Alex Kinch

Messaging interoperability and content delivery specialists Sybase 365 have just unveiled a new suite of products for the financial industry.
Sybase mBanking 365 provides secure and direct multi-channel interaction with customers over all mobile messaging channels — SMS, WAP, and rich client. Vital services such as bank account activity alerts that notify customers of potentially fraudulent [...]

Link: Khaleej Times Online – NBAD launches money transfer service by SMS
Clients of National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) may now transfer money to any person in the UAE who has a mobile phone, through SMS (short message service), or text message, the bank yesterday said in a statement.
Launched early this month, an NBAD customer [...]

XLR8 Mobile announces the first ever portable, widget-based, micro-site, mobile-commerce enabled storefronts, based upon their proprietary “WapItUp!” mobile commerce platform. This patent pending system is revolutionizing how media companies monetize content to mobile users. It’s a unique platform that allows any brand or website to sell mobile content “from any location, to any location”, direct [...]

Myxer, the company that radically simplifies mobile content delivery, today unveiled “Mobilized by Myxer(TM)” at the DEMOfall ‘07 conference.
Mobilized by Myxer enables content owners to create and deliver mobile content with drag and drop simplicity right from their existing website. The product takes an ordeal that used to take weeks and thousands of dollars and [...]

The increasing deployment of multiple mobile payment technologies and liberalisation of remote gambling legislation in key markets is expected to push total annual wagers on mobile phones to nearly $12bn by 2010, according to a new report by Juniper Research.
Mobile lotteries are expected to be the most popular service by the end of the forecast [...]

Mobile payment initiative, Payforit came into force across all mobile internet services and UK networks officially on September 1, 2007. The payment system was welcomed by the mobile industry; and now key operators, content providers and API’s (Accredited Payment Intermediaries) believe the future success of the initiative will rely on the developments made over the [...]

Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Hot picks: UK tech start-ups
Nice to see the BBC getting excited about mobile technology..
Monitise is a young UK start-up that has already made significant in-roads into the US market.
The firm was founded four years ago by ex-professional sportsman Alastair Lukies and provides a mobile phone banking and payment service.
“An [...]

If you’re based in the UK, or even if you’ve only visited, I’m sure you’ve heard of PayPoint. They’re the people that let you top up your mobile or pay your utility bills at virtually every corner shop, newsagent and off-licence. Now thanks to a deal with Telrock you can use PayPoint from the comfort [...]

Link: Google puts in patent application for SMS text message payment system – say what?
Wait, hasn’t this already been done before? Indeed it has. SMS text message-based payment system have been in use for quite some time now, and it seems that Google has been keen to the new trend for about a year and [...]

Link: Mobile TV ads ‘irritate’ consumers | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
According to new research, consumers find traditional format advertisements delivered via their mobile handset ‘irritating’, despite the area’s growing importance for the marketing industry.
Advertisements on mobile internet and TV services are “irritating” for consumers, according to new research.Branded content and opt-in Bluetooth downloads are better [...]