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Mcommerce website launched by Remington

11/13/201211/12/2012 L. Green

The global consumer products company has announced that the smartphone optimized site is up. Spectrum Brands has announced that its Remington UK personal care website has now been optimized for mcommerce to allow consumers with smartphones and tablets to be able to access it more easily based on their device capabilities. This site was created and designed by Incentivated, a leading mobile marketing agency. The new mcommerce website is a transcoded of the existing desktop website for Remington, which gives the visitor access to the complete line of the brand’s…

Mcommerce may be held back in the UK due to connection speeds

11/06/201211/05/2012 Sam Lambert

The lack of universal 4G may stop mobile holiday shopping from achieving its full potential. The shopping season for the holidays is just on the edge of getting started, but many believe that mcommerce will not be able to reach its full potential this year in the U.K. because the country does not have a universal 4G carrier. Some leading analysts feel that this will hold consumers back from shopping from their smartphones. Mcommerce analysts feel that at the current common smartphone speeds, consumers who would otherwise shop using their…

Mcommerce expected to bring £11 billion in U.K. sales in 2012

09/28/201209/28/2012 Jennifer Goula

This year, retail mobile apps should generate sales growth by about 23 percent. The results of a new Netsuite study have been released in their latest report, and have shown that mcommerce apps among high street retailers in the United Kingdom will increase from 70 percent to 80 percent. This includes those that have stated that they intend to have at least one within the next year. The leading platforms for retail mcommerce applications are iOS (at 48 percent), Android (at 45 percent), Windows Phone (at 30 percent) and Blackberry…

Mcommerce websites are lacking in over 4 out of every 5 UK fashion retailers

09/17/2012 Jesse Collins

84 percent of businesses in this industry aren’t catering to smartphone customers. Despite the fact that nearly 90 percent of British fashion retailers believe that mcommerce should be a vital part of their business, a recent poll has shown that the vast majority has failed to do much about it. The MoPowered research showed that many factors are holding businesses back from mobile commerce. Among those factors are the perception of high costs, concerns regarding security, and a lack of adequate resources in order to achieve the necessary goals. At…

eBay claims that m-commerce success requires stronger foundation

11/14/2011 Julie Campbell

eBay has led a group of retailers, trade bodies, and network operators from across several industries and has used a “Mobile Manifesto” to announce to the UK government that m-commerce will only take off if a better network infrastructure is prioritized. According to eBay research, almost 50 percent of smartphone users in the United Kingdom are unable to take part in mobile shopping activities due to limitations in their mobile internet speeds. eBay worked along with Populus, a research agency, to determine that 45 percent of smartphone users did not…