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- Micropayment
- An electronic commerce transaction of very low value. It may refer to charging just a few cents or even a fraction of a cent for a transaction such as...
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ZDNet Resources
- Telco Speeds Up, Easily Expands Micropayment System With New Development Architecture
- ChungHwa Telecoms is the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan. It is also the country's largest mobile phone operator, in addition to providing traditional landline services. Internet services are offered under the brand name HiNet. In 2001, ChungHwa Telecoms Labs, a division of ChungHwa Telecoms, launched the 839 Micropayment System, designed...
- Tags: Chunghwa Telecom, Micropayment, Platform, Telecommunications Company, Microsoft Corp., ChungHwa Telecoms, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2007-06-04
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropayments
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropaymentsThe Kiaser LivesOr is it Al Capone?Amazing how many suck up the slop....er..ahhh micropayment scheme.
- Tags: micropayment, Live Points, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-28
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropayments
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up his vision for a micropayments strategy during the World Economic Forum in Davos. While articles by the mainstream media dont explain details if any outlined, the strategy sounds a lot like Microsofts existing "Points" system that allows Xbox and Zune customers to make...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Development tools, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows Live, micropayment
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
- Gnomedex: Dave Winer--forget about ads
- Opening the Saturday morning session at Gnomedex, blogging pioneer Dave Winer declared that "ads on Web sites are not part of economy we are living in now." His notion is that each person's Web site is a form of advertising. "You can find out who shares the same interests...
- Tags: Dave, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-07-01
- Open your wallet to Google
- Open your wallet to Googlepay-per-view environmenthttp://www.analogstereo.com/subaru_owners_manual.htmGoogle seems to be putting intoplace a system to help make the web a pay-per-view environment. Not good.Google's business planFlail and flop about and hope you overturn a pot of gold.We need an alternative to PayPal.Paypal has been dreadful for me. Customer service...
- Tags: Financial services, micropayment, Google Inc., micro-payment system, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2006-06-28
- A second Internet revolution? Not really...
- A second Internet revolution? Not really...Evolution over RevolutionDan,I'm glad you left the part "Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models" 'til last.Like the ice dancers who move with such facility, grace, speed, synchronicity, and precision, there is a lot of hard work, sweat, and tears (including, and I'm just...
- Tags: Strategy, SEARCH, Gartner Inc., micropayment, business model
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
- Micropayments to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
- DFC Intelligence forecasts revenue from micro-transactions under $5 to reach $1.8 bln by 2009.
- Tags: micropayment
- Blog posts 2005-05-31
- Rely on cash mice, not cash cows
- Rely on cash mice, not cash cowsToo much botherMicropayments are, in my view, as useful as micropayments, which is to say: not much.
- Tags: Mice, micropayment, mouse
- Discussion threads 2005-02-03
- Micropayments grew 350% in 2004
- A study of 1,112 Americans aged 12 and older, conducted by Peppercoin and Ipsos-Reid, found 17% of survey respondents saying they'd use a non-cash form of payment (credit, debit or charge card) for purchases under $5. That equates to some 37 mln Americans. The survey also found more than...
- Tags: Americans
- Blog posts 2004-10-12
- Micropayments to generate $11.5 bln in 2009
- According to recent research published by TowerGroup, the total market for Internet and wireless micropayments, led by demand for digital content, will increase by 23% annually over the next five years to reach $11.5 bln by 2009. TowerGroup charted the micropayments market at just over $2 bln in 2003.
- Tags: micropayment
- Blog posts 2004-09-07
- iNOS - Mobile Betting Game With M-Commerce Functionality
- The Football World Cup 2000 was around the corner and iNOS, a Tokyo based organization, wanted to capitalize on the opportunity to launch its mobile version of 'Pachinko' - usually the gambling halls in Japan. To 'cash on' this opportunity, iNOS partnered with Icreon to develop the application. Icreon developed...
- Tags: Game, Security, M-commerce, Micropayment, Mobile, Sales Channel, Sales
- Case studies
- VIVA TV Launches First Mobile Commerce SMS Service for Music Fans
- At the end of 2002, VIVA TV, the number one music TV channel in Germany, was the first to launch a mobile commerce service, an "Info & Order" solution based on SMS. Every video clip featured on the VIVA Channel included a reference code known as an INFO & ORDER...
- Tags: Micropayment, Mobile, Mobile 365 Inc., SMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- For content providers of any size (even you), Bango button offers frictionless push to mobiles
- For anybody who has ever tried to retrieve Web-based content on their mobile handset, be it a full-blown smartphone or just one that's capable of basic Web access via the Wireless Application Protocol WAP, being able to retrieve content on that handset the way its retrievable on the PC are...
- Tags: Mobile, Handset, Service, Ray Anderson, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Firefox and the future of ad-funded applications
- Many people seem to have been surprised last week when Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker revealed that the "bulk" of the organizations $52.9m revenue in calendar 2005 came from "search engine relationships" — which in effect means the money Google hands over for being the default search engine in Firefoxs standard...
- Tags: Business models, Skype Technologies S.A., Mozilla Firefox, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- TVUPlayer: Another Napster?
- TVUPlayer: Another Napster?It's easy to stop them, just like allofmp3.com ...Just tell Visa and Mastercard to deny all charges from the vendor. That's what the US government told them to do on allofmp3.com, online gambling, and other sites that are "disapproved" of by the Feds.With the de facto monopoly that...
- Tags: Channel management, TVUPLAYER, Napster Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM counters
- Microsoft's patches DRM with record speed, but FairUse4WM countersI was just about to email you thisGuess that is what I get for waiting a night.What a load of bunk that this. When it comes to personal data or another exploit that affects the customer, Microsoft takes their sweet time....
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Fairplay, patch management, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- The new meaning of programming
- The new meaning of programmingNetworksActually, AT&T started NBC (which begat ABC after anti-trust) and they were called "Networks" because they were based on networks of phone landlines across the country. That is how you could listen to content coming from NY when you were in Kansas. AT&Ts original thought was...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RSS, content provider, AT&T Corp., radio, network, phone, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Stallman unbending on software patents
- Stallman unbending on software patentsgreat license!The way it looks now, this license will last 100 years and will sped the demise of M$.Looks like a great license, and the final version will be even better.I hope to see lots of inovative ideas on how to do in better. But, sounds...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, digital-rights management, software, Stallman
- Discussion threads 2006-01-17
- Skype VP unfolds post-eBay roadmap
- Yesterday, I blogged about the official release of Skype for Windows 1.4, an upgrade that lets callers forward incoming Skype calls to another Skype account for free and forward calls to as many as three landline or mobile numbers for as little as 2 cents a minute. The new 1.4...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-09-30
- Skype releases new version: incremental, no eBay (yet)
- I've downloaded and have been using the new Skype for Windows Version 1.4, which went live on the Skype site last night.Despite some anticipation toward the contrary, this is an incremental release- not the revolutionary one we'll presumably see when eBay fully figures out what they are going to do...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
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