BROWSING: Mobile Commerce

LONDON-The Radicchio initiative announced 16 new companies have joined the group, which hopes to set a Public Key Infrastructure standard for secure e-commerce transactions over wireless networks.The new members include security notables like Baltimore Technologies Inc., Entrust Technologies and VeriSign Inc. Other members include...

SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. introduced a feature that will allow consumers to control whether their location is tracked when they access Internet services from their wireless phone.Xypoint said it plans to build the privacy and security feature set into all of its location-based applications."The convergence of...

GENEVA-Finnish personal communications services carrier Sonera said it bought the business activities of ByeDesk from TeamWare Group of San Jose, Calif., for an undisclosed sum.TeamWare is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Software Corp. and operates the ByeDesk service in collaboration with its parent company. ByeDesk...

GENEVA - Sonera SmartTrust and L.M. Ericsson announced a digital signature solution for secure wireless e-commerce using Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Sonera SmartTrust developed wireless security solutions based on Public Key Infrastructure, digital signatures and 1024 bit RSA data encryption. Ericsson developed the new...

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. plans to begin trials in Europe late this year of CardFone, which it hopes will be the first handset available commercially to give users access both to automated teller machine (ATM) capabilities and conventional wireless telecommunications."We are basically taking the momentum...

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...