Payment service provider CreditCall is developing a mobile payment app called CardEase Mobile that allows fully secured Chip & PIN (EMV) or magnetic-stripe transactions to take place on BlackBerry and other smartphones

Adoption of mobile commerce in Europe remains low, with a mere 2% of adults across the continent reporting purchasing products from their mobiles and only 5% interested in doing so, according to new research from Forrester Research

Frank Lord, VP EMEA, ATG outlines why he believes the iPad will be the first of many devices to transform the UK retail sector

Buying things from within apps is set to get better following a deal between cross platform technology provider and mobile applications developer Metismo and mobile payments specialist, paythru, to provide its clients with the ability to take payments in-app

Nearly 60% of retailers are using mobile in some way, shape or form, with most using it for customer contact, delivery notification and special offers, as well as for marketing using text, finds the M-Retailing/Sponge survey conducted online over the past month. Encouragingly, almost 70% claim that mobile is vital in extending branding and marketing activities and two thirds think it likely that they will have adopted some use of mobile within the next 12 months

Leading credit and debit card companies MasterCard and Citi Cards, the payment card arm of Citi Bank are both using their brands to develop not only the payment tools for e- and m-commerce, but are also building ‘mobile malls’ where only their cards can be used

New mobile payment tool Waspit, which launches today, is aiming to make mobile payments for tangible goods, digital content and online services easy from any mobile phone – smart or otherwise – as the company pushes to open up m-commerce to everyone with a phone

Much hyped contactless payments may be a long way off from becoming the norm in the UK – despite trials by retailer Boots ahead of a potential roll out at their till-points nationwide – because the recession has delayed both retailers and issuers from investing the technology, finds analyst Datamonitor. But Barclaycard doesn’t agree

Citi Banks’ cards arm, Citi Cards – which has some 200million US account holders – is moving into the m-commerce space in the US with the launch of an Android, Blackberry and iPhone app called …

M-Retailing, in association with mobile marketing company Sponge, is inviting retailers to take part in its first annual survey aimed at uncovering the role mobile really plays in retail and the trends we’ll be seeing in a year or two

There is no getting away from the fact that mobile is on every retailers radar in 2010, but with many only just getting to grips with the technology and how to make the best of …

The value of physical and digital goods that people buy with their mobiles could reach $200 billion globally by 2012, compared to just less than $100 billion this year – driven by smartphones, more secure billing and the work being done by the Mobey Forum

Despite the media hype, iPad – which launched in the UK and Europe last Friday – is failing to set consumers and retailers alight with desire, being seen by consumers as not good enough to replace either the iPhone or the laptop and being viewed by many retailers as just another device to develop apps of limited appeal for

Garanti Bank, Turkey’s largest aprivate bank by asset size, and Avea, Turkey’s sole GSM 1800 mobile operator, have teamed up to provide Turkish mobile phone users with NFC-enabled SIM cards that remove the need to buy NFC-enabled handsets

PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library now lets consumers buy goods and services through Android apps, as well as Apple – opening up m-commerce still further

Not just an m-commerce site, but an M&S m-commerce site… Marks & Spencer launches m.marksandspencer.com – the first mobile shopping site from a high street retailer – synching its e-commerce website with all mobile phones with a browser

M&S has become the first leading UK high street retailer to deliver a proper mobile commerce experience – and it has done it by going for a full mobilisation of its e-commerce strategy so now consumers can browser, search and buy online, on mobile, by phone or in store. Sienne Veit, the company’s social and mobile development manager explains why

After a couple of false starts, Visa finally launches its NFC payments dongle for the iPhone, cunningly disguised as a protective case, which allows users to start using their phone as a credit card

M-Retailing.net meets Laurence Pichot, head of shopping.com France and the company’s head of mobile strategy to talk about the company’s new strategy and how mobile – centred around its new iphone app to start with – is a key part of how the company is set to develop

In an effort to get the millions of consumers in the UK and Germany who don’t have credit cards shopping online, pre-pay cash company Ukash has launched a virtual MasterCard that opens the e-commerce door to cash shoppers