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PayPal to offer new mobile services
By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
March 23, 2006 9:52 am ET
IDG News Service
PayPal, the online payment company owned by eBay Inc., appears to be gearing up to let customers send money or order and pay for products by text message from a mobile phone.
According to a new section on PayPal’s Web site, mobile phone users will be able to send a text message with instructions to send money to another person, using a cell phone number to identify the recipient. The recipient will be notified by PayPal of the transaction and will be instructed how to claim the money, according to the Web site.
The site offers a number of examples of situations where someone would want to send money to someone else, such as to pay team or organization fees or to buy a gift along with a few friends, settling the cost using PayPal Mobile.
PayPal Mobile will also include a new service called Text to Buy. Advertisements in magazines or posters will include the words Text to Buy and a special code, the site says. Users must set up a PayPal account and activate their phones for the service and then they can send a text to the number from the advertisement to buy the product. PayPal calls the user back to confirm the order and then the product is shipped to the user.
The Web site doesn't say where or when the new services might become available. So far, a Text to Buy special offers page on the Web site doesn't include any offers.
The Text to Buy feature is interesting but it may be some time before most mobile customers will use it, said Daren Siddall, an analyst with Gartner. “I think we’re a long way yet from getting consumers to use the mobile channel for commerce,” he said. Most mobile users still see their mobile phones primarily as a communication device, although they’re beginning to experiment with using their phones to access Internet content, he said. It will take another step for most users to become comfortable with the idea of buying actual products using their phones, he said.
In addition, mobile users will have to trust the company facilitating the payment, he noted. Existing PayPal users will likely trust PayPal for such services but other mobile users could be more comfortable with a major credit card company or bank facilitating payments, he said. “There’s room for other payment providers who have established brands,” he said.
PayPal isn't the first company to offer such services. TextPayMe Inc. is one company already allowing mobile users to send money to other people via text message. A number of trials have been launched in the U.S. in places like sports arenas where visitors can pay for food or other items with their mobile phones. In some European cities, people can pay for things like parking tickets or items from vending machines with their mobile phones. Motorola Inc. recently said it plans to introduce a mobile wallet service in the U.S. and some banks and credit card companies are said to be developing mobile payment services.
PayPal already offers a Mobile service that is limited to allowing customers to check and use their PayPal accounts through a browser on a mobile phone. Earlier this year rumors began to circulate about an expansion to that service when PayPal ran advertisements looking for staff to run a new mobile group at the company.
Source: MacWorld News
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Wireless Technology Enhances Communications, Response Times
Released: Wed 22-Mar-2006, 09:30 ET
Newswise — Drexel University has deployed next-generation wireless security technology developed by Drexel researchers. The technology is designed to enhance communications and response times for campus public safety personnel. Among its features, the technology allows GPS tracking of officers’ locations and the transmission of map directions.
Drexel is the first university in the United States to use DragonForce™, developed by Camden, N.J.-based Drakontas LLC and now being marketed by the firm. The technology is based on the research of Drexel’s Dr. Moshe Kam, Robert G. Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. William Regli, associate professor of computer science.
A suite of applications targeted to the needs of first responders and designed to enable spontaneous networking, DragonForce™ has augmented safety on Drexel’s three Philadelphia campuses, including its 65-acre main campus. By allowing its Department of Public Safety officers to view the locations and even speeds of movement of one another using overhead maps, response times to incidents have been improved, said Ben Gollotti, senior associate vice president of Public Safety.
“DragonForce™ has taken public safety into a new dimension not only for Drexel Public Safety but for all first responders,” Drexel President Constantine Papadakis said. “Equipped with improved and expedited communications and a range of high-tech tools in their hands, emergency responders are able to better serve the public, especially the campuses of America’s colleges and universities, using this device.”
The applications of DragonForce™ extend beyond campus public safety to the needs of police, fire departments, medical crews and SWAT teams. The Atlantic County, N.J., Department of Public Safety will apply a $330,000-plus federal grant to test the technology this summer, with some of its emergency response teams using DragonForce™ contrasted with those using traditional communications technology such as radio.
“Drexel and Drakontas are redefining how small companies work with universities to commercialize intellectual property,” Drakontas CEO and co-founder Brian Regli said. “Instead of merely repackaging or licensing intellectual property, Drexel has demonstrated a commitment to the practical application of research and has invested with us to bring this unique product to market. That combination of practical application and advanced research is what makes DragonForce™ distinctive.”
In the first phase of DragonForce™, officers will be able to view the locations of one another and transmit map directions, Gollotti said. Those capabilities will help officers navigate campus buildings, he said. As technology advances, DragonForce™ will enable Public Safety officers to transmit text messages, file incident reports from the scene and view photos of criminal suspects and security videos of incidents only minutes old.
Additionally, officers will one day be able to respond to alarms automatically, saving priceless minutes lost from the time emergency call boxes are set off to the time officers receive dispatch calls, Gollotti said. “We want to have the ability for officers to receive information at the same time everyone else is getting it,” he said. “We want them to get information simultaneously.”
In its infrastructure mode, DragonForce™ may be deployed using existing networks such as Drexel’s network, which recently launched the technology. DragonForce™ may also be used in tactical mode to spontaneously form networks. The technology will be used in Atlantic County and overseas with no networks, Drakontas president James Sim said.
“In these instances, you form your own network on the fly,” Sim said. “Each unit serves as its own router. It’s about responding to situations in which the infrastructure was never there or was destroyed. Communication integrity is what is really important here.”
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