Motorola launches mobile-phone pay system

February 9, 2006

Motorola Wednesday launched a system to allow users to pay money via their mobile phones. M-Wallet allows users to pay for goods and services through their mobile accounts, including downloading gift certificates and collecting loyalty points.

The system works with GSM, CDMA or iDEN-equipped Motorola mobile handsets. Users need to download the application onto their phones via the Internet and then open their M-Wallet account.

“Mobile phones are no longer just about conducting conversations, they are now emerging as a center of people’s lives for every day transactions,” said Navin Mehta, Motorola’s vice president of Applications Management. “With M-Wallet, Motorola continues to offer industry leading applications that not only bring convenience and flexibility to subscribers but help operators differentiate and advance their portfolios to increase mobile data usage.”

Motorola will be demonstrating the M-Wallet solution at 3GSM in Barcelona Feb. 13 -16, 2006.

Rate this story - 3 /5 (2 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

Technology / Telecom

1minute ago | not rated yet | 0

Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to ...

Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

3 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

19 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...

The New York Times headquarters in New York City

New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

Technology / Internet

5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...