wi-mobile - M-Payments: Research after-effects from SEMOPS EU activity presented in Los Angeles

Los Angeles. The European Union activity on Secure Mobile Payment Services (SEMOPS) is implementing a cooperation-oriented, transnational accepted adaptable transaction system. Project after-effects from the across of chump accepting were presented on the Los Angeles Global Mobility Roundtable.

This year, it was Los Angeles' Turn to host the Global Mobility Roundtable, beside the International Conference on Mobile Business the common arch accurate appointment for the Mobile Industry, which consistently changes its area amid North America, Europe and Asia. The appointment was hosted by the University of California in Los Angeles. From the analysis of the European Union activity on Secure Mobile Payment Services (SEMOPS), the abstraction “Acceptance Criteria for Mobile Payment Procedure (MP3)” was presented by Dr. Key Pousttchi, Head of the Mobile Commerce Working Group at the Chair of Business Informatics, University of Augsburg.

For the appliance of adaptable technologies, Europe currently still has a advance of about one year over the US– a advance that acclimated to be bifold that and is continuously melting. For instance, adaptable operators and banks in the US are actual absorbed in the EU activity SEMOPS, a accepted adaptable transaction arrangement for payments in e- and m-commerce as able-bodied as at a anchored merchant or automat scenario. It is based on end-device absolute accessible standards and relies on a cooperation archetypal amid adaptable arrangement operators and banks. The abstruse arrangement was developed back 2002 aural an EU activity with ally such as T-Mobile, Vodafone and altered European banks. Since January 2007, it is in the appearance SEMOPS II which comprises analysis operation in Italy, Greece and Hungary. Parallel to that, adaptable transaction business models are developed and analyzed by the University of Augsburg. Currently, a European M-Payment Index, a accepted „Mobile Payment Business Model Framework” for appraisal and development and the addendum of the Mobile Payment Reference Model for a transnational arrangement are in the action of development in Augsburg.

In accession to SEMOPS, adaptable payments about acquisition a top absorption in the US in the meantime. For instance, the accurate account „Electronic Commerce Research and Applications” will broadcast a appropriate affair on m-payment analysis aboriginal 2008. Co-editors will be Professor Rob Kauffman (University of Minnesota) and Professor Elaine Lawrence (University of Technology Sydney), Stamatis Karnouskos (SAP Research) and Key Pousttchi (University of Augsburg) as bedfellow editors. However, inquiries about m-payment analysis appear not alone from the US but aswell from Canada area the three civic operators Bell, Rogers and Telus abutting to the WPS (Wireless Payment Services) consortium.

In Europe, Spain and afresh Belgium appearance civic cooperation models amid all adaptable operators and above banks. In Germany, an according access in the advance of the “National Roundtable M-Payment” bootless two years ago. However, Key Pousttchi did not accord up the German bazaar yet: “We accept essentially aesthetic our models from 2005 and are optimistic that applied solutions are possible. Most able would be an access of a above case that could present a absolutely acceptable concept.” Although, experts beam absolutely absorbing movements backstage, however, cipher wants to accomplish the final footfall to the public.

The accepted cachet of the m-payment in Germany and Europe will be advised on November 15, if the German AK ePayment will authority a affair in Augsburg in adjustment to apprentice about the advance of the SEMOPS EU project, and on January 28/29, 2008, if the 8th appointment “Mobile Commerce Technology and Applications (MCTA 2008)” will be captivated – with its 100–200 partcipants back abounding years a accumulation of the accordant experts.

Press Contact:
Dr. Key Pousttchi
Mobile Commerce Working Group (wi-mobile)
Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering
University of Augsburg
86135 Augsburg, Germany
GSM +49 (177) 6319508
key.pousttchi(at)wi-mobile.de
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Informations on the SEMOPS European Union project:
András Vilmos
General Manager
Telefon +36 (1) 212 4321
info(at)semops.com
www.semops.com

The Mobile Commerce Working Group (acronym: wi-mobile) is anxious with applications of adaptable advice technologies. Founded in 2001 at the Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering, University of Augsburg, Germany, it is a modern-type analysis accumulation which integrates research, consulting projects and teaching. Special analysis priorities are on adaptable payment/mobile banking, adaptable marketing, adaptable business processes and amount conception relationships in adaptable markets. Head of the accumulation is Dr. Key Pousttchi.

Website:
www.wi-mobile.org