerce and m-commerce only comprise seven percent of U.S. retail spending—the rest is offline in physical stores, especially for products that shoppers want to see before they buy,” says Michael Boland, VP of content and senior analyst at BIA/Kelsey.  Read Original Content

Email marketing was a big winner on Black Friday. And much of the credit belongs to mobile.  According to new industry data presented by Marketingland, email marketing was both plentiful and effective on Black Friday – even more than it was on Cyber Monday.  The data cited points to 38 percent more email opens occurring on Black Friday than Cyber Monday.  Read Original Content

A Global Online Shopper report from WorldPay revealed nearly 40 percent of mobile shoppers are concerned about the security of their payments.  Read Original Content

Payelp Global, an international payment and business development platform representing thousands of merchants and hundreds of payment gateways, announced a partnership with Onebip by Neomobile, a global mobile payment service. Onebip enables merchants to monetize digital goods and services to their users on a global scale using carrier-billing technology. Read Original Content

Visiongain has determined global mobile payments networks will carry over $251 billion in transactions during 2013.  Read Original Content

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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 18, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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New research from Juniper shows more than 500 million people will use mobile coupons next year, a 30 percent rise on 2012, with the growth powered by further integration into social networks. Read Original Content

A recent IDC report estimates total mobile device spending, driven largely by m-commerce, will exceed $1 trillion by 2017. Read Original Content

The Australian arm of mobile network operator Vodafone has released details of its forthcoming SmartPass NFC mobile wallet, which could launch "as early as next year" after testing takes place over the next few months. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

Twenty-eight percent of those who own a smartphone or tablet plan to shop from their mobile devices on Thursday, according to a Harris Interactive survey of more than 2,000 adults on behalf of Digitas. That’s nearly twice the percentage that said they would shop from a mobile device on Thanksgiving in a similar survey conducted last year. Read Original Content

Mobile is expected to make a huge impact on retail this holiday season, with almost 70 percent of smartphone owners expected to use their device to shop. Read Original Content

According to an eConsultancy report, search engine marketing in North America is expected to be worth $23 billion by the end of 2012 with a large portion coming from mobile traffic; projections show an additional $4 billion in growth throughout 2013, which brings the industry to an estimated worth of $27 billion. Read Original Content

Mobile devices captured nearly 20 percent of all online shopping in Q3 2012, which bodes incredibly well for online retailers heading into the holiday season. Read Original Content

According to a market research report published by MarketsandMarkets the total NFC applications market is expected to reach $10 billion by 2016 at an annual rate of 38 percent from 2011 to 2016. Read Original Content

According to a study by Harris Interactive 27 percent of tablet and smartphone-owning consumers plan to use them for their holiday shopping this year. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 11, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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ABI Research believes that more than $100 billion in NFC payments will be processed by 2016. The forecast for the following year is even greater as sales could reach as high as $200 billion. Read Original Content

In a recent report BIA/Kelsey projected U.S. mobile local advertising will reach $5.8 billion in revenue by 2016. Read Original Content

Smartdevices continue to gain momentum and according to Tapjoy’s recent study mobile commerce is expected to globally explode by 300 percent. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

Forty percent of shoppers visiting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. electronically this holiday season will do so on a smartphone or a tablet, says Gibu Thomas, senior vice president of mobile and digital strategy. Read Original Content

Starbucks has just announced it is broadening its mobile payments by accepting transactions through Square at approximately 7,000 of its coffee shop location. Read Original Content

This year Deloitte anticipates in-store sales influenced by consumers' smartphone use will account for $36 billion, or 5.1 percent of total holiday retail store sales. Read Original Content

Google recently saw a 20 percent drop in quarterly profit, partly driven by slowing ad-sales growth rates due to a shift to less-profitable mobile ads. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of November 4, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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During last week's Q4 2012 earnings call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said the Starbucks Mobile Payment app is now being used more than 2 million times per week on average. Since its launch in January 2011, customers have used the app to make more than 100 million mobile transactions. Read Original Content

Internet advertising revenues climbed to an all-time high during the first six months of 2012, galvanized by dramatic growth in mobile ad spending, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read Original Content

Business and enterprise apps are quickly becoming the fastest growing app category in application storefronts, with an overwhelming 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies planning to implement their own apps by then end of 2012, reported enterprise software provider SAP. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

The use of smartphones and tablets to carry out safe shopping online is already growing significantly in the UK, but between 2012 and 2015, it is predicted the market will expand by at least 300 percent globally, with western countries making the biggest impact. Read Original Content

Google Wallet, the mobile payment system originally released in May 2011, can now be used to make purchases directly from a smartphone. Read Original Content

Online giant eBay announced third quarter profits edged up two percent from a year ago to $597 million, driven by gains in mobile shopping and payments. Read Original Content

According to the most recent data released by Facebook, during the third quarter, 14 percent of the ad revenue it generated came from mobile commerce. Read Original Content

Vodafone has partnered with mobile commerce company CorFire to put its mobile wallet product CorPay on smartphones to allow users to pay for goods and services via their devices with a downloadable app. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 9, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Sales figures for online shopping conducted through mobile devices are predicted to reach $730 billion within the next five years, according to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

According to research by comScore, Tablet owners are more engaged in e-commerce than smartphone owners with 39 percent of tablet owners making purchases via tablets in the last month compared to 18 percent of smartphone users. Read Original Content

Orange has announced that customers with Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone will now be able to make contactless payments. Orange customers will be able to make use of the NFC capabilities of the mobile device using the company’s Quick Tap service, which was launched through a partnership with Barclaycard last year. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI, www.dsionline.com.

The percentage of online sales via mobile devices could reach 20 percent by this Christmas, figures released today revealed. Site visits via mobile devices are set to reach 30 percent, according to the latest results from IMRG. Read Original Content

Contactless payment in taxis is on the rise and on track to replace cash transactions, according to Cabcharge. The taxi payment company has reached the two million contactless payment mark through its in-taxi terminals, and will be looking to enable NFC payment options very soon. Read Original Content

PayPal is rolling out a mobile payments application optimized for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. The app joins PayPal's existing mobile services for Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Read Original Content

PayPal is teaming with credit card company Discover Financial Services to expand use of the eBay subsidiary’s nascent mobile payments service from a few thousand merchant locations to potentially seven million by the middle of next year. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of September 2, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

Walmart is currently testing a new program called "Scan and Go." The new system would allow shoppers to scan their own purchases with their mobile phones, and then pay at self-service kiosks. Read Original Content

MasterCard has provided a boost to the mobile shopping sector by announcing an exclusive five-year partnership with communications company Everything Everywhere to develop mobile and digital payment solutions.

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Shopping is the third most popular activity conducted on smartphones and most mobile shoppers use their phone for shopping on at least a weekly basis, a study has found. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Earlier this year Gartner Inc., stated the Asia-Pacific will be the largest market for mobile banking in terms of the sheer number of users between 2011 and 2016. Read Original Content

Global mobile payment transactions will pass $171.5 billion this year, according to a new report from Gartner. This is an increase of 62 percent from 2011's $105.9 billion. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of July 29, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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AuthenTec, a U.S. mobile and network security provider has agreed to be acquired by Apple.  One of its key offerings is fingerprint sensor, which can be used for authentication and security in mobile payments by phones, and is seen by some analysts as a target of Apple's purchase. Read Original Content

In India, the number of bank transactions through mobile devices grew over two-and-half times to 3.34 million in May 2012 from 1.28 million in May 2011, according to the Reserve Bank of India. Read Original Content

Charlie Miller, a principal research consultant at security company Accuvant, demonstrated on July 25 how NFC can be used to hack into a smartphone and access user information. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

M-commerce has quickly been adopted by 37 percent of U.S. consumers and is heavily driven by women and younger consumers (25-34). Driven by the popularity of mobile devices and the comfort consumers have found shopping on them, mobile commerce will continue to grow. Read Original Content

Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic partner for the London 2012 Games has announced mobile payments will be featured throughout the events to draw attention to the latest innovations for completing transactions and transforming the way money is exchanged and managed. Read Original Content

Mobile and online payments company payvia has come up with a new mobile payments solution. According to the company, it now offers a convenient option that complements merchant checkouts to reduce abandoned transactions, increase conversions and deliver more paying customers. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of July 15, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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Mobile-payment transactions are expected to exceed $600 billion world-wide by 2016, according to market-research firm Gartner Inc., up from $172 billion this year. Read Original Content

Mobile spending in western Europe is set to increase eleven fold to €19.2 billion in 2017, according to a study from Forrester. By 2017, mobile will account for 6.8 percent of total online sales — lagging just slightly behind the U.S. Read Original Content

PayPal recently announced consumers with Android devices can pay at Starbucks using its payment service and also announced a deal with GE Energy to become the exclusive payment provider for the GE WattStation Connect mobile app. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

U.S. based company Punchcard has teamed up with mobile payment service Wipit to offer businesses the ability to create loyalty and rewards programs for consumers who prefer contactless payment. Read Original Content

Research from IT specialist recruitment site CWJobs indicates 45 percent of IT professionals have witnessed a rise in demand for specialist tech pros with mobile skills. A further 79 percent expect the number of mobile roles in the banking and retail sectors to rise. Read Original Content

Juniper Research recently forecasted that contactless mobile payment transactions would reach $50 billion worldwide by 2014. Before the adoption of mobile payments reaches these numbers, there is a debate over the type of scheme that works best in practice and which mobile payment security method is the most robust. Read Original Content

Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of June 17, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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While the mobile channel is not yet the preferred vehicle for small business banking, 54 percent of small businesses are expected to use the mobile channel by 2015. Read Original Content

Airtel Chad has associated with ECOBANK, one of the leading banks of Africa to launch Airtel Money in the West African nation. The service will allow subscribers to carry out financial transactions on their mobile phones. Read Original Content

Online payment service provider GlobalCollect has selected BOKU as its global mobile payments partner and use BOKU's payments platform into its international payment network, allowing online merchants to accept mobile payments at checkout. Read Original Content

Samsung has joined forces with Eurosport to bring a free app to the Galaxy S3, enabling owners of its flagship smartphone to watch the London 2012 Olympics for free. Read Original Content

Verivo is a leading provider of enterprise mobility software. Verivo helps companies accelerate their business results. Its unique technology empowers teams to build, deploy, manage and update their mobile apps -- rapidly and securely. Verivo’s mobility platform is used by hundreds of companies in numerous industries, worldwide. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Verivo.  To learn more, visit www.verivo.com

All the participants in a small four-month mobile payments trial conducted by BNZ, Vodafone, Visa and Paymark in Auckland and Wellington said they were likely to recommend the service to friends and 14 percent said they would be willing to pay a small fee for the service. Read Original Content

Stockholm-based mobile payment company iZettle announced it has closed a 25 million euro ($31.4 million) series B funding round. The investment was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners and European tech investment firm Northzone, but MasterCard was also involved in the funding round. Read Original Content

Insider's Insight into NFC - Near Field Communications

Over the past few years, we have seen significant changes across all the major smartphone platforms led by companies such as Apple, Google, BlackBerry and Microsoft.  Each vendor is trying to add unique values in order to differentiate themselves from the crowd.  This competition is helping smartphones evolve as a platform for software applications rather than just being a messaging platform.  Given these developments, technologies such as Near Field Communications (NFC) are getting renewed attention.

NFC has the potential to impact the way we shop, travel and transfer data. It can make our lives easier and transactions more convenient. It can make accessing new media and content services more instinctive; it can make it easier to pay for things; easier to discover, synchronize and share information; and easier to use public transportation and other public services.  NFC is creating new opportunities for MNOs (mobile network operators), device manufacturers, service provider, enterprises and consumers.

Endeavour and BlackBerry are presenting a webinar on “Insider’s Insight into NFC” where they will discuss NFC device and application capabilities.  This webinar will be presented on December 8th, 2011, at 10:30 AM CDT.  Register here!

Webinar Outline:

• Introduction to Near Field Communication
• NFC Ecosystem with focus on NFC Enabled Smartphone Devices
• NFC Use Cases
• Guidelines & Considerations
• Future of NFC

Participants and Highlights:

• NFC Application Demo
• Tom Parish - Mobile Strategy Thought Leader
• Pradeep Rao - Alliances Solutions Manager at Research In Motion
• Dwarak LN – Sr. Consultant – Technology Consulting Group, Endeavour
• Basavraj Birajdar – Technical Architect, Endeavour

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