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IBM launches new servers to support mobile commerce in India

01/26/201501/24/2015 Jennifer Goula

z13 mainframe servers aim to make mobile payments more secure and convenient IBM has announced the launch of its new z13 mainframe servers in India. The new servers will introduce more security to the Indian mobile commerce space, using real-time encryption on all mobile transactions made by e-commerce and mobile commerce firms. According to IBM, the z13 mainframe is able to process some 2.5 billion transactions every day. The servers could be a powerful boon for the Indian mobile payments space, which has been growing significantly in recent years. Servers…

Samsung has had its eye on BlackBerry mobile technology, report

01/22/201501/20/2015 Julie Campbell

Although takeover rumors have been denied, outright, it does look as though there is some interest in the tech. According to an email from a Samsung exec that was quoted by Bloomberg and that discussed a report that had initially been interpreted as a possible buyout of BlackBerry, had actually been a talk of a potential partnership that would allow the South Korean company to use mobile technology from the struggling Canadian handset maker. This Bloomberg report suggests that Samsung may be seeking to use BlackBerry tech within its devices.…

Mobile shopping on Christmas Day rose by 20.4 percent

12/30/201412/27/2014 Julie Campbell

Sales as a whole on that specific day of the year increased by 8.3 percent over the same day in 2013. The Digital Analytics Benchmark Hub at IBM has now released statistics that indicate that Christmas Day was a big time for mobile shopping, this year, despite the success that was seen in terms of growth in overall purchases throughout the holiday season. On that day, online sales as a whole saw a healthy increase of 8.3 percent over the figure seen in 2013. That said, the online commerce traffic…

IBM and Apple partner up on business focused mobile app

12/18/201412/16/2014 Julie Campbell

The companies have now announced that they will be working together on this application and other products. Despite the fact that IBM and Apple have hardly seemed like companies that would ever be partnering to create products together, this is exactly what has recently been announced, as they will now be developing both mobile app and device products that are geared toward business customers. The first mobile application being developed in the partnership is targeting telecom companies as customers. One of the new mobile apps that the two companies have…

IBM releases mobile shopping forecast for the holiday season

12/01/201411/29/2014 Jesse Collins

Just as the most important time of the year for retail sales gets started major predictions are made about its successes. Retailers, marketers and consumers, themselves, are now knee-deep in offline, online, and mobile shopping as the holiday rush has started, and IBM has released its predictions with the way that this year’s sales are headed. The five day period that started on Thanksgiving is a make or break weekend for most retailers. At the beginning of it all, IBM predicted that there would be a growth in online sales…