Mobile Commerce

[January 30, 2008/ Manila] – Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) and the Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) have forged an agreement to jointly develop and pilot a Mobile Money Transfer service in the country that will make low-denomination, high-frequency remittances more affordable to the country’s more than 8 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).

“This agreement is in line with Smart’s thrust to continuously develop low-cost and convenient mobile remittance channels and communications services for overseas Filipino workers,” said Napoleon Nazareno, Smart president and CEO. “We recognize the significant role they play in not only contributing to the country’s economy, but also in making sure their families’ financial and communications needs are met at the time they need them.”

New York – January 29th, 2008 – Vantrix today announced that SendMe Mobile, the premier mobile media company, has selected the Vantrix Store Optimizer mobile content delivery solution to streamline the publishing of video, ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile media on SendMe Mobile's storefronts, and to extend the reach of its content catalog to virtually every mobile phone in the US.

With Vantrix Store Optimizer, SendMe Mobile can maximize revenues from highly perishable mobile content by reducing its time to market and ensuring that all titles are compatible with the broadest range of devices. Vantrix allows SendMe Mobile the flexibility of optimizing and caching in advance the most popular content titles for a wide range of phones, while dynamically optimizing the long tail of titles for the less common devices in real time as consumers download the content. With Vantrix Store Optimizer, SendMe Mobile can simultaneously realize operational efficiencies and improve content quality, no matter the type or format of the media at play.

70 million banking customers can use the payment system

Düsseldorf/Munich, 25 January 2008 A new payment service that is being launched by O2 and Vodafone means secure online payments by mobile phone or PC from spring onwards. It delivers maximum payment security to over 70 million bank and mobile phone customers in Germany. The new payment system for home or mobile online payments isn't just available to Vodafone and O2 customers, but to all mobile phone network users.

People who shop online want a simple and secure method of payment that can be used in as many online shops as possible.

Lutz Schüler, Director Marketing & Sales at O2 Germany said, "The popularity of mobile internet is growing. Our payment system satisfies the requirements of this new trend. It enables the some 13 million Vodafone and O2 contract customers to make simple, fast and secure payments from their home PC or mobile phone."