Research from Nielsen provides insight on online and mobile shopping behaviour.  

Shoppers in the United States are increasingly going mobile in large numbers as they utilise the latest mobile technologies. These mobile consumers of goods and services – with the most connected and active of them now dubbed ‘mobile shopping warriors’ – will account for 28 percent of the $447 billion expected to be spent by American consumers in the coming holiday season.

The global financial crisis continues to reverberate around the world but in Australia, at least, one business sector - the ever changing telecommunications industry – is experiencing rapidly increasing consumption of non-voice/text services, including multimedia, content, information and entertainment services by consumers as mobile phone usage matures.  

Western Union has selected Sybase mobile messaging and commerce subsidiary, Sybase 365, as a provider to its mobile money transfer services.

A new partnership between Visa - operator of the world's largest retail electronic payments network - and NeuStar, a global provider or interconnection services to mobile operators, promises to give the nascent mobile payments industry a major boost.

Opening slightly earlier than expected, at least in some parts of the world, is Nokia’s Ovi Store, set to do battle with Apple’s App Store and bring a better “Download!” experience to Nokia phone owners.

SITA, the airline-owned communications co-operative, has celebrated its sixtieth anniversary with the release of a white paper predicting massive changes in air travel and flight bookings thanks to the pervasiveness of cellphones.

With 2008 showing just how big the “underground economy” has become, and with numerous examples of banking Trojans and malware reaching new heights of nefariousness, 2009 is a do-or-die year for the banking industry – especially in the midst of the global financial crisis.

A contactless payment trial using mobile phones instead of cards has proved successful, and may help pave the way for an international scheme for making small payments by waving handsets.

Sybase, parent company of mobile messaging and mobile commerce provider Sybase365, has bought German mobile payment system specialist paybox Solutions to help it tap into the rapidly growing mobile payments market.